Gavin Kilty

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Kilty, G.

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PersonType Category:Translators
FirstName / namefirst Gavin
LastName / namelast Kilty
MainNamePhon Gavin Kilty
SortName Kilty, Gavin
bio Gavin Kilty has been a full-time translator for the Institute of Tibetan Classics since 2001. Before that he lived in Dharamsala, India, for fourteen years, where he spent eight years training in the traditional Geluk monastic curriculum through the medium of class and debate at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics. He has also taught Tibetan language courses in India, Nepal, and elsewhere, and is a translation reviewer for the organization 84000, Translating the Words of the Buddha. He received the 2017 Shantarakshita Award from Tsadra Foundation for his translation of A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages. Other published translations are The Fourteenth Dalai Lama's Stages of the Path, Volume 1 (2022), The Life of My Teacher (2017), Mirror of Beryl (2010), Ornament of Stainless Light (2004), and The Splendor of an Autumn Moon (2001). (Source: Tsadra Foundation)
YearBirth 1948
BornIn UK
languageprimary English
languagetranslation Tibetan
languagetarget English
affiliation Institute of Tibetan Classics; Tsadra Foundation
affiliationsecondary Buddhist School of Dialectics; FPMT; IBA
religiousaffiliation Geluk; Tibetan Buddhism
StudentOf The Fourteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso
IsInGyatsa No
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