Sarah Plazas

PersonType	Category:Translators
FirstName / namefirst	Sarah
LastName / namelast	Plazas
MainNamePhon	Sarah Plazas
SortName	Plazas, Sarah
namealt	Sarah Schnieder
bio	Sarah has been a practicing Buddhist since 1999, and has been studying the Tibetan language since 2002. She lived at the Garchen Buddhist Institute in Arizona for five years, completing the first three-year retreat there. Sarah studied at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Nepal in their translator training program. Her main teachers are Garchen Rinpoche, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche, and Tulku Sang ngag Rinpoche. Sarah served as Tulku Sang ngag Rinpoche’s personal interpreter for five years, and Lama Tharchin Rinpoche’s interpreter for the last year of his life. Sarah has worked with the Namchak Foundation for the past two years, translating the corpus of Tsasum Linga’s Namchak cycle with Richard Barron. She translated Luminous Moonlight: The Life of Do Dasal Wangmo.
affiliation	Namchak Foundation
IsInGyatsa	No
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Alternate name: Sarah Schneider

First published translation: Luminous Moonlight: The Biography of Do Dasal Wangmo (Machig Publications, 2013)