Sonam Spitz

PersonType	Category:Translators
FirstName / namefirst	Sonam
LastName / namelast	Spitz
MainNamePhon	Sonam Spitz
SortName	Spitz, Sonam
bio	Sonam Spitz was born in 1984 in Germany. From 2006 - 09 he studied at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Kathmandu/Nepal and graduated with a BA degree in Buddhist Studies with Himalayan Language. From 2009 he studied Classical Indology at the university of Hamburg/Germany and graduated there with another BA in 2012 and a MA in 2015. Since 2009 he is also working as an interpreter for Tibetan speaking Buddhist teachers and as translator of written texts of the Drikung Kagyu lineage. Sonam Spitz speaks German, English and Tibetan and works to a considerable extend with Sanskrit sources. From 2016-17 he was employed as a lecturer for Tibetan and Sanskrit at the university of Copenhagen. Since 2015 he participates in the Vikramashila Translation Commitee under the guidance of Khenchen Nyima Gyaltsen. (Source Accessed June 10, 2021)
YearBirth	1984
affiliation	Vikramashila Translation Committee
education	BA in Buddhist Studies with Himalayan Language, Rangjung Yeshe Institute, 2009 BA in Classical Indology, University of Hamburg, 2012 MA in Classical Indology, University of Hamburg, 2015
IsInGyatsa	No
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The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa.