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|MainNamePhon=Karma Phuntsho
|SortName=Phuntsho, Karma
|namefirst=Karma
|namelast=Phuntsho
|MainNameTib=སློབ་དཔོན་ཀརྨ་་ཕུན་ཚོགས་
|MainNameWylie=slop dpon karma phun tshogs
|OtherNames=Lopen Karma; Lopen Karma Phuntsho
|PersonType=Authors of English Works; Authors of Tibetan Works; Independent Researchers; Professors; Translators
|bio=Lopen (Dr) Karma Phuntsho is one of Bhutan’s leading intellectuals. He finished his monastic training in Bhutan and India before he pursued a M.St in Classical Indian Religions and a D.Phil in Oriental Studies at Balliol College, Oxford. He was a researcher at CNRS, Paris, a Research Associate in the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University, and the Spalding Fellow for Comparative Religion at Clare Hall, Cambridge University. He was also a Research Consultant at University of Virginia.

An author of over one hundred books and articles including the authoritative ''History of Bhutan'' and ''Mipham’s Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness'', he speaks and writes extensively on Bhutan and Buddhism. His work has received extensive media coverage by the BBC, BBS, Kuensel, The Bhutanese, Science, Radio Free Asia, Oxford Today, Times of India, India Today, and Channel News Asia. He is also the President and founder of Loden Foundation, a leading educational, entrepreneurial, and cultural initiative in Bhutan. He is currently based in Thimphu, Bhutan. 
:[https://www.lopenkarma.org/ Read a complete bio on the Lopen Karma Official Website]
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_Phuntsho Wikipedia Entry for Karma Phuntsho].
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|bornin=Ura gewog in Bumthang district of central Bhutan.
|associatedwebsite=[https://www.lopenkarma.org/ Lopen Karma Official Website] //
[https://loden.org/karma-phuntsho/ Loden Foundation Website] //
[https://bhutan.virginia.edu/ Bhutan Cultural Library] //
[http://bhutandialogues.bt/ Bhutan Dialogues]
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|phduniversity=Oxford University
|education=Lopon - Chagri Monastery in Bhutan, then south India to Sera Monastery then ten years at the Ngagyur Nyingma Institute. 

M.St and D.Phil in Oriental Studies at Balliol College, Oxford
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