Dorje, G.

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works
FirstName / namefirst	Gyurme
LastName / namelast	Dorje
bio	Gyurme Dorje (1950 – 5 February 2020) was a Scottish Tibetologist and writer. He was born in Edinburgh, where he studied classics (Latin and Greek) at George Watson's College and developed an early interest in Buddhist philosophy. He held a PhD in Tibetan Literature (SOAS) and an MA in Sanskrit with Oriental Studies (Edinburgh). In the 1970s he spent a decade living in Tibetan communities in India and Nepal where he received extensive teachings from Kangyur Rinpoche, Dudjom Rinpoche, Chatral Rinpoche, and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. In 1971 Dudjom Rinpoche encouraged him to begin translating his recently completed History of the Nyingma School (རྙིང་མའི་སྟན་པའི་ཆོས་འབྱུང་) and in 1980 his Fundamentals of the Nyingma School (བསྟན་པའི་རྣམ་གཞག) - together this was an undertaking that was to take twenty years, only reaching completion in 1991. In the 1980s Gyurme returned to the UK and in 1987 completed his 3 volume doctoral dissertation on the Guhyagarbhatantra and Longchenpa's commentary on this text at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London. From 1991 to 1996 Gyurme held research fellowships at London University, where he worked with Alak Zenkar Rinpoche on translating (with corrections) the content of the Great Sanskrit Tibetan Chinese Dictionary to create the three volume Encyclopaedic Tibetan-English Dictionary. From 2007 until his death he worked on many translation projects, primarily as a Tsadra Foundation grantee. He has written, edited, translated and contributed to numerous important books on Tibetan religion and culture including The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism: Its Fundamentals and History (2 vols.) (Wisdom, 1991), Tibetan Medical Paintings ( 2 vols.) (Serindia, 1992), The Tibet Handbook (Footprint, 1996), the first complete translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and A Handbook of Tibetan Culture (Shambhala, 1994). (Source Accessed July 14, 2020)
YearBirth	1950
YearDeath	2020/02/05
BornIn	Edinburgh, Scotland
languagetranslation	Tibetan;Sanskrit
languagetarget	English
affiliation	Tsadra Foundation;84000
StudentOf	Longchen Yeshe Dorje  ·  Dudjom Jikdral Yeshe Dorje  ·  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche  ·  Chatral Sangye Dorje  ·  Tulku Pema Wangyal  ·  Zenkar Rinpoche  ·  Thubten Nyima
phduniversity	SOAS,University of London
publications	"The Guhyagarbhatantra and its XIVth Century Commentary Phyogs-bcu mun-sel." PhD Thesis, SOAS, University of London (3 vols), 1987. See [1] Dudjom Rinpoche's The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism: Its Fundamentals and History. Wisdom Publications, Boston. 1st edition (2 vols), 1991; 2nd edition (1 vol), 2002; ISBN 0861711998. See Wisdom Books Tibetan Medical Paintings. Serindia Publications, London (2 Vols); ISBN 0-906026-26-1. 1992. See Serindia Tibet Handbook. Footprint Handbooks, Bath. 1st edition, 1996; 2nd edition 1999; 3rd edition 2004; ISBN 1900949334 See Footprintbooks Bhutan Handbook. Footprint Handbooks, Bath. 1st edition, 2004. See Footprintbooks Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings, Eskenazi & Fogg, London. 2001. See Whiteberyl Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings: Illuminated Manuscript from the White Beryl of Sangs-Rgyas Rgya-Mtsho. Holberton, Paul Publishing, 2008. ISBN 9780953994106 ISBN 0953994104 An Encyclopaedic Tibetan-English Dictionary, (Nationalities Publishing House/ SOAS, Beijing. Vol. 1, 2001). Enquiries: tedic@hotmail.com "A Rare Series of Tibetan Banners." In Pearls of the Orient, Serindia, 2003. See Serindia The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete English Translation, Penguin Classics, 2005. Jokhang: Tibet's Most Sacred Buddhist Temple, Thames & Hudson, 2010 The Guhyagarbha Tantra: Dispelling the Darkness of the Ten Directions. (Snowlion) An Encyclopaedic Tibetan-English Dictionary. (Nationalities Publishing House/ SOAS, Beijing. Vols. 2-3.
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Names

Gyurme Dorje

Affiliation

Tsadra Foundation Grantee

Other Biographical Information

Gyurme Dorje holds a PhD in Tibetan Literature and an MA in Sanskrit with Oriental Studies. From 1991 to 1996 he held research fellowships at London University, where he worked on the Encyclopaedic Tibetan-English Dictionary.

Trans Himalaya, under the direction of Dr Gyurme Dorje, a Tibetologist and Tibet travel writer, organise travel throughout the Tibetan plateau, as well as in Mongolia, China and the Himalayas (Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal, and Ladakh).

RYWIKI page

Main Teachers

The previous Kangyur Rinpoche, Dudjom Rinpoche, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Chatral Rinpoche, Tulku Pema Wangyal, Zenkar Rinpoche Thubten Nyima

Some Published Works of Gyurme Dorje

(includes translations, editions and original compositions)

• The Guhyagarbhatantra and its XIVth Century Commentary Phyogs-bcu mun-sel. PhD Thesis, SOAS, University of London (3 vols), 1987. See [1]

• Dudjom Rinpoche's The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism: Its Fundamentals and History. Wisdom Publications, Boston. 1st edition (2 vols), 1991; 2nd edition (1 vol), 2002; ISBN 0861711998. See Wisdom Books

• Tibetan Medical Paintings. Serindia Publications, London (2 Vols); ISBN 0-906026-26-1. 1992. See Serindia

• Tibet Handbook. Footprint Handbooks, Bath. 1st edition, 1996; 2nd edition 1999; 3rd edition 2004; ISBN 1900949334 See Footprintbooks

• Bhutan Handbook. Footprint Handbooks, Bath. 1st edition, 2004. See Footprintbooks

• Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings Eskenazi & Fogg, London. 2001. See Whiteberyl
• Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings: Illuminated Manuscript from the White Beryl of Sangs-Rgyas Rgya-Mtsho. Holberton, Paul Publishing, 2008. ISBN 9780953994106 ISBN 0953994104

• An Encyclopaedic Tibetan-English Dictionary (Nationalities Publishing House/ SOAS, Beijing. Vol. 1, 2001). Enquiries: tedic@hotmail.com

• “A Rare Series of Tibetan Banners”, in Pearls of the Orient, Serindia, 2003. See Serindia

• The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete English Translation, Penguin Classics, 2005 See [2]

• Jokhang: Tibet's Most Sacred Buddhist Temple, Thames & Hudson, 2010

• The Guhyagarbha Tantra: Dispelling the Darkness of the Ten Directions (Snowlion)

• An Encyclopaedic Tibetan-English Dictionary (Nationalities Publishing House/ SOAS, Beijing. Vols. 2-3

The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century.