Zangpo, N.

PersonType	Category:Translators Category:Authors of English Works
FirstName / namefirst	Hugh
LastName / namelast	Thompson
namemiddle	Leslie
MainNamePhon	Ngawang Zangpo
nametitlepre	Lama
bio	Completed two three-year retreats at Kagyu Ling, France, 1976-1980 and 1980-1983; individual retreat in Sonada, India; served as translator for Kalu Rinpoche, 1985-1989; founding resident lama of Buddhist center in Taipei, Taiwan, 1985; founding member of Kalu Rinpoche's International Translation Group, 1987. Tsadra Foundation Fellow since 2000. Source Ngawang Zangpo (Hugh Leslie Thompson) completed two three-year retreats under the direction of the late Kalu Rinpoche at Kagyu Ling, France, 1976–1980 and 1980–1983, and he served as translator for Kalu Rinpoche from 1985–1989. He is the founding resident lama of a Buddhist center in Taipei, Taiwan (1985), a founding member of Kalu Rinpoche's International Translation Group (1987), and he has been a Tsadra Foundation fellow since 2000. He is presently working on a number of translation projects that were initiated under the direction of Chadral Rinpoche and Lama Tharchin Rinpoche. He has also contributed to the Kalu Rinpoche Translation Group's books Myriad Worlds and Buddhist Ethics. Source: Tsadra.org and Shambhala Publications Completed Projects as a Tsadra Foundation Fellow: Sacred Ground: Jamgön Kongtrul on Pilgrimage and Sacred Geography, Jamgön Kongtrul Guru Rinpoche: His Life and Times, Taranatha, Jamgön Kongtrul, and Sera Khandro Timeless Rapture: Inspired Verse of the Shangpa Masters, compiled by Jamgön Kongtrul The Treasury of Knowledge: Books II, III, and IV; Buddhism’s Journey to Tibet, Jamgön Kongtrul A History of Buddhism in India and Its Spread to Tibet, Butön Rinchen Drup Refining Our Perception of Reality, Sera Khandro The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Books 1 to 10, Foundations of the Buddhist Path, Choying Tobden Dorje The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Book 14, An Overview of Buddhist Tantra, Choying Tobden Dorje Previously Published Translations: Jamgön Kongtrul’s Retreat Manual, Jamgön Kongtrul Enthronement: Recognition of the Reincarnate Masters of Tibet, Jamgön Kongtrul
languageprimary	English
languagetranslation	Tibetan
languagetarget	English
affiliation	Tsadra Foundation
religiousaffiliation	Kagyu; Kagyu Ling France; Kalu Rinpoche; Chatral Rinpoche; Lama Tharchin Rinpoche
StudentOf	Kalu Rinpoche
currentworks	The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Volume 5
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.

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.