Larson, Z.

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Editors Category:Translators
FirstName / namefirst	Zach
LastName / namelast	Larson
MainNamePhon	Zach Larson
SortName	Larson, Zach
bio	Zach Larson is a practitioner in the Longchen Nyingthig lineage of the Nyingma School, who works as a translator, editor and author. He was born in 1978 in Wisconsin and received a BA in "Buddhism and Politics" at UW-Madison in 2001 after a year-long study-abroad program in Kathmandu, Nepal in which he met his first teacher, Changling Tulku Rinpoche of Shechen Monastery, with whom he studied the Longchen Nyinthig preliminaries for six months. While working on the research project "Nonviolence in Tibetan Culture: A glimpse at how Tibetans view and practice nonviolence in politics and daily life," he met and received profound blessings from Chatral Sangye Dorje Rinpoche and offered to compile and translate teachings by him in the coming years. Chatral Rinpoche approved of the idea, and Larson returned to Wisconsin to study Tibetan language and Buddhism for three years at the UW-Madison Graduate School. He returned to Nepal in 2004 and compiled, edited, and translated Chatral Rinpoche's biography and teachings into the book Compassionate Action: The Teachings of Chatral Rinpoche, which was published by Shechen Publications in New Delhi in 2005. Larson attended the full Nyingma Kama Wang with Trulshik Rinpoche in the winter of 2004 in Boudha and received the Kunsang Lama'i Shelung empowerment from Tsetrul Rinpoche in January 2005. Snow Lion Publications released an expanded and updated version of Compassionate Action in 2007. The book has since been translated into Spanish (2009), Indonesian (2009), and Russian (2010). (Source Accessed Nov 21, 2023)
YearBirth	1978
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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.