Dewar, T.

FirstName / namefirst	Tyler
LastName / namelast	Dewar
nametitlepre	Mitra
bio	Short Biography: Mitra Tyler Dewar met Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche in 1997, just one year after beginning his journey of practicing the dharma. Through an auspicious coincidence, he learned the Tibetan alphabet that summer and soon after formed the conviction to serve the dharma through translating Tibetan into English. He became a formal student of Rinpoche's in 1998 and began translating for Rinpoche's organizations, Nalandabodhi and Nitartha Institute, in 2000. In 2001 he became the regular translator for Acharya Sherab Gyaltsen Negi at Nalandabodhi Seattle. From that point onward, Tyler has traveled extensively with The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche on Rinpoche's teaching tours, translating for the Tibetan segments of Rinpoche's teachings and occasionally presenting aspects of Rinpoche's teachings himself. In 2003 Nalandabodhi welcomed Acharya Tashi Wangchuk as a resident teacher; Tyler served as Acharya's oral interpreter and also worked closely with Acharya on the translation of several texts from the philosophical and intuitive traditions of Indian and Tibetan Buddhadharma. Tyler has served as a secretary in the Office of The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche for the past seven years, and has thus felt enriched by the opportunity to support Rinpoche's teaching activity from many perspectives. In terms of his formative dharma training, Tyler completed two dathuns (month-long intensive meditation retreats) in the late 90s and resided for one year, 1997-1998, at Gampo Abbey Monastery in Nova Scotia, Canada, practicing intensively, participating in several study curricula, and attending lengthy seminars by Ani Pema Chödrön on Mind Training. He has attended Nitartha Institute's summer program since 1999 and has been a faculty member since 2000, translating for such courses as Collected Topics, Abhidharma, Mind Only, and Madhyamaka. He attended his first Nalandabodhi Sangha Retreat in 2001 and has been in attendance ever since. Two books of Tyler's translations have been published by Snow Lion Publications: Trainings in Compassion: Manuals on the Meditation of Avalokiteshvara (2004) and The Karmapa's Middle Way: Feast for the Fortunate (2008), a translation of a major philosophical work by the Ninth Karmapa, Wangchuk Dorje.
BornIn	Canada
associatedwebsite	http://parijatapress.net/; http://nalandabodhi.org/2014/11/08/buddhist-teachings-become-lifestyle-mitra-tyler-dewar/; http://twitter.com/tylerdewar; http://www.blogger.com/profile/11183689140203428852; http://karmapasmiddleway.blogspot.com/; http://www.snowlionpub.com/pages/dewar.html; http://www.nalandabodhi.org/teachers/western-teachers/tyler-dewar.aspx
languageprimary	English
languagetranslation	Tibetan
languagetarget	English
affiliation	Nalandabodhi; Nitartha Translation Network; Nitartha Institute
religiousaffiliation	Kagyu; Nyigma; Ponlop Rinpoche; Nalandabodhi; Acharya Sherab Gyaltsen; Acharya Tashi Wangchug
StudentOf	Ponlop Rinpoche
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Though it is sometimes used synonymously with Yogācāra, it is in fact one of the more prominent philosophical theories associated with this school. It asserts that the objects in the external world with which we interact are actually mentally created representations appearing as those objects. The character of these perceptions is predetermined by our own karmic conditioning that is stored in the ālayavijñāna.

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

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.