Andreas Doctor

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Professors Category:Translators
FirstName / namefirst	Andreas
LastName / namelast	Doctor
MainNamePhon	Andreas Doctor
SortName	Doctor, Andreas
bio	Andreas is the director of the Dharmachakra Translation Committee and the editorial co-director of 84000. He is advising the project on translation methodology and project strategy. Andreas (PhD 2004, University of Calgary) lives with his family in a small village in Denmark. He has been involved in translating and editing for 84000 since the very early days and is currently serving as editorial co-director. For a number of years, Andreas has studied Buddhist history and philosophy under the guidance of Tibetan monks and lamas, mostly in Nepal at Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery. As a founding member of Rangjung Yeshe Institute, he spent fifteen years teaching at the Institute and for most of this period he served as director of studies at Kathmandu University’s Centre for Buddhist Studies, located at Rangjung Yeshe Institute. As director of the Dharmachakra Translation Committee, Andreas has participated in numerous translation projects, most recently in translating sūtras and tantras from the Tibetan canon. He is also a founding member of Rangjung Yeshe Gomde, Denmark. (Source: Khyentse Vision Project)
BornIn	Denmark
languageprimary	Danish
languagetranslation	Tibetan
languagetarget	English; Danish
affiliation	Dharmachakra Translation Committee
affiliationsecondary	84000; Rangjung Yeshe Institute
religiousaffiliation	Kagyu; Nyigma; Kanying Shedrup Ling, Kathmandu
StudentOf	Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche  ·  Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche
phduniversity	University of Calgary
education	MA, University of Copenhagen Ph.D., University of Calgary
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.