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A+long%E2%80%93term+student+of+Chogyam+Trungpa+Rinpoche%2C+Ann+joined+the+Nalanda+Translation+Committee+in+1986.+She+studied+Tibetan+at+Naropa+University%2C+mainly+with+Dzigar+Kongtrul%2C+and+she+taught+Tibetan+and+Foundations+of+Buddhism+at+Naropa+from+1991-2004.+After+30+years+in+Boulder%2C+Ann+lived+as+a+retreatant+for+eight+years+at+Padma+Samye+Ling%2C+the+monastery+in+upstate+New+York+of+Khenchen+Palden+Sherab+and+Khenpo+Tsewang+Dongyal.+From+1997+to+2014%2C+she+translated+primarily+with+Ringu+Tulku+and+for+Dharma+Samudra%2C+the+Khenpo+Brothers%E2%80%99+publication+group.+In+2014+Ann+moved+to+Portland%2C+Oregon%2C+where+she+continues+her+Buddhist+practice+and+study+under+the+guidance+of+Yongey+Mingyur+Rinpoche.+%28%5Bhttp%3A%2F%2Frywiki.tsadra.org%2Findex.php%2FAnn_Helm+Source+Accessed+Sept+9%2C+2020%5D%29 +
Anna+%28a.k.a.+Anya%29+holds+a+MA+degree+in+Buddhist+Studies+from+the+Kathmandu+University+Centre+for+Buddhist+Studies+at+the+Rangjung+Yeshe+Institute.+Her+MA+thesis+was+entitled%3A+%E2%80%9CJamyang+Khyentse+Wangpo+and+the+Nonsectarian+Movement%3A+A+Critical+Look+at+Representations+of+19th+Century+Tibetan+Buddhism%E2%80%9D.%0A%0AAnna+joined+the+BA+program+at+RYI+in+2007%2C+and+the+Translator+Training+Program+%28TTP%29+in+2008+and+has+been+teaching+in+RYI+since+2009+as+a+language+instructor+in+the+TTP.+She+has+been+the+a+manager+of+the+TTP+since+2010.++Anna+also+interprets+for+a+variety+of+different+teachers+from+Tibetan+into+English+and+Russian.+%28%5Bhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.ryi.org%2Ffaculty%2Fanna-zilman+Source+Accessed+Sept+30%2C+2020%5D%29 +
Annabella+Pitkin+is+associate+professor+of+Buddhism%2FEast+Asian+religions+and+director+of+the+Asian+Studies+Program+at+Lehigh+University.+Pitkin%E2%80%99s+wide-ranging+research+spans+classical+and+contemporary+Tibetan+Buddhism%2C+East+Asian+religion+and+pop+culture%2C+and+Buddhist+social+and+ecological+movements.+Her++research+focuses+on+Tibetan+Buddhist+modernity%2C+Buddhist+ideals+of+renunciation%2C+miracle+narratives%2C+and+Buddhist+biographies.+She+is+on+the+editorial+committee+of+the+online+database+Treasury+of+Lives%3A+A+Biographical+Encyclopedia+of+Tibet%2C+Inner+Asia%2C+and+the+Himalaya.+Pitkin+is+a+member+of+the+review+committee+for+the+Rubin+Institute.+%28%5Bhttps%3A%2F%2Frubinmuseum.org%2Fpeople%2Fannabella-pitkin%2F+Source+Accessed+Dec+21%2C+2024%5D%29 +
%5BAnne+Ansermet%5D+grew+up+in+Geneva%2C+alongside+a+father+%5BErnest+Ansermet%5D+totally+absorbed+by+music%2C+where+she+met+Ravel%2C+de+Falla%2C+Stravinsky%2C+%5Band%5D+Ramuz.+Having+become+a+nurse%2C+she+converted+to+Catholicism%2C+then+married+and+lived+in+Paris%2C+where+she+discovered+the+misery+of+the+suburbs.+After+a+divorce+and+two+remarriages%2C+she+lived+in+Zurich+and+in+the+South+of+France.+A+few+years+later%2C+she+returned+to+Rolle+with+her+son+and+established+very+close+relationships+with+her+father%2C+accompanying+him+on+his+concert+tours%2C+developing+a+very+rich+intellectual+exchange+with+him.+Then+she+left+for+India%2C+became+a+Buddhist%2C+and+returned+to+Switzerland+to+settle+at+the+Buddhist+Center+of+Mont-P%C3%A8lerin%2C+before+settling+in+Rolle.+%28%5Bhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.plansfixes.ch%2Ffilms%2Fanne-ansermet%2F+Adapted+from+Source+Feb+16%2C+2021%5D%29%0A%0AAnne+was+instrumental+in+helping+to+establish+Rabten+Choeling+%28formerly+Tharpa+Choeling%29+%2C+one+of+the+first+Tibetan+Buddhist+monasteries+to+be+established+in+the+West+after+the+exodus+of+Tibetans+into+India.+At+the+age+of+70%2C+Anne+was+drawn+to+Buddhism+and+even+traveled+to+India+to+be+ordained+by+His+Holiness+the+Dalai+Lama.+It+was+the+hard+work+of+Anne+and+her+group+that+allowed+the+ordained+and+lay+people+in+Tharpa+Choeling+to+live+a+life+of+study+and+contemplation+without+having+to+worry+about+their+material+needs.+%28%5Bhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.dorjeshugden.com%2Fplaces%2Frabten-choeling-switzerland%2F+Adapted+from+Source+Feb+16%2C+2021%5D%29 +
Anne+Burchardi+took+refuge+with+Ven.+Kalu+Rinpoche+in+1976.++%0AIn+1978+she+became+a+student+of+Khenpo+Tsultrim+Gyamtso+Rinpoche+and+started+her+education+as+a+Tibetan+translator+with+him.+%0A%0A1978%E2%80%931980+she+was+the+secretary+of+Center+for+Tibetan+Buddhism%2C+Karma+Drub+Djy+Ling%2C+Copenhagen%2C+Denmark.+%0A1978-1979+she+was+secretary+at+The+Ethnographical+Department+of+The+National+Museum%2C+Copenhagen.+%0AIn+1980+she+became+a+member+of+The+Translating+Board+of+Kagyu+Tekchen+Shedra%2C+International+Educational+Institute+of+Higher+Learning%2C+Bruxelles%2C+Belgium.+%0A%0AShe+lived+in+Kathmandu+from+1984%E2%80%931992+and+in+1986+she+became+Teacher+at+Marpa+Institute+for+Translation%2C+Kathmandu%2C+Nepal.+1988%E2%80%931991+she+was+secretary+and+course+coordinator+at+Marpa+Institute+for+Translation.+From+1986+to+2015+she+was+interpreter+for+various+Tibetan+Lamas+of+the+Kagyu%2C+Nyingma%2C+and+Gelukpa+lineages+teaching+Buddhism+mainly+in+Europe+and+Asia%2C+and+occasionally+in+the+USA+and+Canada.%0A%0A1997%E2%80%932002+she+was+Teaching+Assistant+in+Tibetan+Language+Studies%2C+at+The+Asian+Insitute%2C+University+of+Copenhagen.+%0A1999%E2%80%932015+she+was+Associate+Professor+in+Tibetology%2C+Department+of+Asian+Studies%2C+Institute+of+Cross+Cultural+%26+Regional+Studies%2C+University+of+Copenhagen.+%0A1999-2007+she+was+Research+Librarian+and+Curator%2C+Tibetan+Section%2C+Department+of+Orientalia+%26+Judaica%2C+The+Royal+Library+of+Denmark%2C+Copenhagen.+%0A%0A2000+She+was+Consultant+for+Tibet%2C+International+Development+Partners%2C+DANIDA%2C+Ministry+of+Foreign+Affairs%2C+in+Lhasa+and+Denmark.%0A2001-2015+she+was+Lecturer+on+Buddhism+and+Tibetan+Culture+at+The+Public+University%2C+Copenhagen+%26+Aarhus.%0A2002%E2%80%932010+she+was+Researcher+and+Consultant++at+The+Twinning+Library+Project%2C+between+The+National+Library+of+Bhutan%2C+Thimphu+and+The+Royal+Library+of+Denmark%2C+Copenhagen.%0A2004%E2%80%932005+she+was+Visiting+Professor+at+Deparmnet+of+Religion%2C+Naropa+University%2C+Boulder%2C+CO.%0A%0A2005%E2%80%932015+she+was+Lecturer+on+Buddhism+at+Pende+Ling%2C+Center+for+Tibetan+Buddhism%2C+Copenhagen.%0A2007%E2%80%932015+she+was+Lecturer+on+Buddhist+Studies%2C+The+Buddhist+University%2C+Pende+Ling%2C+Copenhagen.%0A%0A2010+She+was+for+Consultant+for+Liason+Office+of+Denmark%2C+Thimphu%2C+Bhutan%2C+DANIDA%2C+Ministry+of+Foreign+Affairs%2C+Copenhagen.%0A2011-2013+She+was+a+Culture+Guide+in+Nepal%2C+Bhutan%2C+and+Tibet+for+Cramon+Travels+and+for+Kipling+Travels.%0A2012%E2%80%932020++She+was+a+translator+for+the+84000+project.%0A%28Source%3A+Anne+Burchardi+Email%2C+Jan+18%2C+2021.%29
Dr.+MacDonald+is+a+researcher+at+the+Institute+for+the+Cultural+and+Intellectual+History+of+Asia+of+the+Austrian+Academy+of+Sciences+in+Vienna%2C+Austria.+Her+primary+focus+is+the+development+of+Madhyamaka+thought+in+India+and+Tibet.+Her+research+on+Chandrakirti%27s+%27%27Prasannapada%27%27+and+%27%27Madhyamakavatarabha%E1%B9%A3ya%27%27+is+based+on+newly+available+manuscripts+of+these+works.+%28%5Bhttps%3A%2F%2Fkhyentsefoundation.org%2Fanne-macdonald-winner-2016-kf-prize-outstanding-translation%2F+Source+Accessed+Apr+7%2C+2021%5D%29 +
Anne+Warren+is+affiliated+with+the+Cleveland+chapter+of+Jewel+Heart+Tibetan+Buddhist+Learning+Center.+She+serves+on+the+Executive+Committee+as+Dharma+Coordinator.+In+addition%2C+she+is+an+editor+of+several+works+by+Gelek+Rimpoche. +
Anne-Marie+Blondeau+is+directeur+d%C3%A9tudes+emeritus+at+the+%C3%89cole+pratique+des+Hautes+Etudes+%28Sciences+religieuses%29%2C+Paris. +
Anthony+Abraham+Jack+%28Ph.D.%2C+Harvard+University%2C+2016%29+is+a+junior+fellow+at+the+Harvard+Society+of+Fellows+and+an+assistant+professor+of+Education+at+the+Harvard+Graduate+School+of+Education.+He+holds+the+Shutzer+Assistant+Professorship+at+the+Radcliffe+Institute+for+Advanced+Study.%0A%0AHis+research+documents+the+overlooked+diversity+among+lower-income+undergraduates%3A+the+%27%27Doubly+Disadvantaged%27%27%C2%AD+%E2%80%94+those+who+enter+college+from+local%2C+typically+distressed+public+high+schools+%E2%80%94+and+%27%27Privileged+Poor%27%27%C2%AD+%E2%80%94+those+who+do+so+from+boarding%2C+day%2C+and+preparatory+high+schools.+His+scholarship+appears+in+the+%27%27Common+Reader%27%27%2C+%27%27Du+Bois+Review%27%27%2C+%27%27Sociological+Forum%27%27%2C+and+%27%27Sociology+of+Education%27%27+and+has+earned+awards+from+the+American+Educational+Studies+Association%2C+American+Sociological+Association%2C+Association+for+the+Study+of+Higher+Education%2C+Eastern+Sociological+Society%2C+and+the+Society+for+the+Study+of+Social+Problems.+Jack+held+fellowships+from+the+Ford+Foundation+and+the+National+Science+Foundation+and+was+a+National+Academy+of+Education%2FSpencer+Foundation+Dissertation+Fellow.+The+National+Center+for+Institutional+Diversity+at+the+University+of+Michigan+named+him+an+Emerging+Diversity+Scholar.+In+May+2020%2C+Muhlenberg+College+will+award+him+an+honorary+doctorate+for+his+work+in+transforming+higher+education.%0A%0AThe+%27%27New+York+Times%27%27%2C+%27%27Boston+Globe%27%27%2C+%27%27The+Atlantic%27%27%2C+%27%27The+New+Yorker%27%27%2C+%27%27The+Chronicle+of+Higher+Education%27%27%2C+%27%27The+Huffington+Post%27%27%2C+%27%27The+Nation%27%27%2C+%27%27American+Conservative+Magazine%27%27%2C+%27%27The+National+Review%27%27%2C+%27%27Commentary+Magazine%27%27%2C+%27%27The+Washington+Post%27%27%2C+%27%27Financial+Times%27%27%2C+%27%27Times+Higher+Education%27%27%2C+%27%27Vice%27%27%2C+%27%27Vox%27%27%2C+and+%27%27NPR%27%27+have+featured+his+research+and+writing+as+well+as+biographical+profiles+of+his+experiences+as+a+first-generation+college+student.+%27%27The+Privileged+Poor%3A+How+Elite+Colleges+Are+Failing+Disadvantaged+Students%27%27+is+his+first+book.+%28%5Bhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.gse.harvard.edu%2Ffaculty%2Fanthony-jack+Source+Accessed+Mar+22%2C+2021%5D%29
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