Leo M. Pruden

PersonType	Category:Professors Category:Translators
FirstName / namefirst	Leo
LastName / namelast	Pruden
MainNamePhon	Leo M. Pruden
SortName	Pruden, Leo
bio	Leo M. Pruden (March 1938 - October 1991) was an American scholar and translator. His major works include a translation into English of Louis de La Vallée Poussin's six-volume French translation of the Abhidharma-kosa. For this translation, Pruden consulted the Sanskrit source text, as well as contemporary Chinese and Japanese sources. Pruden studied at Tokyo University, in the Department of Indian and Buddhist Studies, from 1961 to 1964. He began teaching on the Abhidharma at Brown University (1970-1971), and subsequently at the Nyingma Institute (Berkeley, California), and at the University of Oriental Studies (Los Angeles). In 1973, Pruden and Venerable Dr. Thich Thien-An co-founded the American University of Oriental Studies in Los Angeles, California. This institution was later restructered as Buddha Dharma University. (Source: Encyclopedia of Buddhism online)
YearBirth	1938
YearDeath	1991
Other wikis	research:Pruden, L. buddhanature:Pruden, L. bca:Pruden, L. rtz:Pruden, L. dnz:Pruden, L. dudjom:Pruden, L. khyentselineage:Pruden, L. lcp:Pruden, L. If the page does not yet exist on the remote wiki, you can paste the tag {{PersonCall}} inside the destination page. But please first make sure you are on the right page. Some wikis have the person page on Person/<COMMONS PERSON PAGENAME>, in which case the page <COMMONS PERSON PAGENAME> needs to be redirected. Ask if you need clarification.

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.