Charrier, C.

Charrier, C. on the DRL

Christian Charrier

Tibetan calendar dates

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Rab Jyung

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Rab Jyung

About

Primary Language:	French

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

Tsadra Foundation

Religious Affiliation

Geshe Tengye; Lama Gendun Rinpoche

Current projects

1. Tashi Namgyal’s Nor bu ’od zer; 366 folios translated from Tibetan to French. This translation, which started in January 2011 is now finalized. Since my previous report, I have done another thorough reading with the support of the Tibetan text and edited a few notes.

2. Maitreya’s Uttarantra and J. Kongtrul’s commentary (phyir mi ldog pa seng ge’i nga ro). This project started in January 2012 and so far the whole 280 pages (western style format) have been translated from Tibetan to French as a first draft. Since my previous report, after editing and finalizing my first draft of Kongtrul’s introduction, I have also started revising an rewriting the commentary per se, stanza after stanza, and have reached I.78 (80 pages) of the final translation.

3. Translation of Tsuklak Trengwa’s commentary on Shantideva’s Bodhiccarayavatara (9th chapter on wisdom) based on K. Brunnhölzl’s english translation (192 pages). This project started in January 2008 (for the whole book comprising 3 volumes). The first draft being finished, I started editing it with the support of the tibetan text.

Biographical Information

Masters degree in English and diploma in psycholinguistics; translator for Geshe Tengye, France; completed three-year retreat under Lama Gendun Rinpoche, le Bost, France; translation consultant for Tsadra Foundation, 2002-2003. Tsadra Foundation Fellow since 2004. Recent publication: Rayons de lune (Moonbeams of Mahamudra).
Source

Previously Published Translations
• Kalachakra, Dalai Lama • La Roue aux lames acérées, Dharmarakshita, commentary by Geshé Tengyé • La voie progressive vers l’éveil, Jé Tsong Khapa

Completed Projects as a Tsadra Foundation Fellow
• Marpa, maître de Milarépa, sa vie, ses chants, Tsang Nyeun Hérouka • Vie de Jamgœun Kongtrul, écrite par lui-même, Jamgœun Kongtrul • L’Ondée de sagesse, Chants de la lignée Kagyu, Karmapa Mikyeu Dorje, Tènpai Nyinjé • Rayons de lune, Les étapes de la méditation du Mahamudra, Dakpo Tashi Namgyal • The Center of the Sunlit Sky: Madhyamaka in the Kagyü Tradition, Vol I, Pawo Rinpoche, the Eighth Karmapa Mikyö Dorje (from the English translation by Karl Brunnhölzl) • The Center of the Sunlit Sky: Madhyamaka in the Kagyü Tradition Vol II and III, Pawo Rinpoche, the Eighth Karmapa Mikyö Dorje (from the English translation by Karl Brunnhölzl)

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Can refer to either the Kālacakra Tantra and its derivative texts or to the systematic tantric tradition based on these texts, as well as the deity Kālacakra upon which the associated practices are centered.

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.

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.