Dalton, C.

Dalton, C. on the DRL

Authors of English Works • Translators

Catherine Dalton

 

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Primary Language:	English
Translates from:	Tibetan
Translates to:	English

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

Dharmachakra Translation Committee

Secondary Affiliation

University of California, Berkeley; Rangjung Yeshe Institute

Religious Affiliation

Kagyu; Nyingma; Tibetan Buddhism

Teachers

Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche

PhD University

University of California, Berkeley

Education

MA in Buddhist Studies from Kathmandu University, Rangjung Yeshe Institute

Biographical Information

Catherine Dalton is an oral interpreter and a translator for the Dharmachakra Translation Committee. She has published a number of translations with Dharmachakra, including several for 84000. Catherine studied and taught at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Nepal for a number of years, and is the co-director of the Dharmachakra Center for Translation and Translation Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Gomde, CA. She holds an MA in Buddhist Studies from Kathmandu University, and is currently a doctoral student in Buddhist Studies at UC Berkeley. (2014 Translation & Transmission Conference Program)

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Published Translations

• Samājottara Tantra. (forthcoming) Translated by the Dharmachakra Translation Committee for the 84000 Project.

• Sūtra on Teaching the Relative and Ultimate Truths. (forthcoming). Translated by the Dharmachakra Translation Committee for the 84000 Project.

• Tantra of the Blue-Clad Vajrapaṇi. 2013. Translated by the Dharmachakra Translation Committee for the 84000 Project.

• Lalitavistarasūtra. 2013. Translated by the Dharmachakra Translation Committee for the 84000 Project.

• Kunkyen Tenpe Nyima and Shechen Gyaltsap IV. 2012. Vajra Wisdom: Deity Practice in Tibetan Buddhism. Translated by the Dharmachakra Translation Committee. Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications.

• Shechen Gyaltsap IV and Karma Rinchen Dargye. 2011. A Practice of Padmasambhava: Essential Instructions on the Path to Awakening. Translated by the Dharmachakra Translation Committee. Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications.

• Maitreya, Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham. 2006. Middle Beyond Extremes: Maitreya’s Madhyāntavibhāga with commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham. Translated by the Dharmachakra Translation Committee. Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications.

(Source=Catherine Dalton, January 2014)

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.

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.