Fletcher, W.

Fletcher, W. on the DRL

Authors of English Works • Translators • Tsadra Fellows and Grantees

Wulstan Fletcher

English Phonetics	Wulstan Fletcher

Tibetan calendar dates

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Rab Jyung

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Rab Jyung

About

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Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

Padmakara Translation Group; Tsadra Foundation

Secondary Affiliation

Songtsen; Tsadra Advisory Board Member

Religious Affiliation

Chanteloube, France;Dalai Lama, 14th

Teachers

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche · Tsetrul Pema Wangyal Rinpoche · Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche

Current projects

Translating sher 'grel nor bu ka ta ka and brgal lan nyin byed snang ba. (ཤེར་འགྲེལ་ནོར་བུ་ཀ་ཏ་ཀ་ and བརྒལ་ལན་ཉིན་བྱེད་སྣང་བ་) Provisional English title: The Purifying Jewel and The Light of the Day Star

Biographical Information

Wulstan Fletcher holds degrees in Modern Languages and Theology (Oxford and Rome) and is a teacher of modern languages. He completed a three-year retreat at Chanteloube France from 1986–1989. He is a member of the Padmakara Translation Group and has been a Tsadra Foundation fellow since 2001.

Current Projects as a Tsadra Foundation Fellow (with Helena Blankleder) Lion Speech, The Life of Jamgön Mipham, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Completed Projects as a Tsadra Foundation Fellow (with Helena Blankleder) Treasury of Precious Qualities (Sutra Section), Jigme Lingpa, commentary by Longchen Yeshe Dorje, Kangyur Rinpoche Counsels from My Heart, Dudjom Rinpoche Introduction to the Middle Way, Chandrakirti, commentary by Jamgön Mipham The Adornment of the Middle Way, Shantarakshita, commentary by Jamgön Mipham Food of Bodhisattvas: Buddhist Teachings on Abstaining from Meat, Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol The Way of the Bodhisattva, Shantideva (rev. ed.) The Nectar of Manjushri’s Speech: A Detailed Commentary on Shantideva’s “Way of the Bodhisattva,” Kunzang Pelden The Root Stanzas on the Middle Way, Nagarjuna White Lotus: An Explanation of the Seven-line Prayer to Guru Padmasambhava, Jamgön Mipham Treasury of Precious Qualities (Tantra Section), Jigme Lingpa, commentary by Longchen Yeshe Dorje, Kangyur Rinpoche The Purifying Jewel and Light of the Day Star by Mipham Rinpoche Trilogy of Resting at Ease, Longchenpa

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• Fletcher, W. on the DRL
• Fletcher, W. on the LIB
• Fletcher, W. on the BNW

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Other Informatoin

• Wulstan's user page

• Tsadra Foundation - Tsadra Fellow, Advisory Board Member

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.

A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses.

Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

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 state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature.

The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.