Phuntsho, Karma
English Phonetics | Karma Phuntsho |
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PhD University
- Oxford University
Education
Lopon - Chagri Monastery in Bhutan, then south India to Sera Monastery then ten years at the Ngagyur Nyingma Institute.
M.St and D.Phil in Oriental Studies at Balliol College, Oxford
Biographical Information
Lopen (Dr) Karma Phuntsho was trained as a monk in Bhutan and India, and received a M.St and D.Phil in Oriental Studies at Balliol College, Oxford. He was a researcher at CNRS, Paris and the Spalding Fellow for Comparative Religion at Clare Hall, Cambridge University. He is currently the president and the founder of Loden Foundation and the director of Shejun Agency (www.shejun.org), a non-profit organization that focuses on the documentation and study of Bhutan’s written heritage and oral traditions. He is currently based in Thimphu, Bhutan.
He is the author of the Books: History of Bhutan and The Autobiograpahy of Terton Pema Lingpa. (Source Accessed May 7, 2020)
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All beings have Buddha-nature | |
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Which Wheel Turning | |
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Promotes how many vehicles? | |
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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་) | |
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