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Since the founding of Nītārtha Institute (a subsidiary of Nītārtha International) in 1996, over a dozen texts, some with several volumes, have been taught by Tibetan lineage masters. From translations and publications to the tradition of oral teaching, discourse plays an important role in the programs of Nītārtha Institute. The Institute brings skilled translators, Tibetan masters, and committed students together in an in-depth collaborative effort to preserve texts of the Kagyü and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism and sustain the oral tradition of teaching. The entire process — involving a synergy among texts, translators, teachers, students, transcribers, and editors — is crucial to ensuring an accurate and faithful transmission of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition to Westerners.
Through the educational environment provided by the Institute, Tibetan masters with the help of Tibetan-English interpreters present oral commentary on key translations of the major lineage texts. Those oral teachings are then transcribed, edited, and combined with the root translations into publications for use by the Institute’s students and interested others.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche is a widely celebrated Buddhist teacher and the author of Emotional Rescue, Rebel Buddha, and many other books. A lover of music, art, and urban culture, Rinpoche is a poet, photographer, accomplished calligrapher, and visual artist.
Acknowledged as one of the foremost scholars and meditation masters of his generation in the Nyingma and Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism, Rinpoche is known for his sharp intellect, humor, and easygoing teaching style. In 2017, he launched the initiative #GoKind to celebrate and encourage acts of kindness around the world.
Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen was born in Nepal and entered the monastery at age thirteen. In 1981, Lama Tenpa and Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche enrolled in the first class of Rumtek Monastery’s Karma Shri Nalanda Institute in Sikkim, India. Lama Tenpa completed his studies with an Acharya degree in 1991. Following his graduation, he taught Buddhist philosophy at the institute for two years. Under the guidance of Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, he then entered a three-year retreat in Pullahari, Nepal.
From 1997 to 2004, Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen was the resident teacher at H.H. the 17th Karmapa’s Theksum Tashi Chöling Center in Hamburg, Germany. Since 1998, Lama Tenpa has also been one of the main teachers at Nitartha Institute. Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen is a professor of Buddhist studies and Tibetan language at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and teaches regularly at Nalandabodhi centers around the world.
Āchārya [now known as Khenpo] Sherab Gyaltsen Negi graduated from Nalanda Institute at Rumtek Monastery in 1991 and was awarded the title of Khenpo in recognition of his scholarship. He taught at the Nalanda Institute one and a half years and joined and joined Kagyu Thekchen Ling in Lava, Kalimpong in 1992 to serve the various projects and activities of His Eminence Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche. He also completed the traditional three-year Shangpa Kagyu retreat at Mirik Monastery under the guidance of Very Venerable Bokar Rinpoche and Khenpo Lodro Donyod Rinpoche. Today, he is mainly involved with work for Rigpe Dorje Publications.
Āchārya Kelzang Wangdi was born in East Bhutan in 1970, got his education in buddhist philosophy at the Karma Shri Nalanda university in Rumtek/Sikkim, where he studied for nine years. He completed his studies with the Acharya – and the Ka Rabjam-degree. After that he taught for several years at Karma Shri Nalanda. Since the year 2004 Kelzang is working and living as resident lama in the Kamalashila Institute. He gives also courses in the Kagyu centres in Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland and USA.
Karl Brunnhölzl, MD, was trained as a physician and also studied Tibetology. He received his systematic training in Tibetan language and Buddhist philosophy and practice at the Marpa Institute for Translators, founded by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche. Since 1989 he has been a translator and interpreter from Tibetan and English. He is presently involved with the Nitartha Institute as a teacher and translator.
Professor D. Phillip Stanley is the Dean of Academic Affairs of Nitartha Institute responsible for curriculum and teacher development in order to teach the Tibetan Kagyu monastic educational tradition in the West under the direction of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche. He has been involved with the Institute since its founding in 1996 and was appointed CoDirector in 2000. He is a senior student of the Vidyadhara Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche who founded Naropa University and Phil is Chair of the Religious Studies Department of Naropa University, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on Tibetan language and Buddhism, including graduate courses on Nitartha Institute materials. He conducted his doctoral studies at the University of Virginia and received a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for research on the nine-vehicle system of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism. He has created a catalog database of the Tibetan canonical collections of the Kanjur/Tanjur and is placing it online with a National Endowment for the Humanities grant in collaboration with the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library (University of Virginia), the Library of Congress, and the British Library. He is a member of the Executive Council of the International Association of Buddhist Universities. He is writing a book on the Tibetan Buddhist canon and a primer of literary Tibetan.
