Elio Guarisco (August 5, 1954 - November 27, 2020) was an Italian writer, translator and Tibetan Buddhist scholar and

Dzogchen Dzogchen (, "Great Perfection" or "Great Completion"), also known as ''atiyoga'' ( utmost yoga), is a tradition of teachings in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and Yungdrung Bon aimed at discovering and continuing in the ultimate ground of existence. ...

practitioner, member of the

International Dzogchen Community Namkhai Norbu (; 8 December 1938 – 27 September 2018) was a Tibetan Buddhist master of Dzogchen and a professor of Tibetan and Mongolian language and literature at Naples Eastern University. He was a leading authority on Tibetan culture, part ...

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Guarisco was born in

Varese Varese ( , , or ; lmo, label= Varesino, Varés ; la, Baretium; archaic german: Väris) is a city and ''comune'' in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy, north-west of Milan. The population of Varese in 2018 has reached 80,559. It is the c ...

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. After spending his formative years in

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, he went on to study art and receive a Master of Arts before traveling to

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to study Buddhism. In the early 1970s, he studied under the auspices of several Theravada leaders in India including

Satya Narayan Goenka Satya Narayana Goenka ( ISO 15919: ''Satyanārāyaṇ Goyankā''; ; 29 January 1924 – 29 September 2013) was an Indian teacher of Vipassanā meditation. Born in Burma to an Indian business family, he moved to India in 1969 and started te ...

. He later studied Buddhist philosophy in a Tibetan monastery in Switzerland for ten years, after which he was invited by Kalu Rinpoche to work as a translator in

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, India and where he stayed for twenty years. In the meantime he had met in Italy his teacher

Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Namkhai Norbu (; 8 December 1938 – 27 September 2018) was a Tibetan Buddhist master of Dzogchen and a professor of Tibetan and Mongolian language and literature at Naples Eastern University. He was a leading authority on Tibetan culture, part ...

, becoming an active member of the

community in 1986. He served as a coordinator of the Ka-ter Translation Project, as well as instructor of the Santi Maha Sangha program. He was a founding member of the Shang Shung Institute in Italy. During the last years of his life, he also taught the application of meditation to daily life to any who were interested. He taught meditation and contemplation all over the world: including Europe, Russia, China, Australia, the US, Mexico and Latin America. Elio Guarisco died in November 2020 of a COVID-19 infection in Como, Italy.

Translations

*The Treasury of Knowledge: Book Six, Part Four (2005) *The Treasury of Knowledge: Book Eight, Part Three (2008) *Healing with Fire: A Practical Manual of Tibetan Moxibustion (2011) * Longchenpa's Advice from the Heart (2011) * Togden Shakya Shri: The Life and Liberation of a Tibetan Yogin (2012) *Creative Vision and Inner Reality by Jamgon Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye (2012) *The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Awakening Upon Dying (2013) *The Marvelous Primordial State. The Mejung Tantra. A Fundamental Scripture of Dzogchen Semde - together with Adriano Clemente and Jim Valby (2013) *The Secret Map Of The Body: Visions Of The Human Energy Structure by Gyalwa Yangönpa (2015) *The Life and Teaching of A Tibetan Master (in Italian) *The Autobiography of the 84 Tantric Masters of India (in Italian) *The Lifestory of Kunga Lekpa (in Italian) *Myriad Worlds *Buddhist Ethics *The Indestructibe Way *The Lifestory of Shakya Shri *Three volumes on Tibetan Medicine: **The Silver Mirror **Tibetan Medicine Applied in an Easy Way **Universal Benefit, the Practice of Kunye the Tibetan Massage. Other works: *When the Garuda Flew to the West (autobiography) *Healing with

Yantra Yoga ''Trul khor'' ('magical instrument' or 'magic circle;' Skt. ), in full ''tsa lung trul khor'' ( sa, vayv-adhisāra 'magical movement instrument, channels and inner breath currents'), also known as yantra yoga, is a Vajrayana discipline which ...

. From Tibetan Medicine to the Subtle Body - together with Puntsog Wangmo (2016)

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Tibetan–English translators 1954 births 2020 deaths People from Como People from Varese Tibetan Buddhists Italian scholars of Buddhism Tibetan Buddhist spiritual teachers Tibetologists {{Italy-reli-bio-stub

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