Erik Pema Kunsang (born Erik Hein Schmidt) is a

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and was, along with Marcia Binder Schmidt, director of

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. He has translated over fifty volumes of Tibetan texts and oral teachings. His other projects include the

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, an ongoing electronic publication that is compiling an extensive glossary of Buddhist terminology to bridge the

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and

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languages. Erik has been the assistant and translator for

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and his sons since the late 1970s. He was active in facilitating masters of the Practice Lineages to teach in the West. He lives in

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References

Interview on Lotsawa School

External links

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