Tibetan-English Dictionary of Buddhist Terminology

Born in Dun-chu near Mt. Kailash, Western Tibet, in 1957, Tsepak Rigzin was educated at the Tibetan Refugee School, Kalimpong and the Central School for Tibetans, Simla. Subsequently, he obtained M.A. in History from Punjab University, Chandigarh and studied Buddhist philosophy at the Buddhist School of Dialectics, Dharamsala, for six years and the Library of Tibetan Works & Archives intermittently. Since joining the staff of LTWA in 1980 he has been a leading member of the Research and Translation Bureau. Translations into English to which he has contributed include

A Necklace 01 Good Fortune by Geshe Lamrim, Advice from Buddha Shakyamuni-Concerning a Monk's Discipline and Opening the Mind and Generating a Good Heart by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, as well as sundry minor translations and articles. He also translated The Teachings 01 Buddha published by the Buddhist Promoting Foundation, Tokyo, Japan, from English into Tibetan.

Based on the 'Great Volume of Precise Understanding' bye brag tu rtogs par byed pa chen mo-Mahavyutpatti drawn up by Tibetan translators in the ninth century at the instigation of the Tibetan DharmaKing Tri Ralpa-Chen and supplemented from the collected works of various Tibetan lamas, this Tibetan-English Dictionary of Buddhist terminology contains 6000 main entries and over 8000 sub-entries. Sanskrit equivalents of terms are given wherever possible in romanised transliterated form. The English definitions largely reflect the mode of oral translation evolved in the Buddhist Philosophy classes at the Library of Tibetan Works & Archives.