Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche is a student of important Tibetan Buddhist lamas including Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Kyabje Sakya Trizin, Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche, and the16th Karmapa. He is the head of the renowned Dzongsar Monastery and Dzongsar College. Rinpoche is currently responsible for the care and education of over 2,000 monks distributed between six monasteries and institutes in Asia.

In addition, Rinpoche oversees Siddhartha’s Intent and contemporary teaching and practice centers established in several continents as well as the non-profit organizations Khyentse Foundation, 84000, and Lotus Outreach. Also, Rinpoche has authored several books on following the Buddhist path in the contemporary world.

Daniel is CEO/Publisher of Wisdom Publications and is an experienced business executive with decades of insights gathered from corporate and consumer marketing executive roles working for multinationals such as Canon, and large financial firms such as Westpac.

While pursuing his business career, Daniel continued to foster his life long interest in Tibetan Buddhism, the Tibetan language, and its literature. This has taken him across Australia, America, India, Nepal, and Tibet to pursue a deeper understanding of Buddhist theory and practice with masters from the living tradition. Daniel also has a PhD in Buddhist Philosophy.

Erik Pema Kunsang is a dharma teacher and translator of tantric texts and pith instructions of the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages. Early in life, a deep curiosity about the nature of reality led him to connect with the tradition of Buddha Shakyamuni, and of Padmasambhava, which he has studied, practiced and served ever since. Under the guidance of his main teachers, the dzogchen master Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, Erik has translated numerous dharma texts in simple language. He is the co-founder of Rangjung Yeshe Publications, Rangjung Yeshe Institute (Nepal), and several Gomde retreat centers across Europe. Appointed to teach the dharma by Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, he now guides retreats on simplicity, naturalness, love, and insight.

In 2016 Erik founded Bodhi Training in Denmark, a two-year education initiative that explores all levels of insight into the Buddha’s teachings, giving participants an opportunity to connect with the dharma in a gradual, experiential, and interactive way.

These days he enjoys a quiet life with his wife Tara, singing mantras and buddhist songs, and doing no-dig gardening. It brings him deep happiness to make the original poetry of dharma possible to chant in English, especially the sadhana texts of Padmasambhava.

Sara L. McClintock, PhD, is Associate Professor of Religion at Emory University in Atlanta where she teaches courses in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and narrative traditions. Her published work includes a monograph, Omniscience and the Rhetoric of Reason (2010), and a co-authored volume with Georges Dreyfus, The Svātantrika-Prāsaṅgika Distinction (2003).

Her doctorate is from Harvard University (2002), and she has conducted research at the Central University for Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, India; the University of Lausanne, Switzerland; and the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia at the Austrian Academy of Science in Vienna, Austria.

She is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, and a Research Fellow at the Mind and Life Institute. She is a recent (2019) recipient of a Robert H. N. Ho foundation Buddhist Studies Research Fellowship for work she is conducting on a new book project entitled Transactional Reality, Transactional Truth.

Her dharma practice includes instruction from a wide range of teachers in diverse lineages. Sara joined the Board of 84000 in 2011.

Ivy Ang has over 30 years of extensive experience in international business and organizational development. Her professional background includes VP Human Resources roles in the fields of high technology, biotechnology, branding, consulting and finance. She held VP HR positions for global industry leaders such as Genentech, AIG, Madge Networks and Landor Associates. She also has extensive experience consulting with for-profit and non-profit organizations. Ivy is the founder of Visionlinc, a consulting agency dedicated to linking vision, people and strategies. She is a strategic planner and executive coach to CEOs and their teams.

Her areas of expertise include strategic visioning and planning, leadership and management, executive coaching and team building with emphasis on creating high performing teams and innovative cultures to achieve organizational mission.

At the request of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Ivy facilitated the 5-day Translating the Words of the Buddha conference in March, 2009 in Bir, India. The conference culminated in the birth of the historic 84000 project, with the 100-year goal of translating the words of the Buddha into modern languages, making it accessible to all: “Working with Rinpoche’s mandala has been the single most inspirational and fulfilling experience in my life”

Nonprofit organizations include: Khyentse Foundation, 84000, The Gross National Happiness Project in Bhutan, BDRC, MBA project, Gap coaching and other community projects.

Huang Jing Rui has been the appointed Executive Director since 84000 began as the Buddhist Literary Heritage Project in 2009. Prior to that, Jing Rui worked in the non-profit sector as a social worker in a community-based family service center in Singapore.

In part to seek alternative answers to the ills of urban living and in part to pursue her childhood dreams, she gave up her career to volunteer in a remote village named Bir in the Indian Himalayas. It was in these hills that she, most unexpectedly, stumbled upon the opportunity to take part in 84000—a hundred-year undertaking that will last beyond her lifetime.

Huang Jing Rui has been the appointed Executive Director since 84000 began as the Buddhist Literary Heritage Project in 2009. Prior to that, Jing Rui worked in the non-profit sector as a social worker in a community-based family service center in Singapore.

In part to seek alternative answers to the ills of urban living and in part to pursue her childhood dreams, she gave up her career to volunteer in a remote village named Bir in the Indian Himalayas. It was in these hills that she, most unexpectedly, stumbled upon the opportunity to take part in 84000—a hundred-year undertaking that will last beyond her lifetime.

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Ivy Ang has over 30 years of extensive experience in international business and organizational development. Her professional background includes VP Human Resources roles in the fields of high technology, biotechnology, branding, consulting and finance. She held VP HR positions for global industry leaders such as Genentech, AIG, Madge Networks and Landor Associates. She also has extensive experience consulting with for-profit and non-profit organizations. Ivy is the founder of Visionlinc, a consulting agency dedicated to linking vision, people and strategies. She is a strategic planner and executive coach to CEOs and their teams.

Her areas of expertise include strategic visioning and planning, leadership and management, executive coaching and team building with emphasis on creating high performing teams and innovative cultures to achieve organizational mission.

At the request of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Ivy facilitated the 5-day Translating the Words of the Buddha conference in March, 2009 in Bir, India. The conference culminated in the birth of the historic 84000 project, with the 100-year goal of translating the words of the Buddha into modern languages, making it accessible to all: “Working with Rinpoche’s mandala has been the single most inspirational and fulfilling experience in my life”

Nonprofit organizations include: Khyentse Foundation, 84000, The Gross National Happiness Project in Bhutan, BDRC, MBA project, Gap coaching and other community projects.

Khenpo Choying Dorjee is assisted in this role by Sonam Jamtsho.

Khenpo Choying Dorjee is a Tibetan Buddhist scholar known for his fresh and engaging way of presenting Buddhist philosophy. He was a devoted student of the late Khen Rinpoche Kunga Wangchuk. Khenpo Choying Dorjee joined the Dzongsar Khyentse Chokyi Lodro Institute (DKCLI) in 1992, receiving his Khenpo title in 2002, and his Khenpo degree (the monastic education equivalent to a PhD in Buddhism) in 2004. He then spent many years in various teaching and leadership roles at DKCLI, and in 2010, was appointed as a teacher to Sakya Dungsay Avikrita Rinpoche.

In 2011 Khenpo was sent to UC Berkeley (USA) as a visiting scholar by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, and was also appointed by Rinpoche as the head principal of DCKLI for the 2013-2016 term. Since then Khenpo has been directed by Khyentse Rinpoche to give teachings and to lead practices around Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas. His rich knowledge and deep understanding of Buddhism have benefited the many students who have attended his teachings.

Ivy Ang has over 30 years of extensive experience in international business and organizational development. Her professional background includes VP Human Resources roles in the fields of high technology, biotechnology, branding, consulting and finance. She held VP HR positions for global industry leaders such as Genentech, AIG, Madge Networks and Landor Associates. She also has extensive experience consulting with for-profit and non-profit organizations. Ivy is the founder of Visionlinc, a consulting agency dedicated to linking vision, people and strategies. She is a strategic planner and executive coach to CEOs and their teams.

Her areas of expertise include strategic visioning and planning, leadership and management, executive coaching and team building with emphasis on creating high performing teams and innovative cultures to achieve organizational mission.

At the request of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Ivy facilitated the 5-day Translating the Words of the Buddha conference in March, 2009 in Bir, India. The conference culminated in the birth of the historic 84000 project, with the 100-year goal of translating the words of the Buddha into modern languages, making it accessible to all: “Working with Rinpoche’s mandala has been the single most inspirational and fulfilling experience in my life”

Nonprofit organizations include: Khyentse Foundation, 84000, The Gross National Happiness Project in Bhutan, BDRC, MBA project, Gap coaching and other community projects.

Huang Jing Rui has been the appointed Executive Director since 84000 began as the Buddhist Literary Heritage Project in 2009. Prior to that, Jing Rui worked in the non-profit sector as a social worker in a community-based family service center in Singapore.

In part to seek alternative answers to the ills of urban living and in part to pursue her childhood dreams, she gave up her career to volunteer in a remote village named Bir in the Indian Himalayas. It was in these hills that she, most unexpectedly, stumbled upon the opportunity to take part in 84000—a hundred-year undertaking that will last beyond her lifetime.

John Canti studied medicine and anthropology at Cambridge University (UK) and qualified as a doctor in 1975. While still a medical student he met and began to study with some of the great Tibetan Buddhist masters of the older generation, especially Kangyur Rinpoche, Dudjom Rinpoche, and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. After some years of medical work in northeastern Nepal in the late 1970s he went to the Dordogne, France, to complete two three-year retreats at Chanteloube, and has remained primarily based there ever since.

John is a founding member of the Padmakara Translation Group, was a Tsadra Foundation Fellow from 2001-2012, and was awarded the 2016 Khyentse Foundation Fellowship. In 2009, when 84000 first started, he was appointed Editorial Chair of 84000, and in 2020 has become Editorial Co-Director.

His interest in the Kangyur and Tengyur has continued to grow as the project has taken shape, and he feels more and more fascinated by their origins and history, their range of content, and above all by the significance of the extraordinary body of literature the two collections have preserved.

Andreas Doctor (PhD 2004, University of Calgary) lives with his family in a small village in Denmark. He has been involved in translating and editing for 84000 since the very early days and is currently serving as editorial co-director.

For a number of years, Andreas has studied Buddhist history and philosophy under the guidance of Tibetan monks and lamas, mostly in Nepal at Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery. As a founding member of Rangjung Yeshe Institute (www.ryi.org), he spent fifteen years teaching at the Institute and for most of this period he served as Director of Studies at Kathmandu University’s Centre for Buddhist Studies, located at Rangjung Yeshe Institute.

Andreas is Director of Dharmachakra Translation Committee (www.dharmachakra.net) where he has participated in numerous translation projects, most recently in the translation of sutras and tantras from the Tibetan canon. He is also a founding member of Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Denmark (www.gomde.dk).

Dominic Latham grew up in the beautiful countryside of Warwickshire in the UK. His father was a green grocer and his mother a florist who battled with a chronic lung disease. Together, these are some of the conditions that led to Dominic’s early appreciation of family, order, beauty and hard work.

After finishing school, he moved to London and gained degrees in Fine Art, Cultural Studies and Digital Media and began working as a programmer and software designer. He co-founded a company pioneering the use of the internet to make online bookings which grew to become a leading service provider. This experience gave him the opportunity to work closely with a large and diverse group of talented people.

He now has 25 years experience building technical solutions for organisations. As Technical Lead for 84000, he particularly likes to engage with readers, editors and translators and then develop elegant tools to suit their respective needs. He still likes to draw, mostly as a way to practice seeing things as they are – an ambition closely linked to his Buddhism. Dominic lives in Berlin with his German wife and their three children.

With a decade of varied experience across South and Southeast Asia as a development professional and as a cultural heritage advocate, Pema was recently awarded a major project grant by The British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme to lead a local team in preserving and making available 100,000+ pages of the history of the former Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim.

Previously, Pema had been working on systemic rights and post-conflict issues in South Asia with Human Rights Watch (New York; New Delhi); The Asia Foundation (Nepal); and International Crisis Group (London). Prior to this, in New York, she worked in the arts at the International Center of Photography, among other galleries and publications.

Pema holds an MSc Conflict Studies, specializing in International Human Rights Law, from London School of Economics; and BAs in History and Art History from NYU, where she focused on cultural shifts in Central and South Asia.

Now based in Thailand, she is on the board of the Neilson Hays Library (Bangkok), but mostly considers herself fortunate to have entered the dharma as a child under the kindness of Thinley Norbu Rinpoche – who among other things, piqued her interest in Monday night boxing and blueberry pancakes.

John Canti studied medicine and anthropology at Cambridge University (UK) and qualified as a doctor in 1975. While still a medical student he met and began to study with some of the great Tibetan Buddhist masters of the older generation, especially Kangyur Rinpoche, Dudjom Rinpoche, and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. After some years of medical work in northeastern Nepal in the late 1970s he went to the Dordogne, France, to complete two three-year retreats at Chanteloube, and has remained primarily based there ever since.

John is a founding member of the Padmakara Translation Group, was a Tsadra Foundation Fellow from 2001-2012, and was awarded the 2016 Khyentse Foundation Fellowship. In 2009, when 84000 first started, he was appointed Editorial Chair of 84000, and in 2020 has become Editorial Co-Director.

His interest in the Kangyur and Tengyur has continued to grow as the project has taken shape, and he feels more and more fascinated by their origins and history, their range of content, and above all by the significance of the extraordinary body of literature the two collections have preserved.

Andreas Doctor (PhD 2004, University of Calgary) lives with his family in a small village in Denmark. He has been involved in translating and editing for 84000 since the very early days and is currently serving as editorial co-director.

For a number of years, Andreas has studied Buddhist history and philosophy under the guidance of Tibetan monks and lamas, mostly in Nepal at Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery. As a founding member of Rangjung Yeshe Institute (www.ryi.org), he spent fifteen years teaching at the Institute and for most of this period he served as Director of Studies at Kathmandu University’s Centre for Buddhist Studies, located at Rangjung Yeshe Institute.

Andreas is Director of Dharmachakra Translation Committee (www.dharmachakra.net) where he has participated in numerous translation projects, most recently in the translation of sutras and tantras from the Tibetan canon. He is also a founding member of Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Denmark (www.gomde.dk).

David Higgins received his doctorate from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland in 2012. He subsequently held a position as a Post-doc Research Fellow in the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna where he explored the relationship between Mahāmudrā and Madhyamaka philosophies in Bka’ brgyud scholasticism during the post-classical period (15th to 16th centuries).

His research interests include Indo-Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and epistemology with a particular focus on Bka’ brgyud Mahāmudrā and Rnying ma Rdzogs chen doctrines and practices. His PhD thesis was published under the title Philosophical Foundations of Classical Rdzogs chen in Tibet: Investigating the Distinction Between Dualistic Mind (sems) and Primordial knowing (ye shes) (Vienna, WSTB no. 78, 2013).

In addition to numerous articles in his recent publications include Mahāmudrā and the Middle Way: Post-classical Kagyü Discourses on Mind, Emptiness and Buddha Nature (Vienna, WSTB no. 90, 2016, 2 vols.) and Buddha Nature Reconsidered: The Eighth Karma pa’s Middle Path (Vienna, WSTB, no. 95, 2 vols.), both of which were co-authored with Martina Drazczyk.

Rory Lindsay is an editor at 84000. Rory completed his doctorate in Tibetan studies at Harvard University in 2018, and he has since been a visiting scholar at UC Santa Barbara, where he lectures on Tibetan Buddhism. He is currently developing his PhD dissertation on the Sarvadurgatipariśodhana Tantra and Tibetan funerary practices into a book manuscript, and he is writing articles on related topics.

Rory was reviews editor at Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly from 2013–2018 and remains a regular contributor to the journal. He also serves as a Buddhist language consultant and editor for Wisdom Publications.

Nathaniel Rich is an Editor at 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. He studied philosophy and history as an undergraduate in Texas, and completed an MA and PhD in religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Though his academic research has focused primarily on the intellectual and institutional history of the Nyingma tradition, he is currently investigating the place of sūtra literature in the development of mind training among the early Kadampas. He is especially interested in introducing contemporary Buddhist practitioners to the study of the Kangyur.

Ryan has been a member of Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche’s Dharmachakra Translation Committee since its inception in 2006, and has taught courses in Tibetan, Sanskrit, and Translation Studies at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Kathmandu and Rangjung Yeshe Gomde in northern California. He first began working for the 84000 as a translator with the Dharmachakra Translation Committee, before joining the editorial team in 2017.

In addition to his ongoing translation and editorial work, Ryan is currently completing his PhD in Sanskrit and South Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Line was born and grew up in Denmark but has spent a large part of her life living and working in other European countries. Her interest in different cultures and ways of life brought her to study ethnography and anthropology at the Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (France) and Aarhus University (Denmark), from where she graduated with a master’s degree in 2001.

She then worked for two decades in various types of international organizations, together with colleagues from all over the world. During this time she gained extensive experience in areas such as document management, project management, human resources, general administration and more.

In March 2020 she joined 84000 to take up the position of Editorial Manager in the Editorial team. When she is not busy keeping everyone and everything organized, she loves going for walks in the Danish countryside where she now lives.

Thomas has studied Buddhist views and practices at the Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery in Kathmandu since the late 1980s. Graduating in Tibetan and Sanskrit at the University of Copenhagen, he received a doctorate in Buddhist Studies from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. As a member of the Dharmachakra Translation Committee, Thomas has contributed to the 84000 project since its inception, translating sūtras and tantras. He has also translated philosophical treatises as well as Tibetan commentarial works on Indian Buddhist classics. His research publications include a monograph on Madhyamaka in Tibet.

Thomas is an Associate Professor at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Kathmandu, working in Buddhist philosophy and cross-disciplinary research.

Wiesiek has been translating Buddhist texts for 84000 as member of the Dharmachakra Translation Committee since 2010; and in 2020 formally joined 84000 as an Associate Translator. Having begun learning Sanskrit in 1975, in his native Poland, Wiesiek continued at the School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London. From 2004 to 2010, he taught Sanskrit at Rangjung Yeshe Institute (University of Kathmandu) in Nepal, where he has lived since 2005. His experience with the Dharma began in 1979 and still continues today.

Ven. Konchog Norbu is a graduate of Brown University, where he primarily studied 19th and 20th century American literature and creative writing. Discovering the Dharma soon thereafter, he took the novice (getsul) precepts of a Buddhist monk during Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok’s North American tour in 1993, and received his full (gelong) ordination from Drubwang Penor Rinpoche in 1995. He has served several Dharma communities in the capacity of communications and media relations.

Prior to joining 84000 as an English copyeditor, Ven. Konchog most recently worked for Lion’s Roar, creating online content; performed extensive editorial work for the translated teachings of both Khenchen Tsultrim Lodro and Khenpo Sodargye; and taught English to the monks and nuns of the English Translator Training Program at the Ngagyur Nyingma Institute at Namdroling Monastery in Bylakuppe, South India, where he also served as advisor for the various publication projects of the Rigzod Editorial Committee.

Ven. Konchog now lives in Crestone, CO, where he is on the board of the Pema Chōling monastic community, and, when not shuffling commas around, carries out the wishes of his cat, Joey Toes.

Laura was born and raised in the middle of New York state. She studied creative writing at Cornell University, after which she spent several years composing, recording, and performing music while traversing the US and Europe. Having learned about new and wonderful things in the meantime, she went on to obtain an MA in Buddhist studies at Naropa University focusing on translation of Tibetan and Sanskrit.

After spending some time in Eastern Tibet and North India furthering her Tibetan studies, she worked as a research assistant at the Tsadra Foundation in Boulder, CO, and briefly with the editorial department at Shambhala Publications.

She currently resides in Binghamton, NY, with her partner Celso (who is also on the 84000 publications team) and kittens Meru and Velvet. She considers herself lucky to spend her days reading the Kangyur and nitpicking everyone’s grammar.

Dion Blundell was lassoed onto the path by H.H. the Dalai Lama’s teaching of the Heart Sutra, brilliantly interpreted by Thupten Jinpa (Mt. View, CA, 2001). Subsequent auspicious connections with many kind and authentic teachers—including Sangye Khandro, Lama Chönam, and Khenchen Namdrol Rinpoche, from whom he gratefully received oral teachings on Longchenpa’s Guhyagarbha commentary Chok chu munsel and his Tshig don mdzod, kindled a passion for the dharma.

He began editing for Sangye Khandro and Lama Chönam as they translated Chok chu munsel over a four-year period, published as The Guhyagarbha Tantra (Snow Lion, 2011). For B. Alan Wallace he edited Minding Closely (Snow Lion, 2011), Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic (Columbia University Press, 2012), and a three-volume translation of quintessential Dzogchen treasure texts, Düdjom Lingpa’s Visions of the Great Perfection (Wisdom, 2015).

In a former life, he earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from Pepperdine University, and enjoyed marketing management roles in developing and launching innovative telecom and computer peripheral products for large multinationals as well as startup ventures. He is thrilled to be editing new translations in support of the 84000 mission.

Dominic Latham grew up in the beautiful countryside of Warwickshire in the UK. His father was a green grocer and his mother a florist who battled with a chronic lung disease. Together, these are some of the conditions that led to Dominic’s early appreciation of family, order, beauty and hard work.

After finishing school, he moved to London and gained degrees in Fine Art, Cultural Studies and Digital Media and began working as a programmer and software designer. He co-founded a company pioneering the use of the internet to make online bookings which grew to become a leading service provider. This experience gave him the opportunity to work closely with a large and diverse group of talented people.

He now has 25 years experience building technical solutions for organisations. As Technical Lead for 84000, he particularly likes to engage with readers, editors and translators and then develop elegant tools to suit their respective needs. He still likes to draw, mostly as a way to practice seeing things as they are – an ambition closely linked to his Buddhism. Dominic lives in Berlin with his German wife and their three children.

Mike has been deepening his practice and understanding of Buddhism since he was first introduced to it at the age of 16. While at school, his interest in the mind motivated him to study psychology as well as philosophy, and afterwards led him to spend a year in Nepal researching attention training in the Tibetan monastic education. Mike then spent the next four-and-a-half years studying Buddhist philosophy and practice in southern France.

Mike began to work for 84000 on several small editorial projects, and joined formally in 2016. He now manages the publication and markup stages, where the editorial, technology, and communications team all interface. He has transformed 84000’s initial, painstakingly slow, manual method of markup into a rapid and efficient process, now mostly automated, and coordinates a small team of markup editors who make sure that all the fine detail is in place. He has also planned and realized various tools to allow copyeditors, editors, and translators to communicate with each other and keep accessible their ever growing know how.

He currently lives in Barcelona with his wife and three sons.

Celso Wilkinson is a graduate of Naropa University where he studied Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan Language. After graduating he continued his language studies abroad in Eastern Tibet and Northern India while intermittently working as a curriculum coordinator for the Nitartha Institute.

Now as a translator and TEI markup editor for 84000, in addition to translation his work has focused on developing various data projects for 84000. He is currently exploring ways in which this vast knowledge developed under the 84000 project can be utilized with computer technology as a resource for translators and researchers. This includes developing a translation memory project as well as exploring the current state of translation software, applications, and data projects and how they can be of benefit through this valuable data.

He lives in Binghamton, NY, with his partner Laura (who is also on the 84000 editorial team) and their two cats. While not working for 84000, Celso is also a painter and writes graphic novels.

André Rodrigues first trained and worked as an architect, in Lisbon, where he grew up, and also in Venice and London. But, having found Buddhism in his early teens, all that merely served to quench his curiosity about saṃsāric life. In any case, the broad scope of an architect’s training, learning to structure ideas and creative problem solving have proven to be very useful in all fields.

In his mid-twenties, he started to devote himself solely to Buddhist studies and practice, completing an extended three-year retreat in Chanteloube, in 2012. With the encouragement of his teachers, he studied (and continues to study) Tibetan and, currently, he is translating Dharma texts from Tibetan into Portuguese, and is the coordinator of the Portuguese language branch of the Padmakara Translation Group.

He started working part-time for 84000 in January 2017, taking the texts through the publication stages, making sure that the online glossaries show the right terms and so on. He feels privileged to be part of this incredible endeavor and to have the chance to read and learn from these precious texts.

With a decade of varied experience across South and Southeast Asia as a development professional and as a cultural heritage advocate, Pema was recently awarded a major project grant by The British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme to lead a local team in preserving and making available 100,000+ pages of the history of the former Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim.

Previously, Pema had been working on systemic rights and post-conflict issues in South Asia with Human Rights Watch (New York; New Delhi); The Asia Foundation (Nepal); and International Crisis Group (London). Prior to this, in New York, she worked in the arts at the International Center of Photography, among other galleries and publications.

Pema holds an MSc Conflict Studies, specializing in International Human Rights Law, from London School of Economics; and BAs in History and Art History from NYU, where she focused on cultural shifts in Central and South Asia.

Now based in Thailand, she is on the board of the Neilson Hays Library (Bangkok), but mostly considers herself fortunate to have entered the dharma as a child under the kindness of Thinley Norbu Rinpoche – who among other things, piqued her interest in Monday night boxing and blueberry pancakes.

Joie is currently a PhD candidate in Buddhist Studies (Study of Religion) at Harvard University, where her research interests include pre-modern Tibetan religious life writing, institutional history, travel literature, and Buddhist art.

She holds a BA in Film Studies and English from Yale University and an MPhil in Tibetan & Himalayan Studies from the University of Oxford. She is the Chinese communications coordinator for 84000 and the new book reviews editor for Buddhadharma magazine.

A natural people-person, Cabie loves to serve the community and is deeply interested in preserving the natural environment. But as a teenager she began to question life and death, and in 2013 while still searching for answers, she read, What Makes You Not a Buddhist, by Khyentse Norbu. Her life was transformed, and she is now especially committed to serving the Dharma, and her guru.

Cabie began as an 84000 volunteer in 2017, becoming a team member the following year helping to represent 84000 at teaching events across Asia which she loves for the ability to help those interested become more familiar with the work and vision of the organization. She officially joined the team in June 2020.

Born and raised in Malaysia, Cabie has called Singapore home for the past twenty-four years, working initially in the beauty and fashion industries; followed by sixteen years as a curator in a fine art gallery that specializes in Modern Chinese art.

Cabie is always trying to work through her never-ending reading list of books, and loves art and traveling. But for now, much of her days are spent serving her dog and dreaming about trekking up mountains—and the summits from which she can read the sūtras aloud.

In 2010, Ushnisha joined 84000, then known as the Buddhist Literary Heritage Project, and left her job in healthcare the following year to take on the full-time role of Executive Assistant. Ushnisha was involved in setting up an administrative system for the organization, and took on a range of responsibilities from events management to communications to volunteer recruitment.

Ushnisha is now the Operations Manager and oversees event operations, volunteer management, and administration. She is based in Singapore and can be reached at: ush@84000.co.

Born and raised in Malaysia, Amy first met Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche in Singapore in 2012 and thereafter started her journey into Tibetan Buddhism. In 2013, inspired by 84000’s mission, Amy began helping 84000 as their Grants Administrator. Her role eventually started to expand into other areas, and she is now 84000’s Finance Manager and Grants Coordinator. As a core member of the operations team, Amy manages the finances, grants, and databases for 84000.

Amy graduated with an MBA from INSEAD in France, and has ten years of professional experience in management consulting and finance, previously working as an auditor with Ernst & Young (Malaysia), and as a management consultant at Bain & Company (South East Asia). Currently, Amy is based in Malaysia and works as a corporate trainer leading workshops in leadership, strategy and emotional intelligence.