Dr. Bob Miller

Bob Miller has been working as an interpreter and translator of Tibetan since completing the Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Program in 2000. From 2000–2007, Bob interpreted for Gyumé Khensur Rinpoche (Geshe Tashi Tsering) at Chenrezig Institute in Australia. While there Bob was ordained as a monk and translated a wide range of texts—from logic and epistemology to tantra—as well as The Buddha\'s Medicine for the Mind  a collection of Gyumé Khensur Rinpoche’s lectures on Tsongkhapa’s Three Principal Aspects of the Path. In 2007 Bob returned to Dharamsala where he acted as interpreter and secretary to Garje Khamtrul Rinpoche. While there Bob served as monastery bursar (phyag mdzod) and translated Rinpoche’s autobiography  Memories of Lost and Hidden Lands. In 2016 Bob began a PhD program with the Group in Buddhist Studies at the University of California Berkeley. He completed his PhD in December 2023. Bob’s work focuses on the Vinaya’s description of monastic mentorship as a process of intellectual and social-emotional learning; the eighth–ninth century Indo-Tibetan translation project; the tenth–twelfth century reintroduction of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya and its ordination lineage to central Tibet; early Kadampa commentaries on Guṇaprabha’s Vinayasūtra and novice training; and thirteenth–fourteenth century Vinaya scholarship at Zulphu and Kyormolung monasteries.