Dr. Bruno Galasek-Hul

Bruno Galasek-Hul has translated part-time for 84000 since 2015 and joined the organization as an associate translator in 2022. He met his principal teacher of Tibetan Buddhism in 1998. This set him on a parallel path to study Classical Indology Tibetan Studies and the History of Indian Arts at the University of Bonn Germany where he earned his Ph.D. degree in 2013 with a dissertation on the narratology of literary characters in the Pāli Canon. As a doctoral student he spent one year (2010–2011) in Oxford studying with Professor Richard Gombrich and the late Lance Cousins.

From 2013–2015 he was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Center for Buddhist Studies and a postdoctoral candidate at the Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages. Since then he has served as an adjunct professor at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley and contributed to A Visual Dictionary and Thesaurus of Buddhist Sanskrit as a senior lexicographer. Bruno enjoys working with a wide range of Buddhist texts written in Pāli Sanskrit and Classical Tibetan. His latest publication is The Life of the Buddha by the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorjé: Story 101 a supplement to The Hundred Jātakas (skyes rab brgya pa).'