Dr. Dylan Esler

Dylan Esler is a scholar and translator of Tibetan Buddhist texts. He holds a PhD from the University of Louvain and an MA in Buddhist Studies from SOAS, University of London. Before joining 84000, Dylan worked as a researcher at the Center for Religious Studies (CERES) of the Ruhr-University Bochum. He is affiliated with the Oriental Institute of Louvain (CIOL), where he has twice held the Satsuma Chair, and he has also taught at the Inalco in Paris. Dylan’s research interests are focused on early Nyingma expositions of Dzogchen and Tantra. His publications include an annotated translation of Nubchen Sangye Yeshe’s Lamp for the Eye of Contemplation, a seminal tenth-century treatise on Buddhist meditation (Oxford University Press, 2022), as well as a study of Nubchen’s Dzogchen commentaries entitled Effortless Spontaneity (Brill, 2023).