Dr. John Canti

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. He has remained primarily based there ever since.

John is a founding member of the Padmakara Translation Group, 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 the new organization. In 2023, he become senior editor. John's interest in the Kangyur and Tengyur has continued to grow as the project has taken shape. 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.