Journey and Milestones
Background Information
Experience
Dr. Ryan Damron
Research Editor
Ryan Damron began working for the 84000 in 2013 as a translator with Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche’s Dharmachakra Translation Committee and joined the editorial team in 2017.
Ryan Damron began his study of Tibetan Sanskrit and Buddhist literature in traditional settings during a decade spent in the Kathmandu Valley and then pursued academic training in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University and the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California Berkeley. He received his PhD in Sanskrit and South Asian Studies from UC Berkeley in 2021.
Ryan began working for the 84000 in 2013 as a translator with Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche’s Dharmachakra Translation Committee and joined the editorial team in 2017. Ryan reads broadly in the Buddhist canon as part of his translation and editorial work and specializes in dhāraṇī and tantric literature.