Erik Pema Kunsang

Erik Pema Kunsang (Erik Hein Schmidt) is a Danish translator and, along with Marcia Binder Schmidt, director of Rangjung Yeshe Translations and Publications in Kathmandu. He has translated over forty volumes of Tibetan texts and oral teachings. His other projects include the Dharma Dictionary, an ongoing electronic publication that is compiling an extensive glossary of Buddhist terminology to bridge the Tibetan and English languages.

Erik has been the assistant and translator for Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and his sons since the late 1970s. He and Marcia are both active in facilitating masters of the Practice Lineages to teach in the West. They live at the Gomde retreat centers in California and Denmark.

References

• Interview from Lotsawa School

External links

• Publications website
• Shedrub Development Mandala
• Gomde Denmark
• Gomde USA