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TIBETAN
BUDDHISM - DR
ALEXANDER BERZIN |
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episode hosts David Quinn, Kevin Solway
and guest Dr
Alexander Berzin discuss the concept of enlightenment, the
student-teacher relationship, real Buddhism v fake Buddhism, the
role and significance of the Dalai Lama, reincarnation and try to
come to grips with the deluded nature of modern Western
Buddhism.
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Guest
Bio: |
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Dr
Alexander Berzin |
Dr. Alexander Berzin is an author
and translator of Tibetan Buddhist works. He is the
Director of Berzin Archives e.V. and international
lecturer on Buddhist philosophy. He received his
Ph.D. in 1972 from Harvard University, in the Departments of Far
Eastern Languages and Sanskrit and Indian Studies. He
worked for 29 years in Dharamsala,
India, as a founding member of the
Translation Bureau of the Library of Tibetan Works &
Archives, and has served as occasional interpreter for
the Dalai Lama. He currently lives in
Berlin and nowadays prepares his
collected works for online publication at the
Berzin Archives.
He has published 17 books (mostly on Tibetan Buddhism)
and his works have been translated into 18 languages.
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