Alexander Berzin (scholar)
| Alexander Berzin | |
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Alexander Berzin, April 2015
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| Religion | Tibetan Buddhism |
| Education | Ph.D., Harvard University (1972) MA, Harvard University (1967) BA, Rutgers University (1965) |
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| Born | 1944 Paterson, New Jersey |
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| Works | Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship (2000), Developing Balanced Sensitivity (1998), Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra (1997), Taking the Kalachakra Initiation (1997) |
| Website | studybuddhism |
Alexander Berzin (born 1944) is a scholar, translator, and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism.
Berzin was born in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. He received his B.A. degree in 1965 from the Department of Oriental Studies, Rutgers University; his M.A. in 1967; and, his Ph.D. in 1972 from the Departments of Far Eastern Languages (Chinese) and Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University.
Berzin served as the Dalai Lama's archivist and occasionally his interpreter.
Berzin is on the Board of Advisors of Tibet House Germany and the International Center for Buddhist-Muslim Understanding of the College of Religious Studies of Mahidol University, Thailand.
He currently lives in Berlin, Germany.
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