Sakya Drogön Ling is a center of
the Sakyapa lineage of Vajrayana Tibetan Buddhism
Peter Della Santina. The Tree of Enlightentment
About the Author:
Peter Della Santina was born in the USA. He has spent many years
studying and teaching in South and East Asia. He received his
BA. in religion from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut,
USA in 1972 and a MA in philosophy from the University of Delhi,
India two years later. He did his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies also
from the University of Delhi, India in 1979.
He worked for three years for the Institute for Advanced Studies
of world
Religions, Fort Lee, New Jersey as a research scholar translating
8th century Buddhist philosophical texts from the Tibetan. He
taught at several Universities and Buddhist centers in Europe
and Asia including, the University of Pisa in Italy, the National
University of Singapore and Tibet House in Delhi, India. He was
the Coordinator of the Buddhist Studies project at the Curriculum
Development Institute of Singapore, a department of the Ministry
of Education from 1983 to 1985.
More recently, he was a senior fellow at the Indian Institute
of Advanced Study, Simla, India and taught Philosophy at the Fo
Kuang Shan Academy of Chinese Buddhism , Kaoh-shiung, Taiwan.
For twenty-five years Peter Della Santina has been a student of
H.H. Sakya Trizin, leader of the Sakya Order of Tibetan Buddhism
and of eminent abets of the Sakya Tradition. He has practiced
Buddhist meditation and has completed a number of retreats.
He has published several books and articles in academic journals
including
Nagarjuna's Letter to King Gautamiputra, Delhi 1978 and 1982 and
Madhyamaka Schools In India, Delhi 1986 and the Madhyamaka and
Modern Western Philosophy, Philosophy East and West, Hawaii, 1986.
Chico Dharma Study Group
26 Kirk Way, Chico, CA. 95928
U.S.A.
E-mail: dsantina@ecst.csuchico.edu
WWW: http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dsantina/
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