• A Visionary Journey. ( (Tr.) with Longchenpa)

• Asures On The Tibetan Middle Way (Tr.)

• Buddhist Philosophy In Theory And Practice

• Mind In Buddhist Psychology ( (Tr.) With Leslie S. Kawamura (Tr.) )

• Philosophy And Psychology In The Abhidharma

• Teachings of Padmasambhava

• The Dawn Of Tantra (With Chogyam Trungpa, Michael Kohn (Tr.) )

• The Jewel Ornament of Liberation (Tr.)

• The Life and Teaching Of Naropa (Tr.)

• The Tantric View Of Life

• Tibetan Buddhism In Western Perspective

• Creative Vision: The Symbolic Recreation of the World According to the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition of Tantric Visualization

• From Reductionism to Creativity: rDzogs-chen and the New Sciences of Mind

• Matrix of Mystery. Scientific and Human Aspects of rDzogs-chen Thought

• Meditation Differently: Phenomenological-psychological Aspects of Tibetan Buddhist (Mahamudra and sNying-thig)

• Yuganaddha: The Tantric View of Life

Academic Tibetologist, translator of Tibetan texts, writer.

Born in 1917 in Bremen, Germany.

Holds PhDs from Munich and Vienna, and then taught at Vienna University from 1943 to 1950. Originally learned Tibetan in order to study Tibetan translations of lost Sanskrit texts and became an acknowledged expert. Head of Department of Philosophy and Buddhist Studies at Sanskrit University, Varanasi, India (1958), and appointed to teach Russian at Lucknow University, India (1959). Lived and taught in India from 1950 to 1963. Became interested in literature and philosophy of Nyingma school. He became Head of Far Eastern Studies at University of Saskatchewan in Canada. He has also taught at Tarthang Tulku’s Nyingma Institute and Trungpa Rinpoche’s Naropa Institute. Often criticized for obscurity and for confusingly mingling jargon of various disparate disciplines but has nevertheless been described as a staunch advocate of Tibetan Buddhism.