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'''Gyurme Dorje''' was born in 1950 in [[Edinburgh]], where he studied classics (Latin and Greek) at [[George Watson's College]] and developed an early interest in Buddhist philosophy.<ref name=Shambhala1>{{cite web|url=http://www.shambhala.com/authors/a-f-1/gyurme-dorje.html |title=Gyurme Dorje |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|date= |website=Shambhala Publications |publisher= |accessdate=}}</ref> He holds a PhD in Tibetan Literature ([[School of Oriental and African Studies|SOAS]]) and an MA in Sanskrit with Oriental Studies (Edinburgh). In the 1970s he spent a decade living in Tibetan communities in India and Nepal where he received extensive teachings from [[Longchen Yeshe Dorje|Kangyur Rinpoche]], [[Jigdral Yeshe Dorje (2nd Dudjom Rinpoche)|Dudjom Rinpoche]], [[Chatral Sangye Dorje|Chatral Rinpoche]], and [[Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche]]. In 1971 Dudjom Rinpoche encouraged him to begin translating his recently completed ''History of the Nyingma School'' ({{lang|bo|རྙིང་མའི་སྟན་པའི་ཆོས་འབྱུང་}}) and in 1980 his ''Fundamentals of the Nyingma School'' ({{lang|bo|བསྟན་པའི་རྣམ་གཞག}}) - together this was an undertaking that was to take twenty years, only reaching completion in 1991.<ref>{{cite book| author1 = Dudjom Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje |author-link1=Jigdral Yeshe Dorje (2nd Dudjom Rinpoche) |first2=Gyurme |last2=Dorje |author-link2=Gyurme Dorje |editor1-last=Kapstein |editor1-first=Matthew |editor1-link=Matthew Kapstein| title=The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism: Its Fundamentals & History |date=1991 |page=xxix|location=Boston |publisher=Wisdom Publications |isbn=0-86171-087-8}}</ref> In the 1980s Gyurme returned to the UK and in 1987 completed his 3 volume doctoral dissertation on the ''[[Guhyagarbhatantra]]'' and Longchenpa's commentary on this text at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London.<ref name=Shambhala1 /> ▼

From 1991 to 1996 Gyurme held research fellowships at London University, where he worked with [[Alak Zenkar Rinpoche]] on translating (with corrections) the content of the Great Sanskrit Tibetan Chinese Dictionary to create the three volume ''Encyclopaedic Tibetan-English Dictionary''. He has written, edited, translated and contributed to numerous important books on Tibetan religion and culture including ''The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism: Its Fundamentals and History'' (2 vol.) (Wisdom, 1991), ''Tibetan Medical Paintings'' 2 vol. (Serindia, 1992), ''The Tibet Handbook'' (Footprint, 1996), the first complete translation of the ''[[Tibetan Book of the Dead]]'', and ''A Handbook of Tibetan Culture'' (Shambhala, 1994).▼

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