About the Translators

Ari Goldfield is a Buddhist translator and teacher who has studied and practiced under the close guidance of Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche since 1995. He has translated books, articles, and numerous songs of realization and texts on Buddhist philosophy and meditation, including Khenpo Rinpoche’s Song of the Eight Flashing Lances teaching, which appeared in The Best Buddhist Writing 2007, Khenpo Rinpoche’s book The Sun of Wisdom, and The Moon of Wisdom. He studied Buddhist texts in Tibetan and Sanskrit at Buddhist monasteries in Nepal and India, and at the Central Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies in India. From 1998 to 2006 he served as Khenpo Rinpoche’s full-time secretary and translator on seven round-the-world teaching tours. He has also served as translator for H. H. the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa, Tenga Rinpoche, and many other Tibetan teachers. In 2006, Khenpo Rinpoche stayed in retreat and sent Ari on his own tour to teach philosophy, meditation, and yogic exercise in Europe, North America, and Asia. In 2007, Khenpo Rinpoche appointed him president of the Marpa Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports nunneries in Bhutan and Nepal, Buddhist translation, and other Buddhist activities. Ari holds a BA from Harvard College and a JD from Harvard Law School, both with honors.

Rose Taylor is a Buddhist translator and second-generation Buddhist teacher. She teaches Buddhist meditation, philosophy, yogic exercise and dance, and classical Tibetan language to Westerners, as well as to the nuns at Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche’s nunneries in Bhutan and Nepal. She holds an MA in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies from Naropa University. Having studied and practiced extensively in the Shambhala lineage, in which her mother is also a longtime student and teacher, she began training under Khenpo Rinpoche’s close guidance in 2002. In 2007, Khenpo Rinpoche appointed her vice president and secretary of Marpa Foundation.

Rose and Ari currently work for Marpa Foundation, translate, and teach internationally from their home base in the San Francisco Bay Area.