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Expert: Alex Wilding - 6/29/2009


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i want to know how ignorance translates to Tibetan script. Thank you in advance for your help.

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Dear Hary,
The Tibetan, transcribed into latin script according to the Wylie system, is this:
  ma.rig.pa.

If you want to know what it looks like in Tibetan script, put this into the address bar of your browser:
http://chagchen.org/resources/marigpa.jpg

I will leave that file there for at least a day or so.

All the best
Alex W

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I have practiced and studied Tibetan Buddhism in the Kagyu and Nyingma traditions since the early 1970s, and have a good knowledge of theory, history and of the struggles of trying to practice the teachings, including meditation, while leading a normal, modern life. I am also available to provide background information for journalists.

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I have been a practitioner since the early 1970s; have run a small Buddhist centre in the English Midlands and was vice-president of Kagyu Benchen Ling e.V. in Germany, for whom I managed three large Buddhist summer-camps. More importantly, I maintain a habit of personal practice. I am the "owner" of the Kagyu list at Yahoo.

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My first degree was an M.A. from Oxford. I later obtained a Master of Philosophy degree for a research thesis in "Initiation in Tibetan Buddhism" from Leicester University. I also have engineering and educational qualifications.

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