John W. Pettit

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John W. Pettit. A scholar and translator of Tibetan Buddhist texts. He holds advanced degrees in religion and Buddhist Studies from Harvard and Columbia University. He received his PhD in Buddhist studies from Columbia University.

He is the editor/translator of Mipham’s Beacon of Certainty (Wisdom, 1999). (See Beacon of Certainty.)

He has also researched and translated other Tibetan commentaries on the topic of Buddha-nature.

He has been a student of many Tibetan and other Buddhist teachers, especially the first Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.

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