Translations by Michael D. Smith

Michael D. Smith is a PhD Candidate in Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, and former Fulbright Scholar to Nepal (2006–2007). He holds a master’s degrees in Social Work and Public Health from Tulane University (2010) and in Translation, Textual Interpretation, and Philology from Kathmandu University Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute (2023), supported by a Tsadra Foundation scholarship. He formerly worked as a translator and Tibetan language instructor at RYI and as the Interim Academic Director of the School for International Training (SIT) Nepal: Tibetan and Himalayan People’s Program. He also directs annual summer study abroad programs in north India for Tulane University. His previous research has included oral histories of the first Khari Rinpoche Lobsang Tsultrim, which he collated into a full-length biography (2004–05), and contemporary Newari patrons of Tibetan Buddhist lamas in the Kathmandu Valley (2006–07). His current research focuses on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century biographies, song collections and ritual texts from northwest Nepal.