Dr. Ryan Damron

Dr. Ryan Damron is a long-time student of Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and previously served as Gomde California’s Director of Studies and on its Board of Directors. Ryan holds a PhD in South and Southeast Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and has taught courses on Buddhist history, Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Translation methodology at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Nepal, and as part of Gomde California’s residential study program. He now works as an Editor for 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha.