Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Program ready to recruit for LRZTP 10. Progress of LRZTP 9

We are very happy to announce that the registration for the next 2-year language and translation course at Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Program is officially open! The tenth program will begin on 17th October 2025 and finish on 8th October 2027. Please, check our website for details about the study plan, fees and requirements for registration. We are looking forward to meet the new students and hope the next program will be as successful as the programs until now have been.

LRZTP school has trained professional interpreters of Buddhist teachings since the 1990s and many of our graduates have worked in person and online for renowned masters and FPMT (and other) centres around the world. The demand is always there and it is our great honour that we can contribute to the education of translators and interpreters.

Meanwhile, our current program – LRZTP 9 – is now in the advanced stages of the second year. The students learnt Tibetan in the first year and now they use it as a means to study Buddhist texts. In the second year the teachers are native speakers of Tibetan and geshes and/or professional translators/interpreters.

Geshema Kalsang Wangmo teaching the Buddhist tenets

The school has had the privilege of organizing several online classes with Gavin Kilty, a renowned translator of Buddhist texts. This was followed by Geshema Kalsang Wangmo’s classes on tenets and masters. Another distinguished guest teacher was Tenzin Tsepak, the interpreter of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who conducted a translation workshop for the students. Geshema Kalsang Wangmo is soon to come back to school and complete her classes. And there is more to come!

Workshop with Tenzin Tsepak

As the second year progresses the students will soon begin interpretation workshops and will also submit their translation projects. Recently all students were required to choose a text, fragment of a teaching, recorded or written, from a teacher of their choice and prepare a written translation. Particularly for this project they were provided some time off from school and are expected to hand in their works early in 2025. And it was only one and a half years ago that many of them made their first steps in the world of Tibetan language!

The ongoing 2-year program will end in May 2025. However, as some of the current students have requested, upon its completion the school will organize a 4-week extra interpretation workshop reserved only for the graduates of the program. A similar workshop is also planned after the next 2-year course if the graduates are interested.

On the fun side, the school held a party for our Tibetan tutors in November. We celebrated them for their hard work and their dedication to the students. There were cakes, great food and Tibetan dances! Our great “thuk je che” to all of our wonderful tutors. The school would not exist without you. You are invaluable to our students! We could not make it without you guys.

Party for the language tutors

And please, don’t forget that LRZTP also continues to accept new students for individual classes both in Dharamsala and online. Anyone who is interested, regardless of your level of Tibetan, please keep checking the website and do not hesitate to ask us and register for your one-on-one teacher/student experience. After one year of her individual studies, we recently said goodbye to Olga who completed her lessons and returned to her native Poland. Another student, Ivan, also completed his plan of classes. But we are almost sure that they will soon be back for more!

One of the recent graduations
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