Gavin Kilty spent 14 years in India studying with Tibetan teachers. Eight of these years were spent at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics Studies in Dharamsala set up by HH the Dalai Lama, where he completed the major part of the Tibetan monastic curriculum in the medium of the Tibetan language. He now works full time as a Tibetan to English translator of Tibetan texts, and teacher of Tibetan language in India and Nepal. His translations include the Kālacakra overview, Ornament of Stainless Light, the history of Tibetan medicine, Mirror of Beryl, an overview of the five stages of the Guhyasamāja, Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages by Je Tsongkhapa, and the devotional poems of Tsongkhapa, Splendor of an Autumn Moon.