"Upasaka Tenzin Chotrag. Translator and academic. After Harvard and Asian travels （ca. 1963） ... was ordained by the Dalai Lama and spent times at Namgyal monastery. Became fluent in Tibetan and studied Nagarjuna and Tsongkhapa. Later resigned monk status and returned to academic life. 197?: PhD at Harvard with translation of Madyamika text by Tsongkhapa. Currently Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan studies at Columbia University in New York."

Author of numerous books on Tibet， including Inside Tibetan Buddhism and Essential Tibetan Buddhism.