Dan Martin

Born in 1953, Dan Martin tried teaching himself Sanskrit in 1968 and practiced writing

Tibetan letters in his aunt’s cool basement in the summer of 1972. He started taking

Tibetan classes at Indiana University in the following year. Today, just five decades later,

he is still working on Tibetan language, history, culture, and religions, and every time

he thinks he has successfully found a way through his earlier errors and delusions,

new ones arise to replace them. Following a life of constant struggle, he likes to think

he is now retired and at peace with the world. But to our dismay the world would seem

to have other plans for him.