Tony Duff

Lama Tony is a very well-known practitioner, scholar, and translator who has spent over forty years of his life fully dedicated to studying, practising, teaching, and translating the Buddhist teachings. He has been a full-time Buddhist practitioner-scholar since 1973. He was a member of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's Nalanda Translator Committee in which he retains honorary status. He was Tsoknyi Rinpoche's personal translator during the 1990's and has translated orally and in writing for many other great teachers during the years. He has been a member of several translation committees and has published or been involved in the publication of many Tibetan Buddhist texts.

Based on his long experience with Kagyu teachings, he has prepared many books on the Kagyu view, called "Other Emptiness", and on Mahamudra and the Kagyu teaching of it.

Tony has spent decades with the Nyingma teachings. In particular, he spent long periods in Tibet, receiving and practising the highest Dzogchen teachings in retreat. He has made a point of translating the key texts of the system for others who need accurate, reliable, and in-depth information about the practices of Dzogchen. His translation of the ultimate text of Longchen Nyingthig, known in Tibetan as "triyig yeshe lama" or "Guidebook to Highest Wisdom", has been highly praised by Tibetan teachers.

Tony is well-known not only as an author but as a teacher who gives particularly clear explanations of dharma at all levels, from sutra through to Dzogchen and Mahamudra. To support his teachings and to provide resources for Tibetan Buddhists in general, he has also translated many sutras and sutra-related items.

One of the things that readers of Tony's books often say is that the vocabulary used across all of the books is consistent, making it easy to have a library of books that are easy to comprehend. Another comment is that all of the books have copious notes and a very extensive glossary which provide many insights into the deeper meanings embodied in these teachings. The Tibetan text is usually provided with each translation as well, if not in the book, on the Padma Karpo Translation Committee website in searchable digital form. A free reader is also provided for easy use of the digital texts.