Adam Pearcey

Adam S. Pearcey, Ph.D., is the founder and director of Lotsawa House, a virtual library of translations from Tibetan, which launched in 2004. His publications include (as translator) Mind in Comfort and Ease by His Holiness the Dalai Lama (Wisdom Publications, 2007), and Ga Rabjampa’s To Dispel the Misery of the World (Wisdom Publications, 2012), which featured on Shambhala Sun’s list of the year's best Buddhist books.

He first encountered Tibetan Buddhism in 1994 when he taught English at two monasteries near Darjeeling in India. He went on to study at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London; the Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Kathmandu, where he also taught Tibetan and served as an interpreter; the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala; Oxford University, where he earned a Master’s degree in Oriental Studies; and again at SOAS, where he completed his PhD in 2018.