Website of the Arya Sanghata Sutra


About this Site

This is an independent site, without institutional affiliation or support, operated strictly without any aim of profit.

This site was created by Damchö Diana Finnegan (aka Ven. Lhundup Damchö), a scholar and monastic ordained in the Tibetan Buddhist lineage. Damchö is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working in Sanskrit and Tibetan. She wrote her masters thesis on the Sanghata Sutra, and produced the English translation of the Sanghata from Tibetan. Her teachers are His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Orgyen Trinley Dorje,  Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Geshe Lhundub Sopa, and Yangsi Rinpoche. She is now in India, working on a translation of the Vinayavastu, another wonderful text from the Buddhist canon, full of stories about the lives of the monks and nuns in the early monastic community. For selections, see the blog of the monastic community she lives in.

Technical consulting and support provided by Ed Murphy, who is also the person who began the chain of events that brought the Ārya Sanghata Sūtra back into the lives of Buddhist practitioners worldwide. (To read the story of that chain of events, click here.) Ed also provides the server that hosts this site, and thus bears the proud title of Technical Director to the Sanghata Sutra. 

Louise Light (www.louiselight.net) earned herself the title of Personal Designer to the Sanghata Sutra with her generous services in designing the web’s initial graphic look.

The spectacular photo of the lotus used in our new banner comes courtesy of pdphoto.org.top