Dr. Sangmo Yangri, Ph.D.

Sangmo (Yangri), Ph.D, scholar, teacher, and translator, is the first Tibetan woman to receive a Ph.D In Tibetan Bon philosophy studies. A recipient of the Jwaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund grant, she won the Prime Minister Award from the Tibetan Government in Exile in India in 2013.

After completing her PhD, she was asked by His Holiness the 33rd Menri Trizin Lungtok Tenpe Nyima Rinpoche to teach at the dialectic school at the Redna Menling Nunnery in Dolanji.

She taught at Lishu Institute in India both in site and online the Bon teaching to western students. She has also translated from Tibetan to English various teachers from Lishu Institute and from Menri Monastery.

Sangmo-la’s first book in English is: Escape from Darkness: The spiritual journey of the Buddha Tonpa Shenrab Miwo’s daughter ShenzaNechung. This book is a translation of a chapter of the biography of Buddha Shenrab Miwo. Her second publication in English is The Lamp of UZa Rinchin Sal, a Delog story from the Bön tradition. She has also translated the Zhang Zhung Nyengyud Ngondro: The preliminary Practices to Dzogchen according to the Oral Transmission of Zhangzhung from the Tibetan teaching of PonlobTsangpa Tenzin Rinpoche in Shenten from the Tibetan to English. She is the editor of the Palden Tsultrim’s “A Commentary on the Three Ornaments of Poetry” book.

Learn more about Dr. Sangmo Yangri: https://uzarinchensal.com/