'''Gareth Sparham''' is a scholar and translator in the field of Tibetan Buddhism.
== Biography ==
Born in Britain, Gareth Sparham and grew up in Canada. He lived as a Buddhist monk among the Tibetan exile community of Dharamsala, India, for twenty years, and studied at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics, Dharamshala, from 1974 to 1982. He earned a BA (Hons) in English from McGill University. In 1989, Sparham earned his Ph.D. in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia. He retired from his position as a lecturer in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures of the University of Michigan in 2009, where he taught Tibetan. He also taught Tibetan at the University of California, Berkeley.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gyalwagyatso.org/guru-devotion-an-open-talk-with-gareth-sparham-sunday-nov-28th/|title="Guru Devotion" – an Open Talk with Gareth Sparham, PhD – Sunday, Nov 28th|publisher=Gyalwa Gyatso Buddhist Center|access-date=1 April 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110115160440/http://gyalwagyatso.org/guru-devotion-an-open-talk-with-gareth-sparham-sunday-nov-28th/|archive-date=15 January 2011|df=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Gareth Sparham |url=https://wisdomexperience.org/content-author/gareth-sparham/ |access-date=2026-01-26 |website=The Wisdom Experience |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Gareth Sparham |url=https://tricycle.org/author/garethsparham/ |access-date=2026-01-26 |website=Tricycle: The Buddhist Review |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Gareth Sparham |url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Gareth-Sparham/451423462 |access-date=2026-01-26 |website=Simon & Schuster |language=en}}</ref>
==Bibliography (translations)== *''The Tibetan Dhammapada.'' Wisdom Publications, 1986. A translation of the ''Udānavarga'' from the Tibetan. *''Ocean of Eloquence: Tsong kha pa's Commentary on the Yogācāra Doctrine of Mind''. SUNY Press, 1993. *''The Fulfillment of All Hopes: Guru Devotion in Tibetan Buddhism''. Wisdom Publications, 1999. Translation of a commentary by Tsongkhapa on Aśvaghoṣa's ''Gurupañcāśika''. *''Vast as the Heavens, Deep as the Sea: Verses in Praise of Bodhicitta''. Wisdom Publications, 1999. A translation of Khunu Rinpoche Tenzin Gyaltsen's ''Jewel Lamp''. *''Tantric Ethics: An Explanation of the Precepts for Buddhist Vajrayāna Practice.'' Wisdom Publications, 2005. Translation of a work by Tsongkhapa. *''Abhisamayālaṃkāra with Vṛtti and Āloka'' (in four volumes). Jain Publishing, 2006 (vol. 1) and 2008 (vol. 2). Translation of a Prajñāpāramitā commentary attributed to Maitreya, with two key subcommentaries by Ārya Vimuktisena and Haribhadra. *''Golden Garland of Eloquence,'' vols. 1., 2., 3., 4. Jain Publishing. 2008. Translation of an ''Abhisamayālaṃkāra'' commentary by Tsongkhapa.
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