Dr. Alexander Berzin is a scholar, translator, and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism who received his doctorate from Harvard University and lived in Dharamsala, India, for twenty-nine years. The author of seventeen books, including Relating to a Spiritual Teacher and Taking the Kalachakra Initiation, Dr. Berzin founded the Berzin Archives in 2001 as part of his lifelong commitment to building a bridge between the traditional Buddhist and modern worlds. Its recently relaunched website is studybuddhism.com.