Arne Schelling

Since 1999, under the guidance of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Arne has worked as a translator from English to German for masters of all Buddhist traditions. He was a member of the Dharmasagara Translation Group and has helped translate various sūtras for 84000. He is also a member of the study and education team for Khyentse Foundation’s Milinda teacher training program. Arne brings his background in Buddhist philosophy to the monthly tutorial sessions he leads for KVP, where our readers are encouraged to delve more deeply into studying the texts we translate.

Arne has a medical degree from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and worked for many years as a physician. He has directed various Buddhist film projects, including Heart Advice and an upcoming documentary on tulkus. Arne is one of the European instructors appointed by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche for Siddhartha’s Intent Europe. He is also an archivist of video and audio recordings of a number of Tibetan masters, and has helped to establish several Buddhist centers in Germany, such as the Theksum Tashi Chöling center in Hamburg, the Kamalashila Institute near Cologne, and Buddhism in Berlin. Arne lives in Berlin and plays the piano in his spare time.