Larry Mermelstein, beginning in 1971, became a close student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist meditation master and scholar. As a founding member and executive director of the Nalanda Translation Committee, Larry worked closely with Trungpa Rinpoche in translating and presenting Buddhist teachings in the West and was among the group of translators who worked with the Vidyadhara in translating all the Shambhala termas or core texts from Tibetan to English. He is a long-time consulting editor to Shambhala Publications and served as a member of the board of directors and an acharya (senior teacher) in the Vajradhatu/Shambhala community for twenty years.