Elio Guarisco

Elio Guarisco (August 5, 1954 - present) is an Italian writer, translator and Tibetan Buddhist scholar.

Guarisco was born in Varese, Italy. After spending his formative years in Como, he went on to study art and receive a Master of Arts before traveling to India to study Buddhism.

In the early 1970s, he studied under the auspices of several Theravada leaders in India. He later studied Buddhist philosophy in a Tibetan monastery for ten years, after which he was invited by Kalu Rinpoche to Sonada, India to work as a translator. It was here that he met his teacher Chögyal Namkhai Norbu and became an active member of the Dzogchen community in 1986.

He currently serves as coordinator of the Ka-ter Translation Project as well as instructor of the Santi Maha Sangha program. He is a founding member of the Shang Shung Institute in Italy.

• The Treasury of Knowledge: Book Six, Part Four (2005)
• The Treasury of Knowledge: Book Eight, Part Three (2008)
• Healing with Fire: A Practical Manual of Tibetan Moxibustion (2011)
• Longchenpa's Advice from the Heart (2011)
• Togden Shakya Shri: The Life and Liberation of a Tibetan Yogin (2012)
• The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Awakening Upon Dying (2013)
• The Life and Teaching of A Tibetan Master (in Italian)
• The Autobiography of the 84 Tantric Masters of India (in Italian)
• The Lifestory of Kunga Lekpa (in Italian)
• Myriad Worlds
• Buddhist Ethics
• The Indestructibe Way
• The Lifestory of Shakya Shri
• Three volumes on Tibetan Medicine:
  • The Silver Mirror
  • Tibetan Medicine Applied in an Easy Way
  • Universal Benefit, the Practice of Kunye the Tibetan Massage.
• When the Garuda Flew to the West (autobiography)