Peter Woods completed a degree in Philosophy at University of Virginia in 2009, and later earned a Master’s in Religion from Yale in 2015. He went on to study at Rangjung Yeshe Institute in the Translator Training Program and the Master’s program in Buddhist Studies as a Tsadra Scholar, living in Nepal from 2015 to 2019. Peter works with Samye Translations and their Nekhor project, and serves as program director at Samye Hermitage New York.