Shenpen Hookham

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Translators Category:Western Buddhist Teachers
FirstName / namefirst	Shenpen
LastName / namelast	Hookham
MainNamePhon	Shenpen Hookham
SortName	Hookham, Shenpen
bio	Lama Shenpen Hookham is the founding Lama of the Awakened Heart Sangha and principle teacher of the Living the Awakened Heart training. Lama Shenpen has trained for over 50 years in the Mahamudra & Dzogchen traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. She has spent over 12 years in retreat and has been a student of Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, one of the foremost living masters of the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, since the late 70s. Lama Shenpen is fluent in Tibetan and has translated a number of Tibetan texts into English for her students. On Khenpo Rinpoche’s instructions she produced a seminal study of the profound Buddha Nature doctrines of Mahayana Buddhism, published as The Buddha Within, and gained a doctorate in this from Oxford University. She is also the author of There’s More to Dying than Death, Keeping the Dalai Lama Waiting and Other Stories, and The Guru Principle.(Source Accessed July 21, 2020)
YearBirth	1946
BornIn	Essex, England
associatedwebsite	www.buddhawithin.org.uk
languagetranslation	Tibetan
languagetarget	English
affiliation	Awakened Heart Sangha
religiousaffiliation	Kagyu
StudentOf	Bokar Rinpoche  ·  Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso  ·  Dilgo Khyentse Tashi Paljor  ·  Kalu Rinpoche  ·  Karma Trinley Rinpoche IV  ·  Sixteenth Karmapa Rangjung Rigpai Dorje
phduniversity	Oxford University
publications	Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness (2016) (Shrimala Trust, 2016) Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness (2001) (Zhyisil Chokyi Ghatsal Publications, 2001) Comparison of Views and Four Songs of Milarepa (Marpa Institute, 1994) The Buddha Within: Tathagatagarbha Doctrine According to the Shentong Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhaga (State University of New York Press, 1991) Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness (1988) (Longchen Foundation, 1988)
IsInGyatsa	No
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The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa.