Liljenberg, K.
| English Phonetics | Karen Liljenberg |
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| Sort Name | Liljenberg, Karen |
| Birth: | 1957 |
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Biographical Information
Karen Liljenberg was born in 1957, in Bootle, Merseyside. She attended local state schools, where she first developed her lifelong interest in ancient cultures, languages, and spiritual traditions. She went on to study Classics and Archaeology at Girton College, Cambridge, graduating in 1979. Having taught herself Welsh, she then moved to Wales where she learnt to play traditional music on various instruments while working in the fields of archaeology, lexicography, and language teaching. She also had some of her own poetry published, with a collection appearing in 1992 ("Bóand's Hostel", Sheela-na-gig Press).
In 1992 she became interested in Tibetan Buddhism, and began learning Tibetan. Attracted in particular to the Dzogchen teachings, she joined Rigpa and attended numerous retreats and teachings in the UK, Ireland and France. She went on a group pilgrimage to India and Sikkim in 1994. She then returned to India as a volunteer English teacher at Dzogchen Monastery, near Kollegal. She paid the monks a second visit the following year, spending about nine months there in total, gradually improving her Tibetan in the process.
Having obtained a CELTA certificate in London in 1996, she moved to Brussels where she worked as an English teacher. She also began doing Tibetan-English translation and interpreting work for various lamas.
After moving back to the UK she obtained an MA in Buddhist Studies in 2008, and in March 2013 she completed her AHRC-funded doctoral research and was awarded her PhD at SOAS, University of London.
Currently she is now writing up her research on a group of early Dzogchen texts with a view to publication. She is also translating sutras from the Tibetan canon for the 84000 Project. (Adapted from Source Jan 10, 2023)
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