Holmes, Ken

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Translators
FirstName / namefirst	Ken
LastName / namelast	Holmes
MainNamePhon	Ken Holmes
SortName	Holmes, Ken
bio	Ken is currently Director of Studies at Kagyu Samye Ling. His life is spent teaching in Samye Dzongs in various countries, writing and translating dharma works, and he also occasionally interprets for visiting Tibetan lamas. He has also lectured in elementology and astro-science for the Tara-Rokpa College of Tibetan Medicine. He was a founder member of the Scottish Inter-Faith Council and has worked with the British Cabinet Office and the European Community on training programmes. He represented Buddhism at the seminal 2002 meetings in Brussels to discuss religious representation in the new European constitution. (Source Accessed Jul 22, 2020)
YearBirth	1947
BornIn	London, England
ReligiousAffiliation	Kagyu
ClassicalProfAff	Kagyu Samye Ling
StudentOf	Akong Rinpoche
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.