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|bio=Ken Holmes studied Tibetan Buddhism in Dharamsala, India, before joining Samye Ling in Scotland, the first Tibetan monastery in the West, in 1970. As the center’s director of studies, Ken spends much of the year teaching at Samye Ling’s branches in Europe and Africa. Previous publications include ''Maitreya on Buddha Nature'', ''Karmapa'', and the novel ''Tibet or Not Tibet''. ([https://wisdomexperience.org/content-author/ken-holmes/ Source Accessed July 22, 2020])
|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.([https://www.samyeling.org/buddhism-and-meditation/teaching-archive-2/dharmacharya-ken-holmes/ Source Accessed July 22, 2020])
|YearBirth=1947
|YearBirth=1947
|BornIn=London, England
|BornIn=London, England

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PersonType Category:Translators
Category:Authors of English Works
FirstName / namefirst Ken
LastName / namelast Holmes
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 July 22, 2020)

YearBirth 1947
BornIn London, England
ReligiousAffiliation Kagyu
ClassicalProfAff Kagyu Samye Ling
StudentOf Akong Rinpoche
IsInGyatsa No
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