Sarah Harding

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Professors Category:Translators Category:Tsadra Fellows and Grantees Category:Western Buddhist Teachers
FirstName / namefirst	Sarah
LastName / namelast	Harding
MainNamePhon	Sarah Harding
nametitlepre	Lama
SortName	Harding, Sarah
bio	Sarah Harding was born in Malibu in 1951 and educated in Los Angeles, California. She studied English literature and anthropology at Prescott College in Arizona and earned a degree in Religious Studies from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Sarah spent three years traveling through Europe, Africa, and Asia, and while abroad, she studied Tibetan language and culture for two years in Darjeeling, India, and in Kathmandu, Nepal. In 1974, Sarah returned to the United States to continue her studies in Tibetan culture and language. Her interests in Tibetan and Buddhist studies culminated in her participation in the first traditional three-year meditation and study retreat for Westerners, which was conducted entirely in Tibetan, under the guidance of Venerable Kalu Rinpoche, near Dijon, France. Between 1980 and 1992, Sarah served as a resident Dharma teacher and translator in Los Angeles and later in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has done extensive oral translation internationally for such renowned teachers as Kalu Rinpoche, Chagdud Tulku, Tenga Rinpoche, Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso, Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, and Gangteng Rinpoche. Sarah is a founding member of the International Buddhist Translation Committee and a member of the Nalanda Translation Committee. Her prolific career as a translator includes more than thirty-five translations of traditional Buddhist texts, as well as the Tibetan Language Correspondence Course, co-authored with Jeremy Morrelli. From 1992 she was a faculty member in Buddhist Studies at Naropa University and is recently retired. Sarah continues to make her home in Boulder, where she is currently working on her next book. She has been a Tsadra Fellow since 2000. (Adapted from Source July 22, 2020) Online Publications: Pha Dampa Sangye and the Alphabet Goddess: A Preliminary Study of the Sources of the Zhije Tradition. Presented by Sarah Harding at the 2016 meeting of the International Association of Tibetan Studies (IATS) in Bergen, Norway Nāropa’s Life of Liberation and Spiritual Song Did Machik Lapdrön Really Teach Chöd? A Survey of the Early Sources
YearBirth	1951
BornIn	Malibu, California
associatedwebsite	http://naropa.edu/faculty/sarah-harding.php
languageprimary	English
languagetranslation	Tibetan
languagetarget	English
affiliation	Tsadra Foundation
affiliationsecondary	Naropa University
religiousaffiliation	Kagyu; Tibetan Buddhism; Shangpa Kagyu; Kalu Rinpoche;
StudentOf	Chagdud Tulku  ·  Kalu Rinpoche  ·  Tenga Rinpoche  ·  Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso  ·  Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche  ·  Gangteng Rinpoche
currentworks	Volumes 13 & 14 of the Treasury of Precious Instructions.
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.