Hookham, S.
Birth: | 1946 |
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Place of birth: | Essex, England |
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Website: | www.buddhawithin.org.uk |
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Translates from: | Tibetan |
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Translates to: | English |
- Primary Affiliation (Workplace)
- Hermitage of the Awakened Heart
- Religious Affiliation
- Kagyu
- Teachers
- Gyamtso, Khenpo Tsultrim · Khyentse, Dilgo · Kalu Rinpoche · Bokar Rinpoche · Thinley, Karma · Karmapa, 16th
PhD University
- Oxford University
Biographical Information
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. source
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)
- Wiki Pages
- Person description or short bio
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All beings have Buddha-nature | |
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Which Wheel Turning | |
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Yogācāra vs Madhyamaka | |
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Promotes how many vehicles? | |
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Analytic vs Meditative Tradition | |
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What is Buddha-nature? | |
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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་) | |
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Causal nature of the vajrapāda | |
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