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Susan Kathryn Rowan, known as Shenpen Hookham is a Buddhist teacher who has trained for over 40 years in the Mahamudra and Dzogchen traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.〔http://thepocketroad.com/people/the-making-of-a-great-western-lama〕 ==Biography== Lama Shenpen was born Susan Kathryn Rowan in Essex, England, in 1946. She first encountered Buddhism while studying Geography and Sociology at Reading University, where she became secretary of the University Buddhist Society and had early encounters with Sangharakshita and Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.〔http://www.chronicleproject.com/shenpen_hookham.html〕 amongst others. In the early 1970s, on the advice of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Lama Shenpen went to India where she lived as a nun for six years. There she studied and meditated in retreat under the guidance of Tibetan teachers such as Karma Thinley Rinpoche,〔http://www.karmathinleyrinpoche.com/〕 Bokar Rinpoche〔http://www.kagyu.org/kagyulineage/teachers/tea13.php 〕 and Kalu Rinpoche. Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, the HH the 16th Karmapa and head of the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, subsequently instructed her to return to the West to teach Mahamudra. She met her main teacher, Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, in Europe, and he encouraged her to teach and transmit Mahamudra,〔http://www.wisdom-books.com/FocusDetail.asp?FocusRef=26〕 the innermost teachings of the Kagyu tradition. On her later return to England, she met and married Rigdzin Shikpo Rinpoche (Michael Hookham), an early pupil of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Dharma Director of the Longchen Foundation (formerly the Chöd Group) since its inception in 1975.〔http://www.longchenfoundation.org/aboutFounder.html〕 Lama Shenpen is fluent in Tibetan and was the translator for many Tibetan teachers, including Gendun Rinpoche.〔http://www.dhagpo-kundreul.org/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=26&Itemid=63〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shenpen Hookham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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