Practical Implications of Shentong Interpretations of Tathāgatagarbha by Lama Shenpen Hookham

Practical Implications of Shentong Interpretations of Tathāgatagarbha by Lama Shenpen Hookham

Shenpen Hookham

Interview

Interview

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About the interview

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 Mahāmudrā & Dzogchen traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.

Lama Shenpen wrote a seminal work in the western study of Buddha-Nature, her doctoral thesis at Oxford, The Buddha Within, which was then the first work by a Western writer to present an analysis of the Shentong tradition based on previously untranslated sources. She is also the author of There’s More to Dying than Death, Keeping the Dalai Lama Waiting and Other Stories, and The Guru Principle.

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.

Clips from the interview

Clips from the interview

Lama Shenpen Hookham: On Her Name "Shenpen" and Her First Impressions of the Buddha-Nature Teachings

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4:44 min

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Lama Shenpen Hookham: On Her Approach to the Rangtong and Shentong Debate over the Nature of Reality

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20:36 min

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Lama Shenpen Hookham: On Putting Buddha-Nature into Practice at the Awakened Heart Sangha

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2:03 min

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Lama Shenpen Hookham: On Her Approach to the Maṇḍala Principle and Its Relationship to Buddha-Nature

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5:30 min

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Lama Shenpen Hookham: On Her Approach to Teaching about the Process of Death and Dying

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7:35 min

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Lama Shenpen Hookham: On Her Approach to the Guru Principle

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4:21 min

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Lama Shenpen Hookham: On the Expectations of Western Students

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4:16 min

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Lama Shenpen Hookham: On Explaining the Shentong View to Beginners

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4:44 min

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Lama Shenpen Hookham: On How the Prajñāpāramitā Tradition Promotes a Shentong View

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7:34 min

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Lama Shenpen Hookham: On Totality and the Analytical Approach

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9:11 min

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Lama Shenpen Hookham: On Working with Resistance in Practice

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2:13 min

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Lama Shenpen Hookham: On Buddha-Nature and the Divine

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7:11 min

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