Heidi Koeppl

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Heidi lives at [Ka-Nying Shedrup Ling Monastery] in the Kathmandu Valley. She began translating for the lamas of the Monastery in 1996. Since 2002 she has also has taught and translated at the [Kathmandu University - Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Insitute]. Heidi holds a Bachelor in Tibetan Studies with Sanskrit and an MA in South Asian Studies from the University of Copenhagen. She is preparing a Ph.d thesis on the relationship bewteen compassion and emptiness at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Main teachers

[Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche], [Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche] and [Kela Chokling Rinpoche]

Published Works

[Uniting Wisdom and Compassion – Illuminating the Thirty-Seven Practices of A Bodhisattva] (Boston: Wisdom 2004) [Kern der Sache] (Barcelona: Ediciones Nagarjuna 2003) Entries in the Encyclopedia of Holy People of the World (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Press 2004).

External Links

Email: heidrun@mac.com