Julia Stenzel

Julia Stenzel

Julia Stenzel is a doctoral student at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

She received her M.A. in Religious Studies in 2008 from the University of the West, California, and lived four years in India and Nepal, studying at the International Buddhist Academy in Kathmandu. She is a project manager of the Sakya Pandita Translation Group and a member of the Chodung Karmo Translation Group. She began studying Tibetan in 1990 and has studied in France, Nepal and the United States. Her main lineages are Karma Kagyu and Sakya. She translated byang chub sems dpa’i spyod pa la ‘jug pa’i ‘grel pa legs par bzhad pa’i rgya mtsho by rgyal sras thogs med bzang po. (2014 Translation & Transmission Conference Program)

Sakya - The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre. Tib ས་སྐྱ་  

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Kagyu - 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. Tib བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་  

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