Sarah Harding

SARAH HARDING

JOINS HOST DANIEL AITKEN FOR A SPECIAL EPISODE OF
WISDOM DHARMA CHATS
ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM EST

We are delighted to invite you to a special episode of Wisdom Dharma Chats with translator and scholar Sarah Harding, as she joins host Daniel Aitken to discuss her latest work, Severance: The Early Practice of Chö, by Jamyang Gönpo. Join us online on Wednesday, July 2 at 7:00 PM EST, as we explore the raw and transformative teachings of Chö—a Tibetan Buddhist practice that challenges us to directly face fear, abandon ego-clinging, and awaken to the profound nature of mind.

This intimate Wisdom Dharma Chat will introduce a fresh translation of three foundational Chö texts, revealing a practice rooted in fearlessness, direct experience, and spiritual liberation. Sarah will offer personal insights into the translation process, the historical context of Jamyang Gönpo’s writings, and how these teachings can support modern practitioners navigating uncertainty, suffering, and inner resistance.

This is a rare opportunity to hear from one of the leading Western translators of Tibetan Buddhist texts and to encounter the fierce clarity of Chö in its early form—a practice designed to cut through illusion and awaken wisdom.

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Sarah Harding

Sarah Harding has been studying and practicing Buddhism since 1974, and has been teaching and translating since completing a three-year retreat in 1980 under the guidance of Kyabjé Kalu Rinpoché. She was associate professor at Naropa University for twenty-five years in Boulder, Colorado, where she currently resides, and has been a fellow of the Tsadra Foundation since 2000. She specializes in literature with a focus on tantric practice. Her publications include Creation and Completion; The Treasury of Knowledge: Esoteric Instructions; Niguma, Lady of Illusion; two volumes on Chö and Shijé from The Treasury of Precious Instructions; Four Tibetan Lineages: Core Teachings of Pacification, Severance, Shangpa Kagyü, and Bodong; and Ornament of Dakpo Kagyü Thought: Short Commentary on the Mahāmudrā Aspiration Prayer.

Daniel Aitken

Daniel is the CEO and Publisher of Wisdom Publications, as well as the host of the popular Wisdom Podcast and Wisdom Dharma Chats. In addition to publishing some of the most important books and online courses on Buddhism, he has interviewed over 200 Buddhist masters from a variety of Buddhist traditions. Daniel has a PhD in Buddhist Philosophy. His lifelong interest in Tibetan Buddhism, the Tibetan language, and its literature has taken him across Australia, America, India, Nepal, and Tibet to pursue a deeper understanding of Buddhist theory and practice with some of the greatest masters from the living tradition.