佩玛秋卓小传

金刚羽

Ani Pema Chödrön was born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in 1936, in New York City. She attended Miss Porter's School in Connecticut and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. She taught as an elementary school teacher for many years in both New Mexico and California. Pema has two children and three grandchildren.
佩玛·秋卓师1936年出生于纽约。她在康涅狄格的波特小姐的学校里读书，然后从加利福尼亚大学柏克利分校毕业。在新墨西哥和加利福尼亚，她作了多年的小学老师。她有两个孩子和三个孙子。
While in her mid-thirties, Ani Pema traveled to the French Alps and encountered Lama Chime Rinpoche, with whom she studied for several years. She became a novice nun in 1974 while studying with Lama Chime in London. His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa came to England at that time, and Ani Pema received her ordination from him.
当她30多岁时，佩玛·秋卓师到法国旅行，遇到了喇嘛晋美仁波切（Lama Chime Rinpoche），在其座下学习多年。1974年，她在伦敦和喇嘛晋美学习时，成为一名沙弥尼。16世噶玛巴那时去了英国，佩玛·秋卓师获得了他的圣职授任。
Ani Pema first met her root guru, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, in 1972. Lama Chime encouraged her to work with Rinpoche, and it was with him that she ultimately made her most profound connection, studying with him from 1974 until his death in 1987. At the request of the Sixteenth Karmapa, she received the full bikshuni ordination in the Chinese lineage of Buddhism in 1981 in Hong Kong.
佩玛师1972年第一次遇到她的根本上师，秋阳创巴仁波切，喇嘛晋美鼓励她与仁波切一起工作，因为和仁波切一起，她最终实现了她最深刻的神圣联结，从1974年开始，直到1987年仁波切去世，她一直在他座前学习。应16世噶玛巴的要求，1981年在香港，她得到了中国谱系佛教的圆满的比丘尼授任。
Ani Pema served as the director of the Karma Dzong, in Boulder until moving in 1984 to rural Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to be the director of Gampo Abbey. Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche gave her explicit instructions on establishing this monastery for western monks and nuns.
在博德（Boulder），佩玛师是噶玛藏（Karma Dzong）的主管，直到1984年禅修中心搬到乡下的Cape Breton，Nova Scotia成为Gampo Abbey主管。
秋吉创巴仁波切给了她明确的指导以建立这个给西方僧人和尼姑的寺院。
Ani Pema currently teaches in the United States and Canada and plans for an increased amount of time in solitary retreat under the guidance of Venerable Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche.
佩玛师近来在美国和加拿大授课，并且计划花更多时间在吉噶·康楚仁波切（Venerable Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche）的指导下静修。
Ani Pema is interested in helping establish Tibetan Buddhist monasticism in the West, as well in continuing her work with western Buddhists of all traditions, sharing ideas and teachings. She has written several books: "The Wisdom of No Escape", "Start Where You Are", "When Things Fall Apart", "The Places that Scare You", "No Time to Lose" and "Practicing Peace in Times of War". All are available from Shambhala Publications.

佩玛师为了帮助在西方建立藏传佛教寺院，在继续和所有传统的西方佛教徒们修行的同时，还分享着她的思想和教导。她已经写了一些书籍：《不逃避的智慧（The Wisdom of No Escape）》、《从你所在的地方开始（Start Where You Are）》、《当面临分离时（When Things Fall Apart）》、《令你恐惧的地方（The Places that Scare You）》、《没时间去浪费（No Time to Lose）》和《在纷乱的时代练习平静（Practicing Peace in Times of War）》。所有这些书都可以从Shambhala Publications获得。