Francesca Fremantle

Francesca Fremantle

Francesca Fremantle is a scholar and translator of Sanskrit and Tibetan works of Hindu and Buddhist tantra, and was a student of Chögyam Trungpa for many years. Fremantle worked closely with Chögyam Trungpa on the 1975 translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Shambhala). [cite book
last = Trungpa
first = Chögyam
authorlink = Chögyam Trungpa
title = Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa Vol 4
publisher = Shambhala Publications
date = 2003
pages = 480
isbn = 1590300289
]

Her 2001 revised combination of a translation of excerpts is embedded within an extended commentary on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, entitled "Luminous Emptiness" (Shambhala).

Fremantle received her doctorate from the School of Asian and African Studies at London University. She is a teacher with the Longchen Foundation, established by Chögyam Trungpa and Dilgo Khyentse, and directed by Rigdzin Shikpo. [cite web
url = http://www.nyingma.com/artman/publish/francesca_fremantle.shtml
title = Nyingma.com - "People: Writers & Researchers/Francesca Fremantle"
] [Midal, Fabrice ed. (2005) Recalling Chögyam Trungpa p. 476 ISBN 1-59030-207-9]

She currently lives in London.

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