Sarah Elizabeth Harding (born November 24, 1951) is a qualified lama and teacher in the Shangpa Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
Harding completed the first traditional Kagyu three-year three-month three day retreat[2] for westerners under the guidance of Kalu Rinpoche in 1980.
[1] Others who participated in that retreat include Richard Barron, Ken McLeod, Ngawang Zangpo (Hugh Leslie Thompson), Ingrid Loken McLeod and Lama Surya Das (Jeffery Miller).
[3] She has been an instructor in the Religious Studies Department of Naropa University since 1992[1] and lives in Boulder, Colorado with her two children.
[4] Harding has published a book about the 11th Century female teacher Niguma whose teachings are at the core of the Shangpa Kagyu Vajrayana Buddhist lineage.