Hansen, Clark
Biography
Clark Stephen Hansen was born in Wisconsin in 1947, and grew up in Rantoul, Illinois. He attended college in New York, then joined the Peace Corps. He returned to Illinois and worked as a newspaper editor. In the 1970s, he moved to Portland, Oregon. He worked as a forest ranger with the U. S. Forest Service in Oregon for eight years. He subsequently became an oral historian and recorded hundreds of oral history interviews for the Oregon Historical Society and the United States District Court of Oregon Historical Society. In 2006, he became a Buddhist Monk and took the name Jampal Gyatso. After being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2019, he traveled to the Tiger’s Nest hermitage in Bhutan. He died in 2021.
Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Hansen in his interview; Hansen’s obituary in the Oregonian, April 29, 2022; “Petals of a Lotus: A Collective Tribute Celebrating The Deep Life of Lama Thubten Jampal Gyatso,” by Lama Jacqueline Mandell, Northwest Dharma Association website, accessed May 29, 2024, https://northwestdharma.org/petals-of-a-lotusa-collective-tribute-celebrating-a-life/.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Dick Erath
Oral history interview with Dick Erath conducted by Clark Hansen from March 4-12, 1999, as part of the Oregon Wine Archives Oral History Project. Erath was one of the first winemakers in Oregon and founded the Erath Winery in Dundee, Oregon.
Oral history interview with Dick Ponzi
Oral history with Dick Ponzi conducted by Clark Hansen on April 8, 2003, as part of the Oregon Wine Archives Oral History Project. Ponzi and his wife, Nancy Ponzi, were founders and owners of Ponzi Winery.