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Canonical Literature in Western Tibet and the Structural Analysis of Canonical Collections
Creator’s Description: This study analyzes the relationships between the different editions of the Bka’ ’gyur and several manuscripts collections found in Western Tibet (Ta bo, Gondhla, P...
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The Role of the Bodhicittavivaraṇa in the Mahāmudrā Tradition of the Dwags po bka’ brgyud
Creator's Description: The Commentary on Enlightened Attitude (Bodhicittavivaraṇa), which is attributed to the tantric Nāgārjuna (fl. 200 CE), takes the ultimate enlightened attitude (bodhi...
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Classicism in Commentarial Writing: Exegetical Parallels in the Indian Mūlamadhyamakakārikā Commentaries
Creator's Description: The Tibetan concept of canon and of schools of thought pertaining to Indian Buddhism presents a way of looking at Indian Buddhist texts which has been predominant in mode...
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Recovering a Lost Literary Heritage Preliminary Research on the Wanli Bka’ ’gyur from Berlin
Creator's Description: This article traces the history and provenance of the missing volumes of the Berlin Wanli Bka’ ’gyur, which was described by Helmut Eimer as lost during World War II....
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On the Very Idea of a Tantric Canon: Myth, Politics, and the Formation of the Bka’ ’gyur
Creator's Description: This article explores the myths of massive root tantras of one hundred thousand or more stanzas, which are found in the literature surrounding most of the major tantric B...
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A Noble Noose of Methods, the Lotus Garland Synopsis: Methodological Issues in the Study of a Mahāyoga Text from Dunhuang
Creator's Description: The extraordinary Dunhuang manuscript IOL Tib J 321 is a Rnying ma tantra commentary in eighty-five folios, the Thabs kyi zhags pa padma ’phreng gi don bsdus pa’i ’...
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Notes on the Co ne Bka’ ’gyur and Bstan ’gyur in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Creator's Description: In 1926 the botanist/scholar Joseph F. Rock (1884-1962) acquired a complete set of the Co ne Bka’ ’gyur and Bstan ’gyur for the Library of Congress (LC) in Washingt...
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Akester’s Rejoinder to Professor Goldstein’s Response to “Review of A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 2: The Calm before the Storm, 1951-55, by Melvyn C. Goldstein”
Matthew Akester provides a rejoinder to Melvyn Goldstein’s response to his review of Melvyn C. Goldstein, A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 2: The Calm before the Storm, 1951-55 in JIA...
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Pseudepigrapha in the Tibetan Buddhist ‘Canonical Collections’: The Case of the Caryāmelāpakapradīpa Commentary Attributed to Śākyamitra
Creator's Description: This paper examines the nature of the Tibetan Buddhist canonical collections with particular attention to the issues raised by the presence of a significant number of pse...
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On the Vicissitudes of Subhūticandra’s Kāmadhenu Commentary on the Amarakoṣa in Tibet
Creator's Description: Subhūticandra’s (ca. 1050-ca. 1110) circa 1100 Kāmadhenu commentary on the A ma ra ko sha (Amarakoṣa) is one of the great monuments of Indian lexicography. Only sev...
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