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Building Place and Shaping Lives: Nartang Monastery from the Twelfth through Fifteenth Centuries | Schuman, Michael. 2016. "Building Place and Shaping Lives: Nartang Monastery from the 12th through 15th Centuries." PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2016. | This thesis is a study of Nartang monastery in the Tsang region of Central Tibet. Nartang monastery was founded in 1153 and was one of the most influential monastic institutions of the Kadam school until the fifteenth century. In its initial construction, Nartang monastery was a small enclave with limited members. By the mid-thirteenth century the place had significantly grown in physical size, membership, and reputation. This study explores the steady growth and decline of the monastery by examining the lives of the people in charge and their real and symbolic relations within and without the monastic community. This thesis begins with the Kadam school in the Penyül valley of Central Tibet. Here Nartang’s founder Tumtön Lodrö Drakpa (Gtum ston blo gros grags pa, 1106-1166) was educated and inspired to return to his native land in Tsang to build Nartang monastery. I then turn to the effective campaign strategies of Nartang’s fourth, fifth, and sixth abbot, who traveled throughout Central Tibet to raise funds for the monastery and to acquire new monastic recruits. Nartang monastery was at its best during the tenure of the seventh abbot Chim Namkha Drak (Mchims nam mkha’ grags, 1210-1285). It was during his tenure that the political events on the Eastern Steppe could no longer be ignored in Central Tibet. I show how Chim Namkha Drak and the Nartang community effectively navigated through the Mongolian (re)organization of Central Tibet. I also trace how the Nartang abbots, specifically the eight abbot Kyotön Mönlam Tsültrim (Skyon ston smon lam tshul krims, 1219-1299), projected and guided the increasing importance of their monastery at the center of the Buddhist world. I then study the life of Nartang’s tenth abbot, his time spent at the Mongol court and his eventual return to Nartang. Finally, I look to Nartang when Gendün Drupa (Dge ’dun grub pa, 1391-1474), posthumously the First Dalai Lama, entered the monastery at the age of seven in 1398. By this time Nartang monastery had well established a standardized curriculum and built a reputation for itself as a preeminent Kadam scholastic institution. I also explore the various factors that left Nartang monastery in a precarious state by the fifteenth century, such as the burgeoning reformist movement in Central Tibet lead by Tsongkhapa Lozang Drakpa (Tsong kha pa blo bzang grags pa, 1357-1419), the building of Tashi Lhünpo monastery by Gendün Drupa in 1449, and a decline in Sakya power and the rise of the Pakmodrupa. (Source: UVa Online Archive) | University of Virginia | 13 March 2023 22:52:03 | |
Étude du Pañcakrama: Introduction et traduction annotée | Tomabechi, Tōru. "Étude du Pañcakrama: Introduction et traduction annotée." PhD diss., University of Lausanne, 2006. | University of Lausanne | 6 March 2023 22:56:10 | ||
The Seven Siddhi Texts: The Oḍiyāna Mahāmudrā Lineage in its Indic and Tibetan Contexts | Krug, Adam. "The Seven Siddhi Texts: The Oḍiyāna Mahāmudrā Lineage in its Indic and Tibetan Contexts." PhD diss., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2018. | This study examines The Seven Siddhi Texts, a short corpus of tantric Buddhist works that the Tibetan tradition identifies as the mahāmudrā transmission from the famed semimythical land of Oḍiyāna. Owing to the nature of the corpus itself, this study is best characterized as properly Indo-Tibetan in its scope. The Seven Siddhi Texts are first examined here as independent treatises that reflect the development of Vajrayāna Buddhism in its Indic cultural and historical contexts between the eighth and tenth centuries. They are then approached as a means for examining the formulation of Vajrayāna institutions and their attendant corpora in Nepal. Finally, they provide a case study in the phenomenon of practical canonicity in their employment in mahāmudrā polemical literature in Tibet from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. Part I argues for the adoption of a demonological paradigm in the study of South Asian religions. Using data from The Seven Siddhi Texts in dialogue with the yurvedic discipline of demonology (bhūtavidyā), it highlights that Vajrayāna Buddhist traditions maintained a dual apotropaic-soteriological goal in their conception of the practice of yoga. Part II addresses the sociological implications of sect and sectarian identity in The Seven Siddhi Texts. It presents the phenomenon of dissimulative asceticism in Vajrayāna Buddhism as a potential social context for the highly Śaiva-Buddhist hybrid forms of ritual that emerged with the Buddhist yoginītantras. It then addresses the issue of inclusivist and exclusivist expressions of sectarian identity from the authors of The Seven Siddhi Texts. Part III discusses the formulation and transmission of The Seven Siddhi Texts as a corpus of mahāmudrā works in light of the broader phenomenon of practical canonicity in Buddhist traditions. It presents philological evidence that The Seven Siddhi Texts were part of a known mahāmudrā practical canon in Nepal prior to their transmission to Tibet. It then discusses historical data and Tibetan historiography on their transmission to Tibet beginning in the eleventh century. It concludes with a discussion of The Seven Siddhi Texts' incorporation into two Kagyü mahāmudrā practical canons in Tibet at the turn of the sixteenth century, and the role that The Seven Siddhi Texts played in a number of mahāmudrā polemical works composed by the subsequent generation of Kagyü authors. | University of California at Santa Barbara | 15 August 2022 18:28:30 | |
L'arte Buddhista in Ladakh: Una Tradizione Vivente | Fiore, Gavriella. L'arte Buddhista in Ladakh: Una Tradizione Vivente. Universita' degli Studi di Bologna - Facolta' di Lettere e Filosofia, 2003. | Volume contains mounted photographs | Bologna University | 8 August 2022 21:55:15 | |
Recognizing Purity: Space, Non-change, Luminosity, and Effort in Longchen Rabjam's Presentation of the Great Completeness (rdzogs chen) | Kelley, Justin J. "Recognizing Purity: Space, Non-change, Luminosity, and Effort in Longchen Rabjam’s Presentation of the Great Completeness (rdzogs chen)." PhD diss., Rice University, 2022. | Abstract This dissertation studies the role purity (dag pa) plays in 14th-century Longchen Rabjam’s (klong chen rab 'byams) presentation of the Great Completeness (rdzogs chen). In service of this aim, I rigorously consider the semantic field of purity and its impact on our contemporary understanding of the Great Completeness. I specifically consider four major themes related to purity: space, non-change, luminosity, and effort. In doing so, my analysis builds on existent scholarship on the Great Completeness, highlighting how understanding Longchen Rabjam’s usage of purity elucidates often misunderstood elements of this contemplative system. Taken comprehensively, the semantic field of purity consists of a broad and remarkably diverse spectrum of attributes, each of which are employed by Longchenpa in service of describing the Great Completeness. In this way, I contend that purity is a vital lens for understanding Longchenpa’s presentation of the Great Completeness and its critical shift in emphasis from the ethical to the epistemological. | Rice University | 27 June 2022 15:41:54 | |
Selected Verses from the Gaṇdavyūha: Text, Critical Apparatus and Translation | Gómez, Luis Oscar. "Selected Verses from the Gaṇdavyūha: Text, Critical Apparatus and Translation." PhD diss., Yale University, 1968. | The Gaṇḍavyūha partly edited and translated by Luis Oscar Gomez. Includes English and Sanskrit texts. According to Douglas Osto, "This PhD dissertation is a ground-breaking study and a must-read for any serious student of the Gandavyuha-sutra. Particularly valuable are the introductory materials, which discuss the Sanskrit manuscript tradition, the Chinese and Tibetan translations, and the philosophy of the text. The Gandavyuha is a Mahayana Buddhist scripture narrating the story of the hero Sudhana's quest for supreme enlightenment in ancient India during the lifetime of the Buddha. It was composed most likely in the Indian subcontinent sometime in the first several centuries CE. It became one of the foundational texts for the Chinese Buddhist philosophical school called Huayan, and scenes of its narrative are graphically depicted throughout all of Asia including on the walls of Borobudur, the largest Buddhist monument in the world located in central Java." (Source Accessed May 2, 2022) | Yale University | 2 May 2022 18:20:43 | |
A Study of the Daśabhūmika-sūtra: Its Relation to Previous Buddhist Traditions and the Development of Bodhisattva Practice | Chun, Jang-Kil. "A Study of the Daśabhūmika-sūtra: Its Relation to Previous Buddhist Traditions and the Development of Bodhisattva Practice." PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993. | The value of a Buddhist sutra can be measured based on how it sees the nature of human existence and how it explains the experience of human beings. In most cases, the issue of human dignity has always been revived
and emphasized whenever Buddhism has encountered the challenge of nihilism and absolutism. The arising of the Mahāyāna also should be seen in this context, and particularly, how the image of the bodhisattva has been
put forth as a symbol of human dignity throughout the history of Mahāyāna Buddhism. The purpose of this paper is to examine: (1) how the Daśabhūmika-sūtra relates to Buddhist traditions in the past based on various religious experiences (particularly, the experience of the Buddha's power); and (2) how these experiences had formulated the ideas and practices of bodhisattvas in the system of ten stages (particularly, the mental transformation in the state of the effortlessness). For the first, three issues (experiencing the Buddha, problem of renunciation, and text worship) are discussed. (Chun, introduction, 1) | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 29 April 2022 20:47:22 | |
The Sutra of Sor-mo'i Phreng-ba (from the Lhasa, Peking, and Derge Editions of the bKa-'Gyur) | Cutler, Nathan S. "The Sutra of Sor-mo'i Phreng-ba (from the Lhasa, Peking, and Derge Editions of the bKa-'Gyur)." MA thesis, Indiana University, 1981. | An English translation of chapter 1 of the Aṅgulimālīyasūtra drawing on the Lhasa, Peking, and Derge editions of the Kangyur. | Indiana University | 26 April 2022 00:41:38 | |
The Samadhiraja Sutra: A Study Incorporating a Critical Edition and Translation of Chapter 17 | Skilton, Andrew. "The Samadhiraja Sutra: A Study Incorporating a Critical Edition and Translation of Chapter 17." PhD diss., University of Oxford, 1997. | University of Oxford | 13 April 2022 16:55:39 | ||
Das Jñānavatī-Jātaka aus der Jātakamālā des Gopadatta: nach der manuscript heruasgegeben, Kommantiert, mit dem Samādhirājasuṭra des Gilgits Manuscripts verglichen und ins Deutsche ubersetzt | Ehlers, Gerhard. "Das Jñānavatī-Jātaka aus der Jātakamālā des Gopadatta: nach der manuscript heruasgegeben, Kommantiert, mit dem Samādhirājasuṭra des Gilgits Manuscripts verglichen und ins Deutsche ubersetzt." PhD diss., University of Marburg, 1980. | The Jñānavatī-Jātaka from the Jātakamālā of the Gopadatta, edited from three manuscripts, annotated, compared with the Samādhirājasūtra of the Gilgit Manuscript and translated into German. | University of Marburg | 12 April 2022 21:27:44 | |
Samādhi and Patient Acceptance: Four Chapters of the Samādhirāja-sūtra Translated from the Sanskrit and Tibetan | Rockwell, John, Jr. "Samādhi and Patient Acceptance: Four Chapters of the Samādhirāja-sūtra Translated from the Sanskrit and Tibetan." M.A. thesis, The Naropa Institute, 1980. | This MA thesis by John Rockwell Jr. contains four chapters (the fourth, sixth, seventh and ninth) of the Samādhirājasūtra, translated into English from the Sanskrit and Tibetan. | Naropa University | 12 April 2022 20:52:23 | |
"Revelation" in Mādhyamika Buddhism: Chapter Eleven of the Samādhirāja Sūtra | Tatz, Mark. "'Revelation' in Mādhyamika Buddhism: Chapter Eleven of the Samādhirāja Sūtra ('On Mastering the Sūtra'); Translated from the Tibetan with Commentary." MA thesis, University of Washington, 1972. https://u1lib.org/book/2064265/12d311. | The translation of one chapter of the Samadhiraja-sutra sets out on the path begun jointly by Regamey and Schayer in the 30's. We have the benefit not only of their pioneering labors, but of road-building tools unavailable to them. Since their time some excellent editorial work has been done by Nalinaksa Dutt on the Sanskrit text, and its philosophic groundwork has been thoroughly explored by western and Indian scholars. Furthermore its place in the Tibetan context has been discovered. Any failings, therefore, will not reflect on their magnificent example. The chapter presented here is the eleventh, "On Mastering the Sūtra" (mdo sde 'dzin pa'i le'u). It is of interest for its discussion of the Bodhisattva's function in the world. The full title of the sutra, as it appears in the Bka'-' gyur, is the Arya-sarvadharma-svabhāva-samatā-vipañcita-samādhirāja-mahāyāna-sūtra, "the noble sūtra of the greater vehicle, known as the King of Samādhis, which explains in detail the similarity of all dharmas in their own-being." It is also known as the Candrapradīpa after its principal interlocutor, the Bodhisattva Candraprabha. It is an expansive (vaipulya) sūtra, surviving in its entirety in Sanskrit and Tibetan, which elaborates in great detail the doctrines and practices of the early Mādhyamika. It is a source-work for the philosophy of the leaders of the Mahāyāna in India, from Candrakīrti to Atīśa. Its translation and that of the major commentary were done during the two "great spreads" of the Doctrine in Tibet, and in that country tooit has been a fundamental text. (Tatz, introduction, 1–2) | University of Washington | 12 April 2022 19:27:56 | |
Samādhirāja Sūtra: An English Translation of Chapters I-XX of the Sanskrit Text with Critical Notes | Dokic, Aleksa. "Samādhirāja Sūtra: An English Translation of Chapters I-XX of the Sanskrit Text with Critical Notes." PhD diss., University of Delhi, 2001. | This PhD thesis is an English translation of chapters 1-20 of the Sanskrit text of the Samādhirājasūtra with critical notes by Aleksa Dokic. | University of Delhi | 12 April 2022 18:40:01 | |
A Less Traveled Path: Meditation and Textual Practice in the Saddharmasmrtyupasthana(sutra) | Stuart, Daniel Malinowski. "A Less Traveled Path: Meditation and Textual Practice in the Saddharmasmrtyupasthana(sutra)." PhD diss., UC Berkeley, 2012. https://escholarship.org/content/qt9nk367zn/qt9nk367zn.pdf?t=odydrr. | Abstract This dissertation is a study of a third/fourth-century Buddhist Sanskrit text, the Saddharmasmṛtyupasthāna(sūtra), which reveals a unique literary culture at an important transitional moment in the religious and philosophical life of early Northwest Indian Buddhists. I argue that meditative practice, rhetoric, and philosophy were intimately tied to one another when the Saddharmasmṛtyupasthāna(sūtra) was redacted, and that the text serves as an important yet unnoticed historical touchstone for an understanding of the development of a Buddhist mind-centered metaphysics. The study suggests that such philosophical developments grew organically out of specific meditation practices rooted in the early canonical Buddhist tradition, and that the Saddharmasmṛtyupasthāna(sūtra) offers perhaps the clearest evidence available attesting to this process. Further, the text evidences an emergent historical ideology of cosmic power, one that ties ethical conduct, contemplative knowledge, and literary practice to a spiritual goal of selfless cosmographical sovereignty. This development is historically significant because it marks a major shift in Indian Buddhist religious practice, which conditioned the emergence of fully developed Mahāyāna path schemes and power-oriented tantric ritual traditions in the centuries that followed the text's compilation. As part of this study, I critically edit and translate the second chapter of the Saddharmasmṛtyupasthāna(sūtra) based on a recently discovered codex unicus. | UC Berkeley | 7 April 2022 21:43:53 | |
Nibbāna as Self or Not Self: Some Contemporary Thai Discussions | Cholvijarn, Potprecha. "Nibbāna as Self or Not Self: Some Contemporary Thai Discussions." MA thesis, University of Bristol (2007), 2009. | Abstract The thesis concerns the recent debate in Thailand over the nature of nibbāna (nirvāṇa), the unconditioned, whether it is attā (self) or anattā (not-self). | University of Bristol | 4 April 2022 17:14:13 | |
The Origins and Development of Sammā Arahaṃ Meditation: From Phra Mongkhon Thepmuni (Sot Candasaro) to Phra Thep Yan Mongkhon (Sermchai Jayamaṅgalo) | Cholvijarn, Potprecha. "The Origins and Development of Sammā Arahaṃ Meditation: From Phra Mongkhon Thepmuni (Sot Candasaro) to Phra Thep Yan Mongkhon (Sermchai Jayamaṅgalo)." PhD diss., University of Bristol, 2019. | Abstract This dissertation examines Sammā Arahaṃ meditation from its origin in the figure of Phra Mongkhon Thepmuni (Sot Candasaro), the late abbot of Wat Paknam, Thonburi, as well as its transmission to Phra Thep Yan Mongkhon (Sermchai Jayamaṅgalo), the late abbot of Wat Luang Pho Sot Thammakayaram, Ratchaburi, in the context of the history of Theravāda Buddhist meditation practices. The second chapter of this dissertation analyses Luang Pho Sot Candasaro's autobiography, his sermons, the teachings of two of his meditation teachers, namely Luang Pho Niam Dhammajoti (Wat Noi, Suphanburi) and Luang Pho Nong Indasuvaṇṇo (Wat Amphawan, Suphanburi), and the meditation traditions of Saṅgharāja Suk Kai Thuean (Wat Ratchasittharam, Thonburi) and Wat Pradusongtham (Ayutthaya). It confirms that Luang Pho Sot has taken and adapted aspects of these teachers' and traditions' meditation practices and incorporated them into Sammā Arahaṃ meditation. The second chapter also seeks to clarify further the relationships of Luang Pho Sot's Sammā Arahaṃ meditation to the so-called borān kammaṭṭhāna tradition such as the meditation manual of King Taksin of Thonburi and other manuals preserved in the anthology, Phuttharangsi Thritsadiyan book of samatha and vipassanā meditation of the four reigns. The third chapter accounts for the development of various lineages, networks and centres of Sammā Arahaṃ tradition after the death of Luang Pho Sot, with an emphasis on Achan Sermchai and Wat Luang Pho Sot Thammakayaram. The chapter also considers two meditation masters whose teachings and practices were influenced by Luang Pho Sot and Sammā Arahaṃ meditation, namely Luang Pho Ruesi Lingdam, the founder of the Manomayiddhi meditation tradition, and Bhikṣuṇī Voramai Kabilsingh, who and taught Sammā Arahaṃ along with four other meditation systems. The fourth chapter examines and analyses Achan Sermchai Jayamaṅgalo's works. The dissertation argues that Achan Sermchai's works provide a defence of the thought and practice of his tradition, which consists of demonstrating that they conform to Theravāda canonical and commentarial tradition. In his elaboration of Luang Pho Sot's teachings, Achan Sermchai's works can also be characterized as an attempt to reinterpret and systematize Sammā Arahaṃ meditation. Moreover, in the fourth chapter, I gather opinions and discussions from different lineages of Sammā Arahaṃ tradition regarding two particular issues: 1) the existence of a prior five-body system in Luang Pho Sot's teaching; and 2) the practice of offering food to the Buddha in (āyatana) nibbāna. This is to demonstrate that among the various lineages of Sammā Arahaṃ tradition, there are differing interpretations regarding aspects of Sammā Arahaṃ practices. This section also includes my interview with mae chi Wanchai Chukon, founder of the Suan Kaeo Meditation Centre, Ratchaburi, and one of the few living direct pupils of Luang Pho Sot. I declare that the work in this dissertation was carried out in accordance with the requirements of the University's Regulations and Code of Practice for Research Degree Programmes and that it has not been submitted for any other academic award. Except where indicated by specific reference in the text, the work is the candidate's own work. Work done in collaboration with, or with the assistance of, others, is indicated as such. Any views expressed in the dissertation are those of the author. | University of Bristol | 30 March 2022 20:51:21 | |
The Sky as a Mahāyāna Symbol of Emptiness and Generous Fullness: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: Volume 2: Edition and Translation | Han, Jaehee. "The Sky as a Mahāyāna Symbol of Emptiness and Generous Fullness: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: Volume 2, Edition and Translation." PhD diss, University of Oslo, 2020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/15PllCXdnRPpXWLzF6UxsOHldmcdzqBKG/view. | Abstract The Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā is the eighth chapter of one of the great canonical collections of Mahāyāna Buddhism, the Mahāsaṃnipāta, but it also acts as an individual text, or sūtra. As such, it is a dharmaparyāya, which dates back to the first or second century CE. The original Sanskrit has been lost, but there are three full-length translations in Tibetan and Chinese. | University of Oslo | 21 March 2022 16:06:27 | |
The Sky as a Mahāyāna Symbol of Emptiness and Generous Fullness: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: Volume 1: Introduction | Han, Jaehee. "The Sky as a Mahāyāna Symbol of Emptiness and Generous Fullness: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: Volume 1, Introduction." PhD diss, University of Oslo, 2020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eV_h79rKZEAI9b9TCfS5FqychvR01-Ir/view. | Abstract The Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā is the eighth chapter of one of the great canonical collections of Mahāyāna Buddhism, the Mahāsaṃnipāta, but it also acts as an individual text, or sūtra. As such, it is a dharmaparyāya, which dates back to the first or second century CE. The original Sanskrit has been lost, but there are three full-length translations in Tibetan and Chinese. | University of Oslo | 19 March 2022 00:07:54 | |
Das Gilgit-Fragment Or. 11878A im Britischen Museum zu London | Näther, Volkbert. Das Gilgit-Fragment Or. 11878A im Britischen Museum zu London. Herausgegeben, mit dem Tibetischen verglichen und übersetzt. PhD diss., Philipps-Universität Marburg/Lahn, 1975. https://dfg-viewer.de/show/?tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=http%3A%2F%2Farchiv.ub.uni-marburg.de%2Feb%2F2010%2F0264%2Fmets-3066.xml. | This is a Sanskrit critical edition and German translation of the Saṅgharakṣitāvadāna and Nāgakumārāvadāna made by Volkbert Näther in 1975. These texts belong to the Pravrajyāvastu section of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinayavastu. | Universität Marburg/Lahn | 25 February 2022 16:17:56 | |
Origine Indiana delle Divinità Terrifiche Minori del Bar-do Thos-grol | Ricca, Franco. Origine indiana delle divinità terrifiche minori del Bar-do Thos-grol. M. A. thesis, Università degli Studi di Torino, 1985. | Università degli Studi di Torino | 9 February 2022 19:26:54 |