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McAllister, Patrick. "Ratnakīrti's Apohasiddhi: A Critical Edition, Annotated Translation, and Study". PhD diss., University of Vienna, 2011.

Gurung, Kalsang Norbu. "The Emergence of a Myth: In Search of the Origins of the Life Story of Shenrab Miwo, the Founder of Bon". PhD diss., University of Leiden, 2011.

Caple, Jane. "Seeing Beyond the State?: The Negotiation of Noral Boundaries in the Revival and Development of Tibetan Buddhist Monasticism in Contemporary China". PhD diss., University of Leeds, 2011.

Falls, Edward Ray. "Tsong kha pa and the Foundations of Rationality". PhD diss., Emory University, 2010.

Jäger, Hildegard. "Tchen-re-si in der Diaspora". PhD diss., University of Vienna, 2013.

Liu, Yu-Shan. "Minority Within a Minority: Being Bonpo in the Tibetan Community in Exile". PhD diss., University of Edinburgh, 2011.

Martinez, Diana. "The Journey of an Image: The Western Perception of Tibet from 1900-1950". Master's thesis, University of Texas at El Paso, 2009.

Wood, Benjamin. "The Jeweled Fish Hook: Monastic Exemplarity in the Shalu Abbatial History". PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2012.

Turek, Magdalena. "“In This Body and Life” The Religious and Social Significance of Hermits and Hermitages in Eastern Tibet Today and During Recent History". PhD diss., University of Berlin, 2013.

Kishino, Ryoji. "A Study of the Nidana: An Underrated Canonical Text of the Mulasarvastivada-vinaya". PhD diss., University of California at Los Angeles, 2013.

Collins, Dawn. "Presence in Tibetan Landscapes: Spirited Agency and Ritual Healing in Rebgong." PhD diss., Cardiff University, 2014.

Li, Brenda W. L. "A Critical Study of the Life of the 13th-Century Tibetan monk U rgyan pa Rin chen dpal Based on his Biographies". PhD diss., Oxford University, 2011.

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McGowan, Dianne. "Consuming the Devil's Idols: (Re)presenting Tibetan Art in the United States". Vol. 1. PhD diss., Australian National University, 2010.

Ng, Suk-Fun. "Time and causality in Yogācāra Buddhism". PhD diss., University of Hong Kong, 2014.

King, Matthew William. "Writing True Places in the Twilight of Empire and the Dawn of Revolution: The Buddhist Historiography of the Mongol Zawa Damdin Luwsandamdin (1867-1937)". PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2014.

Walsh, Elena Inez. "Relativism and Madhyamaka: Candrakīrti on Mutual Dependence and the Basis of Convention ". Master's thesis, University of Melbourne, 2010.

Rahmanov, Enver. "Engaging Suffering, Embodying Compassion: the Bodhisattva Ideal, Contextual Theology, and the Dalai Lama's Dialogue Beyond Religion". Master's thesis, Graduate Theological Union, 2014.

Gayley, Holly. "Agency and the Rhetoric of Destiny: Narrating the Buddhist Revival in the Lives and Letters of Khandro Tāre Lhamo (1938–2002) and Namtrul Jigme Phuntsok (1944– )." PhD diss., Harvard University, 2009.

Shao, Gong. "Endless Circles: Circumambulation in Tibet". Master's thesis, University of Alberta, 2014.

Weeks, Paul. "Tradition and Modernity in the Transformation of Tibetan Buddhism." PhD diss., La Trobe University, 2015.

Bailey, Cameron. "The Raven and the Serpent: "The Great All-Pervading Rāhula" Daemonic Buddhism in India and Tibet.". PhD diss., Florida State University, 2012.

Chou, Wen-Shing. "The Visionary Landscape of Wutai Shan in Tibetan Buddhism from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century". PhD diss., University of California at Berkeley, 2011.

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Catanese, Alex John. "The Commodification of Buddhist Objects in Amdo, Tibet, China." PhD diss., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2015.

Adam, Martin T. Meditation and the Concept of Insight in Kamalaśīla's Bhāvanākramas. PhD Diss., McGill University, 2002.

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Lele, Amod Jayant. "Ethical Revaluation in the Thought of Śāntideva." PhD diss., Harvard University, 2007. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/159489216.pdf.

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Stearns, Cyrus. The Life and Teachings of the Tibetan Saint Thang-stong rgyal-po, “King of the Empty Plain.” MA Theses., University of Washington, 1980.

Sorensen, Michelle J. "Making the Old New Again and Again: Legitimation and Innovation in the Tibetan Buddhist Chod Tradition," Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 2013.

Miller, Leigh. "Contemporary Tibetan Art and Cultural Sustainability in Lhasa, Tibet". PhD diss., Emory University, 2014.

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Stenzel, Julia. "From Radishes to Realization: Saraha and His Impact on the Mahāmudrā Tradition of the Tibetan Karma Kagyü School." MA Thesis, University of the West, 2008.

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Bernert, Christian. "Rong-ston on Buddha-Nature: A Commentary on the Fourth Chapter of the Ratnagotravibhāga". MA thesis, University of Vienna, 2009.

McKeown, Arthur P. From Bodhgayā to Lhasa to Beijing: The Life and Times of Śāriputra (c.1335-1426), Last Abbot of Bodhgayā. PhD diss., Harvard University, 2010.

Hatchell, Christopher. Naked Seeing: The Great Perfection, The Wheel of Time, and Visionary Philosophy in Renaissance Tibet. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2009.

Higgins, David. The Philosophical Foundations of Classical rDzogs Chen in Tibet: Investigating the Distinction Between Dualistic Mind (sems) and Primordial Knowing (ye shes). PhD Thesis, University of Lausanne, 2012. Directeur de thèse: Tom Tillemans.

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Baerdemaeker, Jo A. J. De. Tibetan Typeforms: An Historical and Visual Analysis of Tibetan Typefaces from Their Inception in 1738 up to 2009. PhD diss., University of Reading, 2009.

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Neill, Robert (Robyn). "Art for Healing; Art for Consciousness Change." MA thesis, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2011.

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Liland, Fredrik. "The Transmission of the Bodhicaryāvatāra: The History, Diffusion, and Influence of a Mahāyāna Buddhist Text." MA Thesis, University of Oslo, 2009.

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Bjonback, Anders. "The Soteriological Epistemology of the Seventh Karma pa." MA thesis, Rangjung Yeshe Institute, 2013.

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Yiannopoulos, Alexander. "Luminosity: Reflexive Awareness in Ratnākaraśānti's Pith Instructions for the Ornament of the Middle Way." MA thesis, Kathmandu University, 2012.

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Haynie, Eric. "Karma Chags Med's Mountain Dharma: Tibetan Advice on Sociologies of Retreat." MA Theses, University of Colorado, 2013.

Templeman, David Roger. Becoming Indian: A Study of the Life of the 16-17th Century Tibetan Lama, Tāranātha. PhD diss., Monash University, 2008.

Restrepo, Mariana. Transmission, Legitimation, and Adaptation. MA Theses, Florida International University. 2013.

Hirshberg, Daniel. Delivering the Lotus-Born: Historiography in the Tibetan Renaissance. PhD diss., Harvard University, 2012.

Rheingans, Jim. The Eighth Karmapa's Life and His Interpretation of the Great Seal. PhD., Diss. Bath: University of the West of England, 2008.

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Campbell, John. "Vajra Hermeneutics: A Study of Vajrayāna Scholasticism in the Pradīpoddyotana." PhD diss., Columbia University, 2009.

DiValerio, David. Subversive Sainthood and Tantric Fundamentalism: An Historical Study of Tibet's Holy Madmen. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2011.

Kittay, David. Interpreting the Vajra Rosary: Truth and Method Meets Wisdom and Method. PhD diss., Columbia University, 2011.

Yü, Dan Smyer. Pilgrimage to the Illusory: The Tibetan Buddhist Revival and the Politics of Religion in the PRC. PhD diss., University of California at Davis, 2006.

Young, Serinity. Dreams in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Sacred Biography. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1990.

Yelle, Robert Alan. Explaining Mantras: Rhetoric, the Dream of a Natural Language, and the Efficacy of Ritual. PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2002.

Yarnall, Thomas Freeman. The Emptiness that is Form: Developing the Body of Buddhahood in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Tantra. PhD diss., Columbia University, 2003.

Yamamoto, Carl Shigeo. Vision and Violence: Lama Zhang and the Dialectics of Political Authority and Religious Charisma in Twelfth-Century Central Tibet. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2009.

Xing, Guang. The Evolution of the Concept of the Buddha from Early Buddhism to the Formulation of the Trikāya Theory. PhD diss., University of London, 2002.

Tuyl, Charles Don van. An Analysis of Chapter Twenty-Eight of the Hundred Thousand Songs of Mila-Raspa, A Buddhist Poet and Saint of Tibet. PhD diss., Indiana University, 1971.

White, Lynn Ward. A Comparative Study of Kum Nye Relaxation. PhD diss., California Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, 1985.

Wedemeyer, Christian K. Vajrayāna and its Doubles: A critical historiography, exposition, and translation of the Tantric works of Āryadeva. PhD diss., Colombia University, 1999.

Warner, Cameron David. The Precious Lord: The History and Practice of the Cult of the Jo bo Śākyamuni in Lhasa, Tibet. PhD diss., Harvard University, 2008.

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Wangchuk, Tsering. "The Uttaratantra in the Age of Argumentation: Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen and His Fourteenth-Century Interlocutors on Buddha-Lineage." PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2009.

Walter, Michael L. The Role of Alchemy and Medicine in Indo-Tibetan Tantrism. PhD diss., Indiana University, 1980.

Wallace, Bruce Alan. The Cultivation of Sustained Voluntary Attention in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. PhD diss., Stanford University, 1995.

Vyverberg, Joan C. Four Westerners' Experience with Tibetan Buddhism. PhD diss., Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, 1988.

Vargas, Ivette Maria. Falling to Pieces, Emerging Whole: Suffering Illness and Healing Renunciation in the Life of Gelongma Palmo. PhD diss., Harvard University, 2003.

Turner, Alicia Marie. Buddhism, Colonialism and the Boundaries of Religion: Theravada Buddhism in Burma, 1885-1920. PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2009.

Tsomo, Karma Lekshe. Into the Jaws of Yama, Lord of Death: Death and Identity in China and Tibet. PhD diss., University of Hawai'i, 2000.

Trull, Charles L. Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Effect of Long-Term Practice of Ceremonial Sexuality. PhD diss., California Institute of Integral Studies, 2006.

Newland, Guy Martin. The Two Truths: A Study of Mādhyamika Philosophy as Presented in the Monastic Textbooks of the Ge-luk-ba Order of Tibetan Buddhism. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 1983.

Towers, Deborah L. Memoir: Growing Down Through the Fictions of the Historical Mind, The Archetypal Mind, and the Buddha Mind. PhD diss., Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2006.

Toh, Hoong Teik. Tibetan Buddhism in Ming China. PhD diss., Harvard University, 2004.

Todaro, Dale Allen. An Annotated Translation of the Tattvasaṃgraha (Part 1) with an Explanation of the Role of the Tattvasaṃgraha Lineage in the Teachings of Kūkai. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1985.

Tiso, Francis Vincent. A Study of the Buddhist Saint in Relation to the Biographical Tradition of Milarepa. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1989.

Thornberry, Amy. Tantra, Mantra, Yantra. PhD diss., California State University at Long Beach, 2008.

Terrone, Antonio. Bya rog prog zhu, The Raven Crest: The Life and Teachings of bDe chen 'od gsal rdo rje, Treasure Revealer of Contemporary Tibet. PhD diss., Universiteit Leiden, 2010.

Tep, Bo. Buddhist Enlightenment Experience: A Buddhist Study. PhD diss., Fielding Graduate Institute, 2004.

Takahashi, Kammie Morrison. Lamps for the Mind: Illumination and Innovation in dPal dbyangs's Mahāyoga. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2009.

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Sweet, Michael J. "Śāntideva and the Mādhyamika: The Prajñāpāramitā-Pariccheda of the Bodhicaryāvatāra." PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1977.

Sutton, Florin Giripescu. Existence and Gnosis in the Laṅkāvatāra-Sūtra: A Study in the Ontology and Epistemology of the Yogācāra School of Mahāyāna Buddhism. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1986.

Sumegi, Angela. Dreams of Wonder, Dreams of Deception: Tension and Resolution Between Buddhism and Shamanism in Tibetan Culture. PhD diss., University of Ottawa, 2003.

Sujata, Victoria. A Commentary on the Mgur 'bum (Collected Songs of Spiritual Realization) of Skal ldan rgya mtsho, A Seventeenth Century Scholar and Siddha of Amdo. PhD diss., Harvard University, 2003.

Stevens, Tracy Ann. Refugees From Two Homelands: Race, Nation, Ethical Selfhood, and the Education of Tibetan Youth in Exile. PhD diss., University of Utah, 2006.

Stefik, Barbara S. An Exploratory Study of the Effects of Practicing Tibetan Dream Yoga Four Foundations on Waking Life Awareness and Dreams. PhD diss., Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, 2000.

Stearns, Cyrus R. The Buddha from Dol po and His Fourth Council of the Buddhist Doctrine. PhD diss., University of Washington, 1996.

Stanley, David Phillip. The Threefold Formal, Practical, and Inclusive Canons of Tibetan Buddhism in the Context of a Pan-Asian Paradigm: Utilizing a New Methodology for Analyzing Canonical Collections. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2009.

Stalker, Susan C. A Study of Dependent Origination: Vasubandhu, Buddhaghosa, and the Interpretation of Pratītyasamutpāda. PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1987.

Stablein, William George. The Mahākālatantra: The Theory of Ritual Blessings and Tantric Medicine. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1976.

Spalding, Matthew L. Trusting the Process: The Developmental Experience of Psychospiritual Guidance. PhD diss., California Institute of Integral Studies, 2008.

Snow, Joseph A. Listening to Places: A Comparative Study of Zen, Sufism, & Cosmology. PhD diss., Syracuse University, 2009.

Skora, Kerry Martin. Consciousness of Consciousness: Reflexive Awareness in the Trika Śaivism of Abhinavagupta. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2001.

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Silk, Jonathan Alan. "The Origins and Early History of the Mahāratnakūṭa Tradition of Mahāyāna Buddhism with a Study of the Ratnarāśisūtra and Related Materials." PhD diss., University of Michigan, 1994.

Shih, Jen Lang. The Perpetuity of the Dharma: A Study and Translation of Da Aluohan Nantimiduoluo Suoshuo Fazhu Ji. PhD diss., University of California at Berkeley, 2002.

Gyaltrul, Trungram. Gampopa, The Monk and the Yogi: His Life and Teachings. PhD diss., Harvard University, 2004.

Semilof, Alex. The Lojong: Altruism in Tibetan Culture. PhD diss., Union Institute and University, 2006.

Schroeder, John William. Nagarjuna's Unsurpassed Medicine: Emptiness and the Doctrine of Upaya. PhD diss., University of Oregon, 1996.

Schoening, Jeffrey Davis. The Śālistamba-sūtra and Its Indian Commentaries. PhD diss., University of Washington, 1991.

Schaeffer, Kurtis R. Tales of the Great Brahmin: Creative Traditions of the Buddhist Poet-Saint Saraha. PhD diss., Harvard University, 2000.

Savvas, Carol Diane. A Study of the Profound Path of gCod: The Mahāyāna Buddhist Tradition of Tibet's Great Woman Saint Machig Labdron. PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990.

Sardar-Afkhami, Abdol-Hamid. The Buddha's Secret Gardens: End Times and Hidden-lands in Tibetan Imagination. PhD diss., Harvard University, 2001.

Ryose, Wataru S. A Study of the Abhidharmahṛdaya: The Historical Development of the Concept of Karma in the Sarvāstivāda Thought. PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987.

Ruff, Jeffrey Clark. History, Text, and Context of the Yoga Upaniṣads. PhD diss., University of California at Santa Barbara, 2002.

Rothenberg, Bonnie Lynne. Kṣemendra's "Bodhisattvāvadānakalpalatā": A Text-Critical Edition and Translation of Chapters One to Five. PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990.

Ronis, Jann Michael. Celibacy, Revelations, and Reincarnated Lamas: Contestation and Synthesis in the Growth of Monasticism at Katok Monastery from the 17th through 19th Centuries. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2009.

Rogers, Katherine Manchester. A Tibetan Manual of Logic: An Introduction to Reasoning in the Ge-luk-ba Monastic Educational System. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 1992.

Rodseth, Lars Thomas. Travel and Transcendence: Lamaist Expansion in the Himalayan Kingdoms. PhD diss., University of Michigan, 1993.

Robinson, James Burnell. The Eighty-Four Siddhas. PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1975.

Reighter, Cheryl Anne. Riding a Wild Horse: The Role of Metaphor in Tibetan Medicine. PhD diss., University of Colorado, 2000.

Ray, Reginald Alden. Maṇḍala Symbolism in Tantric Buddhism. PhD diss., University of Chicago, 1973.

Quintman, Andrew H. Mi la ras pa's Many Lives: Anatomy of a Tibetan Biographical Corpus. PhD diss., University of Michigan, 2006.

Quijada, Justine Buck. Opening the Roads: History and Religion in Post-Soviet Buryatia. PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2009.

Proffitt, Diann Renee. A Spiritual Ascent of the Philosopher-King and the Bodhisattva: An Inquiry into the Central Books of Plato's Republic and the Yogacara School of Mahayana Buddhism. PhD diss., California Institute of Integral Studies, 2003.

Prévèreau, Raynald. Dharmakīrti's Account of Yogic Intuition as a Source of Knowledge. PhD diss., McGill University, 1994.

Powell, James Kenneth, II. The Great Debate in Mahāyāna Buddhism: The Nature of Consciousness. PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998.

Posman, Ellen. There is No Place Like Home: An Analysis of Exile in Judaism and Tibetan Buddhism. PhD diss., University of California at Santa Barbara, 2004.

Piper, Robert Kent. Looking Back to Point Zero: Reverence for the Unknown. PhD diss., York University, 2005.

Phillips, Bradford Lyman. Consummation and Compassion in Medieval Tibet: The Maṇi bka'-'bum chen-mo of Guru Chos-kyi dbang-phyug. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2004.

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Pettit, John W. "Theory, Practice, and Ultimate Reality in the Thought of Mipham Rinpoche." PhD diss., Columbia University, 1998.

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Paul, Diana. "A Prolegomena to the Śrīmālādevī Sūtra and the Tathāgatagarbha Theory: The Role of Women in Buddhism." PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1974.

Patt, David. Elucidating the Path to Liberation: A Study of the Commentary on the Abhidharmakośa by the First Dalai Lama. PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993.

Park, Peter. Sartre and Nishitani: Toward Developing a Socially Engaged Zen Ethics. PhD diss., American University, 2010.

Park, Changhwan. The Sautrāntika Theory of Seeds (bīja) Revisited: With Special Reference to the Ideological Continuity between Vasubandhu's Theory of Seeds and its Śrīlāta - Dārṣṭāntika Precedents. PhD diss., University of California at Berkeley, 2007.

Overaa, Roderick B. Eastern Religion and the Dilemmas of the Modern. PhD diss., University of Washington, 2010.

Oliver, Curtis Forrest. The Yogācāra Dharma List: A Study of the Abhidharmasamuccaya and its Commentary, Abhidharmasamuccayabhāṣya. PhD diss., University of Toronto, 1982.

Ohnuma, Reiko. Dehadāna: The 'Gift of the Body' in Indian Buddhist Narrative Literature. PhD diss., University of Michigan, 1997.

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Nguyen, Cuong Tu. "Sthiramati's Interpretation of Buddhology and Soteriology." PhD diss., Harvard University, 1990.

Naughton, Alexander T. The Buddhist Path to Omniscience. PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989.

Nattier, Jan. The Candragarbha-sūtra in Central and East Asia: Studies in a Buddhist Prophecy of Decline. PhD diss., Harvard University, 1988.

Napper, Elizabeth Stirling. Dependant-Arising and Emptiness: A Tibetan Buddhist Interpretation of Mâdhyamika Philosophy Emphasizing the Compatibility of Emptiness and Conventional Phenomena. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 1985.

Müller, Wilhelm Kuno. Shingon-Mysticism: Śubhākarasiṁha and I-Hsing's Commentary to the Mahāvairocana-Sūtra, Chapter One. PhD diss., University of California at Los Angeles, 1976.

Mullen, Eve Louise. Tibetan Buddhism, American Interests: Influences Upon the Lay and Monastic Relationship in New York's Tibetan Buddhist Immigrant Community. PhD diss., Temple University, 1999.

Morrow, Katherine L. The Mandala of Great Delight: Happiness at the Threshold of Time. PhD diss., Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2006.

Moran, Peter Kevin. Buddhism Observed: Western Travelers, Tibetan Exiles, and the Culture of Dharma in Kathmandu. PhD diss., University of Washington, 1998.

Miller, Amy Sims. Jeweled Dialogues: The Role of The Book in the Formation of the Kadam Tradition Within Tibet. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2004.

McClintock, Sara Louise. Omniscience and the Rhetoric of Reason in the Tattvasaṃgraha and the Tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā. PhD diss., Harvard University, 2002.

Martin, Daniel Preston. The Emergence of Bon and the Tibetan Polemical Tradition. PhD diss., Indiana University, 1991.

Makley, Charlene Elizabeth. Embodying the Sacred: Gender and Monastic Revitalization in China's Tibet. PhD diss., University of Michigan, 1999.

Maher, Derek Frank. Knowledge and Authority in Tibetan Middle Way Schools of Buddhism: A Study of the Gelukba (dge lugs pa) Epistemology of Jamyang Shayba ('jam dbyangs bzhad pa) In Its Historical Context. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2003.

Magnussen, Sandra. The Effect of the Spiritual Practice of Tibetan Buddhist Guru Yoga on the Clinical Practice of Psychotherapy. PhD diss., Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, 2003.

Magee, William Albert. Tradition and Innovation in the Consequence School: Nature (rang bzhin, svabhāva-prakṛti) in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 1998.

MacPherson, Sonia Ann. A Path of Learning: Indo-Tibetan Buddhism as Education. PhD diss., University of British Columbia, 2000.

Lye, Hun Yeow. Feeding Ghosts: A Study of the Yuqie Yankou Rite. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2003.

Lopez, Donald Sewell, Jr. The Svātantrika-Mādhyamika School of Mahāyāna Buddhism. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 1982.

Long, David Glyn. Hume and Buddhism: A Comparative Study of Personal Identity, Skepticism, and Moral Sentiments. PhD diss., University of California at Riverside, 2009.

Loizzo, Joseph John. Candrakīrti and the Moon-Flower of Nālandā: Objectivity and Self-Correction in India's Central, Therapeutic Philosophy of Language. PhD diss., Columbia University, 2001.

Lipman, Kennard. A Study of Śāntarakṣita's Madhyamakālaṃkāra. PhD diss., University of Saskatchewan, 1979.

Lin, Ivy Yu-Shian. A Quest Beyond Enlightenment: Buddhism as Counter-Enlightenment and Modernity's Other Being in the Practices of Antonin Artaud, John Cage, Tatsumi Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno, and Xingjian Gao. PhD diss., City University of New York, 2009.

Lin, Chen-Kuo. The Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra: A Liberating Hermeneutic. PhD diss., Temple University, 1991.

Levinson, Jules Brooks. The Metaphors of Liberation: A Study of Grounds and Paths According to the Middle Way Schools. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 1994.

Leong, Markus. Hanshan Deqing (1546-1623) on Buddhist Ethics. PhD diss., California Institute of Integral Studies, 1994.

Lempert, Michael Paul. The Uncivil Poetics of Reason: Buddhist Debate and Demeanor in the Tibetan Diaspora. PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2004.

Leigh, Hoseok. The Philosophy of Non-Duality in Zhaolun. PhD diss., California Institute of Integral Studies, 2010.

Lefebvre, Danielle Jean. Conceptualizations of Gender in Buddhist Tantra. PhD diss., University of Alberta, 2003.

Lee, Yong-Hyun. Synthesizing a Liturgical Heritage: Abhayākaragupta's Vajrāvalī and the Kālacakramaṇḍala. PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003.

Lang, Karen Christina. Āryadeva on the Bodhisattva's Cultivation of Merit and Knowledge. PhD diss., University of Washington, 1983.

LaMacchia, Linda Jean. Women's Religious Expression in Tibetan Buddhism: Songs and Lives of the Jomo (Nuns) of Kinnaur, Northwest India. PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001.

Ladner, Lorne Robert. The Psychodynamics of Compassion: Psychological Reflections on the Tibetan Buddhist Stages of the Path Literature. PhD diss., Pacifica Graduate Institute, 1997.

Kritzer, Robert Benjamin. Pratītyasamutpāda in the Abhidharmasamuccaya: Conditioned Origination in the Yogācāra Abhidharma. PhD diss., University of California at Berkeley, 1995.

Karg, Brendan Donczyk. Pray for Surf: Wheels of Devotion. MA Thesis, California State University at Dominquez Hills, 2009.

Kornfield, Jack Murray. The Psychology of Mindfulness Meditation. PhD diss., Saybrook University, 1977.

Kohn, Richard Jay. Mani Rimdu. Text and Tradition in a Tibetan Ritual. PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988.

Klein, Anne Carolyn. Mind and Liberation. The Sautrāntika Tenet System in Tibet: Perception, Naming, Positive and Negative Phenomena, Impermanence and the Two Truths in the Context of Buddhist Religious Insight as Presented in Ge-luk Literary and Oral Traditions. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 1981.

Kim, Yong Pyo. Hermeneutics of the Scriptural Word in the Prajñā-Mādhyamika System. PhD diss., Temple University, 1992.

Kim, Suah. A Study of the Indian Commentaries on the Laṅkāvatārasūtra: Madhyamaka and Mind-only Philosophy. PhD diss., Harvard University, 2002.

Keyt, Christine Mullikin. Dharmakīrti's Concept of the Svalakṣaṇa. PhD diss., University of Washington, 1980.

Kelly, Matthew M. J. Deliberate Darkness: A Comparative Interpretation of Dark Deities. PhD diss., University of Windsor, 1992.

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Keenan, John P. "A Study of the Buddhabhūmyupadeśa: The Doctrinal Development of the Notion of Wisdom in Yogācāra Thought." PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1980.

Karet, Sokphal Duong. Vajra-Thunderbolt Metaphor: Eastern Mystical and Western Rational Archetypes and Their Influences on the Dualistic Nature of Human Beings. PhD diss., Saybrook University, 2006.

Kam, Tak Sing. Manchu-Tibetan Relations in the Early Seventeenth Century: A Reappraisal. PhD diss., Harvard University, 1994.

Kalff, Martin Michael. Selected Chapters from the Abhidhānottara-Tantra: The Union of Female and Male Deities. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1979.

Kahn, Janet. On Knowing What We're Doing: Human Consciousness and The Fate of the Earth. PhD diss., Brandeis University, 1994.

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Jorden, Khenpo Ngawang. "Buddha-Nature: Through the Eyes of Go rams pa Bsod nams seng ge in Fifteenth-Century Tibet." PhD diss., Harvard University, 2003.

Jones, Robert William. Of Offal, Corpses, and Others: An Examination of Self, Subjectivity, and Authenticity in Two Works by Alexandra David-Neel. MA Thesis, Florida Atlantic University, 2010.

Jones, Lucy Annette. Transgressive Compassion: The Role of Fear, Horror and the Threat of Death in Ultimate Transformation. PhD diss., Rice University, 1998.

Johnson-Moxley, Melanie K. Vasubandhu's Consciousness Trilogy: A Yogācāra Buddhist Process Idealism. PhD diss., University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.

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Jiang, Bo. "Cataphatic Emptiness: rGyal-tshab on the Buddha-Essence Theory of Asaṅga's Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā." PhD diss., Columbia University, 2008.

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