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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 | ||
Storia dell'Interesse Italiano per l'Arte Himalayana dal Dopoguerra a Oggi | Rovatti, Ilaria. Storia dell’interesse italiano per l’arte himalayana dal dopoguerra a oggi. M. A. thesis, Università degli Studi di Bologna, 2008. | Università degli Studi di Bologna | 9 February 2022 19:05:45 | ||
Committenza e Arte nella Vita di un Lama della Diaspora Tibetana: Il Caso di Gancén Rinpocé | Fumolo, Anna. Committenza e arte nella vita di un lama della diaspora tibetana: il caso di Gancén Rinpocé. B. A. thesis, Università degli Studi di Bologna, 2009. | Università degli Studi di Bologna | 9 February 2022 18:48:43 | ||
La Pittura Religiosa Newar del XX Secolo: Tradizione ed Innovazione - Analisi della Pittura Tradizionale Contemporanea nella Valle del Nepal | Soranzo, Anna. La pittura religiosa newar del XX secolo: Tradizione ed innovazione - Analisi della pittura tradizionale contemporanea nella Valle del Nepal. M. A. thesis, Università di Bologna, 2002. | Università di Bologna | 9 February 2022 18:21:36 | ||
Agiografia di Padmasambhava nei Dipinti Parietali dell'utse di Samye | Rossi, Giada. Agiografia di Padmasambhava nei dipinti parietali dell’utse di Samye. M. A. thesis, Università di Bologna, 2014. | Università di Bologna | 9 February 2022 17:59:58 | ||
La Statuaria in Metallo nella Valle di Kathmandu: Evoluzione e Sviluppi nel XXI Secolo | Graldi, Aurora. La Statuaria in Metallo nella Valle di Kathmandu: Evoluzione e Sviluppi nel XXI Secolo. M. A. thesis, Università di Bologna, 2010. | Università di Bologna | 7 February 2022 23:15:28 | ||
Il Kumbum di Gyantse e l'architettura tibetana | Ricca, Simone. Il Kumbum di Gyantse e l’architettura tibetana. MA Thesis, Politecnico di Torino – Facoltà di Architettura, 1991. | Politecnico di Torino | 7 February 2022 23:03:27 | ||
L'Architettura del Ladakh | Celi, Roberta. L'Architettura del Ladakh: Tesi di Laurea in Storia dell'Arte dell'India e dell'Asia Centrale. MA Thesis, Università degli Studi di Bologna, 2002. | Università degli Studi di Bologna | 7 February 2022 22:46:42 | ||
A Holistic Theory of Non-Dual Union: The Eighth Karmapa's Mahamudra Vision as Reaction, Re-Appropriation, and Resolution | Faria, Joseph. A Holistic Theory of Non-Dual Union: The Eighth Karmapa's Mahāmudrā Vision as Reaction, Re-Appropriation, and Resolution. MA Thesis, Rangjung Yeshe Institute, Centre for Buddhist Studies, Kathmandu University, 2015. | Abstract: This research investigates the Mahāmudrā interpretation of the Eighth Karmapa Mikyö Dorjé (1507-1554), particularly regarding his text Recognizing the Blessings of Mahāmudrā (Phyag rgya chen po'i byin rlabs kyi ngos 'dzin). Drawing upon contemporary research, historical developments, and textual evidence, this work argues that the Eighth Karmapa’s Mahāmudrā thought can be understood as reaction, re-appropriation, and resolution. Though Mikyö Dorjé reacted to Sakya and Gelug critiques of Kagyü Mahāmudrā, and accepted that one could re-appropriate Mahāmudrā by incorporating aspects of sūtra and tantra onto the path of Mahāmudrā, he ultimately sought to adhere to the subitist tendencies of early Kagyü masters by resolving all conventional tensions of the ground, path, and fruition via a holistically non-dual union (Skt. Yuganaddha; Tib. zung 'jug). This demonstrates that both doctrinal eclecticism and upholding the transcendence of Mahāmudrā were pillars of Mikyö Dorjé’s thought, and that his theory of union provided rhetorical and philosophical consistency and justification for these views. | Rangjung Yeshe Institute | 28 January 2022 16:26:52 | |
Die Bhadracari, eine probe buddhistisch-religiöser lyrik | Watanabe, Kaikioku, ed. "Die Bhadracari, eine probe buddhistisch-religiöser lyrik." PhD diss., Kaiser Wilhelms-Universität. Leipzig: Druck von G. Kreysing, 1912. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101061610976&view=1up&seq=1&skin=2021. | A study and critical Sanskrit edition of the Bhadracaryāpraṇidhānarāja. | Kaiser Wilhelms-Universität | 14 September 2021 17:12:26 | |
Sacred Literature into Liturgy: Jingyuan (1011–1088) and the Development of the Avataṁsaka Liturgy in Song China | Sure, Heng. "Sacred Literature into Liturgy: Jingyuan (1011–1088) and the Development of the Avataṁsaka Liturgy in Song China." PhD diss., Graduate Theological Union, 2003. | Abstract This dissertation critically examines and demonstrates how Jingyuan (1011-1088), a Song Dynasty Chinese Buddhist monk, transformed the Avataṁsaka Sūtra into a liturgy that conveyed the Sūtra's vision of the Mahāyāna Bodhisattva ideal. In keeping with the earlier interpreters, Chengguan (738-839) and Zongmi (780-841), Jingyuan understood the Avataṁsaka Sūtra, long considered the pinnacle of Buddhist philosophy and cosmology, as a handbook of Bodhisattva practices. For them the Bhadracarīpranidhāna Chapter, the source of the Avataṁsaka Liturgy, held the key to cultivating the Bodhisattva Path articulated by the Sūtra. Jingyuan distilled the essential elements of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva's Practices and Vows that comprise the Bhadracarīpranidhāna into existing liturgical formats. The result was three recensions, collectively referred to as the Avataṁsaka Liturgy - - the Expanded, the Condensed, and the Popular Versions - - in varying degrees of complexity, suited to the different needs of his Buddhist community. To transform Mahāyāna ideals into liturgy, Jingyuan drew upon visualizations from the Bhadracarīpranidhāna, which when performed with ritual prostrations, constituted the heart of the liturgical practice. He further integrated two distinctly Avataṁsaka visualizations: the Infinite Contemplation of Indra's Net and the Unobstructed Contemplation of the Dharma Realm, into the sitting meditation section of his Expanded Liturgy. Thus, Jingyuan combined the movement of bowing with the stillness of meditation to produce a single method for cultivating the samādhi states articulated by the Avataṁsaka Sūtra. Jingyuan's efforts revitalized the Avataṁsaka tradition in twelfth century Hangzhou and earned him recognition as an Avataṁsaka patriarch. The dissertation concludes with reflections on the continuity of the Avataṁsaka Liturgy among contemporary Buddhists and suggests that contemplative-devotional liturgies can be a useful, even necessary aspect of Buddhist practice as it emerges in the West. The appendices include translations of the three recensions of the Avataṁsaka Liturgy, the Bhadracarī Chapter of the Avataṁsaka Sūtra, and the Sūtra on the Contemplation of the Practice Dharmas of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva. | Graduate Theological Union | 13 September 2021 21:35:20 | |
A Structuralist Examination of the Origins of the Māra Mytheme and Its Function in the Narrative of the Dàoxíng Bōrě Jīng, the Earliest Complete Recension of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā-prajñā-pāramitā-sūtra | Giddings, William James. "A Structuralist Examination of the Origins of the Māra Mytheme and Its Function in the Narrative of the Dàoxíng Bōrě Jīng, the Earliest Complete Recension of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā-prajñā-pāramitā-sūtra." PhD diss., King's College London. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/44453723/2014_Giddings_William_0838811_ethesis.pdf. | Abstract By comparing the instances of the Māra mytheme in the narratives of the prajñā-pāramitā-sūtras with those found in non-Mahayana texts, this thesis explores how this vitally important persona, one central to the narrative account of the bodhisattva quest for awakening, developed from earlier mythic prototypes. Pali sources identify a number of alternative identities for Māra the most significant of which being Namuci, an asura who took control over the mind of Indra. Using linguistic ideas originally developed by Saussure, the storylines of the Māra and Namuci myths can be reduced to a simple, common narrative statement or syntagm. Adopting this approach demonstrates how apparently new narratives can be derived through the application of paradigmatic changes within that syntagm. Furthermore, drawing upon the findings of historical linguistics, it was possible to interpolate potential Proto-Indian-European origins for the Māra mytheme. Rather than supporting the traditionally accepted view of Māra as an allegory for death, this enabled the signification of the actual name Māra to be seen as pointing towards a 'grinding-away' or oppression of the mind. This was achieved by relating the Māra of Buddhist mythology with the mare-hag common to a number of IndoEuropean folklores. Support for this argument is also found in Pali narratives which depict Māra entering the thoughts of others engaged in meditation during the night in order to induce feelings of fear and uncertainty. Finally, based upon these findings, it was possible to scrutinize the narrative and nested tales of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā-prajñā-pāramitā-sūtra in its earliest recension, the Dàoxíng Bōrě Jīng, and identify how the original Māra myth underwent structured, paradigmatic modifications that reflect a bodhisattva's progress towards final awakening. | King's College London | 13 September 2021 16:55:41 | |
An Analysis of the Aṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitāsūtra from the Chinese Translations | Lancaster, Lewis Rosser. "An Analysis of the Aṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitāsūtra from the Chinese Translations." PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1968. | An examination of T. 224 in comparison with the Pāla Dynasty Sanskrit text indicates that there was a significant growth of the Aṣṭa from the text of the second century translation by Lokakṣema up to its final redaction. Because of the immense popularity of the Praiñāpāramitā literature in China, the Aṣṭa was translated seven times, 'providing a record of growth and changes over a period of eight centuries (i.e., 179-985 A.D.). By comparing each of these translations with the Sanskrit and the other Chinese texts, some ideas can be formulated regarding the layers and dates of the textual expansion. (Lancaster, introduction, 1) | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 13 September 2021 16:32:05 | |
The Bodhisattvapiṭaka: Its Doctrines, Practices and their Position in Mahāyāna Literature (Pagel 1992) | Pagel, Ulrich. "The Bodhisattvapiṭaka: Its Doctrines, Practices and their Position in Mahāyāna Literature." PhD diss., School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), 1992. https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29691/1/10752663.pdf. | Abstract This thesis aims to provide a comprehensive study of the Bodhisattvapiṭaka with specific emphasis on the bodhisattva ideal. The content of the Bodhisattvapiṭaka indicates that its exposition belongs to the earliest treatises on the bodhisattva. The practices and doctrines that are expounded are invariably rudimentary and show little of the complexities that characterise their discussions in later bodhisattva literature. The Bodhisattvapiṭaka's inclusion into the Mahāratnakūṭa rested probably on its pioneering account of the bodhisattvacaryā. Being by far the longest work on the bodhisattva in the whole collection, it expounds important practices and constitutes the hub for the remaining bodhisattva writings in the Mahāratnakūṭa. | University of London | 10 September 2021 22:41:33 | |
Daśabhūmikasūtra (Rahder, J.) | Rahder, Johannes, ed. "Daśabhūmikasūtra." (PhD diss., University of Utrecht.) Leuven, Belgium: J. B. Istas, 1926. https://objects.library.uu.nl/reader/index.php?obj=1874-286038&lan=en#page//39/03/15/39031524648488413764695835551980116855.jpg/mode/1up. | This work, Dr. Rahder's thesis for his degree of D.Litt. at the University of Utrecht, is a polyglot compilation, in Dutch, French, Sanskrit, Tibetan, and English, comprising, beside an opening essay, the Sanskrit text (of the titular work), a special recension of the Seventh of the Ten Bhūmis, or Stages in the worldway of a Bodhisattva or Buddha, with a translation of it into English, and an Appendix giving the Sanskrit text of the treatise Bodhisattvabhūmi from a unique Cambridge manuscript. (Rhys Davids, C. A. F. Review of "Daśabhūmikasūtra" by Johannes Rahder. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, no. 1 (Jan., 1927): 160–61. | University of Utrecht | 30 August 2021 17:32:32 | |
The Dhyāna Chapter of the Bodhisattvapiṭaka-Sūtra | Pedersen, Kusumita Priscilla. "The Dhyāna Chapter of the Bodhisattvapiṭaka-Sūtra." PhD diss., Columbia University, 1976. | Abstract The Bodhisattvapiṭaka-sūtra is a work included in the large sutra collection, the Mahāratnakuṭa, compiled by Bodhiruci in the beginning of the eighth century. The history of the Ratnakuṭa collection is obscure, but a review of available evidence seems to indicate that the collection was compiled no earlier than the fourth century and no later than the sixth century. The translation of the Bodhisattvapiṭaka-sūtra into Chinese was done by Hsüan-tsang in 645 from a Sanskrit manuscript brought with him from India. A second version was done by the later Dharmarakṣa between 1004 and 1053. The Hsüan-tsang version is considerably longer than the Dharmarakṣa version, to which it is superior. The difference in length, however, is accounted for by a wordier style and the use of introductory, recapitulative and concluding phrases in the longer version which do not significantly alter the contents of the sutra, if we base our judgement on comparison of the dhyāna chapters of the two versions. | Columbia University | 23 August 2021 21:04:15 | |
The Bhaiṣajyaguru-Sūtra and the Buddhism of Gilgit | Schopen, Gregory. "The Bhaiṣajyaguru-Sūtra and the Buddhism of Gilgit." PhD diss., Australian National University, 1978. https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/109328. | Abstract This work is made up of three unequal parts. The first part contains an edition of the Sanskrit text of what I have called 'Redaction A' of the Bhaiṣajyaguru-Sūtra. This edition is based on a single manuscript found at Gilgit; with variants from four other manuscripts, also found at Gilgit, given in the critical apparatus. Stylistically 'Redaction A' seems to represent an 'unrevised" version of the text, perhaps a first attempt at Gilgit to commit an oral tradition to writing. The second part consists of a critical edition of the Tibetan translation of a Sanskrit text of the Bhaiṣajyaguru-Sūtra. This edition is based on the Derge, Narthan, Peking and Lhasa versions of the 'phags pa bcom ldan 'das sman gyi bla bai ạu rya'i 'od kyi snon gyi smon lam gyi khyad par rgyas pa and the 'phags pa de bźin gśegs pa bdun gyi snon gyi smon lam gyi khyad par rgyas pa. The Derge versions form the basis of the edition. The first and second parts are preliminary studies to the third and main part, since the whole was not intended as a study of the Bhaiṣajyaguru-Sūtra per se. This third part is devoted to an English translation of the Sanskrit text, with notes; the latter making up the bulk of the work. In these notes I have attempted to show how a literate member of the Gilgit community, assuming he was familiar with the texts known to have been available to him, would have, or could have, understood the Bhaiṣajyaguru-Sūtra, I have also attempted to show what was and what was not unique to the Bhaiṣajyaguru-Sūtra vis-a-vis the Gilgit collection as a whole, and to make the first tentative steps towards reconstructing the 'Buddhism' current at Gilgit in the 5th-6th century. | Australian National University | 10 August 2021 15:56:26 | |
The Ugraparipṛcchā, the Mahāratnakūṭasūtra and Early Mahāyāna Buddhism | Schuster, Nancy J. "The Ugraparipṛcchā, the Mahāratnakūṭasūtra and Early Mahāyāna Buddhism." 2 vols. PhD diss., University of Toronto, 1976. | This dissertation is a study of the Ugraparipṛcchāsūtra. It contains preliminary translations of the three extant Chinese versions of the text. According to Jan Nattier, it was never published and is unavailable through University Microfilms. | University of Toronto | 6 July 2021 18:51:05 | |
A Study of the Ṡikṣasamuccaya of Āchārya Shāntideva | Johnston, P. G. "A Study of the Ṡikṣasamuccaya of Āchārya Shāntideva." BA Honors thesis. College Year in India Program Fieldwork Projects. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1975. | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 24 May 2021 18:35:26 | ||
The Buddhist Roots of Secular Compassion Training: A Comparative Study of Compassion Cultivation in Indian and Tibetan Mahāyāna Sources with the Contemporary Secular Program of Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) | Stenzel, Julia Caroline. "The Buddhist Roots of Secular Compassion Training: A Comparative Study of Compassion Cultivation in Indian and Tibetan Mahāyāna Sources with the Contemporary Secular Program of Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT)." PhD diss., McGill University, 2018. https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/downloads/wm117r14g?locale=en. | Abstract This dissertation is a comparative analysis of compassion cultivation in Indo-Tibetan Mahāyāna Buddhist contexts and the recent phenomenon of secular, Buddhism-derived compassion training in North America, exemplified by one of the most prominent programs to date, the Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) developed at Stanford University. | McGill University | 4 May 2021 00:01:10 | |
A Dialogue between Thomas Merton on Agape and Shantideva on Karuna: Some Moral Dimensions of a Catholic and Mahayana Exchange | Lam, Raymond Sze Hon H. "A Dialogue between Thomas Merton on Agape and Shantideva on Karuna: Some Moral Dimensions of a Catholic and Mahayana Exchange." BA Honors thesis, University of Queensland, 2009. | Abstract This thesis contends that Thomas Merton's agape (1915 –1968) and Shantideva's karuna (8th century C.E.) have a strong affinity through the moral dimensions of what are referred to as unconditional kindness, positive ethics, and deep empathy. It is seeking to contribute a new perspective to the study of religious ethics by comparing the moral thought of two influential personages in a hermeneutic exercise. It aims to demonstrate that Shantideva's philosophy on Buddhist karuna enters a realm of common moral rapport with Merton's treatment of Christian agape. | University of Queensland | 30 April 2021 19:56:41 | |
Candragomin and the Bodhisattva Vow | Tatz, Mark Joseph. "Candragomin and the Bodhisattva Vow." PhD diss., University of British Columbia, 1978. https://archive.org/details/candragominbodhisattvavowmarkjosephtatzthesis_965_Y/mode/2up. | Abstract This dissertation presents, in two parts, a study of the life and works of the Indian Buddhist philosopher, teacher and litterateur Candragomin, and the study and translation of his own and associated treatises on the bodhisattva vow. | University of British Columbia | 28 April 2021 15:43:31 | |
'Ju Mi Pham On Pure Land Doctrine And Practice | Cook, Lowell. "'Ju Mi Pham On Pure Land Doctrine And Practice". MA Thesis, Rangjung Yeshe Institute, Center for Buddhis Studies, Kathmandu University, 2016. | The present study looks at self-power and other-power in a Tibetan Buddhist context. The tension between self-power and other-power concerns the mechanism behind rebirth in the pure land Sukhāvati; that is, whether rebirth is achieved through one’s own volition (self-power) or, conversely, through an external force such as the supernatural powers of Amitābha (other-power). Self-power and other-power are discussed at length in Japanese Buddhist Studies where they are called jiriki and tariki, respectively, and even has some distant parallels in Christian theology (namely, works and grace). Nevertheless, these two terms have gone unmentioned in Tibetan Buddhist literature. The only Tibetan author to my knowledge to explicitly discuss self-power and other-power is the ecumenical scholar-practitioner ’Ju mi pham (1846-1912) in his work, Sun-like Instructions of a Sage: A Clarification of Faith which Purifies the Pure Land, the Land of Bliss (Bde ba can gyi zhing sbyong ba’i dad pa gsal bar byed pa drang srong lung gi nyi ma). This fourteen-folio treatise affirms that faith and aspiration (dad ’dun) are the primary cause(s) for rebirth in Sukhāvati and defends this position in a series of polemics against detractors of other-power. I engaged with the text Sun-like Instructions of a Sage in three different modes: textual interpretation, philology, and translation. Part one, the textual analysis, required that I first place the text within its historical and literary contexts. To do this, I first delineated the historical developments of Pure Land Buddhism via the rise of Mahāyāna in India and the unique pure land innovations that took place in Tibet. Next, the genres of scripture that deal with pure land themes were discussed. After this, an in-depth analysis of Mi pham’s treatise ensued. In part two, philology, I defend the use of critical editions and prepare a critical edition of Sun-like Instructions of a Sage based on four editions (Appendix B). Finally, in part three, translation, I offer an annotated English translation of Sun-like Instructions of a Sage based on the newly edited critical edition. (ABSTRACT) | Rangjung Yeshe Institute | 26 April 2021 22:19:48 | |
Experience and Morality: Buddhist Ethics as Moral Phenomenology | Aitken, Daniel Timothy. "Experience and Morality: Buddhist Ethics as Moral Phenomenology." PhD diss., University of Tasmania, 2016. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/23404/1/Aitken_whole_thesis.pdf. | No abstract given. The following are the first relevant paragraphs: The Buddhist canon contains a substantial amount of material that treats the subject matter of ethics. Topics addressed in these texts include how we should live our lives, how we should treat others, classifications of right and wrong actions, and the articulation of virtues to be cultivated and vices to be avoided. The abundance of Buddhist material treating ethical issues even led O.H. de A. Wijesekera (1971) to make the grandiose claim, "It is universally recognized that Buddhism can claim to be the most ethical of all religio-philosophical systems of the world" (p. 49). Charles Goodman (2009) describes Buddhist ethics with its emphasis on non-violence and compassion as one of most appealing parts of the teachings of Buddhism. He writes, "Many people have drawn inspiration from Buddhism's emphasis on compassion, non-violence, and tolerance, its concern for animals, and its models of virtue and self-cultivation" (p. 1). Damien Keown (1992) even argues that Buddhism itself is foremost an ethical project: "Buddhism is a response to what is fundamentally an ethical problem—the perennial problem of the best kind of life for a man (sic) to lead" (p. 1). | University of Tasmania | 9 April 2021 21:13:27 | |
The Bodhisattva and the Ideal of Moral Wisdom in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya | Bastien, Leigh Ann. "The Bodhisattva and the Ideal of Moral Wisdom in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya." MA thesis, McMaster University, 1982. https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/bitstream/11375/10591/1/fulltext.pdf. | Abstract In the Śikṣāsamuccaya Śāntideva, a Mādhyamika philosopher of the early eighth century A.D., builds upon the philosophy of śūnyatā (emptiness) to demonstrate its practical implications in religious life. In his portrayal of the Bodhisattva Śāntideva focuses on this religious hero's ascent from imperfection toward the realisation of prajñāpāramitā, the perfection of wisdom. Wisdom, philosophically the end of all false ideas about reality, in the sphere of behaviour is an ethical ideal characterised by compassion and altruism. The Bodhisattva is one who has mastered wisdom and whose conduct is permeated with this ethical ideal. Śāntideva's presentation of the Bodhisattva is not limited to the ideal, but also explores the many levels of achievement through which an aspiring novice-Bodhisattva must progress toward fulfilment of the ideal. Though Śāntideva refers to certain levels in a Bodhisattva's development and to certain turning points in his career these factors as presented in the Śikṣā do not explain how Śāntideva understands the novice-Bodhisattva in terms of the ideal. The concept of bodhicitta, the thought of enlightenment which all Bodhisattvas possess, parallels in its development with the Bodhisattva's development, and as a possible equivalent to wisdom itself serves to link the imperfect to the ideal. Śāntideva's use of comparison between the imperfect and the ideal suggests that his presentation of the Bodhisattva is designed to encourage novice-Bodhisattvas to strive for perfection. The themes of teaching, example, and purpose indicate that Śāntideva's understanding of the Bodhisattva and wisdom involves the idea of the Bodhisattva's function, as the link through which the ideal of moral perfection and wisdom has effect in the imperfect world. | McMaster University | 9 April 2021 18:14:45 | |
A Critical Study of Ācārya Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra (diss) | Parashar, Narain Chand. "A Critical Study of Ācārya Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra." PhD diss., University of Delhi, 1999. | University of Delhi | 7 April 2021 20:01:45 | ||
A Selfless Response to an Illusory World: A Comparative Study of Śāntideva and Śaṅkara | Todd, Warren Lee. "A Selfless Response to an Illusory World: A Comparative Study of Śāntideva and Śaṅkara." PhD diss., Lancaster University, 2012. https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/61623/1/Warren_Todd.pdf. | Abstract This thesis compares the ethical theories of two 8th century Indian philosophers, Śāntideva and Śaṅkara. In order to construct their ethics from philosophical premises, a metaphysical approach has been taken. A comparison of these two philosophers has never been made, nor has there been any major comparative study of the ethics of their two traditions, Indian Madhyamaka Buddhism and Advaita Vedānta. In opening the way for further comparisons between these two schools, I wish to question the manner in which scholars have consistently divided them along self/non-self (ātman/anātman) lines. The key to the comparison is thus the notion of individuated self (jīva) rather than the less personal ātman. | Lancaster University | 5 April 2021 15:48:04 | |
Tantric Buddhist Apologetics or Antinomianism as a Norm | Onians, Isabelle. “Tantric Buddhist Apologetics or Antinomianism as a Norm.” PhD diss., Oxford University, 2002. | University of Oxford | 31 March 2021 16:22:07 | ||
The Circle of Compassion: An Interpretive Study of Karuṇā in Indian Buddhist Literature | Jenkins, Stephen Lynn. "The Circle of Compassion: An Interpretive Study of Karuṇā in Indian Buddhist Literature." PhD diss., Harvard University, 1999. | Abstract This is a study of compassion in the non-tantric literature of Indian Buddhism focused on whether it is correctly characterized as self-abnegating altruism. Because the meanings of concepts like karuṇā, anukampā, and maitrī overlap and dominant terms tend to subsume the meanings of others, this study works with a broad sense of compassion as empathetic sensitivity. It brings to light the strong presence of themes of interpretation that emphasize the circular complementarity of benefiting oneself and benefiting others. This pattern holds even in apparent examples of extreme self-sacrifice and places doubt on assessments of Indian Buddhist ethics as self-abnegating. | Harvard University | 29 March 2021 23:08:24 | |
A Summons to Buddhahood: The Bodhicaryavatara as Santideva's Call to Embrace the Bodhicitta | Jack, Anthony Abraham. "A Summons to Buddhahood: The Bodhicaryavatara as Santideva's Call to Embrace the Bodhicitta." BA Honors thesis, Amherst College, 2007. | Amherst College | 22 March 2021 21:43:11 | ||
Buddhist Mereological Analysis in the Milindapañhā, Vasubandhu's Twenty Verses, and Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra | Falls, Edward Ray. "Buddhist Mereological Analysis in the Milindapañhā, Vasubandhu's Twenty Verses, and Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra." MA thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005. | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 15 March 2021 22:50:18 | ||
The Relationship between Morality and the Body in Monastic Training according to the Śikṣāsamuccaya | Mrozik, Susanne Petra. "The Relationship between Morality and the Body in Monastic Training according to the Śikṣāsamuccaya." PhD diss., Harvard University, 1998. | Abstract Where do we locate the effects of monastic training? Are these located primarily in the interior of a person's psyche or on the exterior of the body? This thesis argues that according to the Śikṣāsamuccaya, a Sanskrit Buddhist compendium of monastic discipline, virtue is as much a feature of the body as it is an inner quality—a perception which has wide resonance in the Buddhist literature of many schools. Morality is persistently associated with the body in this text. Beings are adorned or perfumed with virtue; likewise they are disfigured by sin or reek with the stench of their immoral conduct. | Harvard University | 11 March 2021 02:10:27 | |
MindFulness in Santideva's Siksasamuccaya | Jamieson, Robert Craig. "MindFulness in Santideva's Siksasamuccaya." MA thesis, University of London (King's College), 1979. | University of London | 10 March 2021 23:58:40 | ||
Bodhicitta and Bodhisattva: A Study of the Bodhicaryāvatāra of Śāntideva | Matics, Marion L. "Bodhicitta and Bodhisattva: A Study of the Bodhicaryāvatāra of Śāntideva." PhD diss., Columbia University, 1960. | Columbia University | 10 March 2021 18:41:52 | ||
Selfhood and the Metaphysics of Altruism | Maroufkhani, Kevin Perry. "Selfhood and the Metaphysics of Altruism." PhD diss., University of Hawai'i, Manoa, 2017. | Abstract Altruistic and greater-good considerations are not only fundamental aspects of ethical maturity, but also a basic means for coming to know each other. Rational egoism (the view that practical rationality requires some form of personal pay-off for the goal-driven agent) is not so easily snubbed, nor has it fallen terribly out of fashion in the social sciences and economics. I argue that it is not a truism that altruism is less natural than egocentrism for an ordinary self. It is false. I aim to reconceive the problem that altruistic considerations seem less rational than justified, egocentric considerations. I conclude that the self can identify with subjectivity as such, and thereby advance the interests of a "we-self." While epistemically distant, the "we-self" is ontologically prior to the ego. | University of Hawai'i, Manoa | 23 February 2021 16:36:05 | |
Le commentaire de Mi-pham au chapitre IX du Bodhicaryāvatāra de Śāntideva: Échos modernes d'une controverse du XVème siècle | Arguillère, Stéphane. "Le commentaire de Mi-pham au chapitre IX du Bodhicaryāvatāra de Śāntideva: Échos modernes d'une controverse du XVème siècle." PhD diss., Université Paris-Sorbonne, 1994. | Le preśent travail comporte une version française couvrant les deux premier tiers du commentaire de 'Jam-mgon 'Ju Mi-pham rNam-rgyal rGya-mtsbo (1846-1912) au neuvième chapitre du Bodhicaryāvatāra de Śāntideva, commentaire intitulé Shes-rab kyi le'u'i tshig don go sla-bar rnam-par bshad-pa Nor-bu Ketaka. L'auteur est l'un des philosophes tibétains les plus illustres de l'époque récente, bien que son œuvre ait rencontré beaucoup d'adversité et soit encore dédaignée par certain. Mais cette célébrité serait à elle seule un motif bien futile pour nous faire consentir l'effort de le lire. Il faut donc, dans un premier temps, exposer les raison du choix de ce texte comme objet de cette recherche. (Arguillère, introduction, 1) | Université Paris-Sorbonne | 18 February 2021 00:35:34 | |
Gleichheit und Mitgefühl: Prajñākaramatis Kommentar zu Bodhicaryāvatāra VIII. 89-108 | Gruber, Hans Michael. "Gleichheit und Mitgefühl: Prajñākaramatis Kommentar zu Bodhicaryāvatāra VIII. 89-108." MA thesis, University of Hamburg, 1988. | This is Hans Michael Gruber's MA thesis from the University of Hamburg (1988) titled "Equality and Compassion: Prajñākaramati's Commentary on Bodhicaryāvatāra VIII. 89–108" (Gleichheit und Mitgefühl: Prajñākaramatis Kommentar zu Bodhicaryāvatāra VIII. 89-108). | Universität Hamburg | 12 February 2021 18:32:26 | |
Ethics in the Śikṣāsamuccaya: A Study in Mahāyāna Morality | Clayton, Barbra R. "Ethics in the Śikṣāsamuccaya: A Study in Mahāyāna Morality." PhD diss., McGill University, 2001. | Abstract This dissertation examines the ethics of Śāntideva, an Indian Mahāyāna Buddhist thinker of the seventh century CE, particularly through his work, the Śikṣāsamuccaya (Compendium of Teaching). This study therefore helps redress a significant imbalance in the scholarship on Buddhist ethics, which has up to now focused primarily on the morality of the Theravada Buddhist tradition. The dissertation incorporates both descriptive and metaethical analyses to answer three questions: What is Śāntideva's moral theory, and how does it compare with other characterizations of Buddhist ethics? Can one moral theory adequately describe Buddhist moral traditions? | McGill University | 12 February 2021 17:40:28 | |
Śāntideva and Kant: An East-West Comparative Study in Ethics | Bacrǎu, Andrei-Valentin. "Śāntideva and Kant: An East-West Comparative Study in Ethics." MA thesis, Nālandā University, 2019. | Abstract For the past few decades, Buddhism has become a trending academic topic in Western departments, in religious studies as well as philosophy. This thesis is concerned with the way in which the domain of Buddhist ethics has been discussed and is developing, particularly in the field of comparative studies. Since one of the core doctrines of Buddhism is
no-self, the "anātman", Western scholars have shied away from making positive claims over the nature of moral agency and ethical reasoning in Buddhism. The purpose of this thesis is to analyse and discuss the extent to which we can understand, contextualise and explain Buddhist ethics from the lens of Western philosophical concepts and traditions. Specifically, this thesis parallels Kant's system with Buddhism. This thesis is going to be broadly addressing some thematic aspects in the Buddhist philosophy of Śāntideva and the Mādhyamaka tradition he belongs to, as well as how Buddhist ethics he developed have emerged from the Mādhyamaka theoretical framework. The first chapter will look at the tools of reasoning Mādhyamikas use to justify their metaphysical claims of an ontological dualism, illustrated by the doctrine of conventional and ultimate truths, respectively.[1] Some of the main arguments that defend the
conventional-ultimate distinction shall be placed in a dialogue with Kantian metaphysics. Notes
| Nālandā University | 11 February 2021 23:06:53 | |
Of the Progresse of the Bodhisattva: The Bodhisattvamārga in the Śikṣāsamuccaya | Mahoney, Richard. "Of the Progresse of the Bodhisattva: The Bodhisattvamārga in the Śikṣāsamuccaya." MA thesis, University of Canterbury, 2002. | Abstract
The Buddha is credited with clearly and succinctly expounding the Buddhist path (mārga). Despite the eloquence and brevity of the Buddha's exposition, the corpus of Buddhist scriptures explaining the path is prolix.
It is asserted in this paper, then, that Ś considers the unsurpassed and perfect enlightenment of the Buddha attained by the practice of complete giving (sarvadāna ≡ sarvotsarjana) and complete giving attained by the practice of the right strivings. This conception of the way of the bohisattva is represented in Figure 7.1[5] and in more detail in Figure 7.2[6]. Notes
| University of Canterbury | 8 February 2021 20:09:05 | |
Ethics in Schopenhauer and Buddhism | Hutton, Kenneth. "Ethics in Schopenhauer and Buddhism." PhD diss., University of Glasgow, 2008. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/912/1/2009huttonphd.pdf. | Abstract In the following thesis I outline Schopenhauer’s ethics in its metaphysical context and in contrast to ethics based on egoism. I look at criticisms of Schopenhauer’s philosophy which have emerged quite recently, and some of which (if valid) would undermine Schopenhauer’s compassion-based moral theory. I have explained these criticisms and offered a defence of Schopenhauer. In order to take up Schopenhauer’s claim of affinity with Buddhist philosophy, I outline first of all early Buddhist then Mahāyāna ethics focusing on the latter’s central idea of compassion. | University of Glasgow | 15 January 2021 22:15:13 | |
Stotra, Psychological Conditioning, and the Bodhicaryāvatāra: Together with a Translation of the Bodhicittānuśaṃsapariccheda | Thomas, Paul. "Stotra, Psychological Conditioning, and the Bodhicaryāvatāra: Together with a Translation of the Bodhicittānuśaṃsapariccheda." MA thesis, Center for Buddhist Studies, Kathmandu University, 2014. | Abstract The Bodhicaryāvatāra has been studied by modern scholars from a number of angles; however, one aspect of it has been neglected: its practical use as a tool for Mahāyāna Buddhist practitioners. Buddhist literature has often been used as a tool for the process of bhāvanā ("meditation" or "cultivation"), a term which refers to a process of deliberate cultivation of specific attitudes such as renunciation or compassion. The Bodhicaryāvatāra is a typical example of such a text that is intended to be used a tool in this process. Furthermore, its first chapter, entitled the Bodhicittānuśaṃsapariccheda ("The Chapter on the Benefits of Bodhicitta"), in addition to being a tool for bhāvanā, is basically a short praise to bodhicitta and bodhisattvas. Thus it is to some extent an example of the genre of stotra ("(generally religious) praise"), which is a genre of Sanskrit literature ubiquitous in all Indian religious traditions as far back as we have documentation. In Part I I examine the way in which the genre of stotra fits into the more general use of literature as a tool of mental cultivation, with particular focus on the Bodhicittānuśaṃsapariccheda. I show that genres such as stotra are intimately linked with other less overtly ritualistic Indian religious literature in terms of their role in praxis, particularly the process of bhāvanā. I also show the way in which this relationship involves the concept of puṇya, or "merit," which figures in both the process of bhāvanā and in the genre of stotra. Part II consists of a translation of the first chapter of the only surviving commentary on the Bodhicaryāvatāra, Prajñākaramati's pañjikā. | Kathmandu University | 14 January 2021 18:45:56 | |
Virtues-Pāramitās: St. Ignatius of Loyola and Śāntideva as Companions on the Way of Life | Spiranec, Tomislav. "Virtues/Pāramitās: St. Ignatius of Loyola and Śāntideva as Companions on the Way of Life." STD diss., Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, Berkeley, California, 2018. | Abstract This dissertation conducts a comparative study of the cultivation of the virtues in Catholic spiritual tradition and the perfections (pāramitās) in the Mahāyāna Buddhist traditions in view of the spiritual needs of contemporary Croatian young adults. The comparison is carried out through the exploration of two key texts: The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, a sixteenth-century Basque Catholic, and the founder of the Society of Jesus, and The Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicaryāvatāra) of Śāntideva, an eight-century Indian Mahāyāna monk. | Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University | 14 January 2021 17:54:28 | |
Santideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra | Nyanawara, U. "Santideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra." MA thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2004. | Abstract The purpose of this paper is to study 'Santideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra.' I do not explore it in detail, but rather in general. The legendary biography of Santideva is included. The role of the text, Bodhicaryavātāra, and remarks on the text, made by various scholars throughout history, are also mentioned. The meaning of bodhi or bodhisattva is clarified to some degree. The bodhicaryas, the ways of the Bodhisattvas, are explained, such as Bodhicitta, the awakening mind; Pāramitās, perfections; and Bodhisattva-bhūmis, the stages of Bodhisattva. | California State University, Long Beach | 14 January 2021 00:25:47 | |
Love in Christianity and Buddhism: A Comparative Study of Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae and Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra | Gu, Rouyan. "Love in Christianity and Buddhism: A Comparative Study of Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae and Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra." PhD diss., The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2019. | Abstract Through comparing Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae with Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra, this study makes use of the distinction between "human love" and "divine love" as a conceptual framework to study about love in Christian and Buddhist traditions. In Chapter 1, I defined the meaning of divine love and human love, dividing the latter into human love1 and human love2. The former emphasizes aspects such as desire, sentiments, and personal benefit, while the latter emphasizes aspects such as benevolence and altruism. Chapter 2 introduced the reader to the terminologies of love seen in the Summa Theologiae and the Bodhicaryāvatāra in order to highlight the different types of love found in Christianity and Mahayana Buddhism. In Chapter 3, I discussed Aquinas's fourfold categorization of love: amor, dilectio, caritas, and misericordia. And I advance an interpretation of the relationship between these different kinds of love. Chapter 4 is about Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra, its Mahayanist compassion, and altruistic spirit. I also discuss Śāntideva's view of worldly love; he emphatically promotes that practitioners abandon worldly love in order to embrace the Bodhisattva ideal of compassion. By comparing Aquinas and Śāntideva’s accounts of love, chapter 5 illustrates how Buddhism illuminates Christianity regarding the relation between divine love and human love, and, how Christianity illuminates Buddhism regarding the relation between self-love and altruism. I conclude this dissertation by drawing out some major differences regarding the relationship between divine love and human love in Christian and Buddhist traditions and the implications for interpreting their religious goals and experience. This study carries an in-depth study of love in a wider context of Christian and Buddhist traditions. Based on the methodology of “reciprocal illumination” and dialoguing with the interdisciplinary studies on love, its findings contribute to the Christian-Buddhist studies/comparison in particular and the comparative philosophy of religions in general. | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | 13 January 2021 21:12:59 | |
The Self and the Suffering Other: Levinas and Śāntideva on the Ethics of Compassion | Edelglass, William. "The Self and the Suffering Other: Levinas and Śāntideva on the Ethics of Compassion." PhD diss., Emory University, 2004. https://search.proquest.com/openview/b54f906acd6c17eedd6fa816807b260d/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y. | Abstract Grounded in the work of Emmanuel Levinas and Śāntideva, this thesis is an exploration of the tension between the call of the suffering other and the care for the self. I argue that the asymmetrical ethics of compassion that prioritizes the suffering of the other over the concerns of the self is at the heart of Levinas's philosophy. While defending Levinas's understanding of the asymmetrical character of ethics, I have looked elsewhere for a solution to the problematic violence of Levinasian ethical subjectivity, in which the self is perpetually guilty, traumatized by the inescapable burden of a responsibility it cannot fulfill. To address this violence towards self while maintaining the asymmetrical ethics of compassion, I have drawn on Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra. Śāntideva’s account of subjectivity and ethics indicates a path of self-cultivation that develops compassionate attention to the suffering other. I have described and analyzed this path, emphasizing how it addresses the deepest needs of the self while simultaneously enabling a greater sensibility to the suffering of others and a greater capacity for the alleviation of their distress. | Emory University | 13 January 2021 19:02:36 | |
The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra (Diss) | Brassard, Francis. "The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra." PhD diss., McGill University, 1996. | Abstract This thesis is a contribution to the study of the interpretation of the concept of bodhicitta. This concept is a technical term of frequent occurrence in Buddhist Sanskrit literature. Within the Mahāyāna Buddhist tradition, bodhicitta is closely related to the spiritual practices of the Buddhist aspirant to enlightenment. Specifically researched is Śāntideva’s use of this concept in his Bodhicaryāvatāra, a text known to have been composed around the 8th century. The form of this study is as follows: first, a survey of the various interpretations of the concept of bodhicitta suggested so far; secondly, an analysis of its possible functions in the context of the spiritual path of the aspirant to enlightenment; thirdly, a discussion of what I believe to be an appropriate understanding of bodhicitta. An argument will be made that the path to realization consists in cultivating an awareness of the reality described by the concept of bodhicitta. Such cultivation should bring one to the realization that what is described by it is indeed the only possible reality. This means that bodhicitta is the means to as well as the description of the goal to attain. | McGill University | 12 January 2021 22:48:25 | |
Accessing Tibetan Tathāgatagarbha Interpretations based on The Ratnagotravibhāga | Burchardi, Anne. "Accessing Tibetan Tathāgatagarbha Interpretations based on The Ratnagotravibhāga." Unsubmitted PhD diss., University of Copenhagen, 2001. | Abstract Buddha Nature or Tathāgatagarbha is a complex phenomenon that has been the subject of discussion in Buddhist cultures for centuries. This study presents for the first time a survey of the extent of Tibetan commentarial literature based upon the Indian Tathāgatagarbha Śāstra, the Ratnagotravibhāga, as well as a comparison of passages of Tibetan interpretations upon The Three Reasons given for the presence of Tathāgatagarbha in the Ratnagotravibhāga. Furthermore, attention is drawn to the inconsistencies regarding the dating, authorship, structure and content of this source text within the Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan traditions. Thereby the present study addresses primarily the need for an overview of the Tibetan commentarial literature upon this important Śāstra, by surveying more than forty Tibetan commentaries. This survey will facilitate contextualization of future studies of the individual commentaries. Secondarily it addresses the need for documentation and interpretation of precise concepts and arguments, by presenting line for line comparison of passages of interpretations by four different authors, Rngog Blo ldan shes rab (1059-1109), Dol po pa shes rab rgyal mtshan (1292-1361), Rgyal tshab dar ma rin chen (1364-1432) and Mi pham phyogs las rnam rgyal (1846-1912). This comparison will trace divergent traditions of Tathāgatagarbha interpretation based on the Ratnagotravibhāga in Tibet. It becomes apparent that the main divergence in these four authors' Tathāgatagarbha exegesis hinges on their interpretation of Dharmakāya and the role it plays as the first supporting reason for the presence of Tathāgatagarbha. Where some interpret Tathāgatagarbha as being "empty", others maintain that it is "full of qualities", apparent contradictions that however, are based upon the same scriptural passages of the source text, the Ratnagotravibhāga. That the ambiguous nature of the source text accommodates such seemingly contradictory interpretations should be kept in mind when studying Tibetan interpretations so as to avoid dismissal of certain interpretations in favour of others. The aim of the present study is to provide a structural framework for accessing Tibetan Tathāgatagarbha interpretations based on the Ratnagotravibhāga that surveys their extent and documents their nature. The study may thus contribute to a broader understanding of Tibetan literature in general and of Buddha Nature interpretation in particular. | University of Copenhagen | 16 December 2020 23:27:06 | |
Thought of Buddha Nature as Depicted in the Laṅkāvatārasūtra | Sy, Nguyen Dac. "Thought of Buddha Nature as Depicted in the Laṅkāvatārasūtra." PhD diss., University of Delhi, 2012. https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/28355. | Abstract 1. Evolution of the Buddha-nature Concept Structurally, therefore, excluding the introduction and conclusion, the thesis consists of six major chapters in accordance with the above six main themes respectively. | University of Delhi | 11 November 2020 18:33:07 | |
Tao-sheng's Commentary on the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka-Sūtra: A Study and Translation | Kim, Young-ho. "Tao-sheng's Commentary on the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka-Sūtra: A Study and Translation." PhD diss., McMaster University, 1985. | Abstract This dissertation provides a comprehensive study and complete translation of Tao-sheng's Commentary on the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka-sūtra (CSPS). This document occupies an important place in Chinese Buddhist literature. Its significance in the study of Chinese Buddhism can be described in two ways. Firstly, the CSPS was the first commentary ever written on the Lotus Sūtra, which was to become a scripture of fundamental importance on the Far Eastern Buddhist scene, especially for the later Chinese Buddhist schools. Furthermore, it was the first commentary on any Buddhist scripture that was written in Chinese and structured in fully developed commentarial form. The CSPS set a pattern in many ways for later Buddhists to follow in terms of both structure and ideology. | McMaster University | 3 September 2020 18:05:40 | |
A Socio-Historical Study of the Kingdom of Sde-dge (Derge, Kham) in the Late Nineteenth Century: Ris-med Views of Alliance and Authority | Hartley, Lauran Ruth. "A Socio-Historical Study of the Kingdom Of Sde Dge (Derge, Kham) In The Late Nineteenth Century: Ris Med Views Of Alliance And Authority." M.A. thesis, Indiana University, 1997. | This thesis seeks to broaden our understanding of religio-political alliances in Tibet beyond the more sectarian view that arises by generalizing from historical developments in Central Tibet. Specifically, I discuss the sociopolitical situation in during the 19th century in the eastern Tibetan kingdom of Sde-dge (Derge, Kham). This case study provides an example of religio-political alliance at the local level which cannot be grasped by a model that highlights a single sectarian affiliation. On the contrary, one strategy for securing rule in Sde-dge was precisely for the king NOT to maintain an exclusive relationship with one tradition, but to form close ties with monasteries of different traditions. The thesis also examines the Rgyal po'i lugs kyi bstan bcos [Treatise on how a king should rule], written by 'Ju Mi pham rgya mtsho (Mipham) for the king of Sde-dge in 1895. | Indiana University | 30 July 2020 17:46:53 | |
A Study of Yogācāric Influence on Tathāgatagarbha Doctrine as Found in Laṅkāvatārasūtra | Hsiao, Mei. "A Study of Yogācāric Influence on Tathāgatagarbha Doctrine as Found in Laṅkāvatārasūtra." PhD diss., University of Calgary, 2008. https://archive.org/details/yogacharastudyofyogacaricinfluenceontathagatagarbhadoctrineasfoundinlankavatarasutrameihsiaothe_179_w/mode/2up. | Abstract Through a close examination on three Sanskrit compounds — i.e., tathāgatanairātmyagarbha, tathāgatagarbhālayavijñāna and pariniṣpannasvabhāvas tathāgatagarbhahṛdayam — in the Laṅkāvatārasūtra, this thesis will demonstrate how the tathāgatagarbha thought in the Laṅkāvatārasūtra is significantly enriched by Yogācāric influence. | University of Calgary | 13 July 2020 15:24:45 | |
Tathāgatagarbha Doctrine according to the Gzhan Stong Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhāga (Dissertation) | Hookham, S. K. "Tathāgatagarbha Doctrine according to the Gzhan Stong Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhāga." PhD diss., University of Oxford, 1986. | Abstract This thesis aims to establish a comprehensible model of the gZhan stong interpretation of Tathāgatagarbha doctrine as found in the Ratnagotravibhāga, according to gZhan stong commentators such as Dol po pa (1292-1361), Mi bskyod rdo rje (1507-54), Kong Sprul (1813-1899) and living Tibetan experts on that doctrine such as the bKa' brgyud Lamas Khenpo Tsultrim and Thrangu Rimpoche. The thesis shows the contrasting versions of Tathāgatagarbha doctrine existent in the Tibetan tradition. It draws especially on Kong sprul's explanations in his introduction to his commentary on the Ratnagotravibhāga. In section 2 this introduction is translated in full with extensive footnotes. Kong sprul's view is contrasted with that of Dol po pa, who was the first to popularize the name of gZhan stong for Tathāgatagarbha doctrine in Tibet. It is the author's hope that this thesis will help not only to correct Tibetan and Western misunderstandings of Dol po pa's gZhan stong, but will contribute to establishing him in his rightful place as one of Tibet's greatest exponents of Tathāgatagarbha doctrine. Section three paraphrases the whole of the Ratnagotravibhāga and its Vyākhyā from the gZhan stong point of view. This means that Tathāgatagarbha and Dhātu are interpreted as the Absolute non-dual Jñāna. This is in contrast to the Rang stong interpretation, which is that it is mere emptiness of self-nature. Among ancillary topics discussed are the Great Madhyamaka as described in Kong sprul's Shes bya kun khyab; Absolute versus relative Cittamātra as discussed by Dol po pa in his Ri chos; and the gZhan stong view that the third Dharmacakra is Nitartha and that the Nitartha is found both in the general teachings of the Absolute Dhātu, such as the Saṅdhinirmocanasūtra, and in the specific teachings on the Tathāgatagarbha complete with the inseparable Buddha Qualities, such as the Śrīmālādevīsūtra. | Oxford University Press | 10 July 2020 19:54:04 | |
The Buddha Nature: A Study of the Tathāgatagarbha and Ālayavijñāna (Dissertation) | Brown, Brian Edward. "The Buddha Nature: A Study of the Tathāgatagarbha and Ālayavijñāna." PhD diss., Fordham University, 1981. | Abstract The present dissertation identifies the ontological presuppositions and the corresponding soteriological-epistemological principles that sustain and define the Mahāyāna Buddhist belief in the inherent potentiality of all animate beings to attain the supreme and perfect enlightenment of Buddhahood. More specifically, the study establishes a coherent metaphysic of Absolute Suchness (Tathatā), synthesizing the variant traditions of the Tathāgata-embryo (Tathāgatagarbha) and the Storehouse Consciousness (Ālayavijñāna). | Fordham University | 10 July 2020 17:03:19 | |
The Active Self: A Philosophical Study of the "Buddha Nature Treatise" and Other Chinese Buddhist Texts | King, Sallie B. "The Active Self: A Philosophical Study of the 'Buddha Nature Treatise' and Other Chinese Buddhist Texts." PhD diss., Temple University, 1981. | Buddha nature is the Thusness revealed by the twin
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Chibeto ni okeru hōshōron no juyō to tenkai | Kano, Kazuo. "Chibeto ni okeru hōshōron no juyō to tenkai" (On the Acceptance and Development of the Ratnagotravibhāga in Tibet). MA thesis, University of Kyoto, 2001. | Kyoto University | 8 July 2020 16:33:46 | ||
Sanskrit Grammatical Literature in Tibet | Verhagen, Pieter C. "Sanskrit Grammatical Literature in Tibet." PhD diss. University of Leiden, 1991. | Universiteit Leiden | 10 June 2020 06:34:25 | ||
A Study of Dharmakīrti's Pramāṇavārttika: An English Translation and Annotation of the Pramāṇavārttika Book I | Nagatomi, Masatoshi. "A Study of Dharmakīrti's Pramāṇavārttika: An English Translation and Annotation of the Pramāṇavārttika Book I." PhD diss. Harvard University, 1957. | Harvard University | 4 June 2020 06:59:34 | ||
The Ālayavijñāna in the Context of Indian Buddhist Thought: The Yogācāra Conception of an Unconscious | Waldron, William S. "The Ālayavijñāna in the Context of Indian Buddhist Thought: The Yogācāra Conception of an Unconscious." PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990. | Abstract The thesis focuses on the relations between mind and karma and the continuity of life in saṃsāra based upon a concept of mind, the ālayavijñāna, as presented in the texts of Asaṅga and Vasubandhu of the Yogācāra school of Indian Buddhism, A.D. 4-5th centuries. It has been the topic of many sectarian disputes as well as the springboard for several far-reaching doctrinal developments, so it is desirable to examine it within its early Indian Buddhist context. The first section presents the multivalent viññāṇa of the Pali Canon and related concepts. It demonstrates that the major characteristics later predicated of the ālayavijñāna were present in an unsystematized but implicit form in the viññāṇa of the early discourses. The next section describes the systematic psychological analysis developed by the Abhidharma and its consequent problematics. It argues that the incongruity of Abhidharmic analysis with the older unsystematized doctrines led to major theoretical problems concerning the key concepts of kleśa and karma, to which the Sautrāntika school offered the concept of seeds (bija). The third section, based primarily upon the texts translated herein, depicts the origination and gradual development of the ālayavijñāna within the Yogācāra school from a somatic "life principle", to an explicitly unconscious mind, to its final bifurcation into an unconscious afflicted mind (kliṣṭa-manas) and a passive respository of karmic seeds, the latent loci of kleśa and karma, respectively. The last section compares the ālayavijñāna systematically with Freud's and Jung's concepts of the unconscious, concluding that their respective philosophical milieus led both traditions to conceptions of unconscious mental processes as necessary compensations for strictly intentional epistemological models. In the appendix the major texts presenting the ālayavijñāna, Chaps. V and VIII.37 of the Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra, part of the Viniścaya-saṃgrahaṇī of the Yogācārabhūmi, and Ch. 1 of the Mahāyāna-saṃgraha, are translated and extensively annotated in order to contextualize the minutiae of this concept of mind with its canonical precursors and its Abhidharmic contemporaries. (Source: ProQuest) | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2 June 2020 17:27:53 | |
Mipham Gyatso Rinpoche’s ‘Makeover’ of Hwashang Moheyan | Jitta, Yanneke J. “Mipham Gyatso Rinpoche’s ‘Makeover’ of Hwashang Moheyan". Master’s thesis, Rangjung Yeshe Institute / Kathmandu University, 2015. | Rangjung Yeshe Institute Kathmandu University | 2 June 2020 09:43:01 | ||
The Translation and Introduction to the First Two Chapters of the mDzod ’Grel mNgon pa’i rGyan by mChim ’Jam pa’i dbYangs | Coghlan, Ian. "The Translation and Introduction to the First Two Chapters of the mDzod ’Grel mNgon pa’i rGyan by mChim ’Jam pa’i dbYangs". PhD diss., La Trobe University, 2002. | La Trobe University | 1 June 2020 10:00:02 | ||
Wǒnhyo's Commentaries on the Awakening of Faith in Mahāyāna | Park, Sung-bae. "Wǒnhyo's Commentaries on the Awakening of Faith in Mahāyāna." PhD diss., University of California, Berkeley, 1979. | In contrast to, for example, the Christian canon and the Confucian canon, the Buddhist canon is unusually difficult to define, because the Buddhist scriptures are several thousands in nurnber.[1] One who wishes to gain knowledge of this canon cannot be asked or expected to read all or even most of them, so the Buddhist who wishes to present the essence of the teaching to others is immediately faced with the problem of having to pick a representative text to serve as introduction, survey, summary or outline to this vast body of material. This problem is compounded, especially in East Asia, by the existence of many Buddhist schools, most of them having a particular text which served as their bases.[2] For example, the T'ien-t'ai school is based on the Saddharma-paṇḍarīka-sūtra, the Hua-yen school on the Avataṃsaka-sūtra, and so on. Accordingly, to choose a representative text from the several thousand Buddhist scriptures is unavoidably to come very close to accepting some sort of sectarian perspective. Thus, those who enquire after the essence of Buddhist teaching, yet who wish at the outset to avoid sectarian affiliation, will hesitate to approach the canon. Notes
| University of California at Berkeley | 29 May 2020 22:29:42 | |
Chi-tsang's Ta-ch'eng-hsüan-lun: The Two Truths and the Buddha-Nature | Koseki, Aaron K. "Chi-tsang's Ta-ch'eng-hsüan-lun: The Two Truths and the Buddha-Nature." PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1977. | As the title indicates, the present study is primarily devoted to a textual examination of the Ta-ch'eng-hsüan-lun (hereafter referred to as Hsüan-lun), a work written by the Sanlun monk Chi-tsang (549-623) to serve as an outline of the major teachings of his Three Treatises tradition.[1] The text consists of several independent essays on subjects such as the "Two Truths," "Eight Negations," "Buddha-nature," "Ekayāna," "Nirvāṇa," and "Two Knowledges."[2] From this compendium on Sanlun doctrine, the essays on the "Two Truths" and the "Buddha-nature" will primarily serve as the textual basis for this study. The objective of this dissertation is to discuss how the Sanlun theory of two truths (saṁvṛti-satya and paramārtha-satya) and the Nirvāṇa-sūtra concept of Buddha-nature (buddha-dhātu) were defined and interpreted by Chi-tsang.[3]
More specifically, this study will explore the relationship between the theory and practice of the two truths and the Buddha-nature. In these two significant components of Chi-tsang's thought, one can see the synthesis of the Prajñāpāramitā doctrine of emptiness (śūnyatā) and the Buddha-nature theory of "not-empty" (aśūnya). In combining these two major doctrinal trends of Mahāyāna Buddhism, Chi-tsang's thought is innovative and constitutes an important phase in Chinese intellectual history. (Koseki, introduction, 1) Notes
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | 28 May 2020 21:35:50 | |
Yogâcāra Buddhism Transmitted or Transformed? Paramārtha (499–569) and His Chinese Interpreters | Keng, Ching. "Yogâcāra Buddhism Transmitted or Transformed? Paramārtha (499–569) and His Chinese Interpreters." PhD diss., Harvard University, 2009. | Abstract This dissertation argues that the Yogâcāra Buddhism transmitted by the Indian translator Paramârtha (Ch. Zhendi 真諦) underwent a significant transformation due to the influence of his later Chinese interpreters, a phenomenon to which previous scholars failed to paid enough attention. | Harvard University | 27 May 2020 18:52:34 | |
The Critique of Svatantra Reasoning by Candrakīrti and Tsong-kha-pa: A Study of Philosophical Proof According to Two Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka Traditions of India and Tibet | Yotsuya, Kodo. The Critique of Svatantra Reasoning by Candrakīrti and Tsong-kha-pa: A Study of Philosophical Proof According to Two Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka Traditions of India and Tibet. Tibetan and Indo-Tibetan Studies 8. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. | Universität Hamburg | 22 May 2020 05:08:32 | ||
A Lineage in Time: The Vicissitudes of the rNgog pa bka’ brgyud from the 11th through 19th centuries | A Lineage in Time: The Vicissitudes of the rNgog pa bka’ brgyud from the 11th through 19th centuries | The rNgog lineage was a religious hereditary lineage that flourished in Tibet from the 11th to the 15th century and participated in the efflorescence of several tantric transmissions that remain alive in contemporary Tibetan Buddhism. This dissertation is the history of the rNgog pa bka’ brgyud religious lineage that takes root in 10th-century India, was acculturated in Tibet through the efforts of the translator Mar pa Chos kyi blo gros (1000?-1081?) and spans the second millennium. It is also the history of the rNgog hereditary lineage, from its mythic origins, to its blossoming in the 12th century and its silent dispersion in the political transformations of 17th-century Central Tibet. Its core is a pair of twenty-five-folio narratives composed within the rNgog lineage that are at the crossroads of hagiography, genealogy and records of teachings received. Its framework are two large collections of tantric exegesis and rituals. The first, the Treasury of bKa’ brgyud Mantras, was compiled in the 19th century in order to safeguard the Mar rngog traditions and facilitate their transmission. The second one, the Compilation of rNgog Cycles, was published ten years ago but contains ancient material composed by the rNgog and their disciples. The aim of this study is to understand the history of these texts and, more broadly, the history of the rNgog and their position in the religious field of Central Tibet until the 17th century. For this, several approaches are adopted, including source criticism, textual and socio-historical analysis. | École Pratique des Hautes Études | 21 May 2020 16:05:45 | |
The Buddha Said That Buddha Said So: A Translation and Analysis of "Pūrvayogaparivarta" from the Ratnaketu Dhāraṇī Sūtra | Miller, Adam Tyler. "The Buddha Said That Buddha Said So: A Translation and Analysis of "Pūrvayogaparivarta" from the Ratnaketu Dhāraṇī Sūtra." MA thesis, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2013. | University of Missouri-Columbia | 14 May 2020 02:00:46 | ||
The Akutobhayā and Early Indian Buddhism | Huntington, C. W., Jr. "The Akutobhayā and Early Indian Buddhism". PhD diss., University of Michigan, 1986. | University of Michigan | 12 May 2020 09:37:15 | ||
Toward a New Paradigm of East Asian Yogācāra Buddhism: Taehyŏn (ca. 8th Century CE), a Korean Yogācāra Monk, and His Predecessors | Lee, Sumi. "Toward a New Paradigm of East Asian Yogācāra Buddhism: Taehyŏn (ca. 8th Century CE), a Korean Yogācāra Monk, and His Predecessors." PhD diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 2014. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/74h5d0nv#main. | Abstract This dissertation seeks to locate the place of Taehyŏn 大賢(ca. 8th century CE), a Silla Korean Yogācāra monk, within the broader East Asian Buddhist tradition. My task is not confined solely to a narrow study of Taehyŏn’s thought and career, but is principally concerned with understanding the wider contours of the East Asian Yogācāra tradition itself and how these contours are reflected in Taehyŏn’s extant oeuvre. There are problems in determining Taehyŏn's doctrinal position within the traditional paradigms of East Asian Yogācāra tradition, that is, the bifurcations of Tathāgatagarbha and Yogācāra; Old and New Yogācāra; the One Vehicle and Three Vehicles; and the Dharma Nature and Dharma Characteristics schools. Taehyŏn's extant works contain doctrines drawn from across these various divides, and his doctrinal positions therefore do not precisely fit any of these traditional paradigms. In order to address this issue, this dissertation examines how these bifurcations originated and evolved over time, across the geographical expanse of the East Asian Yogācāra tradition. The chapters of the dissertation discuss in largely chronological order the theoretical problems involved in these bifurcations within Yogācāra and proposes possible resolutions to these problems, by focusing on the works of such major Buddhist exegetes as Paramārtha (499-569), Ji 基 (632-682), Wŏnhyo 元曉 (617-686), Fazang 法藏(643-712), and, finally, Taehyŏn. | University of California, Los Angeles | 8 May 2020 22:38:17 | |
The Awakening of Faith in Mahayana (Ta-ch'eng ch'i-hsin lun): A Study of the Unfolding of Sinitic Mahayana Motifs | Lai, Whalen. "The Awakening of Faith in Mahayana (Ta-ch'eng ch'i-hsin lun): A Study of the Unfolding of Sinitic Mahayana Motifs." PhD diss., Harvard University, 1975. http://www.acmuller.net/download/LaiWhalen_Awakening-of-Faith.pdf. | China, the country traditionally ruled by the Confucian literati, has prided herself in being moderate, rational and agnostic. So prevalent is this self-image, projected by her cultural elite and enhanced by Sinology itself, that to many, China is still the paradigm of la vie de la moderation, or, in Chinese, of chung-yung (the mean). Notes(As numbered in the original manuscript) | Harvard University | 8 May 2020 17:14:57 | |
The Nonduality of Nonconceptual Wisdom and Conceptual Cognition: A Study of the Tathāgatagarbha Teaching in the Anūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśa-parivarta | Shiu, Henry. "The Nonduality of Nonconceptual Wisdom and Conceptual Cognition: A Study of the Tathāgatagarbha Teaching in the Anūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśa-parivarta." PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2005. | Abstract Although the doctrine of tathāgatagarbha can be traced to the teaching of an innately pure luminous mind (prakṛtiś cittasya prabhāsvarā) in early Buddhist teachings, the Anūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśa-parivarta (AAN) is often considered one of the earliest Buddhist scriptures that explicitly expound the teachings of the tathāgatagarbha. The central message of the AAN focuses upon the non-increase and non-decrease nature of the dharmadhātu. This brings out the idea of the dharmadhātu as a totality which transcends all dualistic notions. Translated into Chinese by Bodhiruci in 525 CE, the AAN is now extant only in Chinese translation (Taishō no. 668). Unfortunately, no serious studies have ever been conducted on this sūtra in Western scholarship. The precise relationship between the tathāgatagarbha and the two Mahāyāna traditions, Madhyamaka and Yogācāra, is also worth investigating in detail. The thesis will argue that the tathāgatagarbha is not a separate school in Indian Buddhism. It will then study the historical issues relating to the AAN, followed by a philosophical investigation of its teachings. The thesis will also undertake an "external" consideration of the doctrinal relationship between the AAN and a number of sūtras and śāstras. It will also incorporate a study of Bodhiruci (菩提流支), of the Northern Wei (北魏) dynasty, who translated the AAN into Chinese, as well as the first complete English translation of the AAN from its extant Chinese version. This study may provide an alternative view on the tathāgatagarbha theory. The thesis will argue that the tathāgatagarbha is referring to be an aspect of all experiences. This means that all beings are by nature having a dimension of the mind not fully realized, and it is yogic meditative practices that enable the practitioners to develop an awareness of the enlightenment which is always implicit in our consciousness. | University of Toronto | 8 May 2020 09:31:12 | |
A Study of the Wisdom Chapter (Prajñāpāramitā Pariccheda) of the Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā of Prajñākaramati | Oldmeadow, Peter R. "A Study of the Wisdom Chapter (Prajñāpāramitā Pariccheda) of the Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā of Prajñākaramati." PhD diss., Australian National University, 1994. https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/110199. | Abstract This thesis is a study of the heart of Prajñākaramati's Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā: the only commentary preserved in Sanskrit on Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra, one of the most popular and influential texts in Mahāyāna Buddhism. The primary purpose of the thesis is an annotated translation of the Prajñāpāramitā Pariccheda (Wisdom Chapter) of the Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā. The translation is based on Louis de La Vallée Poussin's edition of the Sanskrit text with close reference to the Tibetan a translation. The annotations present material necessary to understand Prajñākaramati's commentary both regarding the terminology he uses and the context in which he was writing. The annotations identify sources of quotations and parallel passages in other texts, and provide references to scholarly material on the subject matter treated by Prajñākaramati. While the reference point for the translation has been the Sanskrit text the Tibetan translation has been studied as an aid to the translation. Note has been made of where the Sanskrit and Tibetan texts diverge and some variant readings have been offered on this basis. There is an appendix containing an edited version of the Derge (sDe dge) and Peking editions of the Tibetan translation. A short introduction outlines the scope of the work, presents the known facts concerning Śāntideva and Prajñākaramati and their works, and discusses scholarly research done on Prajñākaramati's commentary. (Source: Australian National University) | Australian National University | 6 May 2020 16:16:44 | |
The Zen Master Dōgen’s Understanding of the Buddha-Nature in Light of the Historical Development of the Buddha-Nature Concept in India, China, and Japan | Grosnick, William. "The Zen Master Dōgen’s Understanding of the Buddha-Nature in Light of the Historical Development of the Buddha-Nature Concept in India, China, and Japan." PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1979. | . . . The present study will have a twofold purpose: 1) to examine the history of the Buddha-nature concept in an attempt to discover a central core of meaning inherent in the concept, and 2) to evaluate Dōgen's view of the Buddha-nature in the light of that central core of meaning. Parts I and II of this work, which examine the doctrinal history of the Buddha-nature concept in India and China, are devoted to the former task, and Part III, which examines Dōgen's thought concerning the Buddha-nature, is devoted to the latter. It is hoped that through the examination of Dōgen's conception of the Buddha-nature in the light of the previous articulation of the concept, it will be possible to form conclusions concerning the significance of Dōgen's thought in Buddhist doctrinal history. (Grosnick, introduction, 7–8) | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 30 April 2020 11:34:14 | |
A Study of Master Yinshun’s Hermeneutics: An Interpretation of the Tathāgatagarbha Doctrine | Hurley, Scott. "A Study of Master Yinshun’s Hermeneutics: An Interpretation of the Tathāgatagarbha Doctrine." PhD diss., University of Arizona, 2001. https://repository.arizona.edu/bitstream/handle/10150/279857/azu_td_3031364_sip1_m.pdf;jsessionid=7F7C9754E7B4C951472D8BB20D5B4BBE?sequence=1. | Abstract This study is an examination of Master Yinshun's hermeneutics. It focuses especially on his interpretation of the Buddhist concept known as the tathagatagarbha, which refers to the idea that all sentient beings intrinsically possess the "womb of the Buddha." In some explanations of this teaching, the tathāgatagarbha is symbolic of the practitioner's potential for attaining enlightenment. In others, it functions as a synonym for the Ultimate and becomes the eternalistic substrate for all of existence. It is this latter view to which Yinshun takes exception, seeing it as antithetical to the doctrine of emptiness which espouses the notion that all things, including ideas, material objects, and living beings, lack a permanent and independent nature and thus cannot possess an unchanging, eternalistic form. | University of Arizona | 29 April 2020 08:54:59 | |
Affirmation in Negation: A Study of the Tathāgatagarbha Theory in the Light of the Bodhisattva Practices | Chen, Shu-hui Jennifer. "Affirmation in Negation: A Study of the Tathāgatagarbha Theory in the Light of the Bodhisattva Practices." PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998. | The Tathāgatagarbha theory, also known as the Buddha-nature theory, is one of the most influential Mahāyāna doctrines in the East Asian Buddhism. In 1989, it was severely criticized by some Japanese scholars, namely, Shiro Matsumoto and Noriaki Hakamaya, for being contradictory to the Buddha's teaching of non-self (anātman) and accused of being a non-Buddhist theory in disguise. The purpose of this study is to refute such an accusation and to demonstrate the relationship between this theory and the Bodhisattva practices which are the very core of the Mahāyāna Buddhism. This dissertation begins with definitions of the term "tathāgatagarbha" and some of its synonyms which are followed by a brief review of the historical development of the Tathāgatagarbha theory from India to China. With these as the background knowledge, it is easier to point out the fallacies of the two Japanese scholars' criticism on this theory. A key issue in their criticism is that they viewed the Tathāgatagarbha theory as the ātman of the Upaniṣads in disguise. It is therefore necessary to discuss not only the distinction between the ātman mentioned in the Tathāgatagarbha theory and that in the Upaniṣads but also the controversy over the issue of ātman versus anātman among the Buddhist scholars. In the discussion to clarify the issue of ātman in the Tathāgatagarbha theory, it is demonstrated that the ātman in the Tathāgatagarbha theory is not only uncontradictory to the doctrine of anātman in Buddhism but very important to the Bodhisattva practices in the Mahāyāna Buddhism. It functions as a unity for the Bodhisattvas to voluntarily return to the world of saṃsāra again and again. Furthermore, the purport of the entire theory, that all sentient beings are endowed with the essence of the Buddha, supports various Bodhisattva practices such as the aspiration to save all beings in the world, the six perfections, etc. In a word, the Tathāgatagarbha theory is an excellent representative of the soteriology of the Mahāyāna Buddhism. Included in the end of this dissertation is an annotated translation of the Tathāgatagarbha-sūtra. (Source Accessed May 26, 2020) | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 29 April 2020 05:45:56 | |
Buddhism and State in Seventeenth-Century Tibet: Cosmology and Theology in the Works of Sangyé Gyatso | MacCormack, Ian J. "Buddhism and State in Seventeenth-Century Tibet: Cosmology and Theology in the Works of Sangyé Gyatso." PhD diss., Harvard University, 2018. | This dissertation studies works of the Desi Sangyé Gyatso (1653–1705), a prolific and influential Tibetan statesman. Its main sources are texts by Sangyé Gyatso and, to a lesser extent, by the fifth Dalai Lama, Ngawang Losang Gyatso (1617–82). The Dalai Lama was the highest authority of the Ganden Phodrang government, founded in 1642. Sangyé Gyatso was his lieutenant and took control upon the latter’s death. During his tenure as ruler, Sangyé Gyatso made major intellectual and practical contributions to this Tibetan Buddhist state. He wrote at length about the ruler’s authority and the goals of the state. His ideas developed in close conversation with Buddhist texts, concepts, and practices, leading to novel reformulations of well-traveled ideas, while also informing court practices, rituals, and architecture. Though famous as a politician, Sangyé Gyatso’s thinking about Buddhism and state has received less attention in scholarship. This project sheds light on several of his texts, both in the interest of fostering further study and to suggest alternative possibilities for thinking about religion and politics, beyond exposing the mechanisms of power. Over six chapters, this dissertation highlights three major productions of Sangyé Gyatso’s rule: a model for public speaking, a holiday to commemorate the Dalai Lama, and a new palace built in Lhasa. It argues for the direct participation of cosmological and theological discourses and their related practices in the work of situating, articulating, and realizing a Buddhist state. | Harvard University | 16 April 2020 14:03:39 | |
Demonstration of the Buddha-nature of the Insentient in Zhanran’s The Diamond Scalpel Treatise | Pap, Melinda. "Demonstration of the Buddha-Nature of the Insentient in Zhanran’s The Diamond Scalpel Treatise." PhD diss., Budapest: Eötvös Loránd University, 2011. http://doktori.btk.elte.hu/lingv/papmelinda/thesis.pdf | The theme of the dissertation is the idea of Buddha-nature of the insentient (wuqing you xing 無情有性) as presented in the most prominent work of the Tang Dynasty (618−907) Tiantai 天 台 monk, Zhanran 湛 然 (711−782), The Diamond Scalpel (Jin’gang bei 金 剛 錍 ; T46:1932) treatise. The objective of the dissertation is a new translation of The Diamond Scalpel, completed with translations from commentaries written to it, a thorough and detailed analysis and explanation of the text, including a definition of the notions and ideas presented in it, furthermore a study of the idea of Buddha-nature former to Zhanran, a definition of its role and interpretations in Chinese Buddhism, essential to understanding the treatise itself. The dissertation includes four main chapters, these are: I. Zhanran's biography; II. The idea of Buddha-nature in Chinese Buddhism; III. Demonstration of the Buddha-nature of the insentient in Zhanran’s The Diamond Scalpel treatise; IV. Summary. In the first chapter Zhanran’s life is presented through a translation, comparison and analysis of the chapters dealing with Zhanran’s life from the biographies of monks written in the Song Dynasty (960−1279). Biographies besides historical data also contain several miraculous elements, thus, this first chapter also provides a glimpse into the world of Buddhist biographies. This chapter also briefly introduces the reader into the history of Tiantai school before Zhanran, therefore this is placed at the beginning of the dissertation. Because the main theme of Zhanran’s treatise is the Buddha-nature of the insentient, the translation and analysis of the text is preceded by a chapter on the idea of Buddha-nature, focusing on its apparition, evolution an interpretations in Chinese Buddhism. This chapter is divided into two major parts, the first part gives a presentation of those sūtras and treatises, which had the greatest influence on the formation of Chinese interpretations of the notion. The second part deals with those Chinese traditions and schools, thinkers and ideas, which had great impact on the formation of the Chinese Buddha-nature theory. While presenting certain writings, schools and thinkers a greater emphasis is laid on those ideas, which appear in The Diamond Scalpel, or can be proven to have influenced Zhanran’s philosophy. Thus, both the premises for Zhanran’s conclusion and the ideas to be refuted clear out. The objective of this chapter is to place Zhanran’s work in a greater context, and to determine those antecedents, that lead Zhanran towards the formulation of his ideas. The third, most important and most extensive chapter is the translation of The Diamond Scalpel, complemented with translations from commentaries written to it, detailed analysis and interpretation of the text divided into sixty separate chapters. One of the most important objectives is to grasp the main ideas, and provide this difficult text a clear and easily understandable interpretation. The fourth chapter consists of a summary of the main ideas presented in The Diamond Scalpel, and an overall analysis of the text. (Pap, "Theme and Objective of the Research," 1–3) | Eötvös Loránd University | 6 April 2020 17:28:26 | |
Entering 'the Unified Maṇḍala of All the Siddhas:' The Sādhana of Mahāmudrā and the Making of Vajrayāna Buddhist Subjects | Yonnetti, Eben Matthew. "Entering ‘the Unified Maṇḍala of All the Siddhas:’ The Sādhana of Mahāmudrā and the Making of Vajrayāna Buddhist Subjects." MA Thesis, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2017. | University of Colorado, Boulder | 23 March 2020 17:01:08 | ||
The Liberation of Matter: Examining Jingxi Zhanran’s Philosophy of the Buddha-Nature of Insentient Beings in Tiantai Buddhism | Chen, Shuman. "The Liberation of Matter: Examining Jingxi Zhanran’s Philosophy of the Buddha-Nature of Insentient Beings in Tiantai Buddhism." PhD diss., Northwestern University, 2014. | Abstract This dissertation examines the notion that not only sentient beings but also insentient ones, e.g., flora, mountains, rivers, and manmade objects, have Buddha-nature. Employing an exegetical approach, I investigate Jingxi Zhanran’s (711-782) theory of the Buddha-nature of insentient beings. Emphasizing the all-pervasiveness of Buddha-nature and the nonduality of mind and material, he eliminates the absolute distinction between sentient and insentient beings and contends that Buddha-nature includes all beings. Additionally, insisting on the Tiantai notion of mutual inclusion, which reveals a two-way relationship between sentience and insentience, Zhanran reverses the positions of the subjective observer and the objective phenomenon, subjectifying insentient beings. In addition to examining the theoretical profundity of Zhanran’s theory, my study examines the issues of sentience versus insentience and Buddha-nature that took place before Zhanran and discusses the subsequent Tiantai concerns with the Buddha-nature of insentient beings. Through textual analysis, I reexamine the emergence of the Chinese thought that connects Buddha-nature to insentient things, initially presented by Jingying Huiyuan (523-592) and Jiaxiang Jizang (549-623). I also illustrate that the concept of the Buddha-nature of insentient beings is implied in Zhiyi’s (538-597) thought by interpreting Zhiyi’s teachings that inspired Zhanran’s advocacy. Furthermore, I analyze, on doctrinal grounds, Chinese Tiantai descendants’ endorsement of Zhanran’s theory, contrasting it with their Japanese counterparts’, the latter who found it difficult to conceptualize how insentient beings’ spiritual cultivation might occur. I ultimately argue that Zhanran, indeed, articulates the Buddhahood of insentient beings, and that the modality of their practice through the nonduality between passivity and activity, and between Buddhahood and “insentienthood” can be explained. By raising questions about the human relation to the insentient world and exploring possibilities for attaining harmony through transcending the duality between selfness and otherness, and subjectivity and objectivity, I hope to contribute to the reexamination of anthropocentric religious liberation. | Northwestern University | 16 March 2020 23:19:03 | |
The Phur pa bcu gnyis: A Scripture from the rNying ma'i rgyud 'bum | Mayer, Robert David Simon. The Phur pa bcu gnyis: A Scripture from the rNying ma'i rgyud 'bum. PhD diss., University of Leiden, 1996. | Universiteit Leiden | 5 February 2020 17:52:56 | ||
The Life of the 4th lHo rje drung, 'Bri gung tulku O rgyan nus ldan rdo rje (1849-1902) | Unterthurner, Doris. The Life of the 4th lHo rje drung, 'Bri gung tulku O rgyan nus ldan rdo rje (1849-1902). MA Thesis, University of Vienna, 2019. | This thesis offers a glimpse into the life and a partial translation of the biography or liberation story (Tib. rnam thar) of one of the greatly accomplished Buddhist masters of the nineteenth century: the treasure revealer and ris med master lHo O rgyan nus ldan rdo rje, throne holder of the ‘Bri gung bKa’ brgyud monastery lHo lung dkar dgon ‘og min thub bstan bshad sgrub gling situated among alpine meadows along the lCi river in Nang chen, Qinghai. | Universität Wien | 30 January 2020 15:11:52 | |
Radical nondualism in the Works of 'Ju Mi pham rNam rgyal rGya mtsho (1846-1912)- the Interplay of Knowledge and Liberation in a Tibetan Philosophical Discourse on yuganaddha | Forgues, Gregory. Radical nondualism in the Works of 'Ju Mi pham rNam rgyal rGya mtsho (1846-1912)- the Interplay of Knowledge and Liberation in a Tibetan Philosophical Discourse on yuganaddha. PhD Diss, University of Vienna, 2016. | Universität Wien | 15 January 2020 16:45:37 | ||
Study of the Tathāgatagarbha as True Self and the True Selves of the Brahmanic, Sāṅkhya and Jaina Traditions | Khosla, Usha. "Study of the Tathāgatagarbha as True Self and the True Selves of the Brahmanic, Sāṅkhya and Jaina Traditions." PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2015. https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/77747/3/Khosla_Usha_201506_PhD_thesis.pdf | Abstract: I study the Tathāgatagarbha Doctrine from the following perspectives: the tathāgatagarbha as true self; the all-pervading, undifferentiated Essence of Buddhahood as Cosmic Self; and the concept of liberation. I also compare this doctrine to the doctrines of the above-mentioned three traditions and study their concepts of true self, the concepts of Cosmic Self of the Brahmanic and Early Sāṅkhya doctrines; and the concepts of liberation of these three doctrines. I follow the trajectory of thought of the Ratnagotravibhāga and the Tathāgatagarbha group of texts. | University of Toronto | 12 March 2019 20:12:36 | |
A Comparison of the Concepts of Buddha-Nature and Dao-Nature of Medieval China | Tseng, Chih-Mien Adrian. "A Comparison of the Concepts of Buddha-Nature and Dao-Nature of Medieval China." PhD diss., McMaster University, 2014. https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/bitstream/11375/15419/1/Chih-mien%20Adrian%20Tseng%27s%20dissertation%202014-07.pdf | Abstract This thesis, a comparison of the concepts of buddha-nature and dao-nature in the medieval period (from the 5th to the 10th centuries) of China, presents a historical investigation of the formation of the idea that insentient things are able to possess buddha-nature in medieval Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhism. In Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhism, the concept of buddha-nature was originally defined as a potential possessed by sentient beings that enabled them to achieve buddhahood. From the 6th century, the concept was reinterpreted within the Chinese Buddhist tradition so that insentient things were also able to possess buddha-nature. Recent scholarship has pointed out that the idea of insentient things having buddha-nature is a combination of Buddhist and Daoist ideas based on the concept of the all-pervading Dao found in the Zhuangzi 莊子. In this sense, buddha-nature seems to be interpreted as equivalent with the Dao of Daoism. My project suggests that the reinterpretation of buddha-nature in association with the insentient realm should be elucidated in a more nuanced way than the idea of all-pervasiveness of the Dao. A historical, doctrinal investigation of the intellectual formation of the concept of buddha-nature in Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhism demonstrates a new interpretation of buddha-nature in the context of insentient things having buddha-nature. Further, through a historical investigation of intellectual exchange between Buddhism and Daoism, some evidence provided in this project illustrates that the idea of insentient things having dao-nature in Daoism was not inherited from Buddhism, but drawn from Daoist tradition. This new perspective is different from that of some contemporary scholars who have claimed that the idea of insentient things having dao-nature was borrowed from Chinese Buddhism. A chronological investigation of the discussion of nature in Chinese thought demonstrates that the idea of insentient things having buddha-nature incorporates earlier Daoist traditions found in Arcane Study. | McMaster University | 21 September 2018 21:13:11 | |
Le Dharmadharmatāvibhāga, texte bouddhique de l’Inde du IV siècle | Denis, Diane, Le Dharmadharmatāvibhāga, texte bouddhique de l’Inde du IV siècle, traduction des stances et du commentaire de Mipham, suivie d’un examen minutieux. Quebec: Universite Laval, 2013. | Laval University | 9 March 2018 18:35:21 | ||
Multivariant Levels of Interpretations on Selected Caryās | Bhattacherjee, Rupa. "Multivariant Levels of Interpretations on Selected Caryās." MA thesis, University of Calgary, 2000. https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ55135.pdf. | Abstract The objective of this thesis is to investigate the multivariant levels of interpretation within selected Caryās. The Caryās selected depict Buddha Nature as it was understood in tāntric Buddhism in the area of Bengal. There are three levels of interpretation. The first level is the blatant meaning, and is outlined in the translation section of the songs. The second level is the anuyoga/Mother tāntra meaning. A comparison is made between the interpretations of selected scholars. The final level is the Mahāmudra meaning. This level is inferred from various textual sources. | University of Calgary | 8 March 2018 20:45:05 | |
Mipham on the Dependent Nature - The Three Natures through the Lens of Purity and Delusion | Cotter, Martina N. Mipham on the Dependent Nature: The Three Natures through the Lens of Purity and Delusion. MA thesis, Kathmandu University, 2017. | Rangjung Yeshe Institute | 19 October 2017 15:18:39 | ||
Demandingness, Self-Interest and Benevolence in Santideva's Introduction to the Practice of Awakening (Bodhicaryavatara) | Harris, Stephen. "Demandingness, Self-Interest and Benevolence in Śāntideva's Introduction to the Practice of Awakening (Bodhicaryāvatāra)." PhD diss., University of New Mexico, 2014. | Abstract This dissertation explores how benevolence and self-interest converge, thereby lessening moral demandingness, in the writing of the eighth century Indian Buddhist monk, Śāntideva. In the opening chapter, I argue that Śāntideva appears vulnerable to the overdemandingness objection, the claim that a moral system asks too much of its followers. This is because he endorses an extremely demanding process of virtue development during which an individual commits to becoming a bodhisattva, the Buddhist saint who voluntarily takes countless rebirths, often in painful situations, in order to attain full Buddhahood and liberate all beings from suffering. In the dissertation, I show that Śāntideva can make a powerful response to the overdemandingness objection, largely because the psychological transformation bodhisattvas undergo, as they perfect the virtues of buddhahood, also greatly lessens the severity of the sacrifices they make. | University of New Mexico | 24 October 2016 18:54:23 | |
The Cultural Translation of Buddhism - Problems of Theory and Method in the Study of Buddhism in England | Mellor, P. A. 1989. “The Cultural Translation of Buddhism: Problems of Theory and Method in the Study of Buddhism in England.” PhD. Thesis, University of Manchester. | University of Manchester | 12 October 2016 20:48:12 | ||
Buddhist Translation Procedures in Third-Century China - A Study of Dharmaraksa and his Translation Idiom | Boucher, Daniel. 1996. "Buddhist Translation Procedures in Third-Century China: A Study of Dharmarakṣa and His Translation Idiom."Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania. | University of Pennsylvania | 30 September 2016 19:04:09 | ||
Utilizing Terror - On the Adoption and Refinement of Skull Cups in Tibetan Buddhism | Fuentes, Ayesha. Utilizing Terror: On the Adoption and Refinement of Skull Cups in Tibetan Buddhism. Master's Thesis. Tufts University, 2011. | Tufts University | 15 September 2016 21:17:42 | ||
Namthar, Comics in Tibet, and the Aesthetics of Contemplative Imagination | Wilkinson, Celso Scott. "Namthar, Comics in Tibet, and the Aesthetics of Contemplative Imagination." MA thesis, Naropa University, 2013. | My interest in the subject of Tibetan sacred biography, or namtar (rnam thar short for rnam par thar pa, meaning "complete liberation"[1]), originates from the aspiration to merge two vocations: that as a scholar/practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism and a cartoonist. I have mused for many years on how to find a way to express the dharma in an authentic way through comic books. The lives of Śākyamuni Buddha and the many saints that emulated him are narratives that have been shared and celebrated for millennia. These stories are what first captivated my attention when I was younger and brought me to the Buddhist path. By studying the history of these stories and their genre, I hope to cultivate the inspiration to write comics that do not merely appropriate these stories, but express them with dynamic insight. This current study will examine the role of the sacred biography in Buddhism, the namtar in Tibetan Buddhism, and their role on the Vajrayāna path in particular. Also, this study will examine how the sacred biography has been adapted in different medias and how it may be adapted in the medium of comic books in a new way. Part 1 of this study will survey the evolving history of the namtar genre and ask the following questions: Throughout its history, what purpose does the namtar serve in the context of Tibetan Buddhism? What role does it serve specifically in the context of the Vajrayāna path? In Part 2, this study will reflect on some recent adaptations of namtars and other Buddhist sacred biographies that have been adapted into nontraditional mediums. How can an adaptation of the namtar in more contemporary mediums, express its traditional intention? Or if it departs from its traditional function, what purpose can it serve? Finally in Part 3, I will reflect on some recent artistic styles in contemporary comics. I postulate on how I might approach the artistic project of adapting namtar, or something related to it, into the medium of a comic book. Can a comic book adaptation express the namtar in an interesting way without losing sight of its traditional purpose? A touchstone for this entire project will be my translation of the seventh chapter of the namtar of Shabkar Tshogdruk Rangdrol.[2] Shabkar was a charismatic wandering yogi of the Nyingma school, although he was also a figure of the nonsectarian (ris med) movement. In the nineteenth century, he travelled by foot all over Tibet singing spiritual songs (mgur) and practicing in famous caves of the great Buddhist masters of the past. His captivating life story is well known and celebrated by Tibetans of all different schools and backgrounds and his story is often compared to that of Milarepa for its popularity and universal appeal. I wanted to translate a namtar from the Tibetan source as a basis for this project. I will refer back to this text as an example throughout the research and in Part 3 I consider how this section could be adapted into a comic book. I choose this text mainly because I found it to be, above all else, a great and inspiring story, which could be adapted or developed in the medium of comics. (Wilkinson, introduction, 5–6) Notes
| Naropa University | 15 September 2016 15:42:37 | |
Radiant Play of the Unborn - Shechen Gyaltsap IV's Illuminating Jewel Mirror and the Mandala of Appearances | Goetz, Laura. "Radiant Play of the Unborn: Shechen Gyaltsap IV's Illuminating Jewel Mirror and the Maṇḍala of Appearances." MA Theses, Naropa University, 2014. | Naropa University | 8 September 2016 15:52:14 | ||
The Monastery Rules - Buddhist Monastic Organization in Pre-Modern Tibet (2015) | Jansen, Berthe Katrien. "The Monastery Rules: Buddhist Monastic Organization in Pre-Modern Tibet." PhD diss., University of Leiden, 2015. | Universiteit Leiden | 31 August 2016 17:37:13 | ||
Edition und Ubersetzung von Lama Zhangs Blitzschlag(gleicher) Mahamudra | Prax, Andrea. "Edition und Übersetzung von Lama Zhangs Blitzschlag(gleicher) Mahāmudrā". Master's thesis, University of Vienna, 2013. | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:34:30 | ||
Tropu Lotsawa (1172-1236 CE) and the Building of Religious Institutions in Thirteenth Century Tibet | Ward, Jared. "Tropu Lotsawa (1172-1236 CE) and the Building of Religious Institutions in Thirteenth Century Tibet". Master's thesis, John Carroll University, 2012. | John Carroll University | 31 August 2016 17:30:46 | ||
The Man from Samye - Longchenpa on Praxis, its Negation and Liberation | Ifergan , Gidi. "The Man from Samyé: Longchenpa on Praxis, its Negation and Liberation". PhD diss., Monash University, 2013. | Monash University | 31 August 2016 17:30:46 | ||
Gha rung pa lha'i rgyal mtshan as a Scholar and Defender of the Jo nang Tradition - A Study of His Lamp that Illuminates the Expanse of Reality with an Annotated Translation and Critical Edition of the Text | Duoji, Nyingcha. "Gha rung pa lha'i rgyal mtshan as a Scholar and Defender of the Jo nang Tradition: A Study of His Lamp that Illuminates the Expanse of Reality with an Annotated Translation and Critical Edition of the Text." PhD diss., Harvard University, 2014. | Harvard University | 31 August 2016 17:30:46 | ||
A Comparative Study of Enlightenment in Vajrayana Buddhism and Self Actualization in Western Psychology | Maruti, Sharma. "A Comparative Study of Enlightenment in Vajrayāna Buddhism and Self Actualization in Western Psychology". PhD diss., University of Jammu, 2014. | University of Jammu | 31 August 2016 17:30:45 | ||
The Commodification of Tibetan Spirituality in Contemporary Chinese Popular Music | Yang, Xi. "The Commodification of Tibetan Spirituality in Contemporary Chinese Popular Music". Master's thesis, University of Hawai'i, 2014. | University of Hawai'i | 31 August 2016 17:30:45 | ||
Reconciliation and Legitimization - The Fifth Karmapa Deshin Shegpa's Trip to Ming China | Qujie, Suolang. "Reconciliation and Legitimization: The Fifth Karmapa Deshin Shegpa's Trip to Ming China". Master's thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. | University of British Columbia | 31 August 2016 17:30:45 | ||
Das Zusammenspiel von lha pa und yul lha Eine Studie uber die Bedeutung von klu rol zu Ehren der Berggottheiten fur die tibetische Gesellschaft in Amdo | Ladenbauer, Franziska. "Das Zusammenspiel von lha pa und yul lha Eine Studie über die Bedeutung von klu rol zu Ehren der Berggottheiten für die tibetische Gesellschaft in Amdo". Master's thesis, University of Vienns, 2013. | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:30:45 | ||
Oral Accounts of the Sa skya 'bag mo, Past and Present Voices of the Terrifying Witches of Sa skya | Conrad, Sarah. "Oral Accounts of the Sa skya 'bag mo, Past and Present Voices of the Terrifying Witches of Sa skya". Master's thesis, Indiana University, 2012. | Indiana University | 31 August 2016 17:30:44 | ||
Song, Dance, and Instrumental Music in Buddhist Canon Law | Liu, Cuilan. "Song, Dance, and Instrumental Music in Buddhist Canon Law". PhD diss., Harvard University, 2014. | Harvard University | 31 August 2016 17:30:44 | ||
Forging a Buddhist Cinema - Exploring Buddhism in Cinematic Representations of Tibetan Culture | Harnden-Simpson, Mona. "Forging a Buddhist Cinema: Exploring Buddhism in Cinematic Representations of Tibetan Culture". Master's thesis, Carleton University, 2011. | Carleton University | 31 August 2016 17:30:44 | ||
Thinking the Unthinkable / Unthinking the Thinkable - Conceptual thought, nonconceptuality, and Gorampa Sonam Senge's Synopsis of Madhyamaka | Kassor, Constance E. "Thinking the Unthinkable / Unthinking the Thinkable: Conceptual Thought, Nonconceptuality, and Gorampa Sonam Senge's Synopsis of Madhyamaka". PhD diss., Emory University, 2014. | Emory University | 31 August 2016 17:30:44 | ||
Dissipating Boundaries - The Life, Song-Poems, and Non-Sectarian Paradigm of Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol | Pang, Rachel Hua-Wei. "Dissipating Boundaries: The Life, Song-Poems, and Non-Sectarian Paradigm of Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol". PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2011. | University of Virginia | 31 August 2016 17:30:44 | ||
Dharmottaras Pramanaviniscayatika zum auf der Realitat basierenden logischen Nexus | Ishida, Hisataka. "Dharmottaras Pramanaviniscayatika zum auf der Realität basierenden logischen Nexus". PhD diss., University of Vienna, 2011. | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:30:43 | ||
Alternative Development on the Tibetan Plateau - The Case of the Slaughter Renunciation Movement | Kabzung, Gaerrang. "Alternative Development on the Tibetan Plateau: The Case of the Slaughter Renunciation Movement". PhD diss., University of Colorado, Boulder, 2011. | University of Colorado, Boulder | 31 August 2016 17:30:43 | ||
Die Einleitungsstrophen der Mulamadhyamakakarika - Ubersetzung und Studie des Kommentars von Pa tshab Nyi ma grags im Vergleich zu fruhen indischen Kommentaren | Kamarid, Dörte. "Die Einleitungsstrophen der Mūlamadhyamakakārikā: Übersetzung und Studie des Kommentars von Pa tshab Nyi ma grags im Vergleich zu frühen indischen Kommentaren". Master's thesis, University of Vienna, 2013. | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:30:43 | ||
Revelations of a Modern Mystic - The Life and Legacy of Kun bzang bde chen gling pa 1928-2006 | Hall, Amelia. "Revelations of a Modern Mystic: The Life and Legacy of Kun bzang bde chen gling pa 1928-2006". PhD diss., Oxford University, 2012. | University of Oxford | 31 August 2016 17:30:43 | ||
Politics of Tranquility - Religious Mobilities and Material Engagements of Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao China | Cho, Yasmin. "Politics of Tranquility: Religious Mobilities and Material Engagements of Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao China." PhD diss., Duke University, 2015. | Duke University | 31 August 2016 17:30:43 | ||
Reproducing the Sacred Places - The Eight Great Events of the Buddha's Life and their Commemorative Stupas in the Medieval Art of Tibet (10th-13th Century) | Pakhoutova, Elena. "Reproducing the Sacred Places: the Eight Great Events of the Buddha's Life and their Commemorative Stūpas in the Medieval Art of Tibet (10th-13th century)". PhD diss., University of Viginia, 2009. | University of Virginia | 31 August 2016 17:30:42 | ||
Carving Out Conventional Worlds - The Work of Apoha in Early Dharmakirtian Buddhism and Pratyabhijna Saivism | Prueitt, Catherine. "Carving out Conventional Worlds: The Work of Apoha in Early Dharmakīrtian Buddhism and Pratyabhijñā Śaivism." PhD diss., Emory University, 2016. | Emory University | 31 August 2016 17:30:42 | ||
The Revival of Tantrism - Tibetan Buddhism and Modern China | DiBeltulo, Martino. "The Revival of Tantrism: Tibetan Buddhism and Modern China." PhD diss., University of Michigan, 2015. | University of Michigan | 31 August 2016 17:30:42 | ||
Coming Down the Mountain - Transformations of Contemplative Culture in Eastern Tibet | McDougal, Elizabeth Ann. "Coming Down the Mountain: Transformations of Contemplative Culture in Eastern Tibet." Master's thesis, University of Sydney, 2016. | University of Sydney | 31 August 2016 17:30:42 | ||
Echoes of Enlightenment - The Life and Legacy of Sonam Peldren | Bessenger, Suzanne. "Echoes of Enlightenment: The Life and Legacy of Sonam Peldren". PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2010. | University of Virginia | 31 August 2016 17:30:41 | ||
Zur europaischen Wahrnehmung von Besessenheitsphanomenen und Orakelwesen in Tibet | Zotz, Birgit. "Zur europäischen Wahrnehmung von Besessenheitsphänomenen und Orakelwesen in Tibet". MA Thesis. University of Vienna, 2010. | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:30:41 | ||
Les tsha tsha du monde Tibetain - etudes de la production, de l'iconographie et des styles des moulages et estampages bouddhiques | Namgyal-lama, Kunsang. "Les tsha tsha du monde Tibétain: études de la production, de l'iconographie et des styles des moulages et estampages bouddhiques". PhD diss., Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2013. | Université Paris-Sorbonne | 31 August 2016 17:30:41 | ||
Epistolary Buddhism - Letter Writing and the Growth of Geluk Buddhism in Early Modern Asia | Kilby, Christina. "Epistolary Buddhism: Letter Writing and the Growth of Geluk Buddhism in Early Modern Asia." PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2015. | University of Virginia | 31 August 2016 17:30:41 | ||
Exorcising Luther Confronting the Demon of Modernity in Tibetan Buddhism | Daisley, Simon. "Exorcising Luther Confronting the Demon of Modernity in Tibetan Buddhism". Master's thesis, University of Canterbury, 2012. | University of Canterbury | 31 August 2016 17:30:41 | ||
Portrait of a Landscape - Depictions of the Meru Cosmos in Buddhist Art and Culture | Huntington, Eric. "Portrait of a Landscape: Depictions of the Meru Cosmos in Buddhist Art and Culture". PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2013. | University of Chicago | 31 August 2016 17:30:40 | ||
Die fruhesten Darstellungen der Schutzgottin dPal ldan Lha mo | Lirscher, Gabriele Henriette. "Die frühesten Darstellungen der Schutzgöttin dPal ldan Lha mo". Master's thesis, University of Vienna, 2013. | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:30:40 | ||
When Sutra Meets Tantra - Sgam po pa’s Four Dharma Doctrine as an Example for his Synthesis of the Bka’ gdams and Mahamudra Systems | Scheuermann, Rolf. "When Sūtra Meets Tantra – Sgam po pa’s Four Dharma Doctrine as an Example for his Synthesis of the Bka’ gdams- and Mahāmudrā-Systems." PhD diss., University of Vienna, 2015. | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:30:40 | ||
At Play in Paradox - The Curious Space Between Tibetan Buddhism and Western Practice | Gratton-Fabbri, Louise. "At Play in Paradox: The Curious Space Between Tibetan Buddhism and Western Practice". PhD diss., Arizona State University, 2010. | Arizona State University | 31 August 2016 17:30:40 | ||
The Temple of Tamzhing Lhundrup Choling and the Legacy of Pema Lingpa (1450-1521) - An Iconological Study | Maki, Ariana. "The Temple of Tamzhing Lhundrup Choling and the Legacy of Pema Lingpa (1450-1521): An Iconological Study". PhD diss., Ohio State University, 2012. | Ohio State University | 31 August 2016 17:30:39 | ||
Dignaga's Philosophy of Language - Dignaga on Anyapoha | Pind, Ole Holten. "Dignāga's Philosophy of Language - Dignāga on Anyāpoha". PhD diss., University of Vienna, 2009. | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:30:39 | ||
Unfolding the Dharma - The Juxtaposition of Michel Foucault's Late Work on the Themes of Religion and Sprituality Juxtaposed with Nagarjuna's Madhyamika Philosophy | Wicking, Andrew P. "Unfolding the Dharma: The Juxtaposition of Michel Foucault's Late Work on the Themes of Religion and Sprituality Juxtaposed with Nagarjuna's Madhyamika Philosophy." PhD diss., University of Divinity, Australia, 2011. | University of Divinity, Australia | 31 August 2016 17:30:39 | ||
Women in Vajrayana Buddhism — The Embodiment of Wisdom and Enlightenment in Traditionally Male-Oriented Buddhism | Coakley, Eneli. "Women in Vajrayāna Buddhism — The Embodiment of Wisdom and Enlightenment in Traditionally Male-Oriented Buddhism". Master's thesis, Georgetown University, 2012. | Georgetown University | 31 August 2016 17:30:39 | ||
The Bon sman sgrub Ritual | Sehnalova, Anna. "The Bon sman sgrub Ritual". Master's thesis, Oxford University, 2013. | University of Oxford | 31 August 2016 17:30:37 | ||
Unfettered Orientalism and Western Philosophical - Depictions of Buddhism On-screen | Byrne, Lauren. "Unfettered Orientalism & Western Philosophical: Depictions of Buddhism On-screen". Master's thesis, Graduate Theological Union, 2010. | Graduate Theological Union | 31 August 2016 17:30:37 | ||
Extracting the Essence - Bcud len in the Tibetan Literary Tradition | Oliphant, Charles Jamyang. "Extracting the Essence: 'Bcud len' in the Tibetan Literary Tradition." PhD diss., Oxford University, 2016. | University of Oxford | 31 August 2016 17:30:37 | ||
Patrul Rinpoche on Self-Cultivation - The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Tibetan Buddhist Spiritual Advice | Schapiro, Joshua D. "Patrul Rinpoche on Self-Cultivation: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Tibetan Buddhist Spiritual Advice". PhD diss., Harvard University, 2012. | Harvard University | 31 August 2016 17:30:37 | ||
Treasure-Traditions of Western Tibet rig-'dzin gar-dbang rdo-rje snying-po (1640-1685) and his Activities in Mang-yul Gung-thang | Solmsdorf, Nikolai. "Treasure-Traditions of Western Tibet rig-'dzin gar-dbang rdo-rje snying-po (1640-1685) and his Activities in Mang-yul Gung-thang". PhD diss., Ludwig-Maximilians-University, 2014. | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | 31 August 2016 17:30:36 | ||
Materials for the Study of Gesar Practices | Forgues, Gregory. "Materials for the Study of Gesar Practices". Master's thesis, University of Vienna, 2011. | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:30:36 | ||
A Study of the Story of Sadaprarudita in the Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra | Yang, Hung-yi. "A Study of the Story of Sadāprarudita in the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra". PhD diss., University of Sydney, 2013. | University of Sydney | 31 August 2016 17:30:36 | ||
The Improperly Dead - Tibetan Rolang as Buddhist Grotesquerie | Kodani, Mayumi. "The Improperly Dead: Tibetan Rolang as Buddhist Grotesquerie". Master's thesis, University of California at Santa Barbara, 2013. | University of California at Santa Barbara | 31 August 2016 17:30:36 | ||
Creating Sacred Space - The Religious Geography of Sa skya, Tibet's Medieval Capital | Venturi, Federica. "Creating Sacred Space: The Religious Geography of Sa skya, Tibet's Medieval Capital". PhD diss., Indiana University, 2013. | Indiana University | 31 August 2016 17:30:36 | ||
The Mother of All Monasteries - Gonlung Jampa Ling and the Rise of Mega Monasteries in Northeastern Tibet | Sullivan, Brenton. "The Mother of All Monasteries: Gonlung Jampa Ling and the Rise of Mega Monasteries in Northeastern Tibet". PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2013. | University of Virginia | 31 August 2016 17:30:35 | ||
A Theology of International Relations - A Buddhist Approach to Religion and Politics in an Interdependent World | Chavez-Segura, Alejandro. "A Theology of International Relations: A Buddhist Approach to Religion and Politics in an Interdependent World". PhD diss., University of St. Andrews, 2011. | University of St. Andrews | 31 August 2016 17:30:35 | ||
The Life Stories of Padmasambhava and their Significance for Tibetan Buddhists | Hughes, Stuart. "The Life Stories of Padmasambhava and their Significance for Tibetan Buddhists". Master's thesis, University of Gävle, 2013. | University of Gävle | 31 August 2016 17:30:35 | ||
The Wheel of Great Compassion - A Study of Dunhuang Manuscript p.3538 | Tiethof-Aronson, Adrian. "The Wheel of Great Compassion: A Study of Dunhuang Manuscript p.3538." Master's thesis, Temple University, 2015. | Temple University | 31 August 2016 17:30:34 | ||
Being and knowing in Wholeness Chinese Chan, Tibetan Dzogchen, and the Logic of Immediacy in Contemplation | Ying, Chinghui. "Being and knowing in Wholeness Chinese Chan, Tibetan Dzogchen, and the Logic of Immediacy in Contemplation". PhD diss., Rice University, 2010. | Rice University | 31 August 2016 17:30:34 | ||
British, Chinese, and Tibetan representations of the Mission to Tibet of 1904 | Myatt, Timothy Lloyd. "British, Chinese, and Tibetan representations of the Mission to Tibet of 1904". PhD diss., University of Oxford, 2011. | University of Oxford | 31 August 2016 17:30:34 | ||
Bringing Light into the Darkness - An Intellectual History of Tibet's Dark Age (842-978 CE) | Lopez, Manuel. "Bringing Light into the Darkness: An Intellectual History of Tibet's Dark Age (842-978 CE)". PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2014. | University of Virginia | 31 August 2016 17:30:33 | ||
Interpretations of Unity: Hermeneutics in Śākya mchog ldan's Interpretation of the Five Treatises of Maitreya | Turenne, Philippe. "Interpretations of Unity: Hermeneutics in Śākya mchog ldan's Interpretation of the Five Treatises of Maitreya." PhD diss., McGill University, 2010. https://archive.org/details/interpretationsofunityhermeneuticsinsakyamchogldaninterpretationoffivetreatiseso_985_N/mode/2up. | Abstract This dissertation is a study of the process through which Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, by synthesizing doctrines and texts into consistent models, integrates views of reality within doctrinal and soteriological systems. It consists of an analysis of the most fundamental doctrinal tension found in the Tibetan tradition, namely the apparent inconsistency of doctrines belonging to the negative Mādhyamika and to the more affirmative Yogācāra trends of Mahāyāna Buddhism. As a case study aiming to provide a first systematic examination of that problematic, the dissertation surveys and analyzes Tibetan interpretation of the set of texts referred to as the Five Treatises of Maitreya (byams chos sde lnga), and at the way those interpretations deal with the doctrinal tensions found in that set of text. In addition to providing a recension of major interpretations of the Five Treatises developed between 1100 and 1500, a detailed account is given of the model of interpretation given by gSer mdog Paṇ chen Śākya mchog ldan, a famous teacher of the Sa skya school of Tibetan Buddhism. When confronted with the features of other interpretations, Śākya mchog ldan's interpretation of the Five Treatises, which proceeds primarily by allowing a plurality of views to be maintained even at the level of definitive meaning, provides us with a new insight in the Tibetan philosophical tradition: the most fundamental dimension of philosophical reconciliation of doctrinal views, especially of the kind found in the Five Treatises, can be described as pertaining to textual hermeneutics. Moreover, Śākya mchog ldan's contribution to that domain of Buddhist thought, by placing hermeneutics at the very centre of his system of Buddhist doctrine and practice, suggests that hermeneutics is a fundamental category of all Buddhist philosophical debates, and that it should be part of any attempt to understand the Tibetan philosophical tradition. | McGill University | 31 August 2016 17:30:33 | |
Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan Diaspora in Delhi, 1959-1999 | Gurawa, Anju. "Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan Diaspora in Delhi, 1959-1999." PhD diss., Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2006. | Jawaharlal Nehru University | 31 August 2016 17:30:33 | ||
Kritische Edition, Ubersetzung und Interpretation des Lta ba‘i khyad par von Ye shes sde | Krobath, Florian. "Kritische Edition, Übersetzung und Interpretation des Lta ba‘i khyad par von Ye shes sde". Master's thesis, University of Vienna, 2011. | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:30:33 | ||
De l'école du milieu - transcendance, langage et raison dans la pensée de Wittgenstein, Tsongkhapa et Schopenhauer | Cossette-Trudel, Alexis. "De l'école du milieu: transcendance, langage et raison dans la pensée de Wittgenstein, Tsongkhapa et Schopenhauer". PhD diss., University of Quebec at Montreal, 2011. | University of Quebec at Montreal | 31 August 2016 17:30:33 | ||
Reflexion pure, Verite, Violence. Pour une pensee de la conditionnalite. Lecture croisee de Sartre et d'un texte tibetain | Filipucci, Alexis. "Réflexion pure, Vérité, Violence. Pour une pensée de la conditionnalité. Lecture croisée de Sartre et d'un texte tibétain". PhD diss., University of Liège, 2012. | University of Liège | 31 August 2016 17:30:32 | ||
The Five Elements in Tibetan Buddhism - Cosmology, Meditation, and Enlightenment | Egan, Nicholas. "The Five Elements in Tibetan Buddhism: Cosmology, Meditation, and Enlightenment". PhD diss., California Institute of Integral Studies, 2011. | California Institute of Integral Studies | 31 August 2016 17:30:32 | ||
Vom Bardo Thodol zum psychedelischen Handbuch | Grümayer, Matthias. "Vom Bardo Thödol zum psychedelischen Handbuch." Master's thesis, University of Vienna, 2015. | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:30:32 | ||
Visual Expressions of Buddhism in Contemporary Society - Tibetan Stupas Built by Karma Kagyu Organisations in Europe | Seegers, Eva. "Visual Expressions of Buddhism in Contemporary Society: Tibetan Stūpas Built by Karma Kagyu Organisations in Europe". PhD diss., Canterbury Christ Church University, 2011. | Canterbury Christ Church University | 31 August 2016 17:30:32 | ||
Substance and Sense - Objects of Power in the Life, Writings, and Legacy of the Tibetan Ritual Master sog bzlog pa blo gros rgyal mtshan | Gentry, James. "Substance and Sense: Objects of Power in the Life, Writings, and Legacy of the Tibetan Ritual Master sog bzlog pa blo gros rgyal mtshan." PhD diss., Harvard Unversity, 2014. | Harvard University | 31 August 2016 17:30:31 | ||
Painted Books for Plaster Walls - Visual Words in the Fourteenth-century Murals at the Tibetan Buddhist Temple of Shalu | Richardson, Sarah. "Painted Books for Plaster Walls: Visual Words in the Fourteenth-century Murals at the Tibetan Buddhist Temple of Shalu." PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2016. | University of Toronto | 31 August 2016 17:30:31 | ||
The Boundaries of Identity - The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Nationalism, and Ris med (non-sectarian) Identity in the Tibetan Diaspora | Young, Elena. "The Boundaries of Identity: The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Nationalism, and Ris med (non-sectarian) Identity in the Tibetan Diaspora". Master's thesis, McGill University, 2011. | McGill University | 31 August 2016 17:30:31 | ||
The Case of 'Ju Mi pham (1846–1912) and Dpa' ris Rab gsal (1840–1912): A Study in Dgag lan Debate | Viehbeck, Markus. "The Case of 'Ju Mi pham (1846–1912) and Dpa' ris Rab gsal (1840–1912): A Study in Dgag lan Debate". PhD diss., University of Vienna, 2012. | Abstract The present dissertation is a case study in dgag lan debate, a specific form of debate that developed in Tibet, conducted through the exchange of texts. The dispute that is investigated evolved between the Rnying ma scholar 'Ju Mi pham (1846–1912) and his Dge lugs opponent Dpa' ris Rab gsal (1840–1912) and centres on the correct interpretation of the ninth chapter of the Bodhicaryāvatāra, an Indian work (7th–8th ct. CE) that is of pivotal importance to the understanding of Madhyamaka thought. Polemics were exchanged over a period of about 27 years and involved the composition of six treatises, which makes this particular debate one of the most extended cases of its kind. The first section of the thesis provides the general context of the controversy, by reconstructing its historical development, placing it within the formation of polemical literature in general, and exploring the historical conditions for the emergence of the debate and its socio-political background. The main part deals with the content of the debate as it becomes visible through the texts that were exchanged. It outlines the key issues of the controversy, explains their respective background, and investigates the dynamic development of the debate by following the exchange of arguments beyond the borders of the individual texts. The last section – intended as a complement for the specialist – provides a detailed and comprehensive structural analysis of the relevant texts down to the level of individual arguments and makes their connections to previous and later arguments explicit. (Source Accessed Jan 28, 2021) | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:30:31 | |
The Body Mandala Debate - Knowing the Body through a Network of Fifteenth-Century Tibetan Buddhist Texts | Dachille, Rae. "The Body Mandala Debate: Knowing the Body through a Network of Fifteenth-Century Tibetan Buddhist Texts." PhD diss., University of California at Berkeley, 2015. | University of California at Berkeley | 31 August 2016 17:30:31 | ||
Madhyamaka and Pyrrhonism - Doctrinal, Linguistic and Historical Parallels and Interactions Between Madhyama Buddhism and Hellenic Pyrrhonism | Uddiyan, Saber. "Madhyamaka and Pyrrhonism: Doctrinal, Linguistic and Historical Parallels and Interactions Between Madhyama Buddhism and Hellenic Pyrrhonism". PhD diss., Oxford University, 2014. | University of Oxford | 31 August 2016 17:30:30 | ||
Songs of a Wandering Yogi - mgur as a Distinctly Tibetan Genre in the Verse of Godrakpa | Divall, Jennifer. "Songs of a Wandering Yogi: mgur as a Distinctly Tibetan Genre in the Verse of Godrakpa." Master's Thesis, McGill University, 2014. | McGill University | 31 August 2016 17:30:30 | ||
Red Tara - Lineages of Literature and Practice | Stevens, Rachael. "Red Tārā: Lineages of Literature and Practice". PhD diss., Oxford University, 2010. | University of Oxford | 31 August 2016 17:30:30 | ||
Spacious Minds, Empty Selves - Coping and Resilience in the Tibetan Exile Community | Lewis, Sara E. "Spacious Minds, Empty Selves: Coping and Resilience in the Tibetan Exile Community". PhD diss., Columbia University, 2014. | Columbia University | 31 August 2016 17:30:30 | ||
Ubersetzung von Prajnakaramatis Kommentar zum Bodhicaryavatara, 8.1-39 | Kleibel, Margarita. "Übersetzung von Prajñākaramatis Kommentar zum Bodhicaryāvatāra, 8.1-39". Master's thesis, University of Vienna, 2010. | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:30:29 | ||
Assembled Identities - Transformation of Identity in Tibetan Buddhist Three-Year Retreats | Lorien, Dawa. "Assembled Identities: Transformation of Identity in Tibetan Buddhist Three-Year Retreats". PhD diss., California Institute of Integral Studies, 2012. | California Institute of Integral Studies | 31 August 2016 17:30:29 | ||
Tonglen Meditation's Effects on Compassion in Novice Meditators | McKnight, Daphna. "Tonglen Meditation's Effects on Compassion in Novice Meditators". PhD diss., University of the West, 2014. | University of the West | 31 August 2016 17:30:29 | ||
Buddhism and the Production of American Cool | Royal, James. "Buddhism and the Production of American Cool". PhD diss., 2010. | University of Florida | 31 August 2016 17:30:29 | ||
Vimalamitra - The Legend of an Indian Saint and His Tibetan Emanations | Gruber, Joel. "Vimalamitra: The Legend of an Indian Saint and His Tibetan Emanations." PhD diss., UC Santa Barbara, 2016. | University of California at Santa Barbara | 31 August 2016 17:30:29 | ||
Die Ma-mo im tibetischen Kulturraum | Lorenz, Isabella. "Die Ma-mo im tibetischen Kulturraum". PhD diss., University of Vienna, 2010. | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:30:28 | ||
Monastic Pedagogy on Emptiness in the Geluk Sect of Tibetan Buddhism - Intellectual History and Analysis of Topics Concerning Ignorance According to Svatantrika-Madhyamika in Monastic Textbooks by Jamyang Shaypa | Yi, Jongbok. "Monastic Pedagogy on Emptiness in the Geluk Sect of Tibetan Buddhism: Intellectual History and Analysis of Topics Concerning Ignorance According to Svātantrika-Mādhyamika in Monastic Textbooks by Jamyang Shaypa." PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2013. | University of Virginia | 31 August 2016 17:30:28 | ||
Buddhas in the Making - Path, Perfectibility, and Gnosis in the Abhisamayalamkara Literature | Harter, Pierre-Julien. "Buddhas in the Making: Path, Perfectibility, and Gnosis in the Abhisamayalamkara Literature." PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2015. | University of Chicago | 31 August 2016 17:30:28 | ||
Between Patron and Priest - Amdo Tibet under Qing Rule | Oidtmann, Gordon. "Between Patron and Priest: Amdo Tibet under Qing Rule". PhD diss., Harvard University, 2013. | Harvard University | 31 August 2016 17:30:28 | ||
Constructing a Buddhist-Inspired Framework for Examining Tulkus' Use of Cyberspace | Soper, Catherine. "Constructing a Buddhist-Inspired Framework for Examining Tulkus' Use of Cyberspace". Master's thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, 2014. | Victoria University of Wellington | 31 August 2016 17:30:27 | ||
Modernism in Tibetan Art - The Creative Journey of Four Artists | Tsewang, Tashi. "Modernism in Tibetan Art: The Creative Journey of Four Artists". PhD diss., Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, 2014. | Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet | 31 August 2016 17:30:27 | ||
Transforming Tibetan Kingship - The Portrayal of Khri srong lde brtsan in the Early Buddhist Histories | Doney, Lewis J. A. "Transforming Tibetan Kingship: The Portrayal of Khri srong lde brtsan in the Early Buddhist Histories". PhD diss., School of Oriental and African Studies, 2011. | School of Oriental and African Studies | 31 August 2016 17:30:27 | ||
The Use of, and Controversy Surrounding, the Term Atman in the Indian Buddhist Tathagatagarbha Literature | Jones, Christopher V. "The Use of, and Controversy Surrounding, the Term Ātman in the Indian Buddhist Tathāgatagarbha Literature." PhD diss., Oxford University, 2015. | Abstract The aims of this thesis are two. Firstly, to examine usage of the term ātman in the Indian tathāgatagarbha sources which develop use of this expression. This entails a close reading of relevant sources (primarily Mahāyāna sūtra literature), and attention to how this term is used in the context of each. These sources present different perspectives on the tathāgatagarbha and its designation as a self; this study aims to examine significant differences between, and similarities across, these texts and their respective doctrines. The second aim is to attempt an account of why authors of these texts ventured to designate the tathāgatagarbha with the term ātman, especially when some of our sources suggest that this innovation received some opposition, while others deem it in requirement of strong qualification, or to be simply inappropriate. It is not my objective to account for whether or not the tathāgatagarbha is or is not implicitly what we may deem ‘a self’ on the terms of Buddhist tradition; rather, I am concerned with the manner in which this expression itself was adopted, and – in light of clear difficulties raised by it – what may have motivated those authors responsible. I argue not only that we can trace the development of this designation across the tathāgatagarbha literature, but also that those authors responsible for its earliest usage adopted an attitude towards non-Buddhist discourses on the self that requires special attention. This, I believe, had its roots in an account of the Buddha and his influence that advances our understanding of one tradition of Mahāyāna Buddhology, and its ambition to affirm its superiority over other Indian religious traditions. (Source Accessed October 29, 2019) | University of Oxford | 31 August 2016 17:30:26 | |
The Sources for the Writing of the Rgyud bzhi, Tibetan Medical Classic | Ga, Yang. "The Sources for the Writing of the "Rgyud bzhi", Tibetan Medical Classic". PhD diss., Harvard University, 2010. | Harvard University | 31 August 2016 17:30:25 | ||
A Study of Cognitive Linguistic Structure Based on the Four Conditions of the Mulamadhyamakakarika | You, Hee Jong. "A study of cognitive linguistic structure based on the four conditions of the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā". PhD diss., University of the West, 2013. | University of the West | 31 August 2016 17:30:25 | ||
On the Fringes of the Cold War, Shangri-La, and American Consciousness - Lowell Thomas, Lowell Thomas, Jr., and Tibet, 1949-1970 | Ansley, John. "On the Fringes of the Cold War, Shangri-La, and American Consciousness: Lowell Thomas, Lowell Thomas, Jr., and Tibet, 1949-1970." PhD diss., SUNY Albany, 2016. | State University of New York at Albany | 31 August 2016 17:30:25 | ||
Le renoncement au feminin - couvents et nonnes dans le bouddhisme tibetain | Schneider, Nicole. "Le renoncement au féminin: couvents et nonnes dans le bouddhisme tibétain". PhD diss., Université Paris Ouest Nanterre-La Défense, 2010. | Université Paris Ouest Nanterre-La Défense | 31 August 2016 17:30:25 | ||
Samrajyalaksmipithika - An Imperial Tantric Manual from Vijayanagara | Dinnell, Darry. "Sāmrājyalaksmīpīthikā: An Imperial Tantric Manual from Vijayanagara". Master's thesis, McGill University, 2012. | McGill University | 31 August 2016 17:30:25 | ||
Death, Gender and Extraordinary Knowing - The Delog ('das log) Tradition in Nepal and Eastern Tibet | Prude, Mary Alyson. "Death, Gender and Extraordinary Knowing: The Delog ('das log) Tradition in Nepal and Eastern Tibet". PhD diss., University of California at Santa Barbara, 2011. | University of California at Santa Barbara | 31 August 2016 17:30:25 | ||
The Impact of Imperial and Local Patronage on Early Ming Temples in the Sino-Tibetan Frontier | Campbell, Aurelia. "The Impact of Imperial and Local Patronage on Early Ming Temples in the Sino-Tibetan Frontier". PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2011. | University of Pennsylvania | 31 August 2016 17:30:23 | ||
Kangsol - A Vajrakila Performance Tradition of Sumthrang Monastery in Central Bhutan | Nyenda, Sonam. "Kangsöl: A Vajrakīla Performance Tradition of Sumthrang Monastery in Central Bhutan." Master's thesis, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2016. | University of Colorado, Boulder | 31 August 2016 17:30:23 | ||
Patronage and Meaning of Tibetan Buddhist Temples Decreed by the Qing Emperors in Central China in the Early and Middle Qing Dynasty | Liu, Dan. "Patronage and Meaning of Tibetan Buddhist Temples Decreed by the Qing Emperors in Central China in the Early and Middle Qing Dynasty". PhD diss., Hong Kong University, 2010. | Hong Kong University | 31 August 2016 17:30:22 | ||
Dharmapala in gTsug lag khang Temple, Tabo Monastery | Niebuhr, Uwe. "Dharmapala in gTsug lag khang Temple, Tabo Monastery." Master's thesis, University of Vienna, 2015. | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:30:21 | ||
Nagarjuna's Philosophy of Emptiness and Political Philosophy Liberty in Action | Mendelson, Toby. "Nāgārjuna's Philosophy of Emptiness and Political Philosophy Liberty in Action". PhD diss., University of Melbourne, 2013. | University of Melbourne | 31 August 2016 17:30:21 | ||
Embodying Generosity - A Comparison of Buddhist and Feminist Views of the Body in the Chod Ritual | Gabriel, Victor. "Embodying Generosity: A Comparison of Buddhist and Feminist Views of the Body in the Chöd Ritual." PhD diss., University of the West, 2015. | University of the West | 31 August 2016 17:30:20 | ||
The Development of 'Pho ba Liturgy in Medieval Tibet | Mei, Ching Hsuan. "The Development of 'Pho ba Liturgy in Medieval Tibet". PhD diss., Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, 2009. | Universität Bonn | 31 August 2016 17:30:20 | ||
Keeping the Faith - An Investigation into the Ways that Tibetan Buddhist Ethics and Practice Inform and Direct Development Activity in Ladakh, North-West India | Butcher, Andrea. "Keeping the Faith: An Investigation into the Ways that Tibetan Buddhist Ethics and Practice Inform and Direct Development Activity in Ladakh, North-West India". PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2013. of Aberdeen, 2013. | University of Aberdeen | 31 August 2016 17:30:20 | ||
Secrets of the Vajra Body - Dngos po'i gnas lugs and the Apotheosis of the Body in the Work of Rgyal ba Yang dgon pa | Miller, Willa Blythe. "Secrets of the Vajra Body: Dngos po'i gnas lugs and the Apotheosis of the Body in the Work of Rgyal ba Yang dgon pa". PhD diss., Harvard University, 2013. | Harvard University | 31 August 2016 17:30:20 | ||
Modernity, Tourism and the Geographies of Religious Change in a Bon Region of Tibet | Nan, Ying. "Modernity, Tourism and the Geographies of Religious Change in a Bon Region of Tibet". PhD diss., University of Leeds, 2014. | University of Leeds | 31 August 2016 17:30:20 | ||
Die Lehre von den drei Beschaffenheiten im Lichte von Vinitadevas Trimsikatika und 'Ju Mi phams Kommentar zu Vasubandhus Trimsika | Dolensky, Jan. "Die Lehre von den drei Beschaffenheiten im Lichte von Vinītadevas Triṃśikāṭīkā und 'Ju Mi phams Kommentar zu Vasubandhus Triṃśikā". Master's thesis, University of Vienna, 2013. | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:30:19 | ||
Eine ideengeschichtliche Untersuchung des Mahayana-Sutras Jnanalokalamkara | Jäger, Heidrun. "Eine ideengeschichtliche Untersuchung des Mahayana-Sutras Jnanalokalamkara". MA thesis, University of Vienna, 2013. | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:30:19 | ||
Gotterdarstellungen aus der Grundungsphase von Tabo im kulturhistorischen Kontext | Strinu, Monica. "Götterdarstellungen aus der Gründungsphase von Tabo im kulturhistorischen Kontext". Master's thesis, University of Vienna, 2013. | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:30:19 | ||
An Exploration of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism and its Art - A Potential Resource for Contemporary Spiritual and Art Practice | Peng, Jia. "An Exploration of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism and its Art: a Potential Resource for Contemporary Spiritual and Art Practice". PhD diss., University College London, 2013. | University College London | 31 August 2016 17:30:19 | ||
Like Pouring Water into Water - Buddhist Lineages, Modernity and the Continuity of Memory in the Twentieth-Century History of Tibetan Buddhism | Pitkin Annabella. "Like Pouring Water into Water: Buddhist Lineages, Modernity and the Continuity of Memory in the Twentieth-Century History of Tibetan Buddhism". PhD diss., Columbia University, 2009. | Columbia University | 31 August 2016 17:30:19 | ||
Ethical Formation in the Works and Life of 'Brug Smyon Kun Dga' Legs Pa | Monson, Elizabeth."Ethical Formation in the Works and Life of 'Brug Smyon Kun Dga' Legs Pa." PhD diss., Harvard University, 2015. | Harvard University | 31 August 2016 17:30:18 | ||
Buddhist Metaphysics and its Possibilities with Special Reference to Mulamadhyamakakarika of Nagarjuna | Lao-Areun, Prasarn. "Buddhist Metaphysics and its Possibilities with Special Reference to Mulamadhyamakakarika of Nagarjuna". PhD diss., University of Mysore, 2014. | University of Mysore | 31 August 2016 17:30:18 | ||
Daughter of Self-Liberation - Lineage Position and Transmission in the Namthar of Do Dasel Wangmo | Michalson, Ravenna. "Daughter of Self-Liberation: Lineage Position and Transmission in the Namthar of Do Dasel Wangmo". Master's thesis, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2012. | University of Colorado, Boulder | 31 August 2016 17:30:18 | ||
Selected Chapters from the Catuspithatantra | Szántó, Péter-Dániel. "Selected Chapters from the Catuṣpīṭhatantra". PhD diss., Oxford University, 2013. | University of Oxford | 31 August 2016 17:30:18 | ||
Lhagang Monastery in Myth, History and Contemporary Society | Sonam, Wangmo. "Lhagang Monastery in Myth, History and Contemporary Society". Master's thesis, University of Oslo, 2013. | University of Oslo | 31 August 2016 17:30:17 | ||
The View from Nowhere - The Travels of the Third Karmapa, rang byung rdo rje in Story and Songs | Gamble, Ruth Ellen. "The View from Nowhere: The Travels of the Third Karmapa, rang byung rdo rje in Story and Songs." PhD diss., Australian National University, 2014. | Australian National University | 31 August 2016 17:30:17 | ||
Materials of Buddhist Culture - Aesthetics and Cosmopolitanism at Mindroling Monastery | Townsend, Dominique. "Materials of Buddhist Culture: Aesthetics and Cosmopolitanism at Mindroling Monastery". PhD diss., Columbia University, 2012. | Columbia University | 31 August 2016 17:30:17 | ||
Die Anwendung der tathagatagarbha-Lehre in der bKa' brgyud-Tradition gemass einer von 'Jam mgon Kong sprul Blo gros mtha' yas verfassten Anleitung zur gzhan stong-Sichtweise | Draszczyk, Martina. "Die Anwendung der tathāgatagarbha-Lehre in der bKa' brgyud-Tradition gemäß einer von 'Jam mgon Kong sprul Blo gros mtha' yas verfassten Anleitung zur gzhan stong-Sichtweise." PhD diss., University of Vienna, 2012. | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:30:17 | ||
Clear Light Dreams and Sleep - An Interview Study of Tibetan Buddhist Dzogchen Masters | Marchevsky, Thomas. "Clear Light Dreams and Sleep: An Interview Study of Tibetan Buddhist Dzogchen Masters". PhD diss., Saybrook University, 2013. | Saybrook University | 31 August 2016 17:30:17 | ||
Monism, Non-Dualism and the Mind - A Comparison of Spinoza’s Ethics and Santideva’s The Way of the Bodhisattva | Noble, Kathrine Marie. "Monism, Non-Dualism and the Mind: A Comparison of Spinoza’s Ethics and Śāntideva’s The Way of the Bodhisattva." Master's thesis, Monash University, 2016. | Monash University | 31 August 2016 17:30:16 | ||
Food of Sinful Demons (PhD Diss. 2013) | Barstow, Geoffrey. "Food of Sinful Demons: A History of Vegetarianism in Tibet". PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2013. | University of Virginia | 31 August 2016 17:30:16 | ||
The Life and Times of Mingyur Peldron - Female Leadership in 18th Century Tibetan Buddhism | Dyer Melnick, Alison. "The Life and Times of Mingyur Peldron: Female Leadership in 18th Century Tibetan Buddhism". PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2014. | University of Virginia | 31 August 2016 17:30:16 | ||
The Life and Works of the Thirteenth karma-pa bdud-'dul-rdo-rje (1733 - 1797) | Coura, Gabriele. "The Life and Works of the Thirteenth karma-pa bdud-'dul-rdo-rje (1733 - 1797)". Master's thesis, University of Vienna, 2013. | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:30:16 | ||
Purity, Embodiment and the Immaterial Body - An Exploration of Buddhism at a Tibetan Monastery in Karnataka, South India | Clay, Gemma. "Purity, Embodiment and the Immaterial Body: An Exploration of Buddhism at a Tibetan Monastery in Karnataka, South India." PhD diss., Brunel University, 2016. | Brunel University | 31 August 2016 17:30:16 | ||
Global Place, Lived Space - Everyday life in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery for Nuns in Northern India | Lohuis, E.G.E. "Global Place, Lived Space: Everyday life in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery for Nuns in Northern India". PhD diss., Vrije Universieit, 2013. | Vrije Universiteit | 31 August 2016 17:30:15 | ||
Vision of Samantabhadra - The Dzokchen Anthology of Rindzin Godem | Turpeinen, Katarina. "Vision of Samantabhadra - The Dzokchen Anthology of Rindzin Godem." PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2015. | University of Virginia | 31 August 2016 17:30:15 | ||
When the Sun's Rays are as Shadows - The Nechung Rituals and the Politics of Spectacle in Tibetan Exile | Nair, Urmila. "When the Sun's Rays are as Shadows: The Nechung Rituals and the Politics of Spectacle in Tibetan Exile". PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2010. | University of Chicago | 31 August 2016 17:30:15 | ||
Linguistic Ambiguities, the Transmissional Process, and the Earliest Recoverable Language of Buddhism | Levman, Bryan Geoffrey. "Linguistic Ambiguities, the Transmissional Process, and the Earliest Recoverable Language of Buddhism". PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2014. | University of Toronto | 31 August 2016 17:30:15 | ||
Organizing Religion - Situating the Three-Vow Texts of the Tibetan Buddhist Renaissance | Dickson, Alnis. "Organizing Religion: Situating the Three-Vow Texts of the Tibetan Buddhist Renaissance". Master's thesis, McGill University, 2010. | McGill University | 31 August 2016 17:30:14 | ||
Die Aufnahme des Erleuchtungsgeistes: Eine Übersetzung von Prajñākaramatis Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā 3.1-19 | Hochwarter, Sandra. "Die Aufnahme des Erleuchtungsgeistes: Eine Übersetzung von Prajñākaramatis Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā 3.1-19". PhD diss., University of Vienna, 2013. http://othes.univie.ac.at/26013/1/2013-01-31_0308500.pdf. | Abstract Śāntideva was a Buddhist monk from India and a follower of the Madhyamaka tradition who composed the Bodhicaryāvatāra in the 8th century A.D. His literary work describes the spiritual path of a bodhisattva, who by following step by step the six perfections (pāramitā), beginning with the production of the mind of enlightenment (bodhicitta), until reaching the insight (prajñā) into the highest truth, approaches his goal: The enlightenment (bodhi). In doing so he is constantly accompanied by his compassion (karuṇā) for all beings who are caught in the suffering of saṃsāra and to whom he commits to helping, to whom he pledges to postpone his own salvation until all suffering has come to an end and all beings have gained enlightenment. | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:30:14 | |
The Madhyamaka Speaks to the West - A Philosophical Analysis of Sunyata as a Universal Truth | McGuire, Robert. "The Madhyamaka Speaks to the West: A Philosophical Analysis of Śūnyatā as a Universal Truth." PhD diss., School of European Culture and Languages, 2015. | School of European Culture and Languages | 31 August 2016 17:30:14 | ||
Invoking the Blessings of the Tibetan Buddhist Goddess Tara Through Chanting Her Mantra to Overcome Fear | Villanueva, Karen Nelson. "Invoking the Blessings of the Tibetan Buddhist Goddess Tara Through Chanting Her Mantra to Overcome Fear". PhD diss., California Institute of Integral Studies, 2013. | California Institute of Integral Studies | 31 August 2016 17:30:14 | ||
A Tibetan Buddhist Polymath in Modern China | Willock, Nicole D. "A Tibetan Buddhist Polymath in Modern China". PhD diss., Indiana University, 2011. | Indiana University | 31 August 2016 17:30:14 | ||
Becoming the Wish-Fulfilling Tree - Compassion and the Transformation of Ethical Subjectivity in the Lojong Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism | Ozawa-de Silva, Brendan. "Becoming the Wish-Fulfilling Tree: Compassion and the Transformation of Ethical Subjectivity in the Lojong Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism." PhD diss., Emory University, 2015. | Emory University | 31 August 2016 17:30:14 | ||
Charles Bell's Collection of 'Curios' - Negotiating Tibetan Material Culture on the Anglo-Tibetan Borderlands (1900-1945) | Martin, Emma. "Charles Bell's Collection of 'Curios': Negotiating Tibetan Material Culture on the Anglo-Tibetan Borderlands (1900-1945)". PhD diss., School of Oriental and African Studies, 2014. | School of Oriental and African Studies | 31 August 2016 17:30:13 | ||
The Cult of the 'Go ba'i lha lnga - A Study With Pictorial and Written Material of the Five Personal Protective Deities | Jovic, Nika. "The Cult of the 'Go ba'i lha lnga: A Study with Pictorial and Written Material of the Five Personal Protective Deities". MA thesis, University of Vienna, 2011. http://othes.univie.ac.at/11095/1/2010-09-09_0509932.pdf. | The following work is based upon my research on transcendental beings (Tib. lha) who belong to the category of Tibetan protective deities (Tib. srung ma). There are two main classes according to which protective deities are arranged.[1] One includes the worldly guardians of the dharma (Tib. jig rten pa) and the other, those who have already passed beyond the six spheres of existence (Tib. jig rten las das pa).[2] The main characteristic of supramundane deities is that they are seen as a means or a path to complete awakening, while the others are merely a medium to clear away obstacles and increase peopleʼs well-being and prosperity. The five personal protectors (Tib. ʼGo baʼi lha lnga) belong to the latter class. This distinction refers to Nebesky-Wojkowitz (1956), an Austrian Ethnologist and Tibetologist, who was intensely engaged in the study of Tibetan folk religion and composed the most extensive work on protective deities.[3] notes1. Nebesky-Wojkowitz (1956). | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:30:13 | |
Anusmrti in Hinayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana Perspectives: A Lens for the Full Range of Buddha's Teachings | Roe, Sharon J. "Anusmrti in Hīnayāna, Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna Perspectives: A Lens for the Full Range of Buddha's Teachings". PhD diss., California Institute of Integral Studies, 2014. | California Institute of Integral Studies | 31 August 2016 17:30:13 | ||
Nechung - The Ritual History and Institutionalization of a Tibetan Buddhist Protector Deity | Bell, Christopher. "Nechung: The Ritual History and Institutionalization of a Tibetan Buddhist Protector Deity". PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2013. | University of Virginia | 31 August 2016 17:30:13 | ||
A Record of a Tibetan Medieval Debate - History, Language, and Efficacy of Tibetan Buddhist Debate | Huang, Chen Yuan. "A Record of a Tibetan Medieval Debate: History, Language, and Efficacy of Tibetan Buddhist Debate". PhD diss., Harvard University, 2014. | Harvard University | 31 August 2016 17:30:13 | ||
Revival of Indigenous Practices and Identity in 21st Century Inner Asia | Rubin, Amalia. "Revival of Indigenous Practices and Identity in 21st Century Inner Asia." Master's thesis, University of Washington, 2015. | University of Washington | 31 August 2016 17:30:12 | ||
Adapting the Buddha's Biographies - A Cultural History of the Wish-Fulfilling Vine in Tibet, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries | Lin, Nancy Grace. "Adapting the Buddha's Biographies: A Cultural History of the Wish-Fulfilling Vine in Tibet, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries". PhD diss., University of California at Berkeley, 2011. | University of California at Berkeley | 31 August 2016 17:30:12 | ||
Das gZhan stong dbu ma'i rgyan des rJe btsun Taranatha Kun dga' snying po | Scheuermann, Rolf. "Das gZhan stong dbu ma'i rgyan des rJe btsun Tāranātha Kun dga' snying po". Master's thesis, University of Vienna, 2010. | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:30:12 | ||
Ikh Khuree - A Nomadic Monastery and the Later Buddhist Art of Mongolia | Tsultem, Uranchimeg. "Ikh Khuree: A Nomadic Monastery and the Later Buddhist Art of Mongolia". PhD diss., University of California at Berkeley, 2009. | University of California at Berkeley | 31 August 2016 17:30:12 | ||
A Civilized Yogi - The Life of French Explorer Alexandra David-Neel | Kasevich, Heidi. "A Civilized Yogi: The Life of French Explorer Alexandra David-Néel". PhD diss., New York University, 2011. | The primary purpose of this biography is to go beyond this adventure hero narrative, the “exceptional woman” storyline, which can at times “strain the reader’s credulity.”[4] I examine the ups and downs, accomplishments and challenges of her life in the context of the history of gender and politics, feminism and imperialism from her birth in 1868 to her death in 1969. For example, to what extent did French cultural [3] norms of femininity (and masculinity) or colonial rivalries in Central Asia shape her life? I take as givens that biography entails a study of the “living dialectic between an individual and her epoch” and that the self is a living entity that is “multiple and constantly changing.”[5] By singing, acting, teaching, traveling and writing, Alexandra sought to be an independent woman, both emotionally and financially. Initially spurning societal expectations of the dutiful wife and mother, she invented and reinvented herself as the circumstances of her life changed with time and place. That she signed her publications with a variety of pen names, from Myrial to David-Néel, is indicative of the manner in which her attempt to craft a work-based identity in a patriarchal society did not follow a simple linear trajectory.[6] Moreover, in her quest to live a fully free and authentic life, Alexandra constantly experienced a profound sense of tension between the conflicting landscapes of duty and desire, belonging to the West and escaping to the Orient.[7] (Kasevich, introduction, 2–3) Notes
| New York University | 31 August 2016 17:30:12 | |
Seeing Beyond the State? - The Negotiation of Noral Boundaries in the Revival and Development of Tibetan Buddhist Monasticism in Contemporary China | 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. | University of Leeds | 31 August 2016 17:30:11 | ||
Refuting the Conditioned - The Samskrtarthapratisedha of Candrakirti's Catuhsatakatika | Johnson, Dennis. "Refuting the Conditioned - The Saṃskṛtārthapratiṣedha of Candrakīrti's Catuḥśatakaṭīkā". MA Thesis, University of Vienna, 2012. | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:30:11 | ||
Ratnakirti's Apohasiddhi - A Critical Edition, Annotated Translation, and Study | McAllister, Patrick. "Ratnakīrti's Apohasiddhi: A Critical Edition, Annotated Translation, and Study". PhD diss., University of Vienna, 2011. | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:30:11 | ||
The Emergence of a Myth - In Search of the Origins of the Life Story of Shenrab Miwo, the Founder of Bon | 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. | Universiteit Leiden | 31 August 2016 17:30:11 | ||
Minority Within a Minority - Being Bonpo in the Tibetan Community in Exile | Liu, Yu-Shan. "Minority Within a Minority: Being Bonpo in the Tibetan Community in Exile". PhD diss., University of Edinburgh, 2011. | University of Edinburgh | 31 August 2016 17:30:10 | ||
The Journey of an Image - The Western Perception of Tibet from 1900-1950 | 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. | University of Texas at El Paso | 31 August 2016 17:30:10 | ||
The Jeweled Fish Hook - Monastic Exemplarity in the Shalu Abbatial History | Wood, Benjamin. "The Jeweled Fish Hook: Monastic Exemplarity in the Shalu Abbatial History". PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2012. | University of Toronto | 31 August 2016 17:30:10 | ||
Tsong kha pa and the Foundations of Rationality | Falls, Edward Ray. "Tsong kha pa and the Foundations of Rationality". PhD diss., Emory University, 2010. | Emory University | 31 August 2016 17:30:10 | ||
Tchen-re-si in der Diaspora | Jäger, Hildegard. "Tchen-re-si in der Diaspora". PhD diss., University of Vienna, 2013. | Universität Wien | 31 August 2016 17:30:10 | ||
Presence in Tibetan Landscapes - Spirited Agency and Ritual Healing in Rebgong | Collins, Dawn. "Presence in Tibetan Landscapes: Spirited Agency and Ritual Healing in Rebgong." PhD diss., Cardiff University, 2014. | Cardiff University | 31 August 2016 17:30:09 | ||
A Critical Study of the Life of the 13th-century Tibetan monk U rgyan pa Rin chen dpal Based on his Biographies | 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. | University of Oxford | 31 August 2016 17:30:09 | ||
In This Body and Life - The Religious and Social Significance of Hermits and Hermitages in Eastern Tibet Today and During Recent History | 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. | Universität Berlin | 31 August 2016 17:30:09 | ||
A Study of the Nidana - An Underrated Canonical Text of the Mulasarvastivada-vinaya | Kishino, Ryoji. "A Study of the Nidana: An Underrated Canonical Text of the Mulasarvastivada-vinaya". PhD diss., University of California at Los Angeles, 2013. | University of California at Los Angeles | 31 August 2016 17:30:09 | ||
Time and Causality in Yogacara Buddhism | Ng, Suk-Fun. "Time and causality in Yogācāra Buddhism". PhD diss., University of Hong Kong, 2014. | University of Hong Kong | 31 August 2016 17:30:08 | ||
Writing True Places in the Twilight of Empire and the Dawn of Revolution - The Buddhist Historiography of the Mongol Zawa Damdin Luwsandamdin (1867-1937) | 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. | University of Toronto | 31 August 2016 17:30:08 | ||
Consuming the Devil's Idols: (Re)presenting Tibetan Art in the United States - Vol. 1 | McGowan, Dianne. "Consuming the Devil's Idols: (Re)presenting Tibetan Art in the United States". Vol. 1. PhD diss., Australian National University, 2010. | Abstract This dissertation examines the transformation of Tibetan artefacts into fine art. I seek to understand how this transformation originated, why and when it occurred and, most significantly, the value creation processes associated with maintaining artworlds. My original contribution is the analysis of the history of Tibetan art's reception in the west. In essence, I investigate the western commodification of Tibetan art during the twentieth century. The focus of this study is the central locus for this phenomenon, the United States, specifically New York City. Beginning with the premise that the concept of Tibetan art as a fine art is a western construct, I trace the (re)presentation of Tibet and Tibetan culture within the western artworld. The exhibition of Tibetan art by the prestigious New York Asia Society in 1969 exemplified the worthiness of Tibetan artefacts as art and began an 'informational' cascade phenomenon. I argue that the institutionalization of Tibetan art discourse at this exhibition, acknowledged the transforming process. Through observations and critical analysis of primary and secondary material, this dissertation investigates the transformation of Tibetan artefacts into art by means of the value creation processes of art exhibition catalogues and associated New York Asia Week activities - the art auctions and fairs. This analysis found that the recent emphasis on the aestheticization of Tibetan art has generated a burgeoning private demand for museum-quality masterpieces, resulting in anomalies in collecting and exhibiting practices. For instance, the alleged practice of overpainting highlights the over emphasis on aesthetic appreciation, while bringing into question the interrelationship of authority and authenticity. At the same time, the narrative of lost Tibetan culture obscures questions of representation, consuming and ownership. | Australian National University | 31 August 2016 17:30:08 | |
Engaging Suffering, Embodying Compassion - the Bodhisattva Ideal, Contextual Theology, and the Dalai Lama's Dialogue Beyond Religion | 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. | Graduate Theological Union | 31 August 2016 17:30:06 | ||
Relativism and Madhyamaka - Candrakirti on Mutual Dependence and the Basis of Convention | Walsh, Elena Inez. "Relativism and Madhyamaka: Candrakīrti on Mutual Dependence and the Basis of Convention ". Master's thesis, University of Melbourne, 2010. | University of Melbourne | 31 August 2016 17:30:06 | ||
Tradition and Modernity in the Transformation of Tibetan Buddhism | Weeks, Paul. "Tradition and Modernity in the Transformation of Tibetan Buddhism." PhD diss., La Trobe University, 2015. | La Trobe University | 31 August 2016 17:30:05 | ||
Agency and the Rhetoric of Destiny - Narrating the Buddhist Revival in the Lives and Letters of Khandro Tare Lhamo (1938–2002) and Namtrul Jigme Phuntsok (1944– ) | 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. | Harvard University | 31 August 2016 17:30:05 | ||
Endless Circles - Circumambulation in Tibet | Shao, Gong. "Endless Circles: Circumambulation in Tibet". Master's thesis, University of Alberta, 2014. | University of Alberta | 31 August 2016 17:30:05 | ||
The Raven and the Serpent - The Great All-Pervading Rahula - Daemonic Buddhism in India and Tibet | Bailey, Cameron. "The Raven and the Serpent: "The Great All-Pervading Rāhula" Daemonic Buddhism in India and Tibet.". PhD diss., Florida State University, 2012. | Florida State University | 31 August 2016 17:30:03 | ||
The Visionary Landscape of Wutai Shan in Tibetan Buddhism from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century | 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. | University of California at Berkeley | 31 August 2016 17:30:01 | ||
The Commodification of Buddhist Objects in Amdo, Tibet, China | Catanese, Alex John. "The Commodification of Buddhist Objects in Amdo, Tibet, China." PhD diss., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2015. | Classical Tibetan Buddhist scriptures proscribe the sale of images of the Buddha, religious texts, and particular ritual implements. Such acts are considered sinful and are believed to carry negative karmic consequences. Prior to the Cultural Revolution, artists and craftsmen were almost always commissioned to create such objects, and they were paid primarily through voluntary offering. This was the socially and religiously accepted means of exchange for such objects. However, following the “opening-up” of religion in China, the marketization of China’s economy, and the introduction of ethnic tourism to Tibetan areas in the 1980s, Tibetans have begun to sell prefabricated religious objects at fixed, market prices for their personal livelihood in what appears to be a violation of the religious injunctions against their sale. This dissertation aims to understand Tibetans’ commodification of Buddhist objects in the contemporary context and focuses on the causes and outcomes of these commercial practices. Drawing upon textual and historical analysis, as well as ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Amdo (Qinghai Province), it argues that we must understand Tibetans’ commodification of religious objects not only as a response to the introduction of free market capitalism in China, but also as a Tibetan response to the socioeconomic and political conditions and circumstances resulting from particular policies enacted by the Chinese Communist Party. Furthermore, while Tibetans’ commodification of religious objects has led to practical benefits, such practices are also transforming religious traditions, practices, and values in the “moral economy” associated with religious objects and contributing to a reinterpretation of Tibetan Buddhist identity. As such, Tibetans’ sale of religious objects challenges current and more positivist perspectives on the effects of commodification by revealing that while such practices can have positive results, they come at the price of transforming the traditional worldview. | University of California at Santa Barbara | 19 July 2016 21:19:13 | |
Meditation and the Concept of Insight in Kamalasila's Bhavanakramas | Adam, Martin T. Meditation and the Concept of Insight in Kamalaśīla's Bhāvanākramas. PhD Diss., McGill University, 2002. | McGill University | 19 April 2016 22:14:17 | ||
Ethical Revaluation in the Thought of Śāntideva | Lele, Amod Jayant. "Ethical Revaluation in the Thought of Śāntideva." PhD diss., Harvard University, 2007. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/159489216.pdf. | Abstract This dissertation examines the idea of ethical revaluation — taking things we normally see as good for our flourishing and seeing them as neutral or bad, and vice versa — in the Mahayana Buddhist thinker Śāntideva. It shows how Śāntideva's thought on the matter is more coherent than it might otherwise appear, first by examining the consistency of Śāntideva's own claims and then by applying them to contemporary ethical thought. In so doing, it makes four significant contributions. | Harvard University | 25 March 2016 15:22:56 | |
The Life and Teachings of the Tibetan Saint Thang-stong rgyal-po | 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. | University of Washington | 4 March 2016 18:15:18 | ||
Making the Old New Again and Again: Legitimation and Innovation in the Tibetan Buddhist Chod Tradition | 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. | Columbia University | 14 July 2015 22:54:47 | ||
Contemporary Tibetan Art and Cultural Sustainability in Lhasa, Tibet | Miller, Leigh. "Contemporary Tibetan Art and Cultural Sustainability in Lhasa, Tibet". PhD diss., Emory University, 2014. | Emory University | 11 June 2015 20:32:12 | ||
From Radishes to Realization: Saraha and His Impact on the Mahāmudrā Tradition of the Tibetan Karma Kagyü School | 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. | The Indian mystic Saraha, a master wordsmith who composed and sang poetic songs of realization, was the spiritual father of the mahāmudrā meditation tradition. His colorful play with words aimed at nothing less than the wordless experience of the exalted natural mind--the realization of mahāmudrā. Many words have been written about this man who dwells in a world "past words." Tibetan scholars such as Pawo Tsuklak Trengwa (1504-1566), Karma Trinlaypa (1456-1539) and Pema Karpo (1527-1592) have composed narratives about his life. His songs have been translated from Indian languages into Tibetan, and commentaries have been written about them. Some of these have been made available for Western audiences by the efforts of scholars Herbert Guenther and Kurtis Schaeffer. Guenther translated Karma Trinlaypa and Kyeme Dechen's commentaries to the King's Dohā; and Schaeffer worked on the commentary on the People's Dohā by Chomden Raldri (1227-1305). Saraha's Trilogy of Songs has been translated several times, in part or completely, by Muhammad Shahidullah; Herbert Guenther; David Snellgrove; Roger Jackson; and Kurtis Schaeffer. However, there is more to discover about the writings of the "Great Brahmin," as Saraha is often called. The majority of his compositions, which are part of the Tibetan canon, have not been explored. Lara Braitstein translated Saraha's second great trilogy, The Adamantine Songs, and Kurtis Schaeffer integrated some of the shorter songs in his book, Dreaming the Great Brahmin. Still, Saraha's role has more facets to explore. He was not only an eccentric poet, but a mahāmudrā master--according to some, the very first in history. He is venerated to this day by practitioners of the Karma Kagyü School as a personification of the highest spiritual goal: Mahāmudrā, which is enlightenment itself. The Great Brahmin’s words appear in meditation manuals, prayers and liturgies. He is like a thread woven into the cloth of mahāmudrā literature. In this text I attempt to follow these traces of Saraha from his Indian sources into the mahāmudrā tradition of Tibet. My research will focus on his impact on the Karma Kagyü School, which is one of the strongholds of mahāmudrā. Chapter One serves as an introduction to Saraha and a general overview of the mahāmudrā tradition. This sets the stage for exploring Saraha's role within the tradition. Relying on the previous research of Western scholars, I try to give a simplified, and therefore clearer but perhaps less precise, picture of the complexity of Saraha's life and work. In regards to his role as a founding father of the mahāmudrā tradition, I interpret what is reported of his life as a dialectic, the story of the struggle between a charismatic leader and the institution that follows his example. Saraha fights against the stifling religious conventions of his day and his innovations are later absorbed into the tradition, making them mainstream. The section on mahāmudrā expounds the historical development of the tradition and introduces the reader to its basic texts, its schools, its systematizations and principal methods. Chapter Two presents Saraha's work in the Tibetan canon and the Caryāpāda. Twenty-six texts have been preserved in the tantra section of the Tengyur, and four poems have been found in an Indian song collection, written in a Bengali vernacular, Apabhraṃśa. These works are listed with their original titles, and wherever possible, I offer a short summary. Based on this material, I analyze Saraha's poetic style, particularly in respect to the recension of his work in Tibetan mahāmudrā literature. The chapter concludes with my translation of the Dohākoṣa Mahāmudrā Upadeśa, an exemplary little poetic song of mahāmudrā instructions by Saraha. To my knowledge, this text is the first translation of the dohā, and it is an excellent example of the Great Brahmin's teaching and his poetic style. Chapter Three traces Saraha's influence in two major works of the Karma Kagyü meditation literature. It will be shown where he is cited as an authority, and where his particular style was later superseded by subsequent reforms in the tradition. These meditation manuals are still actively used in the practice of present-day Buddhists, both in the East and the West. Chapter Four examines the role of Saraha in the actual meditation practice of the Karma Kagyü School today. The context for this examination is the traditional three-year retreat, as it is currently carried out in Dhagpo Kundrol Ling in the Auvergne, France. After presenting the prayers and liturgies in which Saraha is venerated, I describe the scenario of a gaṇacakra feast offering, in which Saraha's songs are read in translation as a way to reenact the old yogic tradition of singing spontaneous songs of realization. Having given a full picture of Saraha's presence in the life of a practitioner, I analyze his impact and importance for the Western meditator. I interviewed a half-dozen practitioners who have accomplished one or two cycles of three-year retreats in France; I also interviewed a young lineage holder, the 4th Dilyag Sabchu Rinpoche, who was raised and educated in Nepal and lives now in the United States. Their statements reveal some challenges Western Buddhists face in understanding and adopting Saraha's teachings. The research shows, however, that Saraha's words have remained influential for more than a millennium despite the fact that there are comparatively few concrete traces of his historical existence. Over time, the Great Brahmin has become more than a poet or a founder of a meditation tradition. For Buddhist practitioners, he is the personification of enlightenment, or mahāmudrā, or simply "mind;" contact with his teachings or his visualized form is believed to convey spiritual inspiration and blessing. The third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje (1284-1339) gives words to this view in a verse that echoes Saraha's poetry in a sensitive way. (Stenzel, preface, 3–6) | University of the West | 10 June 2015 21:46:40 | |
Rong-ston on Buddha-Nature: A Commentary on the Fourth Chapter of the Ratnagotravibhāga | Bernert, Christian. "Rong-ston on Buddha-Nature: A Commentary on the Fourth Chapter of the Ratnagotravibhāga". MA thesis, University of Vienna, 2009. | Set within the broader framework of Buddhist world view, the fundamental concern of the Tathāgatagarbha literature is to show that all sentient beings, without exception, can attain freedom from every kind of suffering and unease, and, ultimately, actualise the state of a fully awakened buddha. According to these scriptures, all sentient beings are by their very nature either empowered to attain buddhahood, or essentially already buddhas (depending on the interpretation). This innate quality of all sentient beings is given the name “buddha-nature” (Skt. tathāgatagarbha; Tib. de bzhin gshegs pa’i snying po). Notes
| Universität Wien | 10 June 2015 18:31:06 | |
From Bodhgayā to Lhasa to Beijing: The Life and Times of Śāriputra (c.1335-1426), Last Abbot of Bodhgayā | 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. | Harvard University | 5 March 2015 20:54:06 | ||
Naked Seeing: The Great Perfection, The Wheel of Time, and Visionary Philosophy in Renaissance Tibet (2009) | Hatchell, Christopher. Naked Seeing: The Great Perfection, The Wheel of Time, and Visionary Philosophy in Renaissance Tibet. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2009. | University of Virginia | 19 December 2014 21:55:21 | ||
The Philosophical Foundations of Classical rDzogs Chen in Tibet: Investigating the Distinction Between Dualistic Mind (sems) and Primordial Knowing (ye shes) | 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. | University of Lausanne | 6 June 2014 18:03:15 | ||
Tibetan Typeforms | 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. | University of Reading | 30 April 2014 15:51:51 | ||
Art for Healing; Art for Consciousness Change | Neill, Robert (Robyn). "Art for Healing; Art for Consciousness Change." MA thesis, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2011. | Abstract From a very early age I have been drawn to create art. I have followed this passion closely throughout my entire life. After acquiring a master’s degree in art education, and subsequently, teaching high school art for 3 years I was compelled to enter the MFA program at Rochester Institute of Technology with a concentration in painting and new forms. Through this process, I discovered a great calling. After the first year of study in the MFA program I traveled to Tibet. This journey was instrumental in the formation of my thesis: Art for Healing, Art for Consciousness Change, as was my marriage to my partner Daixin whom I met in China 3 years ago. With her as the narrative model found in each painting, I created an installation of 8, 4x8 ft paintings based upon a myriad of concepts taken from Tibetan Buddhism, my personal insights and experiences, and the book Prometheus Rising, by Robert Anton Wilson, which outlines his 8-Circuits of Human Consciousness. The installation I created, Daixin's 8-Circuit Path to Light, followed a symbolic model of the human Chakra system as a guide for each of the 8-Circuits to explore imagery evoked in my mind through the correlations I drew as I progressed through my understanding of the human body as an energy system. During this process I was able to bring myself from a very graphic and unsure use of oil paint, to a masterful level, capable of captivating audiences, and stimulating the minds of those who viewed my work. Such is the effect of the work of visionary artist Alex Grey, who is the single greatest western influence on my artistic path. The experience of completing this work brought me balance in terms of my perceptions of religion, spirituality, and my artistic pursuits. I gained a deep desire to create art that is supportive of the Tibetan culture and their prophetic understanding of consciousness. This calling is supported by my everlasting desire to create works inspired by all my travels throughout the world for the purpose of bringing healing elements to the areas in which my work is displayed. | Rochester Institute of Technology | 20 April 2014 03:03:43 | |
The Transmission of the Bodhicaryāvatāra: The History, Diffusion, and Influence of a Mahāyāna Buddhist Text | Liland, Fredrik. "The Transmission of the Bodhicaryāvatāra: The History, Diffusion, and Influence of a Mahāyāna Buddhist Text." MA Thesis, University of Oslo, 2009. | Introduction The Bodhicaryāvatāra (BCA) first came to my attention while studying Buddhism at a Tibetan monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal, from 2002 until 2006.[1] The BCA was an integral part of the education of the Buddhist monks at the monastery, and was also part of the syllabus taught by Tibetan khenpos (mkhan po; monk-professor) to the visiting foreign students. The BCA struck me as more easily accessible than a lot of the other texts taught at the monastery, most of them tending to be overly dry and complicated philosophical elaborations. The BCA, on the other hand, engaged my fascination due to its altruistic sentiment, its vivid use of imagery, and its engaging philosophical considerations. The interest remained, and when the possibility opened for me to undertake the writing of a master’s thesis there was no doubt in my mind about what topic to chose. The only question was how to approach the text. I began by studying the Sanskrit edition together with its translations into Tibetan and Chinese, as well as the modern translations available in English. The fruit of this initial labour was a quadrilingual edition of the text, with each verse arranged parallel with its equivalent in the other languages. The experiences I drew from reading this, and other multilingual texts, in several seminars organized by Professor Jens Braarvig at the University of Oslo in 2007 and 2008 convinced me to focus on a broader perspective, one that would take into consideration the text as it has been transmitted through various cultures and times, as a vehicle for cultural exchange. The purpose of the investigation Much has been written on the BCA. What is then the purpose of yet another contribution? First of all, no work that I am aware of has approached the BCA in a comprehensive manner, taking into account the whole range of areas and languages where the text has had an impact. The text’s history in, for instance, Nepal and China have barely been discussed, and its Mongolian translation has, as far as I can see, never left the field of Altaic studies and placed within its broader context. The Sanskrit edition of the BCA is also badly in need of an update, as the handful of manuscripts that were the basis of the first two editions, now over a century old, have been joined by many more discoveries lately. There have also been many works over the past 25 years that has given us a much better understanding of the history and philosophy of the BCA, and an attempt to begin to collect these results and place them in a broader perspective can be beneficial for further inquiries. What this thesis then will attempt is to place the BCA in its historical context, to the extent that our present knowledge allows, and to show where and how it has had an impact. It will also expose the many areas where further research is needed, and at least inspire the author to continue his research on this intriguing and influential work of literature. To quote the humble words of the author of the BCA himself:
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| University of Oslo | 14 April 2014 17:50:06 | |
The Soteriological Epistemology of the Seventh Karma pa | Bjonback, Anders. "The Soteriological Epistemology of the Seventh Karma pa." MA thesis, Rangjung Yeshe Institute, 2013. | Abstract Given the disregard many lamas and yogis have had towards the soteriological efficacy of epistemology, one may come to the false conclusion that epistemology is only relevant to the context of debate, without any application to meditation practice and the path to liberation. However, one can clearly see that this is not completely true, since Dharmakīrti (c. 600 CE), who is arguably Buddhism’s most influential epistemologist, provides an account of how a practitioner may attain the liberative cognition known as yogic direct valid means of cognition (rnal ’byor mngon sum tshad ma, hereafter referred to as yogic perception). In Tibet, the dGe lugs pa-s are particularly known for their soteriological use of epistemology, which is unsurprising given their emphasis on scholarship, but there are even thinkers in the meditation- oriented bKa’ brgyud school who have a soteriologically-oriented take on epistemology. The aim in thesis is to show how bKa’ brgyud epistemologists’ (most notably, the Seventh Karma pa’s (1454-1506)) view on yogic perception differs from that of Dharmakīrti and the dGe lugs pa-s, since most western scholarship on Buddhist epistemology has focused on them. Like Dharmakīrti and the dGe lugs pa-s, the Seventh Karma pa describes the gradual path to attaining yogic perception through inference and familiarization, although there are striking differences in their understandings of the nature of what is observed in this type of perception. His epistemology is not only relevant to the scholarly path of inference, as one finds with most epistemologists, however. His view on reflexive awareness represents a common ground between the theory attached to Mahāmudrā, and pramāṇa, which allows for an epistemological explanation of the Mahāmudrā method of “taking direct perception as the path.” Through showing first, how his view of yogic perception differs from Dharmakīrti and the dGe lugs pa-s,and secondly, how his view concerning reflexive awareness is connected to Mahāmudrā, I wish to show the unique characteristics of the Seventh Karma pa’s brand of soteriological epistemology. | Rangjung Yeshe Institute | 14 April 2014 00:24:15 | |
Luminosity: Reflexive Awareness in Ratnākaraśānti's Pith Instructions for the Ornament of the Middle Way | Yiannopoulos, Alexander. "Luminosity: Reflexive Awareness in Ratnākaraśānti's Pith Instructions for the Ornament of the Middle Way." MA thesis, Kathmandu University, 2012. | Abstract Despite his stature within the Buddhist commentarial lineage, the works of Ratnākaraśānti remain little-known and even less studied. This is unfortunate, since as a late Indian Yogācāra commentator, Ratnākaraśānti’s articulation of the "False Imagist" view (alīkākāravāda) is worthy of study in its own right, and provides a valuable window into the philosophical debates which shaped later Tibetan polemics. In no wise [sic] is this more true than with respect to Ratnākaraśānti’s presentation of “reflexive awareness” (svasaṃvedana/svasaṃvitti). The reflexive nature of awareness was the centerpiece of Ratnākaraśānti’s ontology, phenomenology, epistemology, and praxeology; however, despite its importance to Ratnākaraśānti and other similarly influential commentators, it remains only poorly addressed within the Western literature. In order to address this deficiency, my thesis is a complete translation of Ratnākaraśānti’s Pith Instructions for the Ornament of the Middle Way (Madhyamakālaṃkāropadeśa), appended to a commentary elucidating this complex work’s most important themes, particularly and especially the reflexive nature of awareness. | Rangjung Yeshe Institute | 11 April 2014 16:46:34 | |
Karma Chags Med's Mountain Dharma: Tibetan Advice on Sociologies of Retreat | Haynie, Eric. "Karma Chags Med's Mountain Dharma: Tibetan Advice on Sociologies of Retreat." MA Theses, University of Colorado, 2013. | ABSTRACT: With both the Euro-American and Tibetan- both etic and emic- imaginaries, the renouncer is seen as the spiritual practitioner ensconced in an isolated world of retreat, totally separate from the world. This vision, of course, produced out of the allure of the renunciate ideal- part fantasy, part reality- that sustains the authority of the religious teacher and lineage. In this thesis I examine the category of " renunciation" in Tibetan Buddhism and the means by which the seemingly contradictory renunciate ideal and need to be involved in practical, worldly affairs are negotiated and bridged. I ground my thinking by way of a close examination Mountain Dharma: Direct Advice on Retreat, a seminal retreat advice text (Tib. zhal gdams) of 17th century religious meter Karma chags med, a luminary of the Karma bka' brgyud lineage of Tibet. Drawing from my original translations of selected chapters of Mountain Dharma, I demonstrate that the negotiation of the ideal and the actual, in terms of renunciation, was an active process of Karma chags, med, who was acutely aware of the need to account for practical, social engagement. By situating Mountain Dharma in the historical, political, and religious conjunctures of its production, I propose that Karma chags med be understaff as engaging in domestication of renunciation. His lineage was in a nadir, its leader exiled by the Dge lugs pa sect, and the articulation of a domesticated renunciation may have been conductive to the Karma bka' brgyud pas operating under reduced circumstances. Building upon theorists of South Asian religion and culture, I suggest that renunciation and retreat, for Karma chags med, is best understood as orbital. His advice text explicity prescribes a renunciate ideal, and simultaneously includes chapters detailing practices by which a retreating can attend to worldly, social affairs, such as garnering wealth or maintaining protection from brigands. I argue that we can understand renunciation as orbital in the "renunciation" is the productive tension between the ideal and the actual, and that, in this Tibetan context, we can make sense of the term only by considering and coming to understand both. | University of Colorado, Boulder | 29 March 2014 16:12:47 | |
Becoming Indian | Templeman, David Roger. Becoming Indian: A Study of the Life of the 16-17th Century Tibetan Lama, Tāranātha. PhD diss., Monash University, 2008. | Monash University | 5 March 2014 19:29:33 | ||
Transmission, Legitimation, and Adaptation: A Study of Western Lamas in the Construction of American Tibetan Buddhism | Restrepo, Mariana. Transmission, Legitimation, and Adaptation. MA Theses, Florida International University. 2013. | Florida International University | 5 March 2014 18:30:09 | ||
Delivering the Lotus-Born: Historiography in the Tibetan Renaissance | Hirshberg, Daniel. Delivering the Lotus-Born: Historiography in the Tibetan Renaissance. PhD diss., Harvard University, 2012. | Harvard University | 22 June 2012 20:52:26 | ||
The Eighth Karmapa's Life and His Interpretation of the Great Seal | Rheingans, Jim. The Eighth Karmapa's Life and His Interpretation of the Great Seal. PhD., Diss. Bath: University of the West of England, 2008. | University of the West of England | 13 June 2012 20:13:49 | ||
Vajra Hermeneutics | Campbell, John. "Vajra Hermeneutics: A Study of Vajrayāna Scholasticism in the Pradīpoddyotana." PhD diss., Columbia University, 2009. | Abstract This dissertation presents a study of the doctrines and exegetical system presented in The Commentary Called "Brightening of the Lamp" (Pradīpoddyotana-nāma-ṭīkā), a text composed by the Buddhist intellectual Candrakīrti of the so-called Noble System associated with Nalanda monastery in the second half of the first millennium C.E. It aims to situate this exemplary document of Vajrayāna scholasticism within the context of pre-modern Indian intellectual practices such as classical Sanskrit commentary and Indian Buddhist hermeneutics. Broadly, the study examines the role of Esoteric Buddhist scholastic commentary in the assimilation into an Indian Buddhist mainstream of practices and symbolic systems apparently at odds with Buddhist values and normative monastic codes of conduct. Composed mainly in Sanskrit and preserved mostly in Tibetan translations of the turn of the second millennium C.E., this literature articulates a synthetic, "Vajra Vehicle" (Vajrayana) discourse within the cosmological and institutional frameworks of Mahāyāna Buddhism. The dissertation singles out the Pradīpoddyotana as an exemplary document of this synthetic discourse and argues that it was instrumental a momentous reworking of Mahāyāna orthodoxy and orthopraxis, which in turn made possible the refashioning of monastic centers such the great Northeastern Indian monastic vihāra of Nālandā into centers of Tantric Buddhist practice and instruction. | Columbia University | 13 March 2012 21:47:22 | |
Subversive Sainthood and Tantric Fundamentalism: An Historical Study of Tibet's Holy Madmen | DiValerio, David. Subversive Sainthood and Tantric Fundamentalism: An Historical Study of Tibet's Holy Madmen. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2011. | University of Virginia | 13 March 2012 21:06:10 | ||
Interpreting the Vajra Rosary: Truth and Method Meets Wisdom and Method | Kittay, David. Interpreting the Vajra Rosary: Truth and Method Meets Wisdom and Method. PhD diss., Columbia University, 2011. | Columbia University | 31 October 2011 16:34:54 | ||
Pilgrimage to the Illusory: The Tibetan Buddhist Revival and the Politics of Religion in the PRC | 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. | University of California at Davis | 1 June 2011 21:27:47 | ||
Dreams in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Sacred Biography | Young, Serinity. Dreams in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Sacred Biography. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1990. | Columbia University | 1 June 2011 21:14:19 | ||
Explaining Mantras: Rhetoric, the Dream of a Natural Language, and the Efficacy of Ritual | Yelle, Robert Alan. Explaining Mantras: Rhetoric, the Dream of a Natural Language, and the Efficacy of Ritual. PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2002. | University of Chicago | 1 June 2011 20:55:12 | ||
The Emptiness that is Form: Developing the Body of Buddhahood in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Tantra | Yarnall, Thomas Freeman. The Emptiness that is Form: Developing the Body of Buddhahood in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Tantra. PhD diss., Columbia University, 2003. | Columbia University | 1 June 2011 20:34:50 | ||
Vision and Violence: Lama Zhang and the Dialectics of Political Authority and Religious Charisma in Twelfth-Century Central Tibet | 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. | University of Virginia | 31 May 2011 19:34:14 | ||
The Evolution of the Concept of the Buddha from Early Buddhism to the Formulation of the Trikāya Theory | 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. | University of London | 28 May 2011 01:01:34 | ||
An Analysis of Chapter Twenty-Eight of the Hundred Thousand Songs of Mila-Raspa, A Buddhist Poet and Saint of Tibet | 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. | Indiana University | 28 May 2011 00:43:44 | ||
The Meaning of Mind in the Mahāyāna Buddhist Philosophy of Mind-Only (Cittamātra) | University of Virginia | 27 May 2011 23:13:36 | |||
A Comparative Study of Kum Nye Relaxation | White, Lynn Ward. A Comparative Study of Kum Nye Relaxation. PhD diss., California Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, 1985. | California Institute of Transpersonal Psychology | 27 May 2011 21:46:59 | ||
Vajrayāna and Its Doubles: A Critical Historiography, Exposition, and Translation of the Tantric Works of Āryadeva | Wedemeyer, Christian K. Vajrayāna and its Doubles: A critical historiography, exposition, and translation of the Tantric works of Āryadeva. PhD diss., Colombia University, 1999. | Columbia University | 27 May 2011 21:14:18 | ||
The Precious Lord: The History and Practice of the Cult of the Jo bo Śākyamuni in Lhasa, Tibet | 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. | Harvard University | 25 May 2011 23:49:45 | ||
The Uttaratantra in the Age of Argumentation: Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen and His Fourteenth-Century Interlocutors on Buddha-Lineage | 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. | Abstract This dissertation examines the intellectual history of the Uttaratantra in Tibet from the 12th century to the early 15th century. It is between these centuries that the text, which is one of the most authoritative works on the notion of tathāgata-essence, takes its shape in Tibet through the writings of some of the most formidable Tibetan thinkers of the time. Their works that directly relate to the discourse of the Uttaratantra may have one theme—the concept of tathāgata-essence—in common, but the ways in which they expound on the Uttaratantra strongly diverge from each other and often stand as polar opposites. Some of the major questions that I address in the dissertation are as follows: Does the Uttaratantra primarily explain the ultimate truth or not? Is it a Mind-Only treatise or a Middle Way treatise? Is it a Middle Wheel or Last Wheel text? Does it explicate other-emptiness or self-emptiness? How is the relationship between the Uttaratantra and Candrakīrti's Madhyamakāvatāra delineated? How do the Tibetan scholars mentioned below justify their respective positions on the Uttaratantra and criticize the claims made by other scholars? In answering these questions I read and translated many Tibetan sources in order to ascertain and portray the best possible context, that is, the field in which the battle of scholastic debates emerged. The first two chapters of my dissertation explore some of the above questions by analyzing Tibetan texts written by Ngok, Chapa, Sapen, Jayānanda, Chomden Rigrel, Rinchen Yeshi, the Third Karmapa, and others, between the 12th and early 14th centuries. Although these scholars argued intensely over the significance or insignificance of the Uttaratantra within the Mahāyāna literature, the Uttaratantra had yet to see the climax of the argumentation, which takes place in the 14th and early 15th centuries, the era that I call the argumentation period of the Uttaratantra. For this era, I analyze the works by Dolpopa, Buton, Dratsepa, Gyalse Thogmey, Longchenpa, Sazang, Rendawa, Tsongkhapa, and Gyaltsab. Thus, this dissertation examines the intellectual history of a text that has, to some extent, been overshadowed by the Madhyamakāvatāra in the contemporary Tibetan scholastic tradition. | University of Virginia | 25 May 2011 22:57:04 | |
The Role of Alchemy and Medicine in Indo-Tibetan Tantrism | Walter, Michael L. The Role of Alchemy and Medicine in Indo-Tibetan Tantrism. PhD diss., Indiana University, 1980. | Indiana University | 25 May 2011 22:32:19 | ||
The Cultivation of Sustained Voluntary Attention in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism | Wallace, Bruce Alan. The Cultivation of Sustained Voluntary Attention in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. PhD diss., Stanford University, 1995. | Stanford University | 25 May 2011 21:20:27 | ||
Four Westerners' Experience with Tibetan Buddhism | Vyverberg, Joan C. Four Westerners' Experience with Tibetan Buddhism. PhD diss., Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, 1988. | Institute of Transpersonal Psychology | 25 May 2011 20:47:12 | ||
Falling to Pieces, Emerging Whole: Suffering Illness and Healing Renunciation in the Life of Gelongma Palmo | Vargas, Ivette Maria. Falling to Pieces, Emerging Whole: Suffering Illness and Healing Renunciation in the Life of Gelongma Palmo. PhD diss., Harvard University, 2003. | Harvard University | 25 May 2011 18:34:12 | ||
Buddhism, Colonialism and the Boundaries of Religion: Theravada Buddhism in Burma, 1885-1920 | Turner, Alicia Marie. Buddhism, Colonialism and the Boundaries of Religion: Theravada Buddhism in Burma, 1885-1920. PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2009. | University of Chicago | 25 May 2011 18:16:20 | ||
Into the Jaws of Yama, Lord of Death: Death and Identity in China and Tibet | 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. | University of Hawai'i | 25 May 2011 17:40:00 | ||
Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Effect of Long-Term Practice of Ceremonial Sexuality | 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. | California Institute of Integral Studies | 25 May 2011 17:26:44 | ||
The Two Truths: A Study of Mādhyamika Philosophy as Presented in the Monastic Textbooks of the Ge-luk-ba Order of Tibetan Buddhism | 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. | University of Virginia | 24 May 2011 01:08:11 | ||
Memoir: Growing Down Through the Fictions of the Historical Mind, The Archetypal Mind, and the Buddha Mind | 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. | Pacifica Graduate Institute | 9 May 2011 19:27:23 | ||
Tibetan Buddhism in Ming China | Toh, Hoong Teik. Tibetan Buddhism in Ming China. PhD diss., Harvard University, 2004. | Harvard University | 9 May 2011 19:14:46 | ||
An Annotated Translation of the Tattvasaṃgraha (Part 1) with an Explanation of the Role of the Tattvasaṃgraha Lineage in the Teachings of Kūkai | 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. | Columbia University | 9 May 2011 18:50:31 | ||
A Study of the Buddhist Saint in Relation to the Biographical Tradition of Milarepa | Tiso, Francis Vincent. A Study of the Buddhist Saint in Relation to the Biographical Tradition of Milarepa. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1989. | Columbia University | 9 May 2011 18:27:08 | ||
Tantra, Mantra, Yantra | Thornberry, Amy. Tantra, Mantra, Yantra. PhD diss., California State University at Long Beach, 2008. | California State University at Long Beach | 9 May 2011 17:36:34 | ||
Bya rog prog zhu, The Raven Crest - The Life and Teachings of bDe chen 'od gsal rdo rje, Treasure Revealer of Contemporary Tibet | 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. | Universiteit Leiden | 6 May 2011 23:48:01 | ||
Buddhist Enlightenment Experience: A Buddhist Study | Tep, Bo. Buddhist Enlightenment Experience: A Buddhist Study. PhD diss., Fielding Graduate Institute, 2004. | Fielding Graduate Institute | 6 May 2011 22:22:51 | ||
Lamps for the Mind: Illumination and Innovation in dPal dbyangs's Mahāyoga | Takahashi, Kammie Morrison. Lamps for the Mind: Illumination and Innovation in dPal dbyangs's Mahāyoga. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2009. | University of Virginia | 6 May 2011 21:57:52 | ||
Śāntideva and the Mādhyamika: The Prajñāpāramitā-Pariccheda of the Bodhicaryāvatāra | Sweet, Michael J. "Śāntideva and the Mādhyamika: The Prajñāpāramitā-Pariccheda of the Bodhicaryāvatāra." PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1977. | Preface The Ninth or Perfection of Wisdom Chapter (Praiñāpāramitā-Pariccheda- PP) of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra (BCA) was the last comprehensive statement of the Indian Mādhyamika school which was written from the Prāsangika standpoint of Buddhapālita and Candrakīrti. For that reason, and because of the insight that it gives into the thought of one of the major Indian Buddhist teachers, I believe that it merits the attention of Buddhologists and other scholars concerned with Buddhist philosophy in India and Tibet. In the present study I have sought to remedy the lack of an adequate translation and exposition of this work in English. | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 6 May 2011 21:29:05 | |
Existence and Gnosis in the Laṅkāvatāra-Sūtra: A Study in the Ontology and Epistemology of the Yogācāra School of Mahāyāna Buddhism | 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. | Columbia University | 6 May 2011 20:58:08 | ||
Dreams of Wonder, Dreams of Deception: Tension and Resolution Between Buddhism and Shamanism in Tibetan Culture | Sumegi, Angela. Dreams of Wonder, Dreams of Deception: Tension and Resolution Between Buddhism and Shamanism in Tibetan Culture. PhD diss., University of Ottawa, 2003. | University of Ottawa | 6 May 2011 19:44:44 | ||
A Commentary on the Mgur 'bum (Collected Songs of Spiritual Realization) of Skal ldan rgya mtsho, A Seventeenth Century Scholar and Siddha of Amdo | 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. | Harvard University | 6 May 2011 19:01:23 | ||
Refugees From Two Homelands: Race, Nation, Ethical Selfhood, and the Education of Tibetan Youth in Exile | 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. | University of Utah | 6 May 2011 18:43:16 | ||
An Exploratory Study of the Effects of Practicing Tibetan Dream Yoga Four Foundations on Waking Life Awareness and Dreams | 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. | Institute of Transpersonal Psychology | 4 May 2011 23:21:45 | ||
The Buddha from Dol po and His Fourth Council of the Buddhist Doctrine | Stearns, Cyrus R. The Buddha from Dol po and His Fourth Council of the Buddhist Doctrine. PhD diss., University of Washington, 1996. | University of Washington | 4 May 2011 00:04:19 | ||
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 | 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. | University of Virginia | 3 May 2011 23:53:12 | ||
A Study of Dependent Origination: Vasubandhu, Buddhaghosa, and the Interpretation of Pratītyasamutpāda | Stalker, Susan C. A Study of Dependent Origination: Vasubandhu, Buddhaghosa, and the Interpretation of Pratītyasamutpāda. PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1987. | University of Pennsylvania | 3 May 2011 23:06:24 | ||
The Mahākālatantra: The Theory of Ritual Blessings and Tantric Medicine | Stablein, William George. The Mahākālatantra: The Theory of Ritual Blessings and Tantric Medicine. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1976. | Columbia University | 3 May 2011 22:50:14 | ||
Trusting the Process: The Developmental Experience of Psychospiritual Guidance | Spalding, Matthew L. Trusting the Process: The Developmental Experience of Psychospiritual Guidance. PhD diss., California Institute of Integral Studies, 2008. | California Institute of Integral Studies | 27 April 2011 00:05:21 | ||
Listening to Places: A Comparative Study of Zen, Sufism, & Cosmology | Snow, Joseph A. Listening to Places: A Comparative Study of Zen, Sufism, & Cosmology. PhD diss., Syracuse University, 2009. | Syracuse University | 26 April 2011 23:48:45 | ||
Consciousness of Consciousness: Reflexive Awareness in the Trika Śaivism of Abhinavagupta | Skora, Kerry Martin. Consciousness of Consciousness: Reflexive Awareness in the Trika Śaivism of Abhinavagupta. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2001. | University of Virginia | 22 April 2011 23:29:46 | ||
The Origins and Early History of the Mahāratnakūṭa Tradition of Mahāyāna Buddhism with a Study of the Ratnarāśisūtra and Related Materials | 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. | Abstract This thesis offers the hypothesis that early Mahāyāna Buddhism is institutionally co-extensive with the sects of Sectarian or Background Buddhism. Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism may be studied primarily on the basis of its literature. This literature can be stratified through internal and external criteria, and the putative authors of the literature grouped in this way are postulated as constituting a Mahāyāna community. This thesis explores the concerns of one such hypothetical Mahāyāna community, that of the authors, editors or redactors of the Mahāratnakūṭa Collection of sūtras. Specifically, an important text, the Ratnarāśisūtra, is carefully studied. It is found that the authors of this text were primarily concerned with orthopractic issues of the maintenance of monastic discipline. Detailed attention is given to their concern with the proper ascetic, what constitutes an evil monk, ascetic practices, and the institutional organization of the monastic community. As material for this investigation, and as a contribution to the study of Mahāyāna literature in general, a complete, annotated translation of the Ratnarāśisūtra is given, along with critical editions of the Tibetan canonical translation, with Sanskrit fragments, and the Chinese canonical translation, with testimonia. (Source Accessed June 25, 2021) | University of Michigan | 22 April 2011 22:38:53 | |
The Perpetuity of the Dharma: A Study and Translation of Da Aluohan Nantimiduoluo Suoshuo Fazhu Ji | 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. | University of California at Berkeley | 22 April 2011 22:20:08 | ||
Gampopa, The Monk and the Yogi: His Life and Teachings | Gyaltrul, Trungram. Gampopa, The Monk and the Yogi: His Life and Teachings. PhD diss., Harvard University, 2004. | Harvard University | 20 April 2011 19:06:38 | ||
The Lojong: Altruism in Tibetan Culture | Semilof, Alex. The Lojong: Altruism in Tibetan Culture. PhD diss., Union Institute and University, 2006. | Union Institute and University | 20 April 2011 18:31:48 | ||
Nagarjuna's Unsurpassed Medicine: Emptiness and the Doctrine of Upaya | Schroeder, John William. Nagarjuna's Unsurpassed Medicine: Emptiness and the Doctrine of Upaya. PhD diss., University of Oregon, 1996. | University of Oregon | 20 April 2011 18:05:33 | ||
The Śālistamba-sūtra and Its Indian Commentaries | Schoening, Jeffrey Davis. The Śālistamba-sūtra and Its Indian Commentaries. PhD diss., University of Washington, 1991. | University of Washington | 20 April 2011 17:37:07 | ||
Tales of the Great Brahmin: Creative Traditions of the Buddhist Poet-Saint Saraha | Schaeffer, Kurtis R. Tales of the Great Brahmin: Creative Traditions of the Buddhist Poet-Saint Saraha. PhD diss., Harvard University, 2000. | Harvard University | 20 April 2011 17:23:39 | ||
A Study of the Profound Path of gCod: The Mahāyāna Buddhist Tradition of Tibet's Great Woman Saint Machig Labdron | 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. | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 20 April 2011 17:15:55 | ||
The Buddha's Secret Gardens: End Times and Hidden-lands in Tibetan Imagination | Sardar-Afkhami, Abdol-Hamid. The Buddha's Secret Gardens: End Times and Hidden-lands in Tibetan Imagination. PhD diss., Harvard University, 2001. | Harvard University | 15 April 2011 00:17:11 | ||
A Study of the Abhidharmahṛdaya: The Historical Development of the Concept of Karma in the Sarvāstivāda Thought | 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. | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 14 April 2011 23:59:52 | ||
History, Text, and Context of the Yoga Upaniṣads | Ruff, Jeffrey Clark. History, Text, and Context of the Yoga Upaniṣads. PhD diss., University of California at Santa Barbara, 2002. | University of California at Santa Barbara | 14 April 2011 23:47:47 | ||
Kṣemendra's "Bodhisattvāvadānakalpalatā": A Text-Critical Edition and Translation of Chapters One to Five | Rothenberg, Bonnie Lynne. Kṣemendra's "Bodhisattvāvadānakalpalatā": A Text-Critical Edition and Translation of Chapters One to Five. PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990. | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 14 April 2011 22:28:58 | ||
Celibacy, Revelations, and Reincarnated Lamas: Contestation and Synthesis in the Growth of Monasticism at Katok Monastery from the 17th through 19th Centuries | 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. | University of Virginia | 14 April 2011 22:09:28 | ||
A Tibetan Manual of Logic: An Introduction to Reasoning in the Ge-luk-ba Monastic Educational System | 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. | University of Virginia | 14 April 2011 21:44:19 | ||
Travel and Transcendence: Lamaist Expansion in the Himalayan Kingdoms | Rodseth, Lars Thomas. Travel and Transcendence: Lamaist Expansion in the Himalayan Kingdoms. PhD diss., University of Michigan, 1993. | University of Michigan | 14 April 2011 21:34:07 | ||
The Eighty-Four Siddhas | Robinson, James Burnell. The Eighty-Four Siddhas. PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1975. | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 14 April 2011 19:13:51 | ||
Riding a Wild Horse: The Role of Metaphor in Tibetan Medicine | Reighter, Cheryl Anne. Riding a Wild Horse: The Role of Metaphor in Tibetan Medicine. PhD diss., University of Colorado, 2000. | University of Colorado | 14 April 2011 18:55:41 | ||
Maṇḍala Symbolism in Tantric Buddhism | Ray, Reginald Alden. Maṇḍala Symbolism in Tantric Buddhism. PhD diss., University of Chicago, 1973. | University of Chicago | 14 April 2011 18:39:14 | ||
Mi la ras pa's Many Lives: Anatomy of a Tibetan Biographical Corpus | Quintman, Andrew H. Mi la ras pa's Many Lives: Anatomy of a Tibetan Biographical Corpus. PhD diss., University of Michigan, 2006. | University of Michigan | 14 April 2011 18:22:49 | ||
Opening the Roads: History and Religion in Post-Soviet Buryatia | Quijada, Justine Buck. Opening the Roads: History and Religion in Post-Soviet Buryatia. PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2009. | University of Chicago | 14 April 2011 18:07:23 | ||
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 | 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. | California Institute of Integral Studies | 14 April 2011 17:41:38 | ||
Dharmakīrti's Account of Yogic Intuition as a Source of Knowledge | Prévèreau, Raynald. Dharmakīrti's Account of Yogic Intuition as a Source of Knowledge. PhD diss., McGill University, 1994. | McGill University | 14 April 2011 17:27:07 | ||
The Great Debate in Mahāyāna Buddhism: The Nature of Consciousness | Powell, James Kenneth, II. The Great Debate in Mahāyāna Buddhism: The Nature of Consciousness. PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998. | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 14 April 2011 00:20:01 | ||
There is No Place Like Home: An Analysis of Exile in Judaism and Tibetan Buddhism | 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. | University of California at Santa Barbara | 14 April 2011 00:08:13 | ||
Looking Back to Point Zero: Reverence for the Unknown | Piper, Robert Kent. Looking Back to Point Zero: Reverence for the Unknown. PhD diss., York University, 2005. | York University | 13 April 2011 23:52:19 | ||
Consummation and Compassion in Medieval Tibet: The Maṇi bka'-'bum chen-mo of Guru Chos-kyi dbang-phyug | 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. | University of Virginia | 13 April 2011 23:13:51 | ||
Theory, Practice, and Ultimate Reality in the Thought of Mipham Rinpoche | Pettit, John W. "Theory, Practice, and Ultimate Reality in the Thought of Mipham Rinpoche." PhD diss., Columbia University, 1998. | Abstract This thesis explores the thought of one of Tibet's preeminent scholars, 'Jam mgon 'Ju Mi pham rnam rgyal (1846-1912), focusing on one of his most important texts, the Precious Lamp of Certainty. The critical philosophical traditions of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist scholasticism inculcate a developmental or gradualist interpretation of the path towards enlightenment based on philosophical study and critical reasoning. The Precious Lamp of Certainty uses critical philosophical methods to establish the viability of the Great Perfection (rdzogs chen), a philosophical and meditative oriented towards subitism or sudden enlightenment. | Columbia University | 13 April 2011 23:02:13 | |
A Prolegomena to the Śrīmālādevī Sūtra and the Tathāgatagarbha Theory: The Role of Women in Buddhism | 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. | The Śrīmālādevī siṁhanāda sūtra (ŚDS) (The Treatise on the Lion's Roar of Queen Śrīmālā) is a Mahāyāna text no longer extant in Sanskrit but preserved in both the Chinese and Tibetan Tripiṭakas. This text is a unique development within the Buddhist tradition because of its egalitarian view concerning women, portraying, on the one band, the dignity and wisdom of a laywoman and her concern for all beings, and on the other, the role of woman as a philosopher and teacher. Doctrinally, the major emphasis is upon the Tathāgatagarbha and Ekayāna. Notes
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Elucidating the Path to Liberation: A Study of the Commentary on the Abhidharmakośa by the First Dalai Lama | 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. | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 13 April 2011 22:01:17 | ||
Sartre and Nishitani: Toward Developing a Socially Engaged Zen Ethics | Park, Peter. Sartre and Nishitani: Toward Developing a Socially Engaged Zen Ethics. PhD diss., American University, 2010. | American University | 13 April 2011 21:39:35 | ||
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 | 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. | University of California at Berkeley | 13 April 2011 20:51:53 | ||
Eastern Religion and the Dilemmas of the Modern | Overaa, Roderick B. Eastern Religion and the Dilemmas of the Modern. PhD diss., University of Washington, 2010. | University of Washington | 13 April 2011 19:33:48 | ||
The Yogācāra Dharma List: A Study of the Abhidharmasamuccaya and its Commentary, Abhidharmasamuccayabhāṣya | Oliver, Curtis Forrest. The Yogācāra Dharma List: A Study of the Abhidharmasamuccaya and its Commentary, Abhidharmasamuccayabhāṣya. PhD diss., University of Toronto, 1982. | University of Toronto | 13 April 2011 18:56:30 | ||
Dehadāna: The 'Gift of the Body' in Indian Buddhist Narrative Literature | Ohnuma, Reiko. Dehadāna: The 'Gift of the Body' in Indian Buddhist Narrative Literature. PhD diss., University of Michigan, 1997. | University of Michigan | 13 April 2011 18:42:17 | ||
Sthiramati's Interpretation of Buddhology and Soteriology | Nguyen, Cuong Tu. "Sthiramati's Interpretation of Buddhology and Soteriology." PhD diss., Harvard University, 1990. | Abstract This thesis gives an account of Yogācāra Buddhist thought as presented in the works of Sthiramati, a leading sixth-century thinker in the Yogācāra tradition, along with a translation of his commentary on the Chapter on Enlightenment of the Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra. The thesis introduces Sthiramati's life and times, and discusses the authorship and authenticity of works attributed to him. Sthiramati's viewpoint is placed in the overall context of Yogācāra ontology. The thesis elucidates the fundamental categories of Yogācāra ontology, giving an analysis of the three identities (trisvabhāva) and their interrelationships, the connection between the three identities and the principle of representation-only (vijñaptimātra), and an account of basis-transformation (āśrayaparāvṛtti). This provides a philosophical foundation for interpreting the Yogācāra concept of Buddhahood, bringing out the intrinsic link between ontological realization and soteriological attainment in the Yogācāra system. The thesis traces the Yogācāra account of Buddhahood in both its essence and its manifestation: Buddhahood is shown as both the absolute ground of being and as the locus for innumerable pure qualities and forms of mastery through which enlightenment is communicated to ordinary sentient beings. In this connection, the thesis presents the Yogācāra analysis of the Three Bodies of Buddha (Dharmakāya, the Truth-Body; Sambhogakāya, the Enjoyment-Body; Nirmāṇakāya, the Emanation-Body), which encompass both the essential being and the manifest functioning of Buddha. The three Budda-bodies are correlated with the four liberative wisdoms (jñāna) of the Buddha (the Mirror-like Wisdom, the Equality Wisdom, the Analytical Wisdom, and the All-Accomplishing Wisdom). The thesis recounts the classic Yogācāra discussion of the attributes of Buddhahood in terms of unity and multiplicity, and the nature and scope of Buddha's salvific activities. The aims of the thesis are (1) to present Yogācāra Buddhology in its own terms; (2) to clarify the conceptual structure of Yogācāra Buddhology and the relationship in Yogācāra thought between Buddha and the phenomenal world, and between Buddha and the minds of sentient beings; and (3) to facilitate cross-cultural comparisons between Buddha and concepts of the Absolute in other religious traditions by providing a reliable presentation of the ontological, epistemological, and soteriological aspects of Yogācāra Buddhology. | Harvard University | 13 April 2011 17:41:15 | |
The Outer Wheel of Time: Vajrayāna Buddhist Cosmology in the Kālacakra Tantra | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 31 March 2011 00:33:54 | |||
The Buddhist Path to Omniscience | Naughton, Alexander T. The Buddhist Path to Omniscience. PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989. | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 31 March 2011 00:16:04 | ||
The Candragarbha-sūtra in Central and East Asia: Studies in a Buddhist Prophecy of Decline | Nattier, Jan. The Candragarbha-sūtra in Central and East Asia: Studies in a Buddhist Prophecy of Decline. PhD diss., Harvard University, 1988. | Harvard University | 29 March 2011 23:32:23 | ||
Dependant-Arising and Emptiness: A Tibetan Buddhist Interpretation of Mâdhyamika Philosophy Emphasizing the Compatibility of Emptiness and Conventional Phenomena | 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. | University of Virginia | 29 March 2011 22:39:48 | ||
Shingon-Mysticism: Śubhākarasiṁha and I-Hsing's Commentary to the Mahāvairocana-Sūtra, Chapter One | 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. | University of California at Los Angeles | 29 March 2011 22:10:25 | ||
Tibetan Buddhism, American Interests: Influences Upon the Lay and Monastic Relationship in New York's Tibetan Buddhist Immigrant Community | 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. | Temple University | 29 March 2011 21:38:23 | ||
The Mandala of Great Delight: Happiness at the Threshold of Time | Morrow, Katherine L. The Mandala of Great Delight: Happiness at the Threshold of Time. PhD diss., Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2006. | Pacifica Graduate Institute | 29 March 2011 21:11:14 | ||
Buddhism Observed: Western Travelers, Tibetan Exiles, and the Culture of Dharma in Kathmandu | Moran, Peter Kevin. Buddhism Observed: Western Travelers, Tibetan Exiles, and the Culture of Dharma in Kathmandu. PhD diss., University of Washington, 1998. | University of Washington | 16 March 2011 22:32:20 | ||
Jeweled Dialogues: The Role of The Book in the Formation of the Kadam Tradition Within Tibet | 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. | University of Virginia | 16 March 2011 22:15:58 | ||
Omniscience and the Rhetoric of Reason in the Tattvasaṃgraha and the Tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā | McClintock, Sara Louise. Omniscience and the Rhetoric of Reason in the Tattvasaṃgraha and the Tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā. PhD diss., Harvard University, 2002. | Harvard University | 16 March 2011 21:03:30 | ||
The Emergence of Bon and the Tibetan Polemical Tradition | Martin, Daniel Preston. The Emergence of Bon and the Tibetan Polemical Tradition. PhD diss., Indiana University, 1991. | Indiana University | 16 March 2011 19:37:23 | ||
Embodying the Sacred: Gender and Monastic Revitalization in China's Tibet | Makley, Charlene Elizabeth. Embodying the Sacred: Gender and Monastic Revitalization in China's Tibet. PhD diss., University of Michigan, 1999. | University of Michigan | 15 March 2011 17:36:00 | ||
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 | 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. | University of Virginia | 15 March 2011 17:19:05 | ||
The Effect of the Spiritual Practice of Tibetan Buddhist Guru Yoga on the Clinical Practice of Psychotherapy | 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. | Institute of Transpersonal Psychology | 15 March 2011 17:07:09 | ||
Tradition and Innovation in the Consequence School: Nature (rang bzhin, svabhāva-prakṛti) in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism | 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. | University of Virginia | 15 March 2011 16:15:59 | ||
A Path of Learning: Indo-Tibetan Buddhism as Education | MacPherson, Sonia Ann. A Path of Learning: Indo-Tibetan Buddhism as Education. PhD diss., University of British Columbia, 2000. | University of British Columbia | 14 March 2011 18:30:53 | ||
Feeding Ghosts: A Study of the Yuqie Yankou Rite | Lye, Hun Yeow. Feeding Ghosts: A Study of the Yuqie Yankou Rite. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2003. | University of Virginia | 14 March 2011 18:21:04 | ||
The Svātantrika-Mādhyamika School of Mahāyāna Buddhism | Lopez, Donald Sewell, Jr. The Svātantrika-Mādhyamika School of Mahāyāna Buddhism. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 1982. | University of Virginia | 14 March 2011 17:58:14 | ||
Hume and Buddhism: A Comparative Study of Personal Identity, Skepticism, and Moral Sentiments | Long, David Glyn. Hume and Buddhism: A Comparative Study of Personal Identity, Skepticism, and Moral Sentiments. PhD diss., University of California at Riverside, 2009. | University of California at Riverside | 12 March 2011 01:49:18 | ||
Candrakīrti and the Moon-Flower of Nālandā: Objectivity and Self-Correction in India's Central, Therapeutic Philosophy of Language | 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. | Columbia University | 12 March 2011 01:31:27 | ||
A Study of Śāntarakṣita's Madhyamakālaṃkāra | Lipman, Kennard. A Study of Śāntarakṣita's Madhyamakālaṃkāra. PhD diss., University of Saskatchewan, 1979. | University of Saskatchewan | 12 March 2011 00:15:50 | ||
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 | 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. | City University of New York | 11 March 2011 23:59:15 | ||
The Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra: A Liberating Hermeneutic | Lin, Chen-Kuo. The Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra: A Liberating Hermeneutic. PhD diss., Temple University, 1991. | Temple University | 11 March 2011 23:43:02 | ||
The Metaphors of Liberation: A Study of Grounds and Paths According to the Middle Way Schools | 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. | University of Virginia | 11 March 2011 21:12:19 | ||
Hanshan Deqing (1546-1623) on Buddhist Ethics | Leong, Markus. Hanshan Deqing (1546-1623) on Buddhist Ethics. PhD diss., California Institute of Integral Studies, 1994. | California Institute of Integral Studies | 11 March 2011 20:23:37 | ||
The Uncivil Poetics of Reason: Buddhist Debate and Demeanor in the Tibetan Diaspora | Lempert, Michael Paul. The Uncivil Poetics of Reason: Buddhist Debate and Demeanor in the Tibetan Diaspora. PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2004. | University of Pennsylvania | 11 March 2011 20:11:44 | ||
The Philosophy of Non-Duality in Zhaolun | Leigh, Hoseok. The Philosophy of Non-Duality in Zhaolun. PhD diss., California Institute of Integral Studies, 2010. | California Institute of Integral Studies | 11 March 2011 20:00:57 | ||
Conceptualizations of Gender in Buddhist Tantra | Lefebvre, Danielle Jean. Conceptualizations of Gender in Buddhist Tantra. PhD diss., University of Alberta, 2003. | University of Alberta | 11 March 2011 19:52:46 | ||
Synthesizing a Liturgical Heritage: Abhayākaragupta's Vajrāvalī and the Kālacakramaṇḍala | Lee, Yong-Hyun. Synthesizing a Liturgical Heritage: Abhayākaragupta's Vajrāvalī and the Kālacakramaṇḍala. PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003. | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 11 March 2011 19:30:23 | ||
Āryadeva on the Bodhisattva's Cultivation of Merit and Knowledge | Lang, Karen Christina. Āryadeva on the Bodhisattva's Cultivation of Merit and Knowledge. PhD diss., University of Washington, 1983. | University of Washington | 11 March 2011 19:10:19 | ||
Women's Religious Expression in Tibetan Buddhism: Songs and Lives of the Jomo (Nuns) of Kinnaur, Northwest India | 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. | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 11 March 2011 18:55:36 | ||
The Psychodynamics of Compassion: Psychological Reflections on the Tibetan Buddhist Stages of the Path Literature | Ladner, Lorne Robert. The Psychodynamics of Compassion: Psychological Reflections on the Tibetan Buddhist Stages of the Path Literature. PhD diss., Pacifica Graduate Institute, 1997. | Pacifica Graduate Institute | 11 March 2011 18:38:52 | ||
Pratītyasamutpāda in the Abhidharmasamuccaya: Conditioned Origination in the Yogācāra Abhidharma | Kritzer, Robert Benjamin. Pratītyasamutpāda in the Abhidharmasamuccaya: Conditioned Origination in the Yogācāra Abhidharma. PhD diss., University of California at Berkeley, 1995. | University of California at Berkeley | 11 March 2011 01:46:20 | ||
Pray for Surf: Wheels of Devotion | Karg, Brendan Donczyk. Pray for Surf: Wheels of Devotion. MA Thesis, California State University at Dominquez Hills, 2009. | California State University at Dominquez Hills | 11 March 2011 01:19:40 | ||
The Psychology of Mindfulness Meditation | Kornfield, Jack Murray. The Psychology of Mindfulness Meditation. PhD diss., Saybrook University, 1977. | Saybrook University | 11 March 2011 01:15:15 | ||
Mani Rimdu. Text and Tradition in a Tibetan Ritual | Kohn, Richard Jay. Mani Rimdu. Text and Tradition in a Tibetan Ritual. PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988. | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 11 March 2011 00:39:33 | ||
Mind and Liberation: The Sautrāntika Tenet System in Tibet | 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. | University of Virginia | 11 March 2011 00:24:23 | ||
Hermeneutics of the Scriptural Word in the Prajñā-Mādhyamika System | Kim, Yong Pyo. Hermeneutics of the Scriptural Word in the Prajñā-Mādhyamika System. PhD diss., Temple University, 1992. | Temple University | 10 March 2011 23:48:03 | ||
A Study of the Indian Commentaries on the Laṅkāvatārasūtra: Madhyamaka and Mind-only Philosophy | Kim, Suah. A Study of the Indian Commentaries on the Laṅkāvatārasūtra: Madhyamaka and Mind-only Philosophy. PhD diss., Harvard University, 2002. | Harvard University | 10 March 2011 23:10:16 | ||
Dharmakīrti's Concept of the Svalakṣaṇa | Keyt, Christine Mullikin. Dharmakīrti's Concept of the Svalakṣaṇa. PhD diss., University of Washington, 1980. | University of Washington | 10 March 2011 22:27:49 | ||
Deliberate Darkness: A Comparative Interpretation of Dark Deities | Kelly, Matthew M. J. Deliberate Darkness: A Comparative Interpretation of Dark Deities. PhD diss., University of Windsor, 1992. | University of Windsor | 10 March 2011 22:17:06 | ||
A Study of the Buddhabhūmyupadeśa: The Doctrinal Development of the Notion of Wisdom in Yogācāra Thought (1980) | 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. | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 10 March 2011 21:52:39 | ||
Vajra-Thunderbolt Metaphor: Eastern Mystical and Western Rational Archetypes and Their Influences on the Dualistic Nature of Human Beings | 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. | Saybrook University | 10 March 2011 21:31:39 | ||
Manchu-Tibetan Relations in the Early Seventeenth Century: A Reappraisal | Kam, Tak Sing. Manchu-Tibetan Relations in the Early Seventeenth Century: A Reappraisal. PhD diss., Harvard University, 1994. | Harvard University | 10 March 2011 20:48:46 | ||
Selected Chapters from the Abhidhānottara-Tantra: The Union of Female and Male Deities | Kalff, Martin Michael. Selected Chapters from the Abhidhānottara-Tantra: The Union of Female and Male Deities. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1979. | Columbia University | 10 March 2011 19:32:51 | ||
On Knowing What We're Doing: Human Consciousness and The Fate of the Earth | Kahn, Janet. On Knowing What We're Doing: Human Consciousness and The Fate of the Earth. PhD diss., Brandeis University, 1994. | Brandeis University | 10 March 2011 19:23:09 | ||
Buddha-Nature: Through the Eyes of Go rams pa Bsod nams seng ge in Fifteenth-Century Tibet | 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. | Abstract This dissertation explores the evolving interpretation and understanding of the Buddha-nature in Fifteenth-Century Tibet, through the eyes of Go rams pa Bsod nams seng ge (1429-1489), a prominent scholar of the Sa skya school of Tibetan Buddhism. The previous work of European and American scholars in this field have led to our general understanding of Buddha-nature as an innate potential for enlightenment that lies within all sentient beings. The concept of Buddha-nature provides the primary answer to a question with which all Mahāyānists have been philosophically concerned, throughout history: are all sentient beings capable of attaining Buddhahood? The Mahāyāna, more specifically, Madhyamaka theory of Buddha-nature answers the question unequivocally: "Since all sentient beings possess Buddha-nature they are guaranteed to achieve the state of Buddhahood." This research has been mostly limited to the interpretations of Indian and Chinese texts and to a study of only certain Tibetan schools. This dissertation seeks to fill the gap in present scholarship by analyzing the systematic thought of Go rams pa, who set out to provide a critical analysis, explain the internal coherence, and map out the organization of diverse Indian and Tibetan interpretations of this complex idea. I demonstrate in two fundamental ways that Go rams pa developed an unique view of Buddha-nature in two ways: First, I explore the facts Go rams pa's interpretation of Buddha-nature that contribute to his unique perspective. Second, I analyze his opponents' views on the subject thereby illuminating its distinctive features in an historical context. Throughout this study, I deploy a comparative apparatus considering the different views that Go rams pa thought was wrong. Given this fifteenth-century debate, we realize that the understanding of Buddha-nature is subtle and complicated; yet this study is vital to explicate its implications. I conclude that according to Go rams pa, Buddha-nature is to be understood as unity of the emptiness of the mind and clarity which is the nature of mind. | Harvard University | 10 March 2011 00:31:42 | |
Of Offal, Corpses, and Others: An Examination of Self, Subjectivity, and Authenticity in Two Works by Alexandra David-Neel | 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. | Florida Atlantic University | 10 March 2011 00:04:07 | ||
Transgressive Compassion: The Role of Fear, Horror and the Threat of Death in Ultimate Transformation | Jones, Lucy Annette. Transgressive Compassion: The Role of Fear, Horror and the Threat of Death in Ultimate Transformation. PhD diss., Rice University, 1998. | Rice University | 9 March 2011 23:53:24 | ||
Vasubandhu's Consciousness Trilogy: A Yogācāra Buddhist Process Idealism | Johnson-Moxley, Melanie K. Vasubandhu's Consciousness Trilogy: A Yogācāra Buddhist Process Idealism. PhD diss., University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. | University of Missouri-Columbia | 9 March 2011 23:30:59 | ||
Cataphatic Emptiness: rGyal-tshab on the Buddha-essence Theory of Asaṅga's Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā | Jiang, Bo. "Cataphatic Emptiness: rGyal-tshab on the Buddha-Essence Theory of Asaṅga's Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā." PhD diss., Columbia University, 2008. | Abstract This doctoral dissertation studies the Ratnagotravibhāga (Uttaratantra), the only surviving Indian Buddhist treatise on the Buddha-essence doctrine, by way of one of its major Tibetan commentaries, rGyal-tshab Dar-ma-rin-chen (1364-1432)'s Theg pa chen po rGyud bla ma'i ṭīkā. This project consists of three parts: a special edition of the first chapter of the Theg pa chen po rGyud bia ma'i ṭīkā, an English translation of the selected sections of that commentary, and a comparative analysis which follows six distinct lines of inquiry. The six lines are: rGyal-tshab's doctrinal classification of the text; his critiques of absolutism, skepticism, and quietism in connection with diverse interpretations of the Buddha-essence doctrine in Tibetan traditions as well as a tentative comparison with critiques of the theory of "Original-enlightenment" in modern Chinese Buddhism; his analysis of the title of Tibetan version and the structure of the text; rGyal-tshab's philosophical positions on reality, Element, and natural luminosity of the mind; his expositions of the tripartite Buddha-essence, its ten aspects, and the eighteen similes; and the notion "spiritual gene" understood by dGe-lugs-pas. This comparative approach will provide a broader synthetic understanding of the role that Buddha-essence played as a doctrinal genre in Tibetan intellectual history. | Columbia University | 9 March 2011 23:11:51 | |
Mixing Minds: Interpersonal Relationships between Tibetan Buddhist Lamas and their Western Students, and Psychoanalysts and their Analysands: A Study in Contrasts | Jennings, Pilar. Mixing Minds: Interpersonal Relationships between Tibetan Buddhist Lamas and their Western Students, and Psychoanalysts and their Analysands: A Study in Contrasts. PhD diss., Union Theological Seminary, 2009. | Union Theological Seminary | 9 March 2011 22:05:58 | ||
Three Chapters from the Gaṇḍavyūha Sūtra: A Critical Edition of the Sanskrit and Tibetan Texts of the Youth Sudhana's Visits to the Bhikṣus Meghaśrī, Sāgaramegha, and Supratiṣṭhita, with English Translation and Commentary | Jastram, Judy Ann. Three Chapters from the Gaṇḍavyūha Sūtra: A Critical Edition of the Sanskrit and Tibetan Texts of the Youth Sudhana's Visits to the Bhikṣus Meghaśrī, Sāgaramegha, and Supratiṣṭhita, with English Translation and Commentary. PhD diss., University of California at Berkeley, 1975. | University of California at Berkeley | 9 March 2011 21:41:22 | ||
Practice and Theory of Emptiness: A Study of Jizang's Commentary on the "Refutation of Emptiness" of the Bailun | Jane, Wen-ling. Practice and Theory of Emptiness: A Study of Jizang's Commentary on the "Refutation of Emptiness" of the Bailun. PhD diss., Columbia University, 2009. | Columbia University | 9 March 2011 21:15:38 | ||
The Range of the Bodhisattva: A Study of an Early Mahāyānasūtra - Āryasatyakaparivarta | Jamspal, Lozang. "The Range of the Bodhisattva: A Study of an Early Mahāyānasūtra, 'Āryasatyakaparivarta,' Discourse of Truth Teller." PhD diss., Columbia University, 1991. | Abstract The present study is designed to introduce the previously untranslated middle length Mahāyāna sūtra Aryasatyakaparivarta, an early Mahāyāna work, which was widely cited by many ancient Indian and Tibetan authors. Satyavādin, a non-Buddhist teacher, is the bodhisattva and main hero of the sūtra who expounds the Buddhist teachings. The text of the sūtra deals with all the major Buddhist subjects on both conventional and ultimate truths as well as integrating these teachings with advice on state policy. The sūtra describes the stages of practice of the path to enlightenment, starting with the ten virtuous and non-virtuous actions and their results, upward to the universal compassion of the bodhisattvas and the Buddha, and includes the six perfections, the skillful means of the bodhisattvas and the Tathāgata, the Buddha vehicle as the ultimate vehicle, the Buddha body adorned with the thirty-two auspicious characteristics and eighty distinctive marks, the thirty-two compassions of the Tathāgata, the thirty-seven wings of enlightenment, the four confidences of the Buddha, and ultimate truth as an inexpressible reality. Satyavādin gives extensive advice on state policy to the king and discusses the flaws and virtues of some of his contemporaries. At the sūtra's conclusion the Buddha prophesies Satyavādin's future perfectly full enlightenment. The introduction deals with plausible evidence to date this sūtra prior to other well-known Mahāyāna sūtras. It also discusses the meaning of nirgantha in analyzing Satyavādin's non-Buddhist guise, and contrasts Satyavādin's advice on state policy, in particular on punishments and war, with other ancient Indian non-Buddhist and Buddhist scriptures. Furthermore, it describes the use and expansion of Satyavādin's ideas by later Indian and Tibetan authors. The appendices explain the sūtra's teachings on karma, the thought of enlightenment, the meaning of prajñāpāramitā, and other topics based o later Indian and Tibetan sources. | Columbia University | 9 March 2011 19:59:15 | |
Consorts and Revelation in Eastern Tibet: The Auto-Biographical Writings of the Treasure Revealer Sera Khandro (1892-1940) | Jacoby, Sarah Hieatt. Consorts and Revelation in Eastern Tibet: The Auto-Biographical Writings of the Treasure Revealer Sera Khandro (1892-1940). PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2007. | University of Virginia | 9 March 2011 19:38:51 | ||
Situated Knowledge in Classical Tibetan Medicine: Psychiatric Aspects | Jacobson, Eric Emil. Situated Knowledge in Classical Tibetan Medicine: Psychiatric Aspects. PhD diss., Harvard University, 2000. | Harvard University | 9 March 2011 19:15:02 | ||
Selections from the Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Polymath: Chankya Rolpai Dorje (Lcang skya rol pa'i rdo rje), 1717-1786 | Illich, Marina. Selections from the Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Polymath: Chankya Rolpai Dorje (Lcang skya rol pa'i rdo rje), 1717-1786. PhD diss., Columbia University, 2006. | Columbia University | 9 March 2011 18:58:07 | ||
An Introduction to Svātantrika-Mādhyamika | Iida, Shotaro. An Introduction to Svātantrika-Mādhyamika. PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1968. | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 9 March 2011 18:33:28 | ||
The Akutobhayā and Early Indian Madhyamaka (Volumes I and II) | Huntington, Clair W., Jr. The Akutobhayā and Early Indian Madhyamaka (Volumes I and II). PhD diss., University of Michigan, 1986. | University of Michigan | 9 March 2011 00:40:49 | ||
Tibetan Buddhist Drama | Hulton-Baker, Robert. Tibetan Buddhist Drama. PhD diss., New York University, 1987. | New York University | 9 March 2011 00:30:42 | ||
The Rhetoric of Naturalness: A Critical Study of the gNas lugs mdzod | Hillis, Gregory Alexander. The Rhetoric of Naturalness: A Critical Study of the gNas lugs mdzod. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2003. | University of Virginia | 8 March 2011 17:50:33 | ||
Tantric Yoga: A Study of the Vedic Precursors, Historical Evolution, Literatures, Cultures, Doctrines, and Practices of the 11th Century Kaśmīri Śaivite and Buddhist Unexcelled Tantric Yogas | Hartzell, James Francis. Tantric Yoga: A Study of the Vedic Precursors, Historical Evolution, Literatures, Cultures, Doctrines, and Practices of the 11th Century Kaśmīri Śaivite and Buddhist Unexcelled Tantric Yogas. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1997. | Columbia University | 8 March 2011 01:36:44 | ||
A View of Mañjuśrī: Wisdom and its Crown Prince in Pāla-Period India | Harrington, Laura. A View of Mañjuśrī: Wisdom and its Crown Prince in Pāla-Period India. PhD diss., Columbia University, 2002. | Columbia University | 8 March 2011 01:25:09 | ||
Mahayana Phoenix: Japan's Buddhists at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions | Harding, John. Mahayana Phoenix: Japan's Buddhists at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions. PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2003. | University of Pennsylvania | 8 March 2011 01:10:38 | ||
What's the Matter - Your Energy or Your Matter?: An Exploratory Study Examining Body-Mind-Spirit Correlates of Tibetans and Caucasian-Americans for Multicultural Holistic Health Practice Intake | Harari, Simone Sarine. What's the Matter - Your Energy or Your Matter?: An Exploratory Study Examining Body-Mind-Spirit Correlates of Tibetans and Caucasian-Americans for Multicultural Holistic Health Practice Intake. PhD diss., The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 2002. | The Chicago School of Professional Psychology | 7 March 2011 22:57:35 | ||
The Trikâya: A Study of the Buddhology of the Early Vijñânavâda School of Indian Buddhism | Hanson, Mervin Viggo. The Trikâya: A Study of the Buddhology of the Early Vijñânavâda School of Indian Buddhism. PhD diss., University of British Columbia, 1980. | University of British Columbia | 7 March 2011 22:33:11 | ||
Early Yogācāra and Its Relation to Nāgārjuna's Madhyamaka: Change and Continuity in the History Mahāyāna Buddhist Thought | Hanson, Elena France. Early Yogācāra and Its Relation to Nāgārjuna's Madhyamaka: Change and Continuity in the History Mahāyāna Buddhist Thought. PhD diss., Harvard University, 1998. | Harvard University | 7 March 2011 19:56:34 | ||
The Life and Teachings of Vairocana | Hanson-Barber, A. W. The Life and Teachings of Vairocana. PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984. | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 7 March 2011 19:38:53 | ||
Buddhists Discuss Science in Modern China (1895-1949) | Hammerstrom, Erik J. Buddhists Discuss Science in Modern China (1895-1949). PhD diss., Indiana University, 2010. | Indiana University | 7 March 2011 19:28:35 | ||
Barbarian Lands: Theos Bernard, Tibet, and the American Religious Life | Hackett, Paul Gerard. Barbarian Lands: Theos Bernard, Tibet, and the American Religious Life. PhD diss., Columbia University, 2008. | Columbia University | 7 March 2011 19:17:33 | ||
Die Tibetische Rezeption des Abhisamayālaṃkāra am Beispiel der Ersten Drei Kapitel in der Kommentierung von rdza dpal spruls spyi don | Haas, Michaela. Die Tibetische Rezeption des Abhisamayālaṃkāra am Beispiel der Ersten Drei Kapitel in der Kommentierung von rdza dpal spruls spyi don. PhD diss., Universität Bonn, 2008. | Universität Bonn | 7 March 2011 19:05:47 | ||
A Literary Transmission of the Traditions of Thang-stong rGyal-po: A Study of Visionary Buddhism in Tibet | Gyatso, Janet. A Literary Transmission of the Traditions of Thang-stong rGyal-po: A Study of Visionary Buddhism in Tibet. PhD diss., University of California at Berkeley, 1981. | University of California at Berkeley | 7 March 2011 18:30:44 | ||
An Economy of Merit: Women and Buddhist Monasticism in Zangskar, Northwest India | Gutschow, Kim Irmgard. An Economy of Merit: Women and Buddhist Monasticism in Zangskar, Northwest India. PhD diss., Harvard University, 1998. | Harvard University | 7 March 2011 18:19:34 | ||
A Critical Analysis of the Jhānas in Theravāda Buddhist Meditation | Gunaratana, Henepola. A Critical Analysis of the Jhānas in Theravāda Buddhist Meditation. PhD diss., American University, 1980. | American University | 7 March 2011 18:09:19 | ||
Articulating Potency: A Study of the Suvarṇa(pra)bhāsottamasūtra | Gummer, Natalie Dawn. "Articulating Potency: A Study of the Suvarṇa(pra)bhāsottamasūtra." PhD diss., Harvard University, 2000. | Harvard University | 7 March 2011 17:53:20 | ||
Indian Buddhist Meditation-Theory: History, Development and Systematization | Griffiths, Paul J. Indian Buddhist Meditation-Theory: History, Development and Systematization. PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1983. | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 5 March 2011 00:51:41 | ||
Heidegger and Personal Transformation: From Death to Life | Gruenig, Hans W. Heidegger and Personal Transformation: From Death to Life. PhD diss., Tulane University, 2009. | Tulane University | 5 March 2011 00:31:15 | ||
Kūkai, Founder of Japanese Shingon Buddhism: Portraits of His Life | Green, Ronald Steve. Kūkai, Founder of Japanese Shingon Buddhism: Portraits of His Life. PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003. | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 5 March 2011 00:05:49 | ||
On Supreme Bliss: A Study of the History and Interpretation of the Cakrasaṃvara Tantra | Gray, David Barton. "On Supreme Bliss: A Study of the History and Interpretation of the Cakrasaṃvara Tantra." PhD diss., Columbia University, 2001. | Abstract This thesis explores the development of an important Indian Buddhist scripture. the Cakrasaṃvara Tantra, and the tradition of exegesis and practice based upon it. It consists of an edition and translation of the first four chapters of the Cakrasaṃvara Tantra, as well as a translation of the corresponding portion of Tsongkhapa's Total Illumination of the Hidden Meaning, a Tibetan commentary on this scripture. These texts are contextualized via efforts to define "Tantric Buddhism" as it is understood by the tradition itself, and via explorations of both the intellectual and socio-historical contexts within which Tantric Buddhism developed, and the ways in which different subtraditions within it were elaborated and categorized. It is argued that a common element of Tantric traditions is their resistance to the hegemonic ideology of caste. An exploration of this ideology and Buddhist resistance to it is undertaken. Tantric discourse was deployed as a form of resistance against caste ideology, but also constituted a counter ideology, which centered around the figure of the guru as a nexus of power and authority, and articulated in the model of the maṇḍala. The Cakrasaṃvara Tantra, is notable for the strong presence of "non-Buddhist elements." The Cakrasaṃvara Tantra, is a composite text drawing from diverse sources, and while it probably reached its final form in a Buddhist monastic context, there is significant textual evidence suggesting that it was the product of a non-monastic, renunciant milieu in which sectarian identification was not particularly relevant. The Cakrasaṃvara Tantra, is, in Levi Strauss' terms, a bricolage. It provides a particularly striking example of the processes of adaptation and reinterpretation which have continually led to the development of religious traditions. The Cakrasaṃvara's identification as a Buddhist tradition was the result of the efforts of commentators in India who constructed it as such, and by Tibetan commentators, who completed this process of adaptation. | Columbia University | 4 March 2011 23:50:23 | |
The Hermeneutics of Madness: A Literary and Hermeneutical Analysis of the "Mi-la'i-rnam-thar" by Gtsang-smyon Heruka | Goss, Robert Everett. The Hermeneutics of Madness: A Literary and Hermeneutical Analysis of the "Mi-la'i-rnam-thar" by Gtsang-smyon Heruka. PhD diss., Harvard University, 1993. | Harvard University | 4 March 2011 23:29:42 | ||
The Life of a Bönpo Luminary: Sainthood, Partisanship and Literary Representation in a 20th Century Tibetan Biography | Gorvine, William M. The Life of a Bönpo Luminary: Sainthood, Partisanship and Literary Representation in a 20th Century Tibetan Biography. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2006. | University of Virginia | 4 March 2011 23:10:30 | ||
Tibetan Refugees in the Katmandu Valley: A Study in Socio-Cultural Change and Continuity and the Adaptation of a Population in Exile | Gombo, Ugen. Tibetan Refugees in the Katmandu Valley: A Study in Socio-Cultural Change and Continuity and the Adaptation of a Population in Exile. PhD diss., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1985. | State University of New York at Stony Brook | 4 March 2011 22:55:45 | ||
Intellectual Gatekeeper: Sa-Skya Paṇḍita Envisions the Ideal Scholar | Gold, Jonathan C. Intellectual Gatekeeper: Sa-Skya Paṇḍita Envisions the Ideal Scholar. PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2003. | University of Chicago | 4 March 2011 22:28:23 | ||
Up From the Roots: Contextualizing Medicinal Plant Classifications of Tibetan Doctors in Rgyalthang, PRC | Glover, Denise M. Up From the Roots: Contextualizing Medicinal Plant Classifications of Tibetan Doctors in Rgyalthang, PRC. PhD diss., University of Washington, 2005. | University of Washington | 4 March 2011 22:16:15 | ||
Selected Buddhist Educational Texts of Tibet: Translation and Explication | Glass, Joel Howard. Selected Buddhist Educational Texts of Tibet: Translation and Explication. PhD diss., University of Kentucky, 1978. | University of Kentucky | 4 March 2011 21:54:06 | ||
The Alchemy of Compassion | Glaser, Aura. The Alchemy of Compassion. PhD diss., Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2001. | Pacifica Graduate Institute | 4 March 2011 20:59:28 | ||
Poetic Thought, the Intelligent Universe, and the Mystery of Self: The Tantric Synthesis of rDzogs Chen in Fourteenth Century Tibet | Germano, David Francis. "Poetic Thought, the Intelligent Universe, and the Mystery of Self: The Tantric Synthesis of rDzogs Chen in Fourteenth Century Tibet." PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992. | Abstract The rDzogs Chen tradition is an extremely innovative philosophical and contemplative system originating out of Buddhist Tantric mysticism within the 8th-10th centuries, and in many ways is quite unusual in the context of normative Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. While its origins remain controversial, we currently possess only a large body of canonical and exegetical literature in what claim to be Tibetan translations, as well as an extensive secondary literature that developed in Tibet from the 10th-20th centuries. The tradition is especially striking in its implicit development of a model of rigorous philosophical thought that refuses to be reduced to syllogistic reasoning (though utilizing it as a secondary hermeneutical tool) or dismissed as mere "aesthetics" as it treats Buddhist Tantra as a serious philosophical innovation that must be utilized to reinterpret previous traditional scholasticism, in stark contrast to the trend to extend traditional scholastic methodologies into Tantra, and deny the revolution of "poetic thought" they may embody. In addition, its complex evolutionary emphasis and description of a non-reified intelligence operative at every level of the Universe is strikingly similar to recent developments in modern scientific research. Finally, it would seem that the Great Perfection represents the most sophisticated interpretation of the so-called "Buddha nature" tradition within the context of Indo-Tibetan thought, and as such, is of extreme importance for research into classical exoteric philosophic systems such as Madhyamaka and Yogācāra, while also providing fertile grounds for future explorations of the interconnections between Indo-Tibetan and East Asian forms of Buddhism, as well as between Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and contemporary Indian developments such as the tenth century non-dual Shaivism of Abhinavagupta. Though this tradition is by no means homogenous, one can readily distinguish out a classical system encapsulated by "eleven adamantine topics" (rDo rJe'i gNas bCu gCig), which together constitute a wide ranging journey spanning the early history of the Universe to the climaxing heights of a Buddha's full enlightenment. This system is most brilliantly articulated by the fourteenth century Tibetan scholar kLong Chen Rab 'Byams Pa (1308-1363) in his The Seven Treasuries (mDzod bDun) and The Seminal Heart-Essence in Four Parts (sNying Thig Ya bZhi), which contain some of the world's most profound poetic and philosophic masterpieces. This dissertation thus bases itself on Longchenpa's corpus, and his own textual sources, namely The Seventeen Tantras, The Seminal Heart-Essence of the Sky Dancer (mKha' 'Gro sNying Thig) by Padmasambhava, and The Seminal Heart-Essence of Vimalamitra (Bi Ma sNying Thig) by Vimalamitra and other early non-Tibetan figures in the tradition. In particular, it focuses on kLong Chen Rab 'Byams Pa's The Treasury of Words and Meanings (Tshig Don mDzod) which is directly structured on the aforementioned eleven topics, and is his most succinct yet extensive exposition of the tradition of the Great Perfection in its entirety. Part I is an overview of these eleven topics in general, as well as in the context of The Treasury of Words and Meaning's corresponding eleven chapters; Part II consists of a translation of the first five chapters from The Treasury of Words and Meanings (centering on the primordial nature of the Universe, the early history of its exteriorization into space and time, the origination of alienation, evolution, and a subtle analysis of the energetics of human existence); and Part III provides a very lengthy commentary on those five chapters in the form of running annotations (the bulk of the thesis thus occurs in Part Ill). In Part Ill, the above texts are systematically analyzed in relation to Longchenpa's discussions of a given issue, and many lengthy passages extracted from them are translated therein, along with extensive interpretative comments. Although some scholars have attempted to marginalize the tradition in relation to Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, in fact the Great Perfection can be understood as its culmination, since in its seamless blend of the exoteric and esoteric it overcomes many of the limitations inherent in the "normative" traditions' sterile division between "philosophy" and the esoteric practices/theory of Tantra. This dissertation clarifies the essential structure, orientation, and content of the tradition, as well as providing a very detailed explication of the first five of the eleven topics encapsulating its overall range. The larger work from which it is drawn contains a systematic treatment of all eleven topics, along with a comprehensive translation (and independent commentary on) The Treasury of Words and Meanings. | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 4 March 2011 20:40:32 | |
The Caṇḍamahāroṣaṇa Tantra: Chapters I-VIII | George, Christopher Starr. The Caṇḍamahāroṣaṇa Tantra: Chapters I-VIII. PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1971. | University of Pennsylvania | 4 March 2011 20:03:18 | ||
Penetrating the Secret Essence Tantra: Context and Philosophy in the Mahāyoga System of rNying-ma Tantra | Garson, Nathaniel Dewitt. Penetrating the Secret Essence Tantra: Context and Philosophy in the Mahāyoga System of rNying-ma Tantra. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2004. | University of Virginia | 4 March 2011 19:38:49 | ||
Narratives of Embryology: Becoming Human in Tibetan Literature | Garrett, Frances Mary. Narratives of Embryology: Becoming Human in Tibetan Literature. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2004. | University of Virginia | 4 March 2011 19:31:04 | ||
Evidentiality and Assertion in Tibetan | Garrett, Edward John. Evidentiality and Assertion in Tibetan. PhD diss., University of California at Los Angeles, 2001. | University of California at Los Angeles | 4 March 2011 19:10:58 | ||
The Twenty-five Great Sites of Khams: Religious Geography, Revelation, and Nonsectarianism in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Tibet | Gardner, Alexander Patten. The Twenty-five Great Sites of Khams: Religious Geography, Revelation, and Nonsectarianism in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Tibet. PhD diss., University of Michigan, 2006. | University of Michigan | 4 March 2011 18:11:14 | ||
Vasubandhu's Pariṇāma Theory | Fujimoto, Akira. Vasubandhu's Pariṇāma Theory. PhD diss., University of Calgary, 1992. | University of Calgary | 4 March 2011 17:20:29 | ||
Miracles and Superhuman Powers in South Asian Buddhist Literature | Fiordalis, David V. Miracles and Superhuman Powers in South Asian Buddhist Literature. PhD diss., University of Michigan, 2008. | University of Michigan | 4 March 2011 02:07:14 | ||
Transforming Emotions: The Practice of Lojong in Tibetan Buddhism | Fernandes, Karen M. Transforming Emotions: The Practice of Lojong in Tibetan Buddhism. PhD diss., McGill University, 2000. | McGill University | 4 March 2011 01:59:39 | ||
Rasayana Siddhi: Medicine and Alchemy in the Buddhist Tantras | Fenner, Edward Todd. Rasayana Siddhi: Medicine and Alchemy in the Buddhist Tantras. PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1979. | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 4 March 2011 01:49:54 | ||
The Religious Structure of Tantric Buddhism | Fasano, Anthony Joseph. The Religious Structure of Tantric Buddhism. PhD diss., Fordham University, 1981. | Fordham University | 4 March 2011 01:35:02 | ||
Clinical Applications of the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying in a Psychiatric Partial Hospitalization Program | Fallah, Eman. Clinical Applications of the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying in a Psychiatric Partial Hospitalization Program. PhD diss., California Institute of Integral Studies, 2007. | California Institute of Integral Studies | 4 March 2011 01:22:32 | ||
The Buddhist Theory of Self according to Acarya Candrakirti | Engle, Artemus Bertine. "The Buddhist Theory of Self According to Acarya Candrakirti." PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1983. | Whether one approaches the Buddhist tradition from a historical, cultural, or philosophical perspective, scholarship in this area of study has largely been the province of individuals possessing some degree of proficiency in one, or a number of, various Asian languages. Obviously, the first challenge facing the scholar is simply that of determining exactly what Buddhism was and, to some extent, continues to be. However, the intellectual tradition of Western civilization has developed virtually in total isolation from this religion. Thus, the ultimate, and perhaps most difficult, challenge is that of pointing out the merits of Buddhism to a largely unfamiliar Western audience. The person who is unversed in any of the canonical languages
of Buddhism only has access to Buddhist literature through the writings that are available in a Western language. And, at present, this body of writings does not provide anything like a complete and thorough representation of Buddhist literature. Consequently, in addition to those who are well-versed in Buddhist ideology, this dissertation is also intended for individuals who have little familiarity with this subject. More specifically, my objective has been to make a contribution to the ongoing investigations into the history of Buddhist philosophy by focussing on one Buddhist author's interpretation of a specific topic— the doctrine of anātma— and providing an analysis of it in relation to the views of several other Buddhist schools. I have attempted to demonstrate how Acarya Candrakirti's theory of self is significantly different from the generally accepted Buddhist explanation of this topic. In doing so, several relevant areas of Candrakirti's overall system are also examined. With regard to his Prasangika views on logic, I have introduced new material from the writings of Svatantrika scholars for the purpose of further clarifying the nature of the differences between these two Madhyamika schools of thought. Part Two consists of a translation of Candrakirti's most comprehensive discussion of his views on the self. This text was not previously available in English. In several instances my translation also corrects misinterpretations that occur in the incomplete French translation of Professor Louis de la Vallée Poussin. The text consists of a section of the sixth chapter from Acarya Candrakirti's Madhyamakāvatārabhāṣya. Since the original Sanskrit is not extant, my translation is based on the Tibetan translation. For a manuscript I have used the 1912 edition prepared by Professor Poussin and published by the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences as Volume IX of the Bibliotheca Buddhica series. In preparing the English translation, Professor Poussin's French translation as well as a partial Sanskrit reconstruction by N. Aiyaswami Sastri were consulted; however the most useful aid proved to be the Tibetan translation of a 12th century Indian commentary to Candrakirti's text composed by a certain Jayānanda and entitled Madhyamakāvatāratīka. This work provides a literal explanation for almost every word of Candrakirti's text and was extremely helpful for understanding numerous obscure passages. Although several of the texts cited in Part One of the dissertation can be found in translations prepared by other scholars, I have presented my own version for all these quotations in order to maintain a consistency of style and terminology. The one exception occurs in the chapter on Prasangika logic, for which ample explanation is given there. (Engle, preface, iii–v) | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 4 March 2011 00:59:26 | |
The Saṃpuṭa Tantra: Edition and Translation Chapters I-IV | Elder, George Robert. The Saṃpuṭa Tantra: Edition and Translation Chapters I-IV. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1978. | Columbia University | 4 March 2011 00:41:45 | ||
Theory and Practice of Music in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastic Tradition | Egyed, Alice. Theory and Practice of Music in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastic Tradition. PhD diss., University of Washington, 2000. | University of Washington | 4 March 2011 00:11:14 | ||
The Strings of the Gandharva's Lute: Continuity and Change in the Cross-Societal Transmission of Tibetan Buddhist Ritual | Egert, Janine Eve. The Strings of the Gandharva's Lute: Continuity and Change in the Cross-Societal Transmission of Tibetan Buddhist Ritual. PhD diss., University of California at Berkeley, 1998. | University of California at Berkeley | 3 March 2011 23:56:25 | ||
Buddhist Discourse in Traditional Vietnam | Duong, Dung Ngoc. Buddhist Discourse in Traditional Vietnam. PhD diss., Boston University, 2001. | Boston University | 3 March 2011 23:39:47 | ||
Foundations of Dharmakīrti's Philosophy: A Study of the Central Issues in his Ontology, Logic and Epistemology with Particular Attention to the Svopajñavṛtti | Dunne, John Dowling. Foundations of Dharmakīrti's Philosophy: A Study of the Central Issues in his Ontology, Logic and Epistemology with Particular Attention to the Svopajñavṛtti. PhD diss., Harvard University, 1999. | Harvard University | 3 March 2011 23:21:05 | ||
Vasubhandu on the Avijñapti-Rūpa: A Study in Fifth-Century Abhidharma Buddhism | Dowling, Thomas Lee. Vasubhandu on the Avijñapti-Rūpa: A Study in Fifth-Century Abhidharma Buddhism. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1976. | Columbia University | 3 March 2011 21:14:23 | ||
Administration and Law in the Tibetan Empire: The Section on Law and State and its Old Tibetan Antecedents | Dotson, Brandon. Administration and Law in the Tibetan Empire: The Section on Law and State and its Old Tibetan Antecedents. PhD diss., University of Oxford, 2006. | University of Oxford | 3 March 2011 20:44:14 | ||
Living Systems, Karmic Formation, and Peacemaking: A Study of the Human Group-Field | Dorris, Roger William. Living Systems, Karmic Formation, and Peacemaking: A Study of the Human Group-Field. PhD diss., Union Institute and University, 2004. | Union Institute and University | 3 March 2011 20:20:57 | ||
Pieces of Vāc: A Study of the Letters of the Sanskrit Alphabet and Their Metaphysical Role in the Emanation of Manifest Reality as Described in Select Hindu Tantras | Dorman, Eric Robert. Pieces of Vāc: A Study of the Letters of the Sanskrit Alphabet and Their Metaphysical Role in the Emanation of Manifest Reality as Described in Select Hindu Tantras. PhD diss., California Institute of Integral Studies, 2009. | California Institute of Integral Studies | 3 March 2011 19:59:48 | ||
The Guhyagarbhatantra and its XIVth Century Commentary phyogs-bcu mun-sel | Gyurme, Dorje. The Guhyagarbhatantra and its XIVth Century Commentary phyogs-bcu mun-sel. PhD diss., University of London, 1987. | University of London | 3 March 2011 19:46:00 | ||
A Tibetan Formulation of Madhyamaka Philosophy: A Study and Translation of Tsong-kha-pa's "Ocean of Reasoning" | Donnelly, Paul B. A Tibetan Formulation of Madhyamaka Philosophy: A Study and Translation of Tsong-kha-pa's "Ocean of Reasoning". PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997. | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 3 March 2011 18:48:10 | ||
The Tibetan Treasure Literature -- a Study of the Revelations of the Visionary Master Mchog gyur bde chen gling pa (1829-1970) | Doctor, Andreas. The Tibetan Treasure Literature -- a Study of the Revelations of the Visionary Master Mchog gyur bde chen gling pa (1829-1970). PhD diss., University of Calgary, 2003. | University of Calgary | 3 March 2011 18:19:04 | ||
The Legend of Shambhala in Eastern and Western Interpretations | Dmitrieva, Victoria. The Legend of Shambhala in Eastern and Western Interpretations. PhD diss., McGill University, 1997. | McGill University | 3 March 2011 04:59:43 | ||
Masters of Magical Powers: The Nāth Siddhas in the Light of Esoteric Notions | Djurdjevic, Gordan. Masters of Magical Powers: The Nāth Siddhas in the Light of Esoteric Notions. PhD diss., University of British Columbia, 2005. | University of British Columbia | 3 March 2011 04:43:16 | ||
Eastern Religion for Western People: A Phenomenological Inquiry into the Experience of Tibetan Buddhist Practices in the Lives of Six Western People | Deliman, Tracy. Eastern Religion for Western People: A Phenomenological Inquiry into the Experience of Tibetan Buddhist Practices in the Lives of Six Western People. PhD diss., Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, 1989. | Institute of Transpersonal Psychology | 3 March 2011 04:14:18 | ||
Buddhist Systems of Transformation | Davidson, Ronald. "Buddhist Systems of Transformation: Āśraya-parivṛtti/ -parāvṛtti among the Yogācāra." PhD diss., University of California, Berkeley, 1985. | University of California at Berkeley | 3 March 2011 04:00:44 | ||
Something else | Davidson, Ronald Mark. Buddhist Systems of Transformation: Āśraya-parivṛtti/-parāvṛtti Among the Yogācāra. PhD diss., University of California at Berkeley, 1985. | University of California at Berkeley | 3 March 2011 03:49:25 | ||
Monumentalizing Tantra: The Multiple Identities of the Haṃseśvarī Devī Temple and the Bansberia Zamīndāri | Datta-Ray, Mohini. Monumentalizing Tantra: The Multiple Identities of the Haṃseśvarī Devī Temple and the Bansberia Zamīndāri. PhD diss., McGill University, 2008. | McGill University | 3 March 2011 03:20:53 | ||
Myogenic Transformation of Emotions: A Dialectical Inquiry into Western Psychotherapy and Buddhist Psychology | Dannecker, Martina E. Myogenic Transformation of Emotions: A Dialectical Inquiry into Western Psychotherapy and Buddhist Psychology. PhD diss., California Institute of Integral Studies, 2005. | California Institute of Integral Studies | 3 March 2011 01:41:50 | ||
The Uses of the Dgongs pa 'dus pa'i mdo in the Development of the Rnying-ma School of Tibetan Buddhism | Dalton, Jacob P. The Uses of the Dgongs pa 'dus pa'i mdo in the Development of the Rnying-ma School of Tibetan Buddhism. PhD diss., University of Michigan, 2002. | University of Michigan | 3 March 2011 01:19:27 | ||
The Mahāyāna-Hīnayāna Distinction in the Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra: A Terminological Analysis | D'Amato, Mario. The Mahāyāna-Hīnayāna Distinction in the Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra: A Terminological Analysis. PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2000. | University of Chicago | 3 March 2011 00:54:49 | ||
Mt. Kailāsa: Source for the Sacred in Early Indian and Tibetan Tradition | Cutler, Nathan S. Mt. Kailāsa: Source for the Sacred in Early Indian and Tibetan Tradition. PhD diss., California Institute of Integral Studies, 1996. | California Institute of Integral Studies | 3 March 2011 00:18:36 | ||
The Hidden Treasures of Sgam-po-gdar Mountain: A History of the Zhi-khro Revelations of Karma-gling-pa and the Making of the Tibetan Book of the Dead | Cuevas, Bryan Jaré. The Hidden Treasures of Sgam-po-gdar Mountain: A History of the Zhi-khro Revelations of Karma-gling-pa and the Making of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2000. | University of Virginia | 3 March 2011 00:03:09 | ||
Controversies in Dharma Theory: Sectarian Dialogue on the Nature of Enduring Reality | Cox, Collett Davis. Controversies in Dharma Theory: Sectarian Dialogue on the Nature of Enduring Reality. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1983. | Columbia University | 2 March 2011 23:41:28 | ||
Picturing the Canon: The Murals, Sculpture and Architecture of the Derge Parkhang | Col, Cynthia. Picturing the Canon: The Murals, Sculpture and Architecture of the Derge Parkhang. PhD diss., University of California at Berkeley, 2009. | University of California at Berkeley | 2 March 2011 23:09:17 | ||
The Vajrakilaya Sadhana: An Euro-American Experience of a Nyingma Ritual | Cleland, Elizabeth. The Vajrakilaya Sadhana: An Euro-American Experience of a Nyingma Ritual. MA Theses, Carleton University. 2001. | Carleton University | 2 March 2011 23:04:00 | ||
Māra: Psychopathology and Evil in the Buddhism of India and Tibet | Clark, Robert Warren. Māra: Psychopathology and Evil in the Buddhism of India and Tibet. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 1994. | University of Virginia | 2 March 2011 22:50:43 | ||
Cultural Change of Indian Pure Land Buddhist Teaching in Chinese and Tibetan Buddhism | Chen, Shu-chen. Cultural Change of Indian Pure Land Buddhist Teaching in Chinese and Tibetan Buddhism. PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2007. | University of Virginia | 2 March 2011 22:20:43 |