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A Noble Noose of Methods, the Lotus Garland Synopsis: Methodological Issues in the Study of a Mahāyoga Text from Dunhuang
Creator's Description: The extraordinary Dunhuang manuscript IOL Tib J 321 is a Rnying ma tantra commentary in eighty-five folios, the Thabs kyi zhags pa padma ’phreng gi don bsdus pa’i ’...
Akester’s Rejoinder to Professor Goldstein’s Response to “Review of A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 2: The Calm before the Storm, 1951-55, by Melvyn C. Goldstein”
Matthew Akester provides a rejoinder to Melvyn Goldstein’s response to his review of Melvyn C. Goldstein, A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 2: The Calm before the Storm, 1951-55 in JIA...
Canonical Literature in Western Tibet and the Structural Analysis of Canonical Collections
Creator’s Description: This study analyzes the relationships between the different editions of the Bka’ ’gyur and several manuscripts collections found in Western Tibet (Ta bo, Gondhla, P...
Classicism in Commentarial Writing: Exegetical Parallels in the Indian Mūlamadhyamakakārikā Commentaries
Creator's Description: The Tibetan concept of canon and of schools of thought pertaining to Indian Buddhism presents a way of looking at Indian Buddhist texts which has been predominant in mode...
Contributions to the Development and Classification of Abhisamayālaṃkāra Literature in Tibet from the Ninth to Fourteenth Century
Creator's Description: This paper examines the reception, development, and classification of the Abhisamayālaṃkāra and its related commentaries from the ninth to fourteenth centuries in Tib...
Goldstein’s Response to M. Akester’s “Review of A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 2: The Calm before the Storm, 1951-55, by Melvyn C. Goldstein
Melvyn Goldstein provides a response to Matthew Akester's review of his A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 2: The Calm before the Storm, 1951-55 in JIATS issue 4 (Bill McGrath 2010-05-13).
Guṇaprabha’s Vinayasūtra Corpus: Texts and Contexts
Creator's Description: This essay is a study of the corpus of texts associated with the Vinayasūtra, written by ninth-century Indian scholar Guṇaprabha, and included in the Tibetan Bs...
Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, Issue 5
This is the fifth issue of the Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, edited by Kurtis Schaeffer and released in December, 2009. This issues focuses on Tibetan canonical l...
Notes on the Co ne Bka’ ’gyur and Bstan ’gyur in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Creator's Description: In 1926 the botanist/scholar Joseph F. Rock (1884-1962) acquired a complete set of the Co ne Bka’ ’gyur and Bstan ’gyur for the Library of Congress (LC) in Washingt...
On the Very Idea of a Tantric Canon: Myth, Politics, and the Formation of the Bka’ ’gyur
Creator's Description: This article explores the myths of massive root tantras of one hundred thousand or more stanzas, which are found in the literature surrounding most of the major tantric B...
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