Centre for Tantric Studies

A new book by Dr. Klaus-Dieter Mathes, an associate of the Centre for Tantric Studies, has just been published:

A Direct Path to the Buddha Within: Gö Lotsawa’s Mahāmudrā Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhāga. Studies In Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 28 December 2007. 608 pp. ISBN 0-86171-528-4. ISBN-13 9780861715282.

[ Wisdom Publications / amazon.com ]

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Our summary of the presentation recently given by David Templeman is now online:

Tāranātha: A ‘Virtual Indian’ in 16th–17th century Tibet.
Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg, 15 November 2007.

An agreement between the Religion Institute of the China Tibetology Research Centre (CTRC) and the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, University of Hamburg, was signed by both parties on August 27, 2007, in Beijing. The agreement inaugurates cooperation on the study of rare Sanskrit and Tibetan literature preserved in China.

The first project to be worked on under the terms of a sub-agreement is an edition of the Buddhakapālatantra and its Abhayapaddhati commentary by Abhayākaragupta. (Continued »)