Teaching in Tantric Studies, Summer 2008
A number of classes relating to tantric studies are being taught in the summer semester at the AAI, University of Hamburg:
- Conceptions of bodhi in Indian Tantric Buddhism (Prof. Harunaga Isaacson)
- Besitzer von [magischem und soteriologischem] Wissen (rig ’dzin: vidyādhara) in tibetischen tantrischen Texten (Dr. Dorji Wangchuk)
- Die [durch] Gold [erworbenen] Lehren (gser chos): Tantrische Schriften der Shangs-pa-bka’-brgyud-Schule (Dorji Wangchuk)
- Ausgewähle Passage aus dem Mila rnam mgur (Dr. Klaus-Dieter Mathes)
We will also offer two classes specifically in tantric studies, both to be taught from May by this semester’s Numata Professor, Jacob Dalton, visiting from Yale University:
- Developments in Early Tantric Ritual
- Tibetan Sādhanas from Dunhuang
For further details, please see our full list.