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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The doctoral dissertation of Dorji Wangchuk was recently published as:

Dorji Wangchuk. ‘The Resolve to Become a Buddha. A Study of the Bodhicitta Concept in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism.’ Studia Philologica Buddhica Mongraph Series XXIII. Tokyo: The International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 2007. ISBN 978-4-906267-59-0, 453 pp. [ official site ]

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An edition of the Sekanirdeśapañjikā, a hitherto unpublished detailed commentary by Rāmapāla on Advayavajra’s Sekanirdeśa, is under preparation. Rāmapāla’s commentary deals with Vajrayāna theory on the experience of enlightenment, particularly the nature of the four Blisses.

The editors, Prof. Harunaga Isaacson and Prof. Francesco Sferra, plan to publish critical editions of the Sanskrit text and of the Tibetan translation, and an annotated English translation. They are currently teaching the text in a class at the University of Hamburg (pictured).