Centre for Tantric Studies

We are pleased to announce two brand new publications from members of the Centre for Tantric Studies:

• Dominic Goodall, Alexis Sanderson, and Francesco Sferra contributed to a volume of proceedings from an international workshop on Tantrism, held on October 3–4, 2005 at the Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo, edited by Prof. Shingo Einoo: Genesis and Development of Tantrism.
• Orna Almogi’s doctoral dissertation was published by the International Institute for Buddhist Studies, Tokyo: Rong-zom-pa’s Discourses on Buddhology.

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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