Centre for Tantric Studies

Dorji Wangchuk was born in 1967 in East Bhutan. He spent ten years at the monastic seminary of Ngagyur Nyingma Institute at Bylakuppe, Mysore, where he trained to be a Tibetan Buddhist scholar-cum-teacher (mkhan po).

From 1997, he studied at the University of Hamburg, majoring in classical Indology and Tibetology, with Indo-Tibetan Buddhism as his main focus. He wrote his MA (2002) and PhD (2005) dissertations under the supervision of Prof. Lambert Schmithausen.

Currently he is a lecturer in Tibetan and researcher in the field of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism at the Asia-Africa Institute, Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, University of Hamburg.

Ongoing Research in Tantric Studies

The history of the *Guhyagarbhatantra

Selected Publications

The Resolve to Become a Buddha: A Study of the Concept of Bodhicitta in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. Studia Philologica Buddhica, Monograph Series. Tokyo: The International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 2007.
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“Das dPal-yul-Kloster in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Die Wiederbelebung der klösterlichen Tradition der rNying-ma-Schule,” in Buddhismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart Band 11 (Winter 2005/6): Die Geistesgeschichte des Buddhismus (II). Hamburg: 2005, pp. 213–234.
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“The rÑiṅ-ma Interpretations of the Tathāgatagarbha Theory,” Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens, 2004 (appeared in 2005), pp. 171–213.

“An Eleventh-Century Defence of the Guhyagarbhatantra,” in: Helmut Eimer & David Germano (eds.), The Many Canons of Tibetan Buddhism. PIATS 2000: Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000. Leiden: Brill, 2002, pp. 265–291.

“Einige philosophische Grundlagen der rDzogs-chen-Meditation,” in Buddhismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart Band 8 (Winter 2002/3): Frauen im Buddhismus und Meditation. Hamburg: 2003, pp. 163–181.
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“Die „Große Vollendung“ (rDzogs-chen), wie sie in Rong-zom-pas Werk dargestellt wird,” in Buddhismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart Band 5 (Winter 2000/1): Die Geistesgeschichte des Buddhismus (II). Hamburg: 2001, pp. 39–53.
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“Madhyamaka aus der Sicht der rNying-ma Tradition,” in Buddhismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart Band 4 (Sommer 2000): Die Geistesgeschichte des Buddhismus (I). Hamburg: 2000, pp. 211–223.
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“A Relativity Theory of the Purity and Validity of Perception in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism,” in: Eli Franco & Dagmar Eigner (eds.), Yogic Perception, Meditation, and Altered States of Consciousness. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften [in press].

“Cross-Referential Clues for a Relative Chronology of Klong chen pa’s Works,” in Orna Almogi, eds. Contribution to Tibetan Literature. Proceedings of the Eleventh Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Königswinter, 2006. Beiträge zur Zentralasienforschung. Halle: International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies [forthcoming].

Email

dorji.wangchukuni-hamburg.de