Biography
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Mathes works as a Tibetologist at the Asia-Africa Institute at the University of Hamburg. His research in progress deals with the Indian origins of Tibetan mahāmudrā traditions. He obtained a PhD from Marburg University (Germany) with a study of one of the five treatises of Maitreya, the Dharmadharmatāvibhāga (a subtle analysis of the distinction made between the ordinary phenomenal world and the true nature of these phenomena).
After his Habilitation, Klaus-Dieter Mathes was invited by the University of Vienna as a visiting professor at the Department of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies from Oct. 2004 till June 2005 (winter semester 04/05 and summer semester 05) and from April till June 2006 (summer semester 06).
Publications
2007 A Direct Path to the Buddha Within: Gö Lotsawa’s Mahāmudrā Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhāga. Boston: Wisdom Publications. [ Contents ]
2007 “The Ontological Status of the Dependent (paratantra) in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the Vyākhyāyukti“. In: Indica et Tibetica. Festschrift für Michael Hahn, zum 65. Geburtstag von Freunden und Schülern überreicht. Ed. By Konrad Klaus and Jens-Uwe Hartmann. (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 66). Vienna: Arbeitskreis für tibetische und buddhistische Studien, 323–340.
2006 “Blending the Sūtras with the Tantras: The Influence of Maitrīpa and his Circle on the Formation of Sūtra Mahāmudrā in the Kagyu Schools”. In: Tibetan Buddhist Literature and Praxis: Studies in its Formative Period 900–1400. Ed. by Ronald M. Davidson and Christian K. Wedemeyer (Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, Oxford 2003, vol. 10/4). Leiden: Brill, 201–227.
2005 “´Gos Lo tsā ba gZhon nu dpal´s Commentary on the Dharmatā Chapter of the Dharma-dharmatā-vibhāga-kārikās”. In: Studies in Indian Philosophy and Buddhism, University of Tokyo, Vol. 12, 3–39.
2004 “Tāranātha´s “Twenty–One Differences with regard to the Profound Meaning”: Comparing the Views of the Two gźan stoṅ Masters Dol po pa and Śākya mchog ldan”. In: Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Vol. 27, No. 2, 285–328.
2003a ´Gos Lo tsā ba gZhon nu dpal´s Commentary on the
Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā (Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma´i bstan bcos kyi ´grel bshad de kho na nyid rab tu gsal ba´i me long). Critically edited by Klaus-Dieter Mathes (Nepal Research Centre Publications. 24). Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag.
2003b “Establishing the Succession of the Sakya Lamas of Näsar Gompa and Lang Gompa in Dolpo (Nepal)”. In: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens XLVII, 85–108.
2002 “´Gos Lo tsā ba gZhon nu dpal´s Extensive Commentary on and Study of the Ratna-gotra-vibhāgavyākhyā.” In: Religion and Secular Culture in Tibet. Tibetan Studies II. PIATS 2000, vol. 2/2, Leiden: Brill, 79–96.
2001 “The High Mountain Valley of Nar (Manang) in the 17th Century according to Two Tibetan Autobiographies”. In: Journal of the Nepal Research Centre XII (2001), 167–194.
2000 “Tāranātha´s Presentation of trisvabhāva in the gźan stoṅ sñiṅ po“. In: Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2, 195–223.
1999 “The Sacred Crystal Mountain in Dolpo. Beliefs and Pure Visions of Himalayan Pilgrims and Yogis”. In: Journal of the Nepal Research Centre XI (1999), 61–91.
1998 “Vordergründige und höchste Wahrheit im gźan stoṅ–Madhyamaka”. In: Annäherung an das Fremde. XXVI. Deutscher Orientalistentag vom 25. bis 29.9. in Leipzig. Ed. by H. Preissler und H. Stein. ZDMG–Suppl. 11 (1998), 457–468.
1997 “The Golden Kanjur of Mustang”. In: Abhilekh XV (2054), 127–131.
1996 Unterscheidung der Gegebenheiten von ihrem wahren Wesen (Dharmadharmatāvibhāga). Swisttal-Odendorf 1996 (Indica et Tibetica 26).
Ongoing Research
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