• Kevin Vose’s New Book on Candrakīrti Available Today

    Kevin Vose’s New Book on Candrakīrti Available Today

    Some of you may know Vose’s work from his dissertation (The Birth of Prasangika). Here are links to his book at Amazon and at Wisdom. The book is titled Resurrecting Candrakirti: Disputes in the…

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  • Tibetan eTexts Online

    Tibetan eTexts Online

    བོད་ཀྱི་རིག་མཛོད་དྲ་བ། features many eTexts in Tibetan. The page has selections from ལོ་རྒྱུས་ , སྒྲ་རིག་པ་ , གསོ་བ་རིག་པ་ , ཚད་མ་རིག་པ་, and many more. The page also features a list of new words entering the Tibetan language.

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  • Karmapa Bibliography

    Karmapa Bibliography

    A friend of mine, Charles Manson of Harvard and Oxford University, is creating a list of all works attributed to each of the Karmapas. At the moment he has done little more than collect…

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  • 6th Annual Symposium on Buddhist Studies

    6th Annual Symposium on Buddhist Studies

    http://www.shedrub.org/news.php?nid=40 There are four interesting videos on translation on the page above: one talk from John Dunne, one from Sara McClintock, one from Tom Tillemans, and another from Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche. Enjoy! Andreas Doctor and…

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  • Query About Jetsun Milarepa Instruction on Bardo

    Query About Jetsun Milarepa Instruction on Bardo

    I have come across a passage which reads: རྗེ་བཙུན་མི་ལའི་གསུང་བགྲོས་བར་དོའི་དྲིས་ལན་གྱི་སྐོར། I have only read portions of Jetsun Milarepa’s biography and songs. Does anyone know of a source text that this phrase might be referring to?…

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  • Text IDs Needed

    If anyone has any information on these texts in sgyu ma lam rim ‘grel pa that are not yet found other than what is mentioned here, I’d appreciate any leads. Sutras Questions of Four…

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  • Dakpo Tashi Namgyal

    Dakpo Tashi Namgyal

    Christianc wrote : I have found this drawing which says Dakpo Panchen Tashi Namgyal but to me he looks very much like Gampopa. Is it intentional as he was the holder of Dakla Gampo…

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  • Elizabeth’s Handout on the Zab mo nang don

    Elizabeth’s Handout on the Zab mo nang don

    Zab mo Nang don Chapters Works Cited by the Authors Chapter One: Auto-Commentary quotes primarily Remaining chapters Jamgön Kongtrul quotes or mentions the following: From the bKa’ ’gyur Sūtra Tantra From the bsTan ’gyur…

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  • Those basic buddha-nature terms…

    Those basic buddha-nature terms…

    John says: As threatened in my speech last week, I’m posting the following little list of very basic terms for which I’d really like to find a coherent set of English words to use…

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