- Buddhist Studies, Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhism, Tibetan Studies, Dzogchen, Translation Studies, and 57 moreMipham Namgyal Gyatsho, Gesar, Philology, Phenomenology and Dzogchen, French Phenomenology, Corpus Linguistics, Contemporary French Philosophy, Natural Language Processing, Continental Philosophy, Analytic Philosophy, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Vajrayana Buddhism and Phenomenology, Vajrayana Buddhism In Tibet, Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalayas, Philosophy, Transdisciplinarity, Augmented Reality, Virtual Worlds, Virtual Reality, Polyperspectival Realities, Fiction Writing, Creative Writing, Religious Studies, Indology, Religion, Social Research Methods and Methodology, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, Consciousness Studies, Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Mind, History of Philosophy, Jean Ladrière, Consciousness, Historical Anthropology, René Girard, Mimesis, Mimetic Theory, Ritual, Ritual Theory, Ritual Practices, Tibetan Buddhist translation, History of Translation, Corpus-Based Translation Studies, Camille Tarot, Manjusri, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, Buddhist Philology, Tantric Studies, Tantric Buddhism, Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts, Sanskrit Manuscripts, Ritual Magic, Nyingma Buddhism, Buddhist Philosophy, and Pratyabhijna Philosophyedit
- My research primarily focuses on Buddhist systems of thought from the Mahāyāna and rDzogs chen traditions in relation... moreMy research primarily focuses on Buddhist systems of thought from the Mahāyāna and rDzogs chen traditions in relation to their contemplative and ritual application. My publications include studies of ’Ju Mipham’s perspectivist approach to Madhyamaka as well as of the arising of Gesar rituals in the nineteenth century Ris med tradition of Eastern Tibet.
My research languages are Classical Tibetan, Sanskrit, classical Chinese, and Pāli. I have translated several canonical Indo-Tibetan texts from the Kanjur, for which I combine philological methods and contemporary Translation Studies approaches (e.g., corpus-based translation). My recent translations include Mahāyāna sūtras (e.g., Saṃdhinirmocananāsūtra) and a rDzogs chen tantra (i.e., Kulayarāja, Tib. Kun byed rgyal po).
A third area of my work is related to the methods and theories of Buddhist Studies. How should we study our sources (methods)? What can we say about them (theories)? In the course of my research, I have followed an interdisciplinary methodological approach to study my research materials, drawing from Digital Humanities (e.g., text mining, corpus-based discourse analysis and translation), Philosophy (e.g., analysis of philosophical systems), Cultural Studies (e.g., cultural contacts and transfers, histoire croisée), and Ritual Studies. With regard to this aspect of my work, I have been conducting a corpus-based investigation of the notion of miracle in the Kanjur as well as a corpus-based analysis of ’Ju Mi pham’s discourse on nonduality.
As a member of the ERC project Open Philology at the University of Leiden, I am currently working on the Acintyabuddhaviṣayanirdeśa and the Mahāprātihāryasūtra of the Mahāratnakūṭa collection for which I will produce an aligned corpus of texts in Chinese and Tibetan, an annotated edition, and a translation. Through the implementation of methods from the Digital Humanities such as text mining, I intend to explore the notion of mahāprātihārya (i.e., great miracle) in Buddhist canonical texts.
In the past six years, I have taught at University of Vienna, University of Heidelberg, University of Bochum, and University of Leiden. In my undergraduate and graduate courses in Buddhist Studies, I have taught Classical Tibetan (introduction and reading), seminars on methods and theories, introductions to Buddhism, and various advanced courses on Indo-Tibetan Buddhism (e.g., “Mahāyāna Sūtra Literature,” “The emergence of Gesar rituals at the border between Tibet, Mongolia, and China,” “Tibetan Buddhism at the turn of the 19th to 20th c.: the Ris med tradition,” and “Religious History of Tibet and Mongolia”).edit
Ju Mipham (1846–1912) stands as one of the preeminent scholars within the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. The objective of this study is to present Mipham’s nonconceptual nondualism by analyzing his discourse with regard to the... more
Ju Mipham (1846–1912) stands as one of the preeminent scholars within the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. The objective of this study is to present Mipham’s nonconceptual nondualism by analyzing his discourse with regard to the ground (gzhi), the path (lam), and the result (’bras bu).
In the initial sections of the book, the examination centers on Mipham’s teaching on the core components of the path: view, practice, and conduct. In the first part of the book, Mipham’s interpretation of the view primarily as a form of ontological nondualism is examined within the wider context of the path. This discussion presents in detail Mipham’s utilization of an array of ascending views in his discourse on the two truths. The subsequent part delves into the interplay between knowledge and liberation that shapes Mipham’s soteriological project through the central notions of practice and conduct. This exploration sheds light on how practices rooted in cognitive nondualism facilitate the actualization of ontological nondualism. The concluding part of the book shifts focus to Mipham’s soteriological nondualism in which the ground of being taken as the starting point of the path and the result of the path itself are understood to be beyond any distinction or separation. For open access PDF, see link above or Download below. The Open Access publication of this volume was financially supported by Khyentse Foundation.
In the initial sections of the book, the examination centers on Mipham’s teaching on the core components of the path: view, practice, and conduct. In the first part of the book, Mipham’s interpretation of the view primarily as a form of ontological nondualism is examined within the wider context of the path. This discussion presents in detail Mipham’s utilization of an array of ascending views in his discourse on the two truths. The subsequent part delves into the interplay between knowledge and liberation that shapes Mipham’s soteriological project through the central notions of practice and conduct. This exploration sheds light on how practices rooted in cognitive nondualism facilitate the actualization of ontological nondualism. The concluding part of the book shifts focus to Mipham’s soteriological nondualism in which the ground of being taken as the starting point of the path and the result of the path itself are understood to be beyond any distinction or separation. For open access PDF, see link above or Download below. The Open Access publication of this volume was financially supported by Khyentse Foundation.
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The Noble Sūtra of the Great Vehicle entitled “The Description of the Miracles and Magical Transformations that are the Attainment of the Buddha’s Powers” (a translation of Āryabuddhabalādhānaprātihāryavikurvāṇanirdeśanāmamahāyānasūtra), Toh.186, sDe dge Vol.61, folios 143b4-158a4. 84000.co.: 2015.more
The Noble Sūtra of the Great Vehicle entitled “The Description of the Miracles and Magical Transformations that are the Attainment of the Buddha’s Powers” (Āryabuddhabalādhānaprātihāryavikurvāṇanirdeśanāmamahāyānasūtra), Toh.186, sDe dge... more
The Noble Sūtra of the Great Vehicle entitled “The Description of the Miracles and Magical Transformations that are the Attainment of the Buddha’s Powers” (Āryabuddhabalādhānaprātihāryavikurvāṇanirdeśanāmamahāyānasūtra), Toh.186, sDe dge Kangyur Vol.61, folios 143b4-158a4, 84000.co, under the supervision of Prof. Tom Tillemans (ed.). Introduction (9pp.) and translation (20pp.).
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Doctoral studies, Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna, Austria. PhD dissertation: “The Interplay of Knowledge and Liberation in Tibetan Hermeneutics: The Propaedeutic Role of the Two Truths in the... more
Doctoral studies, Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna, Austria. PhD dissertation: “The Interplay of Knowledge and Liberation in Tibetan Hermeneutics: The Propaedeutic Role of the Two Truths in the Works of ’Ju Mi pham rNam rgyal rGya mtsho (1846–1912).” 565pp. Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Mathes (Universtity of Vienna). Examiners: Prof. Matthew Kapstein (University of Chicago/EPHE, Paris), Dr. Birgit Kellner (Austrian Academy of Science).
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Undergraduate and graduate studies, Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna, Austria. Advisor: Prof. Helmut Tauscher.
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Presented at ‘The Many Faces of Ling Gesar - Homage to Rolf A. Stein, 27-28 october 2014,’ conference organized by Profs. M. Kapstein and C. Ramble at the Collège de France, Paris.
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Presented at the XVIIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Vienna.
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Presented at the Khyentse Foundation and CIRDIS workshop “Translating and Transferring Buddhist Literature: From Theory to Practice,” University of Vienna.
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Presented at the XIIIth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Ulaanbaatar.
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Presented on the occasion of the 30 year Jubilee of the Austrian Buddhist Association (Österreichische Buddhistische Religionsgesellschaft), University of Vienna, Vienna.