Volume 59 of Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library is now available, free to download. Edited by members of the 84000 translation team Annie Heckman, Adam Krug, and Rory Lindsay, the volume brings together new research on selected works and collections of the Kangyur and Tengyur.
Studying the Bka' 'gyur and Bstan 'gyur, Brill's Tibetan Studies Library Volume 59, is now available. Edited by members of the 84000 translation team, Annie Heckman, Adam Krug, and Rory Lindsay, the volume grew out of the 84000 panel at the 2022 IATS seminar in Prague. Among its contributing authors are fellow 84000 team members John Canti and Lowell Cook, as well as José Ignacio Cabezón (former director of 84000 Buddhist Texts Translation Initiative at University of California Santa Barbara), and translation contributor Julia Stenzel.
The chapters in this volume explore Tibetan strategies for organizing literature on monastic law, debates around the authenticity of texts, new research on the transmission of the tantra collections in the Mustang group of Kangyurs and the formulation of the compendium of dhāraṇīs in the Phukdrak Kangyur, the texts in the Kangyur and Tengyur devoted to the Goddess Mārīcī, an analysis of the mahāsiddha Saraha’s abecedarian poetry, and the historical context surrounding the author Buddhaśrījñāna’s composition of his Introduction to the Victor’s Path (Jinamārgāvatāra).
Funded by a Khyentse Foundation Aśoka grant, the volume is free to download in full. The official publication date is August 20.
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