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Studying the Bkaâ âgyur and Bstan âgyur
Reihe: - Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, Band: 59
This volume contains groundbreaking research from scholars specializing in the Buddhist literature preserved in Tibetan translation in the Bkaâ âgyur and Bstan âgyur collections. The authors of these chapters examine Tibetan strategies for organizing Vinaya literature, polemical debates and issues of apocrypha in the dhÄraá¹Ä« and sutra literature, the formulation of the Phug brag compendium of dhÄraá¹Ä«s, the transmission of tantra collections in the Mustang Bkaâ âgyurs, the kriyÄtantra tradition of the Goddess MÄrÄ«cÄ«, linguistic analyses of the mahÄsiddha Sarahaâs abecedarian poetry, and BuddhaÅrÄ«jñÄnaâs work the JinamÄrgÄvatÄra as a window onto the lived tradition of Buddhist authors.
Annie Heckman, Ph.D (2023) University of Toronto, is an Associate Translator for 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. Heckmanâs recent research focuses on stories about nuns in the MÅ«lasarvÄstivÄda Vinaya, with an emphasis on fourteenth-century Tibetan editorial and digesting practices. Her current book project is a translation and study of Butön Rinchen Drubâs digest of vinaya narratives involving nuns.
Adam Krug, Ph.D (2018) University of California, Santa Barbara, is an Associate Translator for 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha who specializes in the Buddhist tantric literature of South Asia and Tibet. He has published numerous translations and academic articles, and is the author of The Seven Siddhi Texts: MahÄmudrÄ Instructions from the Oá¸iyÄna Siddhas (Wisdom; AIBS/Columbia 2025).
Rory Lindsay, Ph.D (2018) Harvard University, is an assistant professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto and a research editor at 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. He is the author of Saving the Dead: Tibetan Funerary Rituals in the Tradition of the SarvadurgatipariÅodhana Tantra (Vienna: Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde, 2024).
Adam Krug, Ph.D (2018) University of California, Santa Barbara, is an Associate Translator for 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha who specializes in the Buddhist tantric literature of South Asia and Tibet. He has published numerous translations and academic articles, and is the author of The Seven Siddhi Texts: MahÄmudrÄ Instructions from the Oá¸iyÄna Siddhas (Wisdom; AIBS/Columbia 2025).
Rory Lindsay, Ph.D (2018) Harvard University, is an assistant professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto and a research editor at 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. He is the author of Saving the Dead: Tibetan Funerary Rituals in the Tradition of the SarvadurgatipariÅodhana Tantra (Vienna: Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde, 2024).
Scholars in the fields of Tibetan Studies and Buddhist Studies, and students and practitioners of Buddhist Traditions.