Braitstein, L.
| English Phonetics | Lara Braitstein |
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| Sort Name | Braitstein, Lara |
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| Website: | https://www.mcgill.ca/religiousstudies/lara-e-braitstein |
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- Primary Affiliation (Workplace)
- McGill University
Current projects
Recovering the Red Crown: a study of the 10th Shamarpa Chodrup Gyatso (SSHRC funded)
PhD University
- McGill University
Education
2004 PhD McGill University - Saraha's Adamantine Songs
Biographical Information
Lara Braitstein is Associate Professor of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism at McGill University. She has also taught at the Karmapa International Buddhist Institute (K.I.B.I.) in New Delhi, and the Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Kathmandu. She teaches Mahayana & Vajrayana Buddhist Philosophy, Buddhist Hagiography, and Tibetan/Himalayan Buddhist literature and historiography. She translated the 14th Shamarpa’s The Path to Awakening, and is the author of The Adamantine Songs: Study, Translation, and Tibetan Critical Edition, a study of Saraha’s Mahamudra poems. Her recent research is a study dedicated to untangling the history and representation of the 10th Shamarpa Chodrup Gyatso (1742-1792).
Her research has been supported by SSHRC (2008-11) and Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai (2009), and she is a member of the FRQSC funded research group Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire sur le Tibet et l’Himalaya (GRITH), an initiative that brings together academics in Québec carrying out research about the greater Himalayan region (https://www.grith.fss.ulaval.ca/en).
(Source: Adapted from McGill University Webpage)
Publications
Selected publications:
- Boundless Wisdom: a Mahamudra Practice Manual.. (English language editor). Author: Shamar Rinpoche. General editor: Tina Draszczyk. Lexington: Bird of Paradise Press, 2018.
- Les Chants Adamantins: étude, traduction, et édition critique tibétain. Franqueville (France): Éditions Rabsel (a translation The Adamantine Songs), 2017.
- The King of Prayers: A Commentary on The Noble King of Prayers of Excellent Conduct (co-editor and co-translator). Author: Shamar Rinpoche. Lexington: Bird of Paradise Press, 2015.
- The Adamantine Songs (Vajragiti): Study, Translation, and Tibetan Critical Edition. American Institute of Buddhist Studies, Columbia University Press, 2014
- The Path to Awakening: a Commentary on Ja Chekawa Yeshe Dorje’s Seven Points of Mind Training, (editor and translator). American edition. Author: Shamar Rinpoche. Harrison, New York: Delphinium Books, 2014
- The Path to Awakening: a Commentary on Ja Chekawa Yeshe Dorje’s Seven Points of Mind Training, (editor and translator). Author: Shamar Rinpoche. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass This book was translated into Spanish (El Camino al Despertar, 2011), German (Lojong: Der buddhistische Weg zu Mitgefühl und Weisheit, 2010), and French (Lo Djong: la Voie vers l’Éveil, 2010). 2009, 2011 (second edition).
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