Kammie Takahashi

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Professors
MainNamePhon	Kammie Takahashi
bio	My teaching and research together reflect my deep commitment to enhancing our curiosities about one another and to honing sensitive instruments of learning which help to make the once “strange” familiar. Religion studies is a multidisciplinary field, making our approaches both challenging and exciting. Whether it is teaching the discovery of the Tibetan Book of the Dead in my course Death and Desire, deconstructing popular understandings of such terms as ‘yoga’ and ‘buddha’ in Buddhist traditions, or networking across departments in planning a Japanese folk and jazz fusion concert for religions of Japan, I hope to facilitate learning in which once comfortably closed stances regarding ‘us’ and ‘them’ begin to open. Material artifacts can bring cultures into clearer view. I bring scrolls, amulets, spirit tablets, devotional paintings and music into my discussions so students can directly touch the manifestations of the abstract ideas they study. My course on Pilgrimage: Rites of Way has instilled in me the importance of journeying together as well, and I have taken students to see Himalayan art collections, talk with monks in a Tibetan monastery, and even to Japan to give them a sense of what it means to study religion in its fullest possible context. (Source Accessed June 23, 2020)
associatedwebsite	https://www.muhlenberg.edu/facultysearch/facultyresults/ktakahashi/
affiliation	Muhlenberg College
phduniversity	University of Virginia
education	Ph.D., University of Virginia M.A., University of Virginia B.A., Mount Holyoke College
publications	Like Birds Soaring and Fish Gliding: View and Method in the Mahāyoga Texts of Buddhaguhya. The Journal of the International Association for Buddhist Studies (41) 2018: 235-70.. A Luminous Transcendence of Views: The Thirty Apophatic Topics in dPal dbyangs's Thugs kyi sgron ma. Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines (42) 2018: 159-177). dPal dbyangs. The Treasury of Lives: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalaya. 2018. Forthcoming Contribution, Attribution, and Selective Lineal Amnesia in the Case of Mahāyogin dPal dbyangs in Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines (32) 2015. Ritual and Philosophical Speculation in the Rdo rje sems dpa'i zhus lan in Aspects of Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang, eds. Matthew T. Kapstein and Sam van Schaik. Leiden: EJ Brill, 2010.
IsInGyatsa	No
Other wikis	research:Takahashi, Kammie buddhanature:Takahashi, Kammie bca:Takahashi, Kammie rtz:Takahashi, Kammie dnz:Takahashi, Kammie dudjom:Takahashi, Kammie khyentselineage:Takahashi, Kammie lcp:Takahashi, Kammie If the page does not yet exist on the remote wiki, you can paste the tag {{PersonCall}} inside the destination page. But please first make sure you are on the right page. Some wikis have the person page on Person/<COMMONS PERSON PAGENAME>, in which case the page <COMMONS PERSON PAGENAME> needs to be redirected. Ask if you need clarification.

Full Name

Kammie Morrison Takahashi

This is first one of the inner tantric schools according to the Nyingma tradition. Mahāyoga includes two sub-sections of the tantras which includes eighteen tantras and the sādhanās that includes the eight sādhanā practices. Mahāyoga focuses on the Development Stage and espouses the view of equality and purity in which equality refers to equal nature of phenomena in being empty and purity refers to all appearances being inherently enlightened energies. The Mahāyoga path leads to four stages of vidyadharas.