Clark, R.

Clark, R. on the DRL

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English Phonetics	Robert W. Clark

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Rab Jyung

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About

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Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

Stanford University

Education

Ph.D. University of Virginia, 1994. Tibetan Studies/History of Religion; M.A. University of Virginia, 1983. Tibetan Studies/History of Religion; B.A. Edison College, Princeton, NJ, 1977. Humanities, Buddhist Studies

Biographical Information

Robert W. Clark is the Coordinator of the Stanford Tibetan Language Program. He teaches Tibetan language and literature at Stanford University, and serves as a curator and consultant for Asian Art collections in the US and India. He is the program director of Tardo Ling, in San Francisco, a center for translation of Tibetan literature. Dr. Clark worked as a translator in the Private Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and has served as interpreter for Tibetan lamas and educators for over 25 years. He is an author of numerous books and articles on Tibetan, Nepalese, and Indian Buddhist art, history and culture including Treasures of the Nying T’ik; The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature (Mahayanasutralamkara); Tibet: Treasures from the Roof of the World; The Art of Gandhara and Tibet; The Tethong Portraits of the Eighty Four Mahasiddhas; The Treasures of Buddhist Tibet; Art of the Qianlong Emperor; and The Practice of Mahamudra. He has translated over 70 Tibetan texts, and over 1000 Tibetan official and commercial documents from the Nepalese Government archive. Dr. Clark was a curator and catalogue author for exhibitions of Tibetan and Buddhist art at the Tibetan Museum (Dharamsala), Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), Dallas Art Museum, and Bowers Museum of Culture. He is currently working on a biographical account concerning Buddhist culture in Tibet and India in the 20th century. (Source accessed April 30, 2020)

Curriculum Vitae

https://dlcl.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/files_upload/CV.699.pdf

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• Clark, R. on the DRL
• Clark, R. on the LIB
• Clark, R. on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་)
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Full Name

Robert Warren Clark

Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature.

The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.