Nagasawa, J.

Nagasawa, J. on the DRL

Translators

Jake Nagasawa

English Phonetics	Jake Nagasawa
Sort Name	Nagasawa, Jake

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Month
Gender
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Rab Jyung

About

Biographical Information

Jake is a PhD student in the Department of Religious Studies at UCSB. His research focuses on Tantric Buddhism in ancient and medieval Tibet. His MA thesis is a translation of an epistle from the Tibetan Buddhist canon ascribed to Buddhaguhya, an eighth-century Indian Buddhist master.

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• Nagasawa, J. on the DRL
• Nagasawa, J. on the LIB

The esoteric Buddhist tradition which developed as a syncretic system involving deity worship, use of mantras, physical energy, and mystical practices. It is also known as the mantra tradition and the tantric school as a result of being based on texts known as tantras.