Wangchuk, Dorji

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Dorji Wangchuk

English Phonetics	Dorji Wangchuk

Dates

Birth:	1967
Place of birth:	East Bhutan

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Rab Jyung

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About

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

Universitat Hamburg

Biographical Information

Dorji Wangchuk was born in 1967 in East Bhutan. After the completion of his ten year training (1987–1997) in the Tibetan monastic seminary of Ngagyur Nyingma Institute at Bylakuppe, Mysore, South India, he studied classical Indology and Tibetology, with a focus on Buddhism, at the University of Hamburg, where he received his MA (2002) and PhD (2005) degrees. Currently he is professor for Tibetology at the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg. His special field of interest lies in the intellectual history of Tibetan Buddhism and in the Tibetan Buddhist literature. (Source: Hamburg University)

Curriculum Vitae

• 2002 - MA Universitat Hamburg
• 2005 - PhD Universitat Hamburg
  

Publications

• 2009. "A Relativity Theory of the Purity and Validity of Perception in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism," in: Eli Franco & Dagmar Eigner (eds.), Yogic Perception, Meditation, and Altered States of Consciousness. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, pp. 215–237.

• 2008. "Cross-Referential Clues for a Relative Chronology of Klong chen pa's Works," in Orna Almogi (ed.), Contributions to Tibetan Buddhist Literature. PIATS 2006: Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the Eleventh Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Königswinter, 2006. Beiträge zur Zentralasienforschung. Halle: International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, pp. 195-244.

• 2008. "Jörg Grafe, Vidyādharas: Früheste Zeit kaschmirischen Bṛhatkathā. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2001." Review article. Tantric Studies 1, pp. 220–222.

• 2007. The Resolve to Become a Buddha: A Study of the Concept of Bodhicitta in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. Studia Philologica Buddhica, Monograph Series. Tokyo: The International Institute for Buddhist Studies.

• 2005. "Das dPal-yul-Kloster in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Die Wiederbelebung der klösterlichen Tradition der rNying-ma-Schule," in Buddhismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart Band 11 (Winter 2005/6): Die Geistesgeschichte des Buddhismus (II). Hamburg, pp. 213–234.

• 2005. "The rÑiṅ-ma Interpretations of the Tathāgatagarbha Theory," Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens 48, 2004 (appeared in 2005), pp. 171–213.

• 2002. "An Eleventh-Century Defence of the Guhyagarbhatantra," in: Helmut Eimer & David Germano (eds.), The Many Canons of Tibetan Buddhism. PIATS 2000: Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000. Leiden: Brill, pp. 265–291.

• 2003. "Einige philosophische Grundlagen der rDzogs-chen-Meditation," in Buddhismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart Band 8 (Winter 2002/3): Frauen im Buddhismus und Meditation. Hamburg, pp. 163–181.

• 2001. "Die „Große Vollendung" (rDzogs-chen), wie sie in Rong-zom-pas Werk dargestellt wird," in Buddhismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart Band 5 (Winter 2000/1): Die Geistesgeschichte des Buddhismus (II). Hamburg, pp. 39–53.

• 2000. "Madhyamaka aus der Sicht der rNying-ma Tradition," in Buddhismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart Band 4 (Sommer 2000): Die Geistesgeschichte des Buddhismus (I). Hamburg, pp. 211–223.

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The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century.

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.