Dorji Wangchuk

Dorji Wangchuk (* 1967 in East Bhutan) is a Tibetologist and Buddhologist at the University of Hamburg . From 1987 to 1997 he completed a ten-year apprenticeship as a clergyman at the Pelyül School, a sub- school of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism , at the Nyingma Monastery University of Namdröling, founded in 1978 by the 3rd Drubwang Pema Norbu Rinpoche (Penor Rinpoche) in South India : the Ngagyur-Nyingma-Institute (Institute for Higher Buddhist Studies and Research) in Bylakuppe ( Mysore ) and later studied classical Indology and Tibetology in Hamburg , where he was professor of Tibetology in the Asia-Africa Institute , Department for Language and Culture of India and Tibet , took over. In January 2011 he founded the Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship, a research center for Tibetan Buddhist textual studies. His work focuses on the intellectual history of Tibetan Buddhism, in particular the Nyingma tradition and its tantric texts (including the Guhyagarbhatantra ).

Fonts

• The resolve to become a Buddha: a study of the Bodhicitta concept in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism . Tokyo: International Institute for Buddhist Studies of the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies, 2007 (Studia philologica Buddhica: Monograph series; 23; ISBN 978-4-906267-59-0 )
• " An Eleventh-Century Defense of the Guhyagarbhatantra ", in: Helmut Eimer & David Germano (eds.): The Many Canons of Tibetan Buddhism. PIATS 2000: Tibetan Studies , Leiden 2000. Leiden: Brill 2002, pp. 265-291.
• " The dPal-yul monastery in the past and present: The revival of a monastic tradition of the rNying-ma school " (PDF file; 1.7 MB)
• " Some philosophical foundations of rDzogs-chen meditation " (PDF file; 1.7 MB)
• " Madhyamaka from the point of view of the rNying-ma tradition " (PDF file; 1.3 MB)
• " The" Great Completion "(rDzogs-chen) as it is represented in Rong-zom-pa's work " (PDF file; 1.0 MB)

Web links

• buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de: Prof. Dr. Dorji Wangchuk

References and footnotes

1. ↑ Tibetan དཔལ་ ཡུལ་ པ; Wyl. dpal yul pa
2. ↑ The school tradition goes back to the Pelyül Monastery ( dpal yul dgon pa ; Chinese Báiyù ) founded in 1675 by Rigdzin Künsang Sherab (1636–1699) ( rig 'dzin kun bzang shes rab - see rywiki.tsadra.org: Rigdzin Kunzang Sherap ) Sì 白玉 寺) in the Pelyül district of the same name in Garzê (Kardze), Sichuan .
3. ↑ The Drubwang Pema Norbu incarnations are: 1. Drubwang Pema Norbu (1679–1757), 2. Drubwang Pema Norbu (1887–1932) and 3. Drubwang Pema Norbu (1932–2009). All are among the throne holders of the Pelyül Monastery ; see rigpawiki.org: Penor Rinpoche Incarnation Line - accessed April 29, 2011
4. ↑ also Namdroling u. a., the parent monastery of the Pelyül School in Indian exile
5. ↑ cf. palyul.org: Ngagyur Nyingma Institute , youtube.com: Palyul Namdroling Monastery Ngagyur Nyingma Institute , Palyul Namdroling Monastery , ndia9.com: Ngagyur Nyingma Institute - accessed April 29, 2011, according to which the degree is based on the acquisition of the "Khenpo" degree which in this school tradition corresponds to the highest Geshe grade in the Gelug school and roughly a doctorate in the west.
6. ↑ https://khyentsefoundation.org/another-milestone-in-academic-development/ May 1, 2011.