Panel 22: Nyingma Studies – What’s in a Name?

 

PANEL 22: NYINGMA STUDIES—WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Convenors: Nathaniel Rich

THURSDAY 25

 

 

DAY ONE

 

9:00–9:30 Issues in the study of the rNying ma rGyud ’bum

Orna Almogi

9:30–10:00 Philosophical/doctrinal issues and the Guhyagarbha Tantra

Dorji Wangchuk

10:00–10:30 The Many Voices of Bimala: An Overview of the Mahāyoga Commentaries attributed to Vimalamitra

Joel Gruber

10:30– 11.00

Tea and coffee

11.00–11:30 Surpassing the Unsurpassed and Delineating the Indivisible in Sangs rgyas gSang ba’s Lam rnam par bkod pa

Kammie Takahashi

11:30–12:00 Complexities in the Production of Tantric Liturgies: The Razor Disintegration-on-Touch (spu gri reg phung) Vajrakīlaya Revelation of Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje

Cathy Cantwell

12:00–12:30 gTer ston and Tradent: Innovation and Conservation in Tibetan Treasure Literature

Robert Mayer

 

12:30– 1:00

 

The dGongs pa zang thal of Rig ’dzin rgod ldem (1337–1408)

Katarina Turpeinen

1:00-2:00

Lunch

2:00–2:30 Meanings of ye shes (“gnosis”) in Klong chen pa’s Seven Treasures (mdzod bdun)

Eran Laish

2:30–3:00 Contestation over Nyingma Identity in the Compilation of the Kama (bka’ ma): An Investigation of the dKar chags to the

Earliest Printed Editions

Jann Ronis

3:00–3:30 rGyal sras gZhan phan mtha’ yas (1800–1855) and the Beginnings of Nyingma Scholasticism

Nathaniel D. Rich

3:30– 4:00 Tea and coffee
4:00– 4:30 Reality Speaks: Jigme Lingpa and the Great Completeness

Anne Klein

4:30– 5:00 A Trifling Anachronism, on gcod in the rnying ma tradition Fabian Sanders and Margherita Pansa