Prof. Matthew Kapstein: “The All-Encompassing Lamp of Awareness: A Forgotten Treasure of the Great Perfection, Its Authorship and Historical Significance”

13 April 2016

In 2001 an unusually fine Tibetan manuscript dating to about the 13th century appeared in the catalogue of a London dealer of antique books. The text found there, The All-Encompassing Lamp of Awareness, like the author to whom it is attributed, Shākya-rdo-rje, seemed otherwise unknown, though a copy of the same work was found in recent editions of the rNnying ma bka’ ma shin tu rgyas pa from Kah-thog monastery in Khams. In the present talk, we shall examine the probable authorship of the work and the contribution it offers to our understanding of the development of the rNying-ma rDzogs-chen tradition.

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April 13th, 2016 - 16.00h
Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1,
ESA-OST, Raum 209

Free Entrance.