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Zhentong in the Jonang School +
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o Moonbeams: An Eloquent Elucidation of the Meditation Techniques of the Definitive Meaning, Mahāmudrā (Nges don phyag rgya chen po’i sgom rim gsal bar byed pa’i legs bshad zla ba’i ’od zer) by Dakpo Tashi Namgyal (Vajra Vidya edition, 530 pgs)
*Mahāmudrā: Dispelling the Darkness of Ignorance (Phyag rgya chen po ma rig mun sel) by the ninth Karmapa, Wangchuk Dorje (Rigpe Dorje Practice Series, volume 10, 38 pgs)
*Pointing Out the Dharmakāya With a Direct Gesture: Instructions on Connate Union, Mahāmudrā (Phyag rgya chen po lhan cig skyes sbyor gyi khrid chos sku mdzub tshugs su ngo sprod pa) by the ninth Karmapa, Wangchuk Dorje (Rigpe Dorje Practice Series, volume 10, 33 pgs)
*Clarifying the Suchness of the Innate State: A Major Commentary on the Definitive Meaning, Mahāmudrā (Nges don phyag rgya chen po’i khrid yig chen mo gnyug ma’i de nyid gsal ba) by Dakpo Tashi Namgyal (Rigpe Dorje Practice Series, volume 11, 52 pgs) +
Various volumes of ''The Treasury of Knowledge'' (shes bya mdzod) by Jamgön Kongtrul. +
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*Asaṅga’s ''Bodhisattvabhūmi''. Title of the English translation: The Bodhisattva Path to Unsurpassed Enlightenment: A Complete Translation of the Bodhisattvabhūmi
*The Ārya Nāgārjuna System of Guhyasamāja Practice. Part One: The Generation Stage. Title of principal work to be translated: The Recitation of the Supplication Prayer to the Lineage Gurus and the Self-Generation Ritual of the Glorious Guhyasamāja Tradition that was Edited by the All-Knowing Je Tsongkapa and is Practiced in the Tantric College of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery.
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Translating [[sher 'grel nor bu ka ta ka]] and [[brgal lan nyin byed snang ba]]. (ཤེར་འགྲེལ་ནོར་བུ་ཀ་ཏ་ཀ་ and བརྒལ་ལན་ཉིན་བྱེད་སྣང་བ་)
Provisional English title: The Purifying Jewel and The Light of the Day Star +
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Germano is currently returning to work on a fourfold set of works that constitute a comprehensive analysis of the Great Perfection Seminal Heart (rdzogs chen snying thig) tradition from its formation to its full expression in the fourteenth century with the corpus of Longchenpa, one of the greatest of all Tibetan Buddhist authors. This includes a translation of his major work, The Treasury of Words and Meanings (tshig don mdzod), a historical study, a philosophical study, and a literary study of the tradition. He is also working on a powerful cultural geographical system that is collaboratively publishing scholarship on historical and contemporary Tibetan and Himalayan places, communities, and cultural traditions across many disciplines, as well as fundamental scholarly resources – analytical data on places, maps, images, videos, bibliographies, and more. This publishing platform includes an extremely powerful Gazeteer, GIS-based mapping, and associated multimedia repositories. This includes working on a site involving the promotion of community-based tourism in Tibet, which aims to connection scholarly production of knowledge on Tibetan places and communities to actual benefit to the communities involved. Germano is also involved with coordinating others at a larger project at participatory knowledge production that enables Tibetans and Tibetan communities to be fully empowered agents in the global network of how knowledge gets produced about their own places and traditions. He is co-directing an initiative on the Tibetan Buddhist canon, which includes a detailed catalog, scholarly editions of the scriptures themselves, scans of the manuscripts, and scholarly summaries and analysis. This includes multiple editions of the Kangyur and Tengyur, but also ongoing work on the Nyingma Gyubum, and other collections of Tibetan Buddhist Literature He is directing the historical Tibetan Dictionary, which has built a powerful online platform for soliciting and publishing detailed historical studies of Tibetan words, including integrated citations of the usage of words in Tibetan literature. A new project which is not yet public involves the creation of sophisticated event management system for the documentation of Tibetan and Himalayan historical events.
'''Current Projects as a Tsadra Foundation Fellow'''<br>
• Mahayana-Sutralankara, Maitreya-Asanga, commentary by Jamgön Mipham
• Commentary on the Khandro Nyingthig Preliminaries, Dudjom Rinpoche
• Garland of Views, Guru Rinpoche, commentary by Jamgön Mipham +
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Volume 17 of the [http://dnz.tsadra.org/index.php/Gdams_ngag_mdzod_Shechen_Printing/Volume_17 Treasury of Precious Instructions]. +
Hodge is currently publishing a series of interim study papers on the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra: Paper I “The Textual Transmisssion of the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra”, Paper II “Who Compiled the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra, Where & When ?” (forthcoming), Paper III “The Development of the Conceptual Terminology of the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra” (forthcoming). +
*Gomang Tradition Translation Project at [http://uma-tibet.org/edu/gomang/gomang_first.php the UMA Institute]
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The tathāgatagarbha literature in India, China, and Tibet. +
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She is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Hamburg under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dorji Wangchuk. The tentative title of her PhD thesis is “A Contribution to the Understanding of the Practice Lineage in Indo-Tibetan Madhyamaka.” +
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Doctoral Research on the Great Perfection Mind Series Traditions (rdzogs chen sems sde lugs). +
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*Creative Peace through Encounter of World cultures (Bamberg University, Germany)
* UNESCO-SIP (Society for Intercultural Philosophy) Project: Encounter of Indian Buddhism with the Cultures of China.
([https://in.linkedin.com/in/hari-shankar-prasad-9a728824 Source Accessed June 13, 2019])
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English translation of Professor Lambert Schmithausen’s ''Collected Writings''. +
*Dölpopa’s Mountain Dharma
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“Serving the Buddhas in Song Dynasty China” (book manuscript)
This manuscript explores formations and fissures of Buddhist religious life (monastic as well as vernacular) through attention to such key sites and media of Buddhist monastic and vernacular culture as institutional setting, education and textual practice, ritual performance, material and visual repertoire, and narrative network. In a recently published book chapter on “Buddhist Ritual in the Song” I touched upon resonances between Buddhist rituals for intercession with local gods, restless dead, ancestors and animals that were popular during this period and the logics of religious action and efficacy that we find embedded in vernacular narratives of exorcism, healing, aversion of disaster, and miraculous response. That interest, which I continue to explore in this book manuscript, extends also to resonance with equivalent Daoist rites of intercession, such as the Yellow Register fast, and even popular novels and drama of religious bent (e.g., Mulian’s deliverance of his mother from hell). If the rich sensorial settings of ritual performance, drama, and narrative were principal mediums for the formation of the vernacular religious imagination in Song China, as would seem to have been the case, what can integrated study of them tell us about religious identity and difference in traditional China.
“The ‘Tiantai Four Books’ (天台四書): Protocols of Buddhist Learning in Late Song and Yuan China” (major article)
This article explores curricular programs, protocols of learning (textual practice), and discourses of authoritative knowledge in public Buddhist monasteries of the Tiantai School during the Southern Song and Yuan (ca. 12th-14th centuries). The project draws on period-specific archival materials, prefaces and colophons to Song and Yuan imprints of key Tiantai texts, monastic codes, monastery inscriptions, and epitaphs for Buddhist clergy—materials that not only document learning practices during the period in question but also served as active agents for their dissemination. This project features an annotated translation of Siming Zhili’s (960-1028) Notes on Essential Points of the Ten Gates of Nonduality (Shibuermen zhiyao chao十不二門指要鈔, which is prefaced by a series of chapters that reconstruct curricular programs evident in Tiantai public monasteries during Southern Song and Yuan Dynasty China. Drawing on such in situ materials as prefaces and colophons to Song and Yuan imprints of key Tiantai texts, monastic codes, monastery inscriptions, and epitaphs for Buddhist clergy, the project seeks to identify what people actually read and studied in Tiantai monasteries, the sequence and manner in which such texts were studied, how widely such curricula circulated (along with the institutional networks that facilitated it), and the forms of religious knowledge and authority they created. The institutional focus is confined mainly to the Tiantai public monastery circuit in the lower Yangzi basin. As the term ‘four books’ (sishu) clearly demands, I also make a point of examining resonances with shifts in ‘Learning of the Way’ (Daoxue) Confucian educational discourse and curricula that occur during precisely the same period.
“The Life/Lives of a Lotus Sūtra Imprint in Southern Song China” (article in progress)
This article explores the multifaceted life of a copy of the Lotus Sūtra that was printed by book carvers from Jiangxi, obtained by the Tiantai monk Deqiu from a bookshop in Hangzhou, used in Deqiu’s daily devotions, and ultimately deposited by him in a stupa reliquary at the Huiyun Monastery in Jiaxing (Xiuzhou). The life of that text, as an animate entity in the eyes of Deqiu and his patrons, is revealed in a series of calligraphic diary annotations and event-specific prayers that Deqiu composed and appended to the printed scripture. As a holy object, what did that text demand of him? How did he use and relationally engage it, and to what ends?
* Translating the ''Mo-ho chih-kuan'' 『摩詞止観 and other T’ien-t’ai texts into English
* Table of Contents for complete ''Mo-ho chih-kuan''.
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The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Volume 5 +
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Assistant Professor, University of San Francisco, Blum Chair in Himalayan Studies +
