Greg Forgues
Dr. Gregory Forgues is Director of Research at Tsadra Foundation. Before joining the foundation, Gregory was part of the Open Philology research project with Professor Jonathan Silk at the University of Leiden. He also worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Heidelberg and a Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Bochum. Gregory has published on a wide variety of topics including Mahāyāna sūtra translations, Tibetan tantric rituals, Dzogchen teachings, and digital humanities methods. His PhD dissertation on Jamgon Mipham’s interpretation of the two truths under Professor Klaus-Dieter Mathes' supervision was reviewed by Professor Birgit Kellner and Professor Matthew Kapstein, receiving a distinction from the University of Vienna.
Library Items
Gregory Forgues: A Reluctant Expression of the Inexpressible: Klong chen rab 'byams pa dri med 'od zer (1308–1364) on Sugatagarbha
Forgues, Gregory. "A Reluctant Expression of the Inexpressible: Klong chen rab 'byams pa dri med 'od zer (1308–1364) on Sugatagarbha." Old Topic, New Insights: Buddha-Nature at the Crossroads between Doctrine and Practice. The 16th IATS Conference, Prague, July 3–9, 2022. Produced by the Tsadra Foundation Research Department. Video, 21:04. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa76N32sfUM.
Forgues, Gregory. "A Reluctant Expression of the Inexpressible: Klong chen rab 'byams pa dri med 'od zer (1308–1364) on Sugatagarbha." Old Topic, New Insights: Buddha-Nature at the Crossroads between Doctrine and Practice. The 16th IATS Conference, Prague, July 3–9, 2022. Produced by the Tsadra Foundation Research Department. Video, 21:04. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa76N32sfUM.
Forgues, Gregory. "A Reluctant Expression of the Inexpressible: Klong chen rab 'byams pa dri med 'od zer (1308–1364) on Sugatagarbha." Old Topic, New Insights: Buddha-Nature at the Crossroads between Doctrine and Practice. The 16th IATS Conference, Prague, July 3–9, 2022. Produced by the Tsadra Foundation Research Department. Video, 21:04. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa76N32sfUM.;Gregory Forgues: A Reluctant Expression of the Inexpressible: Klong chen rab 'byams pa dri med 'od zer (1308–1364) on Sugatagarbha;Klong chen pa;sugatagarbha;Greg Forgues;Gregory Forgues: A Reluctant Expression of the Inexpressible: Klong chen rab 'byams pa dri med 'od zer (1308–1364) on Sugatagarbha
The Life and Works of Kyotön Monlam Tsultrim by Lopen Dr. Karma Phuntsho
Gregory Forgues interviews Karma Phuntsho about his book The Life and Works of Kyotön Monlam Tsultrim.
Phuntsho, Karma. "The Life and Works of Kyotön Monlam Tsultrim." Conversations on Buddha-Nature with Dr. Greg Forgues. With special guests Dr. Klaus-Dieter Mathes and Dr. Zhouyang Ma. Produced by the Tsadra Foundation Research Department, June 15, 2024. Video, 1:27:50.
Phuntsho, Karma. "The Life and Works of Kyotön Monlam Tsultrim." Conversations on Buddha-Nature with Dr. Greg Forgues. With special guests Dr. Klaus-Dieter Mathes and Dr. Zhouyang Ma. Produced by the Tsadra Foundation Research Department, June 15, 2024. Video, 1:27:50.;The Life and Works of Kyotön Monlam Tsultrim by Lopen Dr. Karma Phuntsho;Skyo ston smon lam tshul khrims;Kyotön Mönlam Tsultrim;སྐྱོ་སྟོན་སྨོན་ལམ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་;skyo ston smon lam tshul khrims;The Life and Works of Kyotön Monlam Tsultrim
Towards a Textual Discourse Analysis of Longchenpa's Writings on Buddha Nature by Gregory Forgues
Forgues, Gregory. "Towards a Textual Discourse Analysis of Longchenpa's Writings on Buddha Nature." Produced by the University of Oxford's Faculty of Oriental Studies October 2, 2023. University of Oxford Podcasts. Tibetan Graduate Studies Seminar series. Video, 54:14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjsMenGviv8
Forgues, Gregory. "Towards a Textual Discourse Analysis of Longchenpa's Writings on Buddha Nature." Produced by the University of Oxford's Faculty of Oriental Studies October 2, 2023. University of Oxford Podcasts. Tibetan Graduate Studies Seminar series. Video, 54:14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjsMenGviv8
Forgues, Gregory. "Towards a Textual Discourse Analysis of Longchenpa's Writings on Buddha Nature." Produced by the University of Oxford's Faculty of Oriental Studies October 2, 2023. University of Oxford Podcasts. Tibetan Graduate Studies Seminar series. Video, 54:14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjsMenGviv8;Towards a Textual Discourse Analysis of Longchenpa's Writings on Buddha Nature by Gregory Forgues;Klong chen pa;Greg Forgues;Longchen Rabjam Drime Özer;ཀློང་ཆེན་རབ་འབྱམས་;klong chen rab 'byams;klong chen pa;dri med 'od zer;kun mkhyen klong chen rab 'byams;klong chen pa dri med 'od zer;ཀློང་ཆེན་པ་;དྲི་མེད་འོད་ཟེར་;ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཀློང་ཆེན་རབ་འབྱམས་;ཀློང་ཆེན་པ་དྲི་མེད་འོད་ཟེར་;Kunkhyen Longchen Rabjam;longchenpa;drime özer;Drimé Özer;Longchenpa Drime Wozer;Towards a Textual Discourse Analysis of Longchenpa's Writings on Buddha Nature
Unraveling the Intent: Saṃdhinirmocana (Forgues, G.)
Translation of the Saṃdhinirmocana sutra
Forgues, Gregory (Buddhavacana Translation Group), trans. Unraveling the Intent (Saṃdhinirmocana). 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, 2022. https://read.84000.co/translation/toh106.html.
Forgues, Gregory (Buddhavacana Translation Group), trans. Unraveling the Intent (Saṃdhinirmocana). 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, 2022. https://read.84000.co/translation/toh106.html.;Unraveling the Intent: Saṃdhinirmocana (Forgues, G.);Consciousness;Doctrine;Meditation;Third Turning;Greg Forgues; Unraveling the Intent (Saṃdhinirmocana)
Affiliations & relations
- Tsadra Foundation · workplace affiliation
- Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche · teacher
- Bhikkhunī Tri Hai · teacher
- Chanmyay Sayadaw U Janakābhivaṃsa · teacher
- Norbu, Namkhai · teacher
- https://independent.academia.edu/GForgues · websites
