Prof. Dr. Dorji Wangchuk

• Tibetan Buddhist philosophy
• Tibetan intellectual history and history of ideas
• Tibetan Buddhist intellectual/literary/textual culture

Monographs (Monographien)

2016. (ed.) Cross-Cultural Transmission of Buddhist Texts: Theories and Practices of Translation. Indian and Tibetan Studies 5. Hamburg: Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Universität Hamburg, 2016, 272 pp.

2007. The Resolve to Become a Buddha: A Study of the Bodhicitta Concept in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. Studia Philologica Buddhica Monograph Series 23. Tokyo: The International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 453 pp.

Articles (Aufsätze)

2020. Dorji Wangchuk, “Secrecy in Buddhism.” In Birds as Ornithologists: Scholarship between Faith and Reason. Intra- and Inter-disciplinary Perspectives, edited by Orna Almogi. Indian and Tibetan Studies 8. Hamburg: Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Universität Hamburg, 2020, pp. 7–177.

2020. Dorji Wangchuk, “The Three Royal Decrees (bka’ bcad gsum) in the History of Tibetan Buddhism.” In Archaeologies of the Written: Indian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies in Honour of Cristina Scherrer-Schaub, edited by Vincent Tournier, Vincent Eltschinger, and Marta Sernesi. Universitá degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale,” École française d’Extrême-Orient, Université de Lausanne, Series Minor 89. Naples: Dipartimento Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale,” UniorPress, 2020, pp. 943–975.

2020. Dorji Wangchuk, “Po ti lcags lung ma: The Largest Tibetan Book in a Po ti Format.” In On a Day of a Month of the Fire Bird Year: Festschrift for Peter Schwieger on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, edited by Jeannine Bischoff, Petra Maurer, Charles Ramble. Lumbini: Lumbini International Research Institute, pp. 887–904.

2019. “Where Buddhas and Siddhas Meet: Mipam’s Yuganaddhavāda Philosophy.” In The Other Emptiness: Rethinking the Zhentong Buddhist Discourse in Tibet, edited by Michael Sheehy & Klaus-Dieter Mathes. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2019, pp. 273–322.

2019. “Rong zom pa on the Ālayavijñāna Theory.” In Unearthing Himalayan Treasures: Festschrift for Franz-Karl Ehrhard, edited by Volker Caumanns, Marta Sernesi, and Nikolai Somsdorf.  Indica et Tibetica 59. Marburg: Indica et Tibetica Verlag, 2019, pp. 471–478.

2018.  Together with Orna Almogi, Lena Dankin, Nachum Dershowitz, Yair Hoffman, Dimitri Pauls, and Lior Wolf, “Stemming and Segmentation for Classical Tibetan.” In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing), Konya, Turkey (April 2016). Revised Selected Papers, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9623, edited by A. Gelbukh. Switzerland: Springer-Verlag, pp. 294–306.

2017. “Rong-zom-pa’s Ontological Abyss: Where the Positivistic Ontology of the Tathāgatagarbha School and the Negativistic Ontology of the Sarvadharmāpratiṣṭhānavāda School Meet.” Critical Review for Buddhist Studies 21, 2017, pp. 85–107.

2016. (Together with Orna Almogi), “Prologue: Tibetan Textual Culture between Tradition and Modernity.” In Tibetan Manuscript and Xylograph Traditions: The Written Word and Its Media within the Tibetan Culture Sphere, edited by Orna Almogi. Indian and Tibetan Studies 4. Hamburg: Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Universität Hamburg, 2016, pp. 5–30.

2016. (Together with Orna Almogi, Lena Dankin, Nachum Dershowitz, Yair Hoffman, Dimitri Pauls, Lior Wolf), “Stemming and Segmentation for Classical Tibetan.” CICLing 2016.

2016. “Sacred Words, Precious Materials: On Tibetan Deluxe Editions of Buddhist Scriptures and Treatises.” In Tibetan Manuscript and Xylograph Traditions: The Written Word and Its Media within the Tibetan Culture Sphere, edited by Orna Almogi. Indian and Tibetan Studies 4. Hamburg: Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Universität Hamburg, 2016, pp. 371–415.

2016. “A Rationale for Buddhist Textual Scholarship.” In Cross-Cultural Transmission of Buddhist Texts: Theories and Practices of Translation, edited by Dorji Wangchuk. Indian and Tibetan Studies 5. Hamburg: Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Universität Hamburg, 2016, pp. 335–352.

2016. “On the Identity and Authenticity of the *Sarvadharmacaryopadeśābhisamayatantra: A Tantric Scripture Associated with the Vikramaśīla Tradition.” In Relationship between Tantric and Non-Tantric Doctrines in Late Indian Buddhism, edited by Norihisa Baba. Oriental Culture 96. Tokyo: Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo, 2016, pp. 95–106.

2015. “Biblioclasm/Libricide in the History of Tibetan Buddhism.” In The Illuminating Mirror: Tibetan Studies in Honour of Per K. Sørensen on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, edited by Olaf Czaja & Guntram Hazod. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2015, pp. 527–540.

2015. “The Diachronic and Synchronic Relationship between Philosophical Theory and Spiritual Praxis in Buddhism: With Special Reference to the Case of the Four Applications of Mindfulness (smṛtyupasthāna: dran pa nye bar gzhag pa) in Vajrayāna.” In Buddhist Meditative Praxis: Traditional Teachings and Modern Applications, edited by K. L. Dhammajoti. Hong Kong: Centre of Buddhist Studies, University of Hong Kong, 2015, pp. 177–201.

2014. Together with Benjamin Eliot Klein, Nachum Dershowitz, Lior Wolf, and Orna Almogi, “Finding inexact quotations within a Tibetan Buddhist corpus.” In Digital Humanities (DH), Lausanne, 2014, pp. 486–488.

2013. “On the Status of the Yogācāra School in Tibetan Buddhism.” In The Foundation for Yoga Practitioners: The Buddhist Yogācārabhūmi Treatise and Its Adaptation in India, East Asia, and Tibet, ed. by Ulrich Timme Kragh. Harvard Oriental Series 75. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Department of South Asian Studies, 2013, pp. 1316–1328.

Forthcoming (together with Orna Almogi). “Manuscripts, Xylographs, and Modern Books: Some Current Initiatives to Preserve the Tibetan Textual Culture.” Manuscript Cultures 4.

2012. “Was Mi-pham a Dialectical Monist? On a Recent Study of Mi-pham’s Interpretation of the Buddha-Nature Theory.” Indo-Iranian Journal 55, 2012, pp. 15–38.

2009. “A Relativity Theory of the Purity and Validity of Perception in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism.” In Yogic Perception, Meditation, and Altered States of Consciousness, ed. by Eli Franco in collaboration with Dagmar Eigner. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, pp. 215–237.

2008. “Cross-Referential Clues for a Relative Chronology of Klong chen pa’s Works.” In Contributions to Tibetan Buddhist Literature. PIATS 2006: Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the Eleventh Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Königswinter, 2006, Beiträge zur Zentralasienforschung, ed. by Orna Almogi. Halle: International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, 2008, pp. 195–244.

2008. Review of Jörg Grafe, Vidyādharas: Früheste Zeit kaschmirischen Bṛhatkathā. Frankfurt am Main; Berlin; Bern; Bruxelles; New York; Oxford; Vienna: Peter Lang, Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2001. Tantric Studies 1, 2008, pp. 220–222.

2006. “Das dPal-yul–Kloster in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Die Wiederbelebung einer klösterlichen Tradition der rNying-ma–Schule.” In Buddhismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart 11, University of Hamburg, pp. 213–234.

2006. “Die vier buddhistische Traditionen Tibets: Teil 1: Die Nyingmapas.” Tibet und Buddhismus 20/78. Hamburg: Tibetan Center, pp. 24–28.

2004. “The rÑiṅ-ma Interpretations of the Tathāgatagarbha Theory.” Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens 48, pp. 171–213 [appeared in 2005].

2003. “Einige philosophische Grundlagen der rDzogs-chen Meditation.” In Buddhismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart 8, University of Hamburg, pp. 165–181.

2003. gSang snying mdzod lde’i sdom byang rdo rje snying po [Synopsis of the*Guhyagarbhatantra (in verse)]. Bylakuppe, Mysore: ’Chi-med-lhun-grub, Ngagyur Nyingma Institute, 24 pp.

2002. “An Eleventh-Century Defence of the Guhyagarbhatantra.” In The Many Canons of Tibetan Buddhism. PIATS 2000. Tibetan Studies, ed. by Helmut Eimer & David Germano. Leiden/Boston/Cologne: Brill, pp. 265–291.

2001. “Die große Vollendung wie sie in Rong-zom-pa’s Werk dargestellt wird.” In Buddhismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart 5, University of Hamburg, pp. 41–53.

2000. “Madhyamaka aus der Sicht der rNying-ma Tradition.” In Buddhismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart 4. Hamburg: University of Hamburg, pp. 211–233.

Articles (Aufsätze)

2020. Prof. Dr. Dorji Wangchuk (Universität Hamburg): “Milk of a Lioness in Buddhist and Non-Buddhist Literatures” (Universität Hamburg, May 20, 2020).

2019. “Are Tathāgatagarbha and Pratītyasamutpāda Mutually Exclusive?” (Department of Indian Philosophy, Hiroshima University, September 12, 2019).

2019. “Rong-zom-pa on Mahāyoga” (July 10, 2019). Held during the 15th Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, “Panel 22: Mahāyoga in Tibet,” Paris (July 7–13, 2019).

2019. “Rong-zom-pa on Tathāgatagarbha and Pratītyasamutpāda Theories” (July 19, 2019). Held during the international conference “Tathāgatagarbha Across Asia” (University of Vienna, July 16–19, 2019).

2019. “Multiple Models of Truth/Reality in Buddhism” (Budapest Centre for Buddhist Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, May 25, 2019).

2019. “Rong-zom-pa’s Position on Whether ‘Insight-Gnosis Initiation’ (prajñājñānābhiṣeka: shes rab ye shes kyi dbang) Is Permissible for Ordained Vajrayāna Practitioners” (March 9, 2019, Shechen Monastery, Kathmandu).

2019. “Buddhist Monasticism, Intellectualism, and Humanism” (March 7, 2019, Rangjung Yeshe Institute, Kathmandu).

2019. “The Vita and Vitality of Monastic Traditions in Tibetan Buddhism: Some Reflections” (February 15, 2019, Institute of Comprehensive Study of Buddhism, Taisho University).

2019. “Nine Modes of Expertise (mkhas pa’i tshul dgu): A Buddhist Idea of Expertism” (February 12, 2019, Kyoto University).

2018. “Three Two-Fold Criteria of Scriptural Authenticity in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism” (September 24, 2018). Held during the two-day international conference on “Evolution of Scriptures, Formations of Canons,” Tokyo Campus of the University of Tsukuba at Myogadani (September 24–25, 2018).

2018. (Together with Orna Almogi), “Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource (ITLR): The State of Affairs” (March 1, 2018). Held during the conference “International Workshop on Buddhist Lexicography in the 21th Century” (Department of Pali, Savitribhai Phule Pune University, Pune, March 1–3, 2018).

2017. (Together with Orna Almogi), “The gSung-rten Database: A Multifaceted Platform for Storing and Publishing Tibetan Materials” (November 14, 2017). Held during the conference “Data management in Asian Humanities and Social Sciences” (SOAS, University of London, November 14–15, 2017).

2017. “The Ideas of Secrecy and Mystery in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism” (October 13, 2017). Held at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo.

2017. “There Is Ultimately Not Even One Truth, Let Alone Four! The Concept of One Truth/Reality (ekaṃ satyam: bden pa gcig) in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism” (October 10, 2017). Held at the International Institute for Buddhist Studies (IIBS), Tokyo.

2017. Lecture-cum-Block-Seminar, “Passages from Rong-zom-pa’s Commentary on the Mañjuśrīnāmasaṃgīti” (October 5–6, 2017). Held at the University of Tsukuba, Japan.

2017. Lecture Series, “Cross-Systemic Buddhist Notion of the Middle Way” (September 28–29, 2017). Held at the University of Tsukuba, Japan.

2017. “The Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource: Progress and Prospects” (September 27, 2017). Held in the “Session 8–12: Digital Humanities: ICT Innovations in Classical Studies, Tsukuba Global Science Week 2017: Science for Social Innovations, University of Tsukuba (September 25–27, 2017).

2017. “A Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Language: Modes of Communication and Transmission According to Some rNying-ma Sources” (September 7, 2017). Held during the Conference “International Seminar on Tibetan Languages and Historical Documents” (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Japan, September 7–8, 2017).

2017. “Is Tantric Meditation Like Imagining Oneself a Lion When Afraid of Dogs? The Issue of the Superiority Claim of Vajrayāna” (August 22, 2017). Held during the 18th Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (University of Toronto, August 2–25).

2017. “Sacrosanctity and Clandestinity in Buddhism: Some Reflections on Reconciling Tradition and Modernity” (July 24, 2017). Held during the conference “Birds as Ornithologists: Scholarship between Faith and Reason” (Ngagyur Nyingma Institute, Mysore, July 23–25, 2017), organized by Universität Hamburg and hosted by Ngagyur Nyingma Institute, Mysore, India.

2017. “On the Three Referents of the Three Imperial Decrees in Tibetan History” (April 5, 2017). Held within the framework of “Forschungsansätze der internationalen Süd- und Zentralasienwissenschaften,” Universität Hamburg, Hamburg.

2017. “Grundgedanken der buddhistischen Philosophie” (January 23, 2017). Held at Institut für Evangelische Theologie, Julius-Maximillians-Universität Würzburg, Germany.

2016. “Can We Do Buddhist Philosophy Without Buddhist Philology?” (October 23, 2016). Held during the International Conference “Recent Treads in Buddhist Research” (October 21–25, 2016), organized by the Buddhist Resource and Research Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China.

2016. “Rong-zom-pa on the Ālayavijñāna Theory” (November 19, 2016). Held during “Mind and Consciousness: International Conference on Ālayavijñāna” (November 19, 2016), Dongguk University & National University, Seoul, South Korea.

2016. “Ron-zom-pa’s Ontological Abyss: Where the Positivistic Tathāgatagarbha Ontology and the Negativistic Sarvadharmāpratiṣṭhānavāda Ontology Meet” (August 6, 2016). Held during the “International Conference on the Tathāgatagarbha or Buddha-Nature Thought: Its Formation, Reception, and Transformation in India, East Asia, and Tibet“ (August 6–7, 2016, Seoul, Korea).

2016. “Salient Features of the Sarvadharmāpratiṣṭhānavāda Philosophy ” (August 1, 2016). Held during the Sixth Beijing International Seminar on Tibetan Studies (BISTS) (August 1–4, 2016), CTRC, Beijing.

2016. “The One-Truth/Reality (ekaṃ satyam: bden pa gcig) Concept in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism” (June 28, 2016). Held during the ”International Twin-Conference” on the title “God or the Divine: Religious Transcendence beyond Monism and Theism, between Personality and Impersonality“ (June 26–28, 2016), organized by Seminar für Fundamentaltheologie und Religionswissenschaft, Katholische Theologische Fakultät, Universität Münster and Institut für Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asien (IKGA), Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften; Venue: Katholische Akademie Schwerte, Schwerte, Germany.

2016. “Why Tantric Tathāgatagarbha and Mantric Madhyamaka Would Have Made No Sense to Rong-zom-pa” (June 21, 2016). Held in the panel “rNying-ma Tantric Studies” of the Fourteenth Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies (June 19–25, 2016), Bergen Norway.

2016. “gSung-rten: A Glossary of Technical Terms of Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist Textual and Book Cultures” as a Research Platform for Tibetan Palaeography and Codicology” (June 10, 2016). Held during “Fachgespräch tibetische Buchdeckel” (June 10, 2016). Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich.

2015. Keynote Speech, “Fascination and Confrontation: A Buddhist Philosophy of Dialogue and Debate” (December 13, 2015). Held at the held during the conference “A Monk Wears Prada? The Doctrinal and Moral Controversies in and about Buddhism” (December 11–13, 2015, Jagiellonian University; Venue: Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, Cracow, Poland).

2015. “An Eleventh-Century Tibetan Buddhist Concept of ‘Special Mahāyāna’” (August 15). Held at the Symposium „Mahāyāna“–Schriften und die Frage: Was ist „Mahāyāna“? (August 13–16, 2015) at EKŌ: Haus der japanischer Kultur, Düsseldorf, Germany).

2015. “A Brief History of the Collection of Transmitted Ancient Treatises/Teachings” (rNying ma bka’ ma’i lo rgyus mdor bsdus) (July 25, 2015). Held during the ten-day research workshop “Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship: Means and Methods of Research (Levels 2 & 3)” (July 20–29, 2015, Ngagyur Nyingma Research Center, Namdroling Monastery, South India).

2015. “‘gSung-rten: A Glossary of Technical Terms of Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist Textual and Book Cultures’ as a Research Platform for Tibetan Palaeography and Codicology.” Held at the international conference on “Scripts, Manuscripts, and Xyloscripts: Old and New Approaches to Tibetan Palaeography and Codicology” (May 7–9, 2015). Organized by the KC-TBTS, Universität Hamburg.

2015. Keynote Speech, “Are Philologists the Modern Curators of Buddhist Philosophy?” (March 5, 2015). Held during the Symposium “Philosophy Across Cultures: Transmission, Translation, and Transformation of Thought” (March 5–6, 2015). Organized by the Institute for Comparative Research in Human and Social Sciences and International Education and Research Laboratory Program (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences), University of Tsukuba, Japan.

2015. “A Brief Introduction to the Progress and Prospects of the Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource” (February 17, 2015). Held at Taisho University, Tokyo, Japan.

2015. Lecture-cum-Block-Seminar, “The sBrul nag po’i stong thun and Other Tibetan Buddhist Texts on the Black-Snake Analogy” (February 12–13, 2015). Held at the University of Tsukuba, Japan.

2015. Lecture Series, “Intellectual History and Intellectual Culture of Himalayan Buddhism” (February 9–10, 2015). Held at the University of Tsukuba, Japan.

2015. “Conceptual, Technical, and Practical Challenges of Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource (ITLR) Project” (February 15, 2015). Held at the University of Tsukuba, Japan.

2014. Together with Dr. Orna Almogi, “Scholars and Scribes: Leveraging Computerized Tools for Navigating an Uncharted Tibetan Buddhist Philosophical Corpus” (October 10, 2014). TBRC, Cambridge, MA.

2014. Together with Dr. Orna Almogi, “Scholars and Scribes: Leveraging Computerized Tools for Navigating an Uncharted Tibetan Buddhist Philosophical Corpus” (October 7, 2014). Department of Religion, Columbia University.

2014. “The Authenticity Issue of the Vidyādharapiṭaka” (August 23, 2014). Held during the 17th Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (August 18–23, 2014), University of Vienna.

2014. “Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource: Its Past, Present, and Future” (August 20, 2014). Held during the 17th Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (August 18–23, 2014), University of Vienna.

2014. “Some Objectives and Activities of the KC-TBTS” (August 20, 2014). Held during the 17th Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (August 18–23, 2014), University of Vienna.

2014. “The Philosophy of the *Guhyagarbhatantra” (June 17, 2014). Held during the International Research Conference on “Chinese and Tibetan Tantric Buddhism” (June 16–18, 2014). Organized by Prof. Dr. Yael Bentor (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Prof. Dr. Meir Shahar (Tel Aviv University), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

2014. “Is a Bad Translation Better Than No Translation? On ‘Critical’ Translation and Critical Edition as Enterprises of Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship” (May 24, 2014). Held in the panel “The Translation of Buddhist Texts: On ‘Outstanding’ Translation” (chaired by Prof. Dr. Akira Saito, University of Tokyo) during the 59th International Conference of Eastern Studies (ICES). Organized by the Toho Gakkai, Tokyo.

2014. “Can One Translate a Text Full of Textual Problems? Some Reflections on the Historical-Philological Study of Himalayan Buddhist Texts” (May 21, 2014). Held during the Workshop “Translating and Transferring Buddhist Literature: From Theory to Practice,” convened by Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Mathes and Mr. Gregory Forgues, University of Vienna.

2014. “Buddhist Philosophy of the Golden Mean” (January 9). Held at the Center for Tibetan Studies of Sichuan University, Chengdu.

2013. “Is Buddhism Devotionalism or Rationalism? (November 18). Held at the Minzu University of China, Beijing.

2013. “A Brief History of the rNying ma bka’ ma Collection” (October 27). Held at the Renmin University of China, Beijing.

2013. “Tibetan Buddhist Textual Studies: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches” (September 25). Held at the Southwest University for Nationalities (Minzu University), Chengdu.

2013. “The Figure and Phenomenon of Padmasambhava: The Driving Forces Behind the bKa’-brgyad Cult” (September 24). Held at the Center for Tibetan Studies of Sichuan University, Chengdu.

2013. “Apropos the Problems of the Theory–Praxis Dichotomy in Buddhism: The Case of the Four Applications of Mindfulness (smṛtyupasthāna: dran pa nye bar gzhag pa) in Vajrayāna” (August 24, 2013). Lecture held during the 10th Anniversary International Conference “Buddhist Meditative Praxis: Traditional Teaching and Modern Application” (August 24–25, 2013) at the University of Hong Kong.

2013. “Buddhist Textual Scholarship: An Introduction” (August 10, 2013). Lecture held during the workshop “From Manuscripts & Xylographs to Modern Editions: Buddhist Textual Scholarship in Theory and Practice (August, 10–18, 2013) (organized by the Centre for Bhutan Studies, Thimphu, Bhutan and the Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship (KC-TBTS), Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg, Germany) held at Chuniding, Serbithang, Thimphu, Bhutan.

2013. “The ‘Rootless’ Mind is the ‘Root’ of All Phenomena: On the Manifold Buddhist Ontologies Proposed in the *Guhyagarbhatantra” (July 25, 2013). Lecture held in the Panel “rNying-ma Studies: What’s in a Name?” during the 13th Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies (July 21–27, 2013), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

2013. “A Buddhist Philosophy of Dialogue: Cognition and Recognition of Others” (July 8, 2013). Lecture held within the frame of the project “Dialogical Thoughts in Jewish and Buddhist Philosophies” (initiated in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Ephraim Meir, Department of Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan; organized by the Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship (KC-TBTS) of the University of Hamburg, and funded by the Gustav-Prietsch Stiftung), University of Hamburg, Hamburg.

2013. “The Nine-Dimensional Magical Mirror: A Philosophical Work Ascribed to the Kāśmīrian Paṇḍita Vimalamitra” (June 10, 2013). Lecture held during the Conference “Around Abhinavagupta: Aspects of the Intellectual History of Kashmir the 9th to the 11th Centuries” (June 7–10, 2013), University of Leipzig, Leipzig.

2013. “Tibetan Accounts of Manuscripts Written with Liquid Lapis on Golden Tablets” (May 17, 2013). Lecture held during a Conference on “Manuscript and Xylograph Traditions in the Tibetan Cultural Sphere: Regional and Periodical Characteristics” organized by the Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship (KC-TBTS), Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg, in collaboration with Orna Almogi from the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Asia-Africa Institute.

2013. "Tibetan Alphabetology: Some Reflections on the Tibetan Alphabetic System of Writing" (April 3, 2013). Lecture held within the framework of "Forschungsansätze der internationalen Süd- und Zentralasienwissenschaften", Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg.

2012. "A Rationale of Buddhist Textual Scholarship" (December 5). A keynote speech held on the occasion of the Seventh Biannual Conference on "Cross-Cultural Transmission of Buddhist Texts: Critical Edition, Transliteration, and Translation" organized and hosted by the K. J. Somaiya Centre for Buddhist Studies, Mumbai (December 5-7, 2012).

2012. “A Brief Introduction to the ITLR Project and Its Linkage to the Vikramaśīla Database” (September 14). Lecture held during “The Vikramaśīla Workshop,” Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo (September 14–17, 2012).

2012. “Fundamentals of Buddhist Philosophy” (September 28–30). Lecture series held at the Ati Foundation, Thimphu, Bhutan.

2012. “Cross-Systemic Buddhist Notions of the Middle Way: The Multiple Layers and Dimensions of Buddhist Ontology” (September 20). Lecture held at the Department of Buddhist Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Mahidol University, Bangkok.

2012. “On the Identity and Authenticity of the *Sarvadharmacaryopadeśābhisamayatantra: A Tantric Scripture Associated with the Vikramaśīla Tradition” (September 17). Lecture held during “The Vikramaśīla Workshop,” Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo (September 14–17, 2012).

2012. “How is Yogācāra Philosophy Perceived in Tibetan Buddhism?” (September 10–13). Lecture series held at the Department of Philosophy, Seoul National University, Seoul.

2012. “The Perception and Reception of the Tathāgatagarbha (or Buddha Nature) Theory in Tibetan Buddhism” (September 3). Lecture held during the Workshop on “Intensive Workshop on the Tathāgatagarbha in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism” (Geumgang Center for Buddhist Studies at Geumgang University, South Korea, September 3–7, 2012).

2012. “Tibetans on the Phenomenon of Translation” (July 24). Lecture held during a symposium on “Cross-Cultural Transmission of Buddhist Texts: Theories and Practices of Translation” (July 23–25, 2012), University of Hamburg.

2012. “On Relative Dating of Tibetan Texts and Terms: Taking the Typology of rig ’dzin as a Case Study” (June 25). Conference on “Merkmals and Mirages: Dating (Old) Tibetan Writings.” (June 25–27). Hosted by the “Kingship and Religion in Tibet” Project, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich.

2012. “The Buddhist Ontology of Mereism” (June 22). Lecture held on the occasion of awarding the “Khyentse Foundation Award for Excellence in Buddhist Studies, 2012.” Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg.

2012. “A Planning Workshop on Translating the Words of the Buddha: Tibetan  Chinese” (May 26–28). Represented the Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship (KC-TBTS). Robert Black College, The University of Hong Kong.

2012. “The Mātravāda (‘Onlyism’) Ontology of Buddhist Philosophy” (May 23). Held at The 11th Annual Conference of Asian Studies in Israel 2012 (May 22–23), Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv.

2012. “Buddhistische Eudämonologie/Glückslehre” (March 7). Held at Lions-Club Hamburg 13, Hafen-Klub Hamburg, Hamburg.

2011. “Tibetan Textual Culture: Driving Forces Behind the Production, Dissemination, and Transmission of Texts” (December 21). Lecture held within the framework of the Lecture Series (Ringvorlesung) “Tibetische Textkultur – Alte Schätze, neue Entdeckungen” (Winter Semester 2011/12). Organised by the Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship (KC-TBTS) together with the Arbeitsstelle für wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung (AWW), University of Hamburg.

2011. “The Legacies of Vikramaśīla and Nālandā Monastic Seminaries in Tibet: Two Exegetical Traditions.” Lecture held at the XVth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taiwan.

2011. “Towards a Buddhist Philosophy of Dialogue and Interreligious Dialogue” (March 21). Annual Numata Public Lecture. Lecture held at the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University, Montreal.

2010. “Magie und Mystik als Machtmittel im Buddhismus” (November 20). Lecture held within the framework of the panel “Gewalt im Spiegel der Literatur und Kunst Südasiens” on the occasion of the Eighth South Asia Day. Organised by the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg.

2010. “Textual Culture in Tibet: A Report of the Current State of Affair” (October 27). Lecture held within the framework of “Forschungsansätze der internationalen Süd- und Zentralasienwissenschaften,” Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg.

2010. “Is Yogācāra a Poor Man’s Madhyamaka in Tibetan Buddhism?” (October 2). Lecture held at Renmin Uiversity, Beijing.

2010. “Some Methodological Reflection on Tibetan Textual Studies” (September 27). Lecture held at the China Tibetology Research Center (CTRC), Beijing.

2010. “On Deluxe Editions of Tibetan Buddhist Scriptures” (August 18). Lecture held at the “Twelfth Seminar of International Association for Tibetan Studies” (August 15–21). University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

2010. “Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource (ITRL): An Online Digital Device for Buddhist Textual Studies” (March 23). Lecture held within the framework of the First Seminar of the Integrating and Developing European Asian Studies (IDEAS) Work Package 3 entitled “Asia in the Making of Europe: A digital Bibliotheca Asiatica.” École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO), Paris.

2010. “Buddhistische Glücksphilosophie” (February 20). Lecture held within the framework of the Bhutan Day (Bhutantag) program “Happy Dragon” (Glücklicher Drache). Organised by the Bhutan-Himalayan Association of Germany (Deutsche Bhutan-Himalaya Gesellschaft e.V.) in cooperation with the United Nations Association of Germany (Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Vereinten Nationen, e.V.) and Center for Inter- and Transcultural Studies, University of Cologne (Zentrum für Inter- und Transkulturelle Studien, Universität Köln), Cologne.

2009. “Water of Immortality or Water of Insanity? The Tibetan Cult of the Eight Pronouncements (bka’ brgyad) and the Account of Padmasambhava’s Failed Mission in Tibet” (December 28). Lecture held at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, The Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

2009. “Colophons in the Tibetan Textual Tradition” (December 4). Lecture held on the occasion of the Interdisciplinary Conference “On Colophons” (December 3–5) organised by the Research Group Manuscript Cultures in Asia and Africa, Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg.

2009. “Theater und Sakraler Tanz in Bhutan” (November 14). Lecture held within the framework of the panel “Theater in Südasien” on the occasion of the Seventh South Asia Day. Organised by the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg.

2009. “The Concept and Cult of Vidyādhara (rig pa ’dzin pa) in the Ancient School of Tibetan Buddhism” (September 3). Lecture held at the Institute for Language and Cultural Studies (ILCS), Royal University of Bhutan, Semtokha, Thimphu, Bhutan.

2009. “Methodological Reflections on the Academic Study of Buddhism” (September 25). Lecture held at the Institute for Language and Cultural Studies (ILCS), Royal University of Bhutan, Semtokha, Thimphu, Bhutan.

2009. “On Citation and Quotation in Tibetan Literary Culture” (February 28). Lecture held on the occasion of the Symposium on Hermeneutics “Das Zitieren in den Kulturen Süd- und Ostasiens” (February 26–28). Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg.

2009. “Leerheit, Klarheit und Einfühlsamkeit: Die Quintessenz der buddhistischen Lehre nach der alten Schule des tibetischen Buddhismus” (February 11). Lecture held at the Tibetan Center (Tibetisches Zentrum e.V.), Hamburg.

2009. “Sprachkultur und Sprachpolitik in Tibet und Bhutan: ein Vergleich” (February 3). Lecture held within the framework of the lecture series of the Asia-Africa Institute “Sprachpolitiken in Asien und Afrika im Wandel der Zeiten” on the occasion of its hundred-year anniversary. Coordinated by Prof. Dr. Mechthild Reh (Abt. für Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik), Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg.

2008. “The Sorcerers’ Basket: Tibetan Scholars’ Deliberations on the Vidyādharapiṭaka and Its Affiliation with the Three Canonical Baskets” (February 5). Lecture held at the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

2008. “Theoretische Ansätze für interreligiösen Dialog im Indo-Tibetischen Buddhismus” (December 8). Lecture held within the framework of the lecture series “Interreligiösen Dialog in nationalen und internationalen Kontexten” organised by the Interdisciplinary Centre “World Religions in Dialogue,” University of Hamburg.

2008. “Tibetisch-buddhistische Thanatologie” (November 15). Lecture held within the framework of the panel “Rites of Passage: From the Cradle to the Grave” on the occasion of the Sixth South Asia Day. Organised by the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg.

2008. “Tibetan Sources on the Identity and Authenticity of the Corpus of Buddhist Tantric Scriptures” (October 16). Lecture held at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo.

2008. “Tibetan Madhyamaka Exponents on Appearances and Perceptions” (October 15). Lecture held at The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University, Tokyo.

2008. “Anticipating to Attain Buddhahood via Sorcery and Magic: The Concept and Cult of Vidyādhara (rig pa ’dzin pa) in Tibetan Buddhism” (October 2). Lecture held at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.

2008. “Appearances and Perceptions: Tibetan Madhyamaka Exponents on Madhyamakāvatāra 6.69–71” (September 26). Lecture held at The International Institute for Buddhist Studies, Tokyo.

2008. “Challenging Candrakīrti: Phya-pa Chos-kyi-seng-ge’s Criticism of Prāsaṅgika-Madhyamaka.” Lecture held at the “Fifteenth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies” (June 23–28). Emory University, Atlanta.

2008. “Das Vidyādharapiṭaka: Tibetische Autoren über den kanonischen Status buddhistischer tantrischer Schriften” (June 12). Lecture held at the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg.

2007. “Tension between Preserving Linguistic Diversity and Asserting National Identity-cum-Unity in Bhutan” (November 24). Lecture held within the framework of the panel “Languages of South Asia between the Poles of Culture and Politics” on the occasion of the Fifth South Asia Day. Organised by the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg.

2007. “Much Ado about the Appearance and Perception of Water: Attempts Made by the Four Major Schools of Tibetan Buddhism to Resolve Ontological and Epistemological Problems” (March 8). Lecture held at the UC Berkeley Center for Buddhist Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

2007. “The Multidimensionality of the Bodhicitta Concept in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism” (March 6). Lecture held at the Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies, Stanford University.

2006. “Film Culture and Film Industry in Bhutan” (November 18). Lecture held within the framework of the panel “Film in South Asia” on the occasion of the Fourth South Asia Day. Organised by the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg.

2006. “Towards a Relative Chronology of Some of the Major Writings of Klong-chen-pa.” Lecture held at the “Eleventh Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies” (August 27–September 2). Königswinter.

2006. “A Relativity Theory of the Purity and Validity of Perception in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism.” Lecture held at the “Symposium: Yogic Perception, Meditation, and Altered States of Consciousness” (June 27–30). Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.

2006. “Ist ‘Wasser’ Wasser, Eiter, Nektar oder etwas anderes? Ein ontologisch-epistemologisches Dilemma im indo-tibetischen Buddhismus” (May 3). Lecture held at the Department for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna.

2006. “Die Wiederbelebung des dPal-yul–Klosters im indischen Exil und in Tibet.” Lecture held within the framework of the continuing education program “Buddhism Past and Present” (Winter semester 2005/06): “Revivalist Movements.” University of Hamburg.

2005. “A Typological Categorization of Bodhicitta” (May 13). Lecture held at the Department for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna.

2005–2006. Lecture series “Ethics in Tantric and Non-Tantric Mahāyāna Buddhism” (Fall Semester, 2005/06). Held at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen.

2003. “The rNying-ma Interpretations of the Tathāgatagarbha Theory.” Lecture held at the “Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies” (September 6–12). St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford.

2003. “Some Aspects of Meditation in the Great Perfection (rdzogs chen).” Lecture held within the framework of the continuing education program “Buddhism Past and Present” (Winter semester 2002/03): [“Women in Buddhism” and “Meditation”]. University of Hamburg.

2001. “The Great Perfection (rdzogs chen) as Presented in Rong-zom-pa’s Work.” Lecture held within the framework of the continuing education program “Buddhism Past and Present” (Winter semester 2000/01): [“Spectrum of Buddhist Teachings from Yogācāra to Chinese and Japanese Buddhism”]. University of Hamburg.

2001. “The Essential Teachings of Buddhism” (August 6). Lecture held at Lions Club Hahnheide, Forsthaus Seebergen, Lütjensee, Germany.

2000. “An Eleventh-Century Defence of the Guhyagarbhatantra.” Lecture held at the “Ninth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies” (June 24–30). International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University.

2000. “Madhyamaka from the Perspective of the rNying-ma Tradition.” Lecture held within the framework of the continuing education program “Buddhism Past and Present” (Summer semester 2000): [“Historical Development of Buddhism”]. University of Hamburg.

1999. “Sa-paṇ and Mi-pham on Whether One Can Distinguish between the Sūtra and Tantra Views (lta ba).” Lecture held at the “Twelfth Conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies” (August 23–28). University of Lausanne.

1991. “The Influence of Modernization on Tibetan Culture.” Lecture held at the “Conference on Tibetan Culture.” Organised by the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (CIHTS), Sarnath, India.

1991. “The Buddhist Approach to Human Problems.” Lecture held at the “First International Buddhist Convention: International Seminar on the Buddhist Approach to Contemporary Problems” (June 9–10). Organised by the Mahā Bodhi Society, Bangalore, on the occasion of the Mahā Bodhi Centenary Celebration 1891–1991.

1991. “The Golden Rule in Buddhism.” Lecture held at the “World Federation of Inter-religious Conference.” Organised by the World Fellowship of Inter-religious Councils (WFIRC), Cochin, Kerala.