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Tibetan Graduate Studies Seminar — 53 episodes

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Asian Territorial Deity Cosmologies as Vehicles for the Transmission of Buddhadharma (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series)

2

Nāgas and relic treasures in the Mahāvaṃsa (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series)

3

Recalibrating the Perspective on Tibetan and Himalayan History: Identity- and Nation-Building in Bhutan

4

‘Treasures’ (gter ma) and treasure-finders in Yungdrung Bön: a Tibetan tradition spanning a thousand years (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series)

5

Yoginīs, Revelation, and Hidden Knowledge in Tantric Śaivism (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series)

6

Nectar, Water, or Blood? A Buddhist History of Perceptual Relativism

7

A Chorus of Voices Chanting the Names of Mañjuśrī Rong-zom Chos-kyi-bzang-po’s Commentary on the Nāmasaṅgīti, and Its Indian Sources

8

Sūtra in Early Buddhist Treasure Texts (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series)

9

Early Teachings on the Four Phurpas and the Relationship between the Revelatory and Transmitted Textual Tradition (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series)

10

Exploring relationships between theory of practice and practice by looking at the Abhisamayālaṃkāra in Gelukpa scholasticism

11

The Transformation of Nyingma Identity: Some Key Developments in Contemporary Nyingma Monastic Education

12

Forms of Buddhist treasures (re)discovered in Kalmykia (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series)

13

Exploring Rendawa’s Madhyamaka Legacy

14

The Rgyud sde spyi rnam ascribed to Rin chen bzang po (958–1055) and its authoritative sources

15

How Tibetans Received and Perceived the Yuan Edicts: Some Preliminary Observations

16

Theorizing Buddhist Revelation in the Great Lamp of the Dharma Dhāraṇī Scripture (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series)

17

A typology of modes of revelations in Chinese religious history (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series)

18

Towards a textual discourse analysis of Longchenpa’s writings on Buddha nature

19

Variants of the Rudra Subjugation Myth: Contrasting Themes in the Legends of Mahākāla and Vajrabhairava

20

The Rise of Guru Yoga in Twelfth-Century Tibet

21

Treasure Hunting in the Philippine Islands (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series)

22

Treasure Traditions in Greece (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series)

23

'Tibetanness' in Dharamsala - how does the youngest generation of artists define their identity?

24

Displacement: Tibetan Buddhist Contributions to the International Humanitarian Field

25

Dharmabhāṇakas, Siddhas, Avatārakasiddhas, and gTer stons (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series)

26

Early Explanations for the Appearance of Mahāyāna sūtras (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series)

27

Revelation and Rediscovery: Early Medieval Indian Origin Myths of the Tantras (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series)

28

Perfected Beings in Human Form: The Siddha Tradition in Śaiva Tantra (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series)

29

The Dharmabhāṇaka’s Body and the Ontologization of Authority (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series)

30

Medicine Mountains along the Himalayas: Healing, Trade, and Ecology

31

Why Go on Pilgrimage? Geomancy and the Transformational Powers of Sacred Places in Tibetan Buddhism and Bon

32

Reading khrims Between the Lines: The Rise of Legality in 13th Century Central Tibet

33

Virūpa is Virūpākṣa: Towards an Indo-Tibetan Siddha Corpus

34

Buddhism and Gender Perspectives in Sikkim: Historical and Contemporary Approaches

35

Connections in the Making and Meaning of the Art of Bhutan and Tibet in the 17 th and 18 th Centuries: A Study of the Wall Paintings at Tango Monastery

36

The Geluk Domestication of Tantra

37

The Mongolian Kanjur - Should Tibetologists Care?

38

Layers of Protection: Everyday Life with Empowered Objects

39

Death by Poisoning: Cautionary Narratives and Inter-Ethnic Accusations in Contemporary Sikkim

40

Fervent admiration and devotion: Exploring devotional literature in the collected works of the 3rd Dodrupchen

41

The Role of Prophecies in the Construction of the Geluk Tradition

42

Liu pin fo lou (Building of Six Classes of Sutra and Tantra), the Tibetan Buddhist pantheon in the Forbidden City

43

Culture of Emotions: Uses and Interpretations of Musical Heritage in the Tibetan Refugee Community of Dharamsala

44

Buddhism and the Rise of ‘the Tibetans’ (bod pa): Religion, Myth and the Promotion of Ethnicity in the Pre-modern Period

45

Human Remains in Tibetan Material Religion: An object centered approach

46

Sacred Trash, Trash Talks, And Personhood

47

The First Tibetan Block Print: The Khara-Khoto Collection of Precious Dhāraṇīs with the Emperor's Postscript

48

Fictional Facts or Factual Fiction? The Social Reality behind Kha stag ʼDzam yag’s "Diary" and Lhag pa Don grub’s "Life of a mule driver"

49

The Nechung Oracle and the Construction of Identity in the Tibetan Diaspora

50

The Mortality of the Dalai Lama and its Scriptural Sources: A Study in Tibetan Buddhist Political Theology

51

Preliminary Practices: Bloody Knees, Calloused Palms and the Transformative Nature of Women’s Labor

52

Writing about the Nechung Oracle

53

The sku bla of the Tibetan emperors and its metamorphosis in Yungdrung Bön