HH 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje with HH 14th Dalai Lama. Last week, in Dharamsala, India a meeting was held with lamas and masters from all the different lineages within Tibetan Buddhism, to discuss the reincarnation of HH 14th Dalai Lama. For this event, as HH 17th Gyalwang Karmapa was unable to attend [HE… Continue reading The concepts of tulku reincarnation and re-birth in Tibetan Buddhism: HH 17th Karmapa on the terms ‘tulku’ and ‘yangsi’ (December 2019)
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On the meaning and translation of ‘Shentong’ – a modern debate or dismissal of a woman’s voice?
A modern, scholarly debate? I was recently involved in an online ‘debate’ with two renowned white, male scholars of Tibetan Buddhism, Dr. Michael Sheehy and Prof. Klaus-Dieter Mathes, regarding their translation of the philosophical term, shentong (gzhan stong) as ‘the other-emptiness’, see here and here. This translation is given as the title of their new… Continue reading On the meaning and translation of ‘Shentong’ – a modern debate or dismissal of a woman’s voice?