Dorji Wangchuk

Dorji Wangchuk ( * 1967 in Eastern Bhutan ) is a Tibetologist and Buddhologist at the University of Hamburg. He graduated from 1987 to 1997, a ten -year training as a minister of the Pelyül School, a sub- school of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, founded in South India at the 1978 by the 3rd Drubwang Pema Norbu Rinpoche ( Penor Rinpoche) Nyingma monastic university of Namdröling: the Ngagyur Nyingma Institute (Institute for higher Buddhist studies and Research ) in Bylakuppe ( Mysore ) and later studied in Hamburg classical Indology and Tibetology, where he in 2009 as professor of Tibetology in the Asia - Africa Institute, Department of language and Culture of India and Tibet, took over. There he founded in January 2011, the Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship, a research center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Studies. His main point is the intellectual history of Tibetan Buddhism, especially the Nyingma tradition and its tantric texts ( including the Guhyagarbhatantra ).

Writings

• The resolve to become a Buddha: a study of the bodhicitta concept in Indo -Tibetan Buddhism. Tokyo: International Institute for Buddhist Studies of the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies, 2007 ( Studia logica philo Buddhica: Monograph series, 23, ISBN 978-4-906267-59-0 )
• "An Eleventh - Century Defence of the Guhyagarbhatantra ", in: Helmut Buckets & David Germano (eds. ): The Many Canons of Tibetan Buddhism. PIATS 2000: Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000 Leiden:. Brill 2002, p.265 - 291st
• " The dPal - yul - KIoster past and present: The revival of a monastic tradition of rNying -ma- School" (PDF file, 1.7 MB)
• "Some philosophical foundations of rDzogs - chen- Meditation" (PDF file, 1.7 MB)
• " Madhyamaka from the perspective of rNying -ma tradition " (PDF file, 1.3 MB)
• " The " Great Perfection " ( rDzogs weeks) as it is shown in Rong - zom -pa works" ( PDF file, 1.0 MB)