Dudjom Rinpoche's Vajrakīlaya Works - A Study in Authoring, Compiling, and Editing Texts in the Tibetan Revelatory Tradition - Cathy Cantwell
The Dudjom Vajrakīlaya Heritage: Dudjom Lingpa's Vajrakīlaya Cycles
Dudjom Rinpoche's Vajrakīlaya Works - A Study in Authoring, Compiling, and Editing Texts in the Tibetan Revelatory Tradition - Cathy Cantwell
Cathy Cantwell [+]
University of Oxford and University of Kent
Cathy Cantwell is an Associate Faculty Member at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent. She has specialized in Tibetan and Himalayan tantric rituals of all periods from the tenth century CE, including text critical and historical analysis, as well as ethnographic study of contemporary rituals. She was President of the UK Association for Buddhist Studies, 2015–2021.
Description
Dudjom Lingpa's revelatory productions form the subject matter of Chapter 6, with particular attention given to his Vajrakīlaya works, especially the cycles of the Sealed Secret Heart Practice (thugs sgrub gsang ba'i rgya can) and the Sugata Essence (bde gshegs snying po), both of which Dudjom Rinpoche worked on. Some of Dudjom Lingpa's Vajrakīlaya texts outside these two main cycles also provide materials which Dudjom Rinpoche was to integrate into his compilations; one example is considered at length.