Dudjom Rinpoche's Vajrakīlaya Works - A Study in Authoring, Compiling, and Editing Texts in the Tibetan Revelatory Tradition - Cathy Cantwell
Dudjom Rinpoche's Compilation of the Medicinal Accomplishment Text for the Meteoric Iron Razor Vajrakīlaya
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
The second case study from the Meteoric Iron Razor is that of the cycle's Medicinal Accomplishment (sman sgrub) practice, which does not seem to owe much to the Dudjom heritage, drawing instead on longer well-established traditions, and in particular, a similar but longer work by Terdak Lingpa in the seventeenth century, which itself drew on early precedents.