Dudjom Rinpoche's Vajrakīlaya Works - A Study in Authoring, Compiling, and Editing Texts in the Tibetan Revelatory Tradition - Cathy Cantwell
Dudjom Rinpoche's Revelation of the Razor Disintegration-on-Touch Vajrakīlaya (spu gri reg phung)
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
Chapter 10 looks at Dudjom Rinpoche's own Vajrakīlaya revelation, the context for its appearance and for its "transcription" some eleven years later, as well as the way in which it is said to combine the categories of revelation (gter ma), pure vision (dag snang) and transmitted literature (bka' ma). The corpus is reviewed, and features of the textual content are shown to be reminiscent of some of Dudjom Rinpoche's other Vajrakīlaya productions.