Tibetan Literature

Könchok Yenlak. 1974. [dkon mchog yan lag, zhwa dmar pa V (1525–1583)].

“Zhwa dmar lnga pa’i rang rnam” [Spiritual autobiography of the Fifth Shamarpa]. In Gsung thor bu dkon mchog yan lag. Two volumes, vol. 2, 159–166. Gangtok: Dzongsar Chhentse Labrang. BDRC: W23927.

Tsuklak Trengwa. 1986. [gtsug lag phreng ba, dpa’ bo II (1504–1566)]. Chos ‘byung mkhas pa’i dga’ ston [Religious History: Feast of the Wise]. Two volumes. rDo rje rgyal po (ed.). Beijing: Mi rigs dpe skrun khang. BDRC: W7499.

———. 2010. “Dpa’ bo gtsug lag phreng ba’i rang rnam, Rang gi rtogs pa brjod pa ‘khrul pa’i bzhin ras ‘char ba’i me long zhes bya ba bzhugs so” [“Spiritual autobiography of Pawo Tsuklak Trengwa, Own Account of My Realization, The Mirror Reflecting the Illusory Countenance”]. In Rje btsun mar paʼi rnam par thar pa, Grub pa’i ngo mtshar brjod pa bzhugs so, Dpa’ bo gtsug lag phreng ba’i rang rnam dang, Gsung ʼbum dkar chag, 229–265. Sarnath, Varanasi: Vajra Vidya Institute Library. BDRC: W1KG6291, PDF: 259–289.

———. n.d. Rang gi rtogs pa brjod pa zab gsal gi gter mdzod rab tu sbas pa’i gtam mo [Account of My Own Realization, The Profound and Clear Treasury: The Very Hidden Talk]. NGMCP: reel no. L 338/7.

Western Literature

Barron, Richard. 2003. The Autobiography of Jamgön Kongtrul: A Gem of Many Colors. New York: Snow Lion Publications.

Beer, Robert. 1999. The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs. Boston: Shambala.

Bhattacharyya, Benoytosh. 1964. An Introduction to Buddhist Esoterism. Second revised edition. Varanasi: The Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office.

Bjerregaard, Maria and Dominik Dell. 2022. “The Second dPa’ bo, gTsug lag phreng ba (1504–1566): Life and Works of the Great Sixteenth-Century Historian.” Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 63 (April), 131–175. http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/ret/pdf/ret_63_05.pdf.

Chhosphel, Samten. 2010. “Tonmi Sambhota.” Treasury of Lives. https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Tonmi-Sambhata/8342. Accessed: 17.09.2021.

Choegyal Gyamtso Tulku. 2000. “Foreword.” In The Divine Madman, The Sublime Life and Songs of Drukpa Kunley, trans. Keith Dowman, Sonam Paljor, 21–23. Varanasi–Kathmandu: Pilgrims Publishing.

Cleary, Thomas (trans.). 1995. Buddhist Yoga: A Comprehensive Course. Boston: Shambhala Publications. 

Dell, Dominik. 2021a. “‘Feast of the Wise’: Author, Structure and Textual Witnesses of the 16th Century Religio-Historical Work Chos ‘byung mkhas pa’i dga’ ston by the Second dPa’ bo, gTsug lag phreng ba (1504–1566).” Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 61 (October), 110–165. http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/ret/pdf/ret_61_03.pdf.

———. 2021b. “Birth of a Tibetan Buddhist Master, Part 1: Visionary Experiences prior to the Birth of the Seventh Karma pa, Chos grags rgya mtsho (1454–1506).” Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series 13 (1): 11–36. https://doi.org/10.4467/24506249PJ.21.001.13728.

DiValerio, David Michael. 2016. The Life of the Madman of Ü. New York: Oxford University Press.

———. 2018. “Unyon Kunga Zangpo.” Treasury of Lives. https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Unyon-Kunga-Zangpo/10835. Accessed: 11.07.2021.

Dharmachakra Translation Committee. 2013. The Play in Full, Lalitavistara. 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. https://read.84000.co/translation/toh95.html. Accessed: 21.07.2021.

Ducher, Cécile. 2017. Building a Tradition: The Lives of Mar-pa the Translator. Munich: Indus Verlag.

Evans-Wentz, Walter Yeeling, ed. 1969. Tibet’s Great Yogi Milarepa: A Biography from the Tibetan. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gamble, Ruth Ellen. 2020. The Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje: Master of Mahāmudrā. Lives of the Masters. Boulder, Colorado: Shambala Publications.

Germano, David, and Nicolas Tournadre. 2003. “THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription of Standard Tibetan.” The Tibetan & Himalayan Library. https://www.thlib.org/reference/transliteration/#!essay=/thl/phonetics/s/b1. Accessed: 19.09.2021.

Gyatso, Janet. 1981. “The Literary Transmission of the Traditions of Thang-stong rgyal-po: a Study of Visionary Buddhism in Tibet.” PhD diss., University of California, Berkeley.

———. 1998. Apparitions of the Self—The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Karmapa Wangchug Dorje. 2009. Mahamudra: The Ocean of True Meaning. Translated from the Tibetan by Henrik Havlat. Münster: Edition Octopus.

Lhalungpa, Lobsang P. 1977. The Life of Milarepa. New York: E.P. Dutton.

May, Will. 2019. “Mitrayogin.” Treasury of Lives. https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/mi-tra-dzo-ki/10280. Accessed: 13.09.2021.

Mojzes, Kamilla. Forthcoming. “The Fourth Zhwa-dmar-pa Incarnate: A Comprehensive Study of the Life and Works of Chos-grags ye-shes dpal bzang-po (1453–1524).” PhD thesis, University of Bonn.

Powers, John (trans.). 1995. Wisdom of Buddha: The Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra. Berkeley: Dharma Publishing.

Rangjung Dorje 2014. The Profound Inner Principles. With Jamgon Kongrul Lodrö Taye’s Commentary: Illuminating ‘The Profound Principles’. Translated, annotated, and introduced by Elizabeth M. Callahan. Boston–London: Snow Lion Publications.

Rheingans, Jim. 2010. “Narratives of Reincarnation, Politics of Power, and the Emergence of a Scholar: The Very Early Years of Mikyo Dorje.” In Lives Lived, Lives Imagined—Biography in the Buddhist Tradition, Linda Covill, Ulrike Roesler, Sarah Shaw (eds.), 241–298. Boston: Wisdom Publications.

———. 2014. “Narratology in Buddhist Studies: Dialogues about Meditation in a Tibetan Hagiography.” In Narrative Pattern and Genre in Hagiographic Life Writing: Comparative Perspectives from Asia to Europe, Stephan Conermann, Jim Rheingans (eds.), 69–112. Berlin: EB-Verlag.

———. 2017. The Eighth Karmapa’s Life and His Interpretation of the Great Seal. A Religious Life and Instructional Texts in Historical and Doctrinal Contexts. Hamburg Buddhist Studies Series 7. Bochum–Freiburg: Projekt Verlag.

———. 2021a. The Life and Works of Karma ‘phrin las pa (1456–1539): Non-sectarian Scholar Mystic of Southern Tibet. Contributions to Tibetan Studies 14. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert.

———. 2021b. “Experience and Instruction: The Songs of the First Karma ‘phrin las pa Phyogs las rnam rgyal (1456–1539).” In Scholar of Scholars: Festschrift for David P. Jackson, Volker Caumanns, Jörg Heimbel, Kazuo Kano, Alexander Schiller (eds.), 747–778. University of Hamburg: Indian and Tibetan Studies.

Roberts, Peter Alan. 2007. The Biographies of Rechungpa: The Evolution of a Tibetan Hagiography. Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism. London–New York: Routledge.

Roesler, Ulrike. 2014. “Operas, Novels, and Religious Instructions: Life-stories of Tibetan Buddhist Masters between Genre Classifications.” In Narrative Pattern and Genre in Hagiographic Life Writing: Comparative Perspectives from Asia to Europe, Stephan Conermann, Jim Rheingans (eds.), 113–140. Berlin: EB-Verlag.

Seegers, Manfred. 2009. “The Lord of Teachings: Life and Works of the Third Karma pa Rang byung rdo rje (1284–1339).” MA diss., University of Kent at Canterbury.

Smith, Gene. 2001. Among Tibetan Texts: History and Literature of the Himalayan Plateau. Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, Kurtis R. Schaeffer (ed.). Boston: Wisdom Publications.

Sobisch, Jan-Ulrich. 2002. Three-Vow Theories in Tibetan Buddhism: A Comparative Study of Major Traditions from the Twelfth through Nineteenth Centuries. Contributions to Tibetan Studies 1. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag.

Sobisch, Jan-Ulrich. 2020. The Buddha’s Single Intention: Drigung Kyobpa Jikten Sumgön’s Vajra statements of the Early Kagyü tradition. Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. Boston: Wisdom Publications.

Stewart, Jampa Mackenzie. 2004. The Life of Gampopa, Second Edition. Ithaca: Snow Lion.

Tsang Nyön Heruka. 1982. The Life of Marpa the Translator, Seeing Accomplishes All, trans. Nalanda Translation Committee under the direction of Chogyam Trungpa. Boulder: Prajñā Press.

Tsangnyön Heruka. 2010. The Life of Milarepa, trans. Andrew Quintman, introduced by Donald S. Lopez. New York: Penguin Classics.

Verhufen, Gregor. 1992. “Die Biographien des achten Karma-pa Mi-bskyod rdo-rje und seines Lehrers Sangs-rgyas mNyan-pa Rin-po-che. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Karma-bKa’-brgyud-pa-Schulrichtung des tibetischen Buddhismus.” MA diss., University of Bonn, Germany.

Vostrikov, Andrew Ivanovich. 1994. Tibetan Historical Literature. Abington, Oxon, UK: Routledge.

Wylie, Turell V. 1959. “A Standard System of Tibetan Transcription.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 22: 261–267.

Young, Serinity. 1999. Dreaming in the Lotus. Boston: Wisdom Publications.