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Jonang Pubications III

Submitted by Michael R. Sheehy on Mon, 2011-06-13 09:37

Jonang Publication Series III Released

The third set in the Jonang Publication Series (Jo nang dpe tshogs) is now available for purchase from Jonang Foundation. This ongoing series of select Tibetan Buddhist classics features important works by major Jonang authors from all genres of sutra and tantra. Each work in this series is chosen from the corpus of Jonang literature to reflect the contemporary scholastic curriculum within Jonang monastic universities inside Tibet. Several texts in this series are being made available in published form for the first time in centuries.

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Review: The Chapter on Sadhana

Submitted by Michael R. Sheehy on Sat, 2011-05-14 12:02

With her intuitive sense of the text, Vesna Wallace, one of the foremost Kālachakra scholars of our time, has eloquently deciphered and rendered the fourth chapter on the Sādhanā from the Kālachakra Tantra into the English language. Along with her previous publication of the second chapter on the Individual in this same series, this chapter on the Sādhanā or practice manual completes two of the Kālachakra Tantra’s five chapters in English. Both of these translations include the root tantra along with its explanatory commentary, the Vimalaprabhā or Stainless Light . [1]

While reading the recently published translation of the Kālachakra Sādhanā, I...

Tibet Trip Testimonial

Submitted by Michael R. Sheehy on Sat, 2011-04-30 12:49

“Thank you Michael and Amitabha Travel for the opportunity to go on this once-in-a-lifetime trip! If anyone wanted to experience the power places of Tibet, there could be no better itinerary. Riding into Lhasa on the bus from the airport and seeing the Potala on the start of the journey just set the tone for what was to follow –- a taste of things to come. The highlight of the trip for me was the Great Stupa of Jonang, because it encapsulated for me what Tibetan Buddhism was actually all about –- forgetfulness of the world, devotion to the teacher and the teachings and overcoming the obstacles on the way....

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Jonang Sites Interactive Map

Submitted by Michael R. Sheehy on Mon, 2011-02-28 23:19

The following post is by Connor McCarty, an honors student at the University of Alabama and contributor to Jonang Foundation. [1]

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Working in collaboration with the University of Alabama, we at Jonang Foundation have developed an interactive satellite map of Jonang sites across Tibet. Providing precise geographic locations of key Jonang sites, this map allows users to navigate both historical and active Jonang monasteries, stupas, nunneries, meditation caves, and...

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Pilgrimage to Tibet

Submitted by Michael R. Sheehy on Sun, 2011-01-23 23:43

Pilgrimage to Tibet 2011

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August 13 - August 29, 2011

A Cultural & Educational Expedition Hosted by Jonang Foundation

In Collaboration with Amitabha Travel Agency

Join us this summer on a pilgrimage to power places in Tibet.

Traversing through the vast terrain of the mountainous landscapes of south and central Tibet (U-Tsang; Tibetan Autonomous Region) ― this journey will take you through the ages and across the boundaries of cultural imagination to encounter the...

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Remembering Gene Smith

Submitted by Michael R. Sheehy on Sun, 2010-12-26 12:45

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E. Gene Smith, the eminent Tibetologists, founder of the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC), and a guiding member of the Executive Board of Jonang Foundation passed away on the afternoon of Thursday December 16, 2010. The following are brief personal reflections: [1]

A week ago Friday at dawn, after mourning all night, I rolled my legs over the bedside and gazed out the window into the gray-glow skyscape...

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Dolpopa on Emptiness

Submitted by Michael R. Sheehy on Sat, 2010-11-13 08:49

The following post is titled, Emptiness of Self-nature and Emptiness of Other by Cyrus Stearns, a contributing author to the Jonangpa blog. It is an excerpt from the reprint of The Buddha from Dolpo (Snow Lion Publications, 2010). Posted here with permission from the author. [1]

The key in Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen's approach is to link his view of the absolute as empty only of other relative phenomena ( gzhan stong ) to the teachings of the Kṛtayuga, as opposed to the teachings of the Tretāyuga and later eons that emphasize even absolute reality is empty of self-nature ( rang stong...

"The Buddha from Dolpo"

Submitted by Michael R. Sheehy on Thu, 2010-08-12 13:09

Revised Version of "The Buddha from Dolpo" Now Available

The Buddha from Dolpo: A Study of the Life and Thought of the Tibetan Master Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen by Cyrus Stearns is now in a revised and expanded edition.

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"The Buddha from Dölpo is the most significant contribution to the study of the life and revelations of one of the most enigmatic personalities in Tibetan intellectual history, the Jonang master Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen (1292–1361). Narrating Dolpopa's life story and evolution of thought, Cyrus...

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Lecture in Alabama

Submitted by Michael R. Sheehy on Thu, 2010-04-08 13:44

Lecture on JF's Work: At the University of Alabama

April 16, 2010

The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

"Applied Scholarship in Tibetan Cultural Regions of China: Perspectives and Contributions from Jonang Foundation"

Michael R. Sheehy, Ph.D.

In this talk, Dr. Michael Sheehy, the founder and director of Jonang Foundation will discuss seminal themes at the intersection of scholarship and development work in culturally Tibetan regions of western China.

Reflecting on the education and cultural preservation work of Jonang Foundation and the specific Tibetan research community of the Jonang tradition of Buddhism, this lecture will explore how contemporary...