Studying the Bka' 'Gyur and Bstan 'Gyur - Hardcover

by Annie Heckman (Editor), Adam C. Krug (Editor), Rory Lindsay (Editor)

This volume contains groundbreaking research from scholars specializing in the Buddhist literature preserved in Tibetan translation in the Bka' 'gyur and Bstan 'gyur collections. The authors of these chapters examine Tibetan strategies for organizing Vinaya literature, polemical debates and issues of apocrypha in the dhāraṇī and sutra literature, the formulation of the Phug brag compendium of dhāraṇīs, the transmission of tantra collections in the Mustang Bka' 'gyurs, the kriyātantra tradition of the Goddess Mārīcī, linguistic analyses of the mahāsiddha Saraha's abecedarian poetry, and Buddhaśrījñāna's work the Jinamārgāvatāra as a window onto the lived tradition of Buddhist authors.

Author Biography

Annie Heckman, PhD (2023) University of Toronto, is an Associate Translator for 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. Heckman's recent research focuses on stories about nuns in the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya, with an emphasis on fourteenth-century Tibetan editorial and digesting practices. Her current book project is a translation and study of Butön Rinchen Drub's digest of vinaya narratives involving nuns. Adam Krug, PhD (2018) University of California, Santa Barbara, is an Associate Translator for 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha who specializes in the Buddhist tantric literature of South Asia and Tibet. He has published numerous translations and academic articles, and is the author of The Seven Siddhi Texts: Mahāmudrā Instructions from the Oḍiyāna Siddhas (Wisdom; AIBS/Columbia 2025). Rory Lindsay, PhD (2018) Harvard University, is an assistant professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto and a research editor at 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. He is the author of Saving the Dead: Tibetan Funerary Rituals in the Tradition of the Sarvadurgatipariśodhana Tantra (Vienna: Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde, 2024).