Matthew Kapstein
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American writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Matthew T. Kapstein is a scholar of Tibetan religions, Buddhism, and the cultural effects of the Chinese occupation of Tibet. He is Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and Director of Tibetan Studies at the École pratique des hautes études.
Matthew Kapstein's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Contestation, and Memory (2000) (111)
- The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain: Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in Southeast Tibet (1999) (101)
- Reason's Traces: Identity and Interpretation in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Thought (2001) (79)
- The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism: Its Fundamentals and History (1991) (49)
- The presence of light : divine radiance and religious experience (2004) (39)
- Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity (1999) (30)
- Sources of Tibetan tradition (2013) (20)
- Just Where on Jambudvīpa Are We?: New Geographical Knowledge and Old Cosmological Schemes in Eighteenth-century Tibet (2011) (13)
- Mereological Considerations In Vasubandhu’s “Proof of Idealism” (Vijñaptimātratāsiddhih) (1988) (13)
- Buddhism between Tibet and China (2009) (11)
- The Purificatory Gem and Its Cleansing: A Late Tibetan Polemical Discussion of Apocryphal Texts (1989) (10)
- Tibetan Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction (2013) (9)
- Stoics and Bodhisattvas: Spiritual Exercise and Faith in Two Philosophical Traditions (2013) (8)
- Collins, Parfit, and the Problem of Personal Identity in Two Philosophical Traditions: A Review of "Selfless Persons" and "Reasons and Persons"@@@Selfless Persons@@@Reasons and Persons (1986) (8)
- Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang : rites and teachings for this life and beyond (2010) (7)
- 13. The Indian Literary Identity in Tibet (2019) (6)
- Soundings in Tibetan Civilization (2008) (6)
- Self and personal identity in Indian Buddhist scholasticism : a philosophical investigation (1987) (5)
- Weaving the World: The Ritual Art of the "Paṭa" in Pala Buddhism and Its Legacy in Tibet (1995) (5)
- THE EARLY DAYS OF THE GREAT PERFECTION (2009) (5)
- “Spiritual Exercise” and Buddhist Epistemologists in India and Tibet (2013) (4)
- Contributions to the Cultural History of Early Tibet (2007) (4)
- The Buddhist Refusal of Theism (2005) (4)
- 30. The Royal Way of Supreme Compassion (2002) (4)
- Buddhist Idealists and Their Jain Critics On Our Knowledge of External Objects* (2014) (4)
- Indra's Search for the Self and the Beginnings of Philosophical Perplexity in India (1988) (3)
- 4. The Guide to the Crystal Peak (2007) (3)
- The ʾDzam-thang edition of the collected works of Kun-mkhyen Dol-po-pa Shes-rab rgyal-mtshan : introduction and catalogue (1992) (3)
- STUDIES IN INDIAN AND TIBETAN BUDDHISM (2018) (3)
- The Sun of the Heart and the Bai-ro-rgyud-'bum (2008) (3)
- The rise of wisdom moon (2009) (2)
- Buddhist Thought in Tibet: an Historical Introduction (2011) (2)
- 11. Mulian in the Land of Snows and King Gesar in Hell A Chinese Tale of Parental Death in Its Tibetan Transformations (2017) (2)
- Who Wrote the Trisvabhāvanirdeśa? Reflections on an Enigmatic Text and Its Place in the History of Buddhist Philosophy (2018) (2)
- Samantabhadra and Rudra: innate enlightenment and radical evil in Tibetan Rnying-ma-pa Buddhism [bibliog] (1992) (2)
- 16. The Sermon of an Itinerant Saint (2007) (2)
- Śātarak $$\underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\cdot}$}}{s}$$ ita on the fallacies of personalistic vitalism (1989) (2)
- The tibetan Yulanpen Jing (2007) (2)
- Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400–1900. By Susan Naquin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xxxv+816. $85.00 (cloth). (2006) (2)
- Book Review:Comparative Philosophy and the Philosophy of Scholarship: On the Western Interpretation of Nagarjuna Andrew P. Tuck (1992) (2)
- Self, Non-Self, and Personal Identity (2010) (2)
- The 'Dzam-thang edition of the collected works (Gsung-'bum) of Kun-mkhyen Dol-po-pa Shes-rab-rgyal-mtshan (1992) (1)
- 26. Turning Back Gossip (2007) (1)
- The Buddhism Omnibus (2004) (1)
- Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang (2010) (1)
- 7. The Journey to the Golden Mountain (2007) (1)
- Mahāmudrā: The Quintessence of Mind and Meditation (Lobsang Lhalungpa) (1990) (1)
- 4. An Intoxication of Mouse Venom: Reading the Guide, Chapter 9 (2019) (1)
- About Padmasambhava: Historical Narratives and Later Transformations of Guru Rinpoche, edited by Geoffrey Samuel and Jamyang Oliphant. (2022) (1)
- 1. Pure Land Buddhism in Tibet? From Sukhävatï to the Field of Great Bliss (2017) (1)
- The four-themed precious garland : Chos-bzhi rin-chenʾ phreng [sic] phreng-ba : an introduction to Dzog-chʾen, the great completeness (1979) (1)
- Turning Back Gossip (2018) (1)
- Interpreting Indian Philosophy: Three Parables (2015) (1)
- The Foundation for Yoga Practitioners: The Buddhist Yogācārabhūmi Treatise and Its Adaptation in India, East Asia, and Tibet, edited by Ulrich Timme Kragh (2017) (1)
- The Gathering of Intentions: A History of a Tibetan Tantra. By Jacob P. Dalton (2017) (1)
- Buddhist Perspectives on Ontological Truth (2017) (1)
- Urs App The Cult of Emptiness: The Western Discovery of Buddhist Thought and the Invention of Oriental Philosophy, Donald S. Lopez From Stone to Flesh: A Short History of the Buddha (2015) (0)
- Matthew Kapstein WEAVING THE WORLD: THE RITUAL ART OF THE PATA IN PALA BUDDHISM AND ITS (2008) (0)
- Review of History of Indian Philosophy, by Purushottama Bilimoria, Editor-in Chief; J.N. Mohanty, Amy Rayner, John Powers, Stephen Phillips, Richard King, and Christopher Key Chapple, Associate Editors, Routledge History of World Philosophies (2019) (0)
- Imagining a Place for Buddhism: Literary Culture and Religious Community in Tamil‐Speaking South India. By Anne E. Monius. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xi+257. $50.00 (cloth). (2005) (0)
- Book Review:On Being Mindless: Buddhist Meditation and the Mind-Body Problem Paul J. Griffiths (1988) (0)
- Collins and Parfit Three Decades On (2018) (0)
- The Many Faces of Ling Gesar. A Tribute to Rolf A. Stein (2015) (0)
- 2. Sources of Tibetan religious traditions (2013) (0)
- The Guide to the Crystal Peak (2018) (0)
- L’oubli des Russes: An (Almost) Forgotten Chapter in the History of 19th-Century Orientalism (2023) (0)
- A Bibliography of George Berkeley 1980–1985 (1987) (0)
- Chapter Four. THE TIBETAN BUDDHIST WORLD (2019) (0)
- 36. Turning Back Gossip (2002) (0)
- 1. The world of gods, demons, and men (2013) (0)
- Review of Steven Collins’s Wisdom as a Way of Life: Theravāda Buddhism Reimagined (2022) (0)
- Other People's Philology: Uses of Sanskrit in Tibet and China, 14th -19th Centuries (2018) (0)
- Ignorance and Illusion in Indian Philosophies (2021) (0)
- A Record of the Teachings of the Great Perfection in the Twelfth-century Zur Tradition (2018) (0)
- Elizabeth. English, Vajrayoginī: Her Visualizations, Rituals, and Forms. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2002. xxxi+563 pp. 16 color plates. $34.95 (cloth). (2004) (0)
- Collins and Parfit Three Decades On (2018) (0)
- 5. Philosophical developments and disputes (2013) (0)
- 8. Tibetan Buddhism today (2013) (0)
- Book Reviews (2008) (0)
- An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics: Foundations (Book) (2002) (0)
- Who Wrote the Trisvabhāvanirdeśa? Reflections on an Enigmatic Text and Its Place in the History of Buddhist Philosophy (2017) (0)
- TADEUSZ SKORUPSKI: The Buddhist Forum, Volume VI. ix, 269 pp. Tring: The Institute of Buddhist Studies, 2001. (2004) (0)
- 7. When this life ends (2013) (0)
- David M. Divalerio: The Holy Madmen of Tibet. xv, 342 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN 978 0 19 939121 9. (2017) (0)
- Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy (2010) (0)
- 3. The growth of the orders and schools (2013) (0)
- The Sermon of an Itinerant Saint (2018) (0)
- Indian Philosophy (2021) (0)
- Buddhist Vocabulary and Doctrines in Medieval Shint ō Texts : The Case of the Fourteenth Chapter of the Reikiki 麗氣記 (2012) (0)
- The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China: Charisma, Money, Enlightenment by Dan Smyer Yü (review) (2014) (0)
- Reply to Jeffrey Hopkins (1987) (0)
- Interpreting Indian Philosophy (2017) (0)
- [Recension] The Foundation for Yoga Practitioners: The Buddhist Yogācārabhūmi Treatise and Its Adaptation in India, East Asia, and Tibet. Harvard Oriental Series 75 (2020) (0)
- Between Na Rak And A Hard Place: Evil Rebirth And The Violation Of Vows In Early Rnying Ma Pa Sources And Their Dunhuang Antecedents (2010) (0)
- 2. King Kufiji's Banquet (2000) (0)
- Longchen Rabjampa (2021) (0)
- 8. Schopenhauer's Shakti (1994) (0)
- Luminous Ground and Dark Energy : The Chiaroscuro of Tibetan Tantric Traditions (2016) (0)
- Book Review:Buddhist Saints in India: A Study in Buddhist Values and Orientations Reginald A. Ray (1996) (0)
- Jan. Nattier, A Few Good Men: The Bodhisattva Path according to the Inquiry of Ugra (Ugraparipṛcchā). Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2003. 370 pp. $30.00 (cloth). (2005) (0)
- La Prakaraṇapañcikā de Śālikanātha, chapitre 6, section 1, Le moyen de connaissance valide et la perception, Traité Mīmāṃsaka d’ epistémologie, by Jean-Marie Verpoorten (2019) (0)
- The Royal Way of Supreme Compassion (2018) (0)
- The Taming of the Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism by Jacob P. Dalton (review) (2013) (0)
- 6. Enlightenment in this very body (2013) (0)
- The Prayer of the Original Buddha (2015) (0)
- The Journey to the Golden Mountain (2018) (0)
- New studies of the old Tibetan documents : philology, history and religion (2011) (0)
- Book Review:A Comparative History of World Philosophy from the Upanishads to Kant Ben-Ami Scharfstein (2000) (0)
- 40. Tantric Meditations to Increase the Forces of Life: Making Manifest the Three Deities of Longevity (2017) (0)
- Tibetan Buddhist afterlife beliefs and funerary practices (2017) (0)
- Prisoners of Shangri-la: Tibetan Buddhism and the West . By Donald S. Lopez Jr. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. 283 pp. $25.00. (1998) (0)
- Index Of Dunhuang Manuscripts And Paintings (2010) (0)
- Book Reviews (2002) (0)
- 4. Spiritual exercise and the path of the bodhisattva (2013) (0)
- Contributions to the study of Jo-nang-pa history, iconography, and doctrine : selected writings of ʾDzam-thang Mkhan-po Blo-gros-grags-pa : xylographic prints from ʾDzam-thang and Rnga-ba (1993) (0)
- Tibet, Buddhist Philosophy in (2021) (0)
- The Fragility of Foundations and Frameworks: A Review Essay on Wilfrid Sellars and Buddhist Philosophy (2021) (0)
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