Jacob P. Dalton is an American professor of religion and Tibetan studies at the University of California at Berkeley, where he is the first holder of a chair endowed by the Khyentse Foundation. He had previously worked as a professor at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

and a researcher at the

British Library The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Based in London, it is one of the largest libraries in the world, with an estimated collection of between 170 and 200 million items from multiple countries. As a legal deposit li ...

. Dalton's research focuses on Tantra in Tibet during the 11th century as it can be studied using the cache of documents found at

Dunhuang Dunhuang () is a county-level city in northwestern Gansu Province, Western China. According to the 2010 Chinese census, the city has a population of 186,027, though 2019 estimates put the city's population at about 191,800. Sachu (Dunhuang) was ...

. He has also done pioneering work on Tibetan paleography.

Bibliography

Books

* ''The Gathering of Intentions: A History of a Tibetan Tantra''. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. * ''Taming of the Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism''. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. * ''Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from

: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Stein Collection at the British Library''. Co-authored with

Sam van Schaik Sam Julius van Schaik is an English tibetologist. Education He obtained a PhD in Tibetan Buddhist literature at the University of Manchester in 2000, with a dissertation on the translations of Dzogchen texts by Jigme Lingpa. Career Sin ...

. Leiden: Brill, 2006.

Articles

* “The Questions and Answers of Vajrasattva.” In: David G. White, ed., ''Yoga in Practice''. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011, pp. 185–203. * “Mahayoga Ritual Interests at Dunhuang: A Translation and Study of the Codex IOL Tib J 437/Pelliot tibétain 324.” In: Yoshiro Imaeda,

Matthew Kapstein 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 ...

, and Tsuguhito Takeuchi, eds., ''New Studies of the Old Tibetan Documents: Philology, History and Religion''. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 2011, pp. 293–313. * “Beyond Anonymity: Paleographic Analyses of the Dunhuang Manuscripts.” Co-authored with Tom Davis and Sam van Schaik. In: ''Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies''; no. 3 (2007): 1-23. * “Recreating the Rnying ma School: the Mdo dbang Tradition of Smin grol gling.” In: Bryan Cuevas and Kurtis Schaeffer, eds., ''Power, Politics, and the Reinvention of Tradition in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Tibet''. Leiden: Brill, 2006, pp. 91–101. * “A Crisis of Doxography: How Tibetans Organized Tantra during the 8th-12th Centuries.” In: ''Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies''; 28.1 (2005): 115-181. * “The Early Development of the Padmasambhava Legend in Tibet.” In: ''Journal of the American Oriental Society''; 124.4 (2004): 759-772. * “The Development of Perfection: The Interiorization of Buddhist Ritual in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries.” In: ''Journal of Indian Philosophy''; 32.1 (2004): 1-30. * “Where Chan and Tantra Meet: Buddhist Syncretism in Dunhuang.” Co-authored with Sam van Schaik. In

Susan Whitfield Susan Whitfield (born 1960) is a British scholar, currently Professor in Silk Road Studies at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (SISJAC), University of East Anglia. She previously worked at the British Library in ...

, ed., ''The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith''. Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2004, pp. 63–71. * “Lighting the Lamp: An Examination of the Structure of the Bsam gtan mig sgron.” Co-authored with Sam van Schaik. In: ''Acta Orientalia''; vol. 64 (2003): 153-175. * “Nyingma,” “Dakini,” “Longchenpa,” “Padmasambhava,” “Samye,” “Samye Debate.” In: ''Encyclopaedia of Buddhism''. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2003.

References

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