Blog Categorys: Research Articles
Shangpa Sites on Tibet Map
The Shangpa Kagyu tradition has had close historical connections with the Jonang since the sixteenth century.
Read MoreTaranatha in Mongolia
There is much lore about Taranatha in Mongolia. The link to Taranatha was initiated with the 1st Zanabazar, who traces his previous incarnation to Taranatha and his preceding succesion of…
Read MoreJonang Takten Monastery 3D Map
An extension of our sites database and interactive satellite map of Jonang sites, we are happy to announce the launch of our 3D map of the campus of Takten Phuntsok…
Read MoreFinding the Original Jonang Monastery
The Jonangpa have longstanding historical and cultural ties to locality.[1] So much so that their very identity is derived from and enmeshed within their place of origin. The term “Jonang”…
Read MoreTsewang Norbu at Jonang
The one who Hugh Richardson referred to in his 1967 article as “a Tibetan antiquarian” in describing his efforts to jot down stone pillar inscriptions in Lhasa and at Samye…
Read MoreDolpopa on Emptiness
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…
Read MoreThe Quintessence of Rangtong
A long time coming, actually a year to the day since my last January 13th posting, The Quintessence of Zhentong from the collection of 108 Quintessential Instructions, I thought to…
Read MoreOn the Shangpa & Jonangpa
Commentators on earlier posts have asked or made reference to relationships between the Shangpa lineage and the Jonangpa.[1] In response, I thought to sketch some of the overlapping threads among…
Read MoreRongton’s Praise to Dolpopa
Over the summer, I was browsing through a Tibetan book shop and I happened upon the recently reproduced collected works of Rongton Shakya Gyaltsen (1367-1449). As I opened the first…
Read MoreThe Jonangpa Legacy
A PDF version of the transcript from Michael Sheehy’s talk on the oral history and local legacy of the Jonangpa in Tibet on July 17, 2009 is now available for…
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