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Chinese influences on gTer ma?

The Oxford Treasure Seminar began in 2017, as a collaboration between the Sinologist Yegor Grebnev, the anthropologist Anna Sehnalova, and myself, a Tibetologist. Yegor’s specialisations are Chinese heirloom treasures and early Chinese scriptural traditions, Anna is an anthropologist specialising in … Continue reading

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Early terma as found manuscripts.

In Nepal this spring, I spent a pleasant hour on a guesthouse rooftop in conversation with Dan Hirshberg, a Harvard PhD candidate. Dan has been studying the earliest biographies of Nyang ral, the great Nyingma master of the 12th century. … Continue reading

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