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  • The Shuk-den Affair: History and Nature of a Quarrel (1998) – George Dreyfus

    In recent years the community of Tibetan Buddhists has been agitated by an intense dispute concerning the practice of a controversial deity, Gyel-chen Dor-je Shuk-den. Several Tibetan monks have been brutally murdered, and the Tibetan community in general and the Geluk tradition in particular have become profoundly polarized. […] Why is Shugden so controversial?

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Buddhist Theories of Existents: The System of Two Truths (1978) – Elvin W. Jones
Sacred Heights in the Topography of Flatlands: Ovaa Kurgans in the Kalmyk Buddhist Landscape (2021) – Valeria Gazizova
Atha niryāṇavṛttam: Reflections on the First Sūtra and the Opening Passages of Guṇaprabha’s Vinayasūtra and Autocommentary (2012) – Paul K. Nietupski
Rewritten or Reused?: Originality, Intertextuality, and Reuse in the Writings of a Buddhist Visionary in Contemporary Tibet (2017) – Antonio Terrone
Sa skya pandita’s Account of the bSam yas Debate: History as Polemic (1982) – Roger Jackson
Concepts, Intension, and Identity in Tibetan Philosophy of Language (2006) – Jonathan Stoltz
The Sun that Causes the Lotus of Intelligence to Bloom: In Praise of the Lineage of Gurus for the Noble Abhidharma (2020) – Rongtön Sheja Kunrig

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In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian’s Record of Buddhist Kingdoms (2022) – Matthew W. King
Gender in Buddhist Theory and Practice (2022) – Jue Liang

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The Electronic Atlas of Buddhist Monasteries of Asia between approx. 200 and 1200 CE. (2009) – Stewart Gordon, T. Matthew Ciolek, Lizabeth H. Piel, and Gita Gunatilleke

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