Buddhist Minds and Bodies, Gebunden

Blurb

Students and admirers of Jose Ignacio Cabezon pay tribute with this collection of thirty diverse essays on the study of religion. Centered on Buddhism and Tibet, contributors also uncover insights about missionaries, Muslims, and Mongolia.

As the Fourteenth Dalai Lama Chair of Buddhist Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, a past president of the American Academy of Religion, and a prolific author of watershed books, Jose Cabezon has left an indelible mark on the discipline of religious studies. A refugee from Cuba who was brought to the US as a child, he trained both as a monk in the Tibetan Buddhist system and as a scholar at the University of Wisconsin. From his earliest publications, he has demonstrated the breadth of his interests and expertise, from philosophy, exegesis, and translation, to history, sexuality, and comparative religion, spanning centuries and sects, and interrogating hidden assumptions within the field.

The present volume honors that broad legacy in similarly diverse fashion. Thirty fellow scholars, both peers and former students, explore a rich array of topics inspired by Cabezon's seminal contributions and scholarly collegiality. Whether it is the intersection of queer theory with Madhyamaka philosophy, Jesuit engagement with Tibetan scholasticism, shifting mores around selling religious objects in Tibet, the religious identity of Tibetan women who travel beyond death, or the fate of Tibetan Muslims in exile, the articles collected here will intrigue even as they expand our knowledge of the diverse ways that Tibetan religion and Buddhist practice has manifested, both historically and in the present day.

Introduction: The Life and Career of Jose Ignacio Cabezon

Rory Lindsay and Vesna Wallace

PART 1. BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY

Candrakirti on What Is Unreal Even for Conventional Truth: The Significance of a Prevalent Misreading of Madhyamakavatara 6.26
Dan Arnold

The Bodhisattva's Aspiration and Vow
Douglas Duckworth

How the First Jebtsundampa Zanabazar's Profound Sadhana "Became" a Geluk Text
Baatra Erdene-Ochir

Pus and Cinnabar Makes Ambrosia: Khedrup's Epistemological Alchemy
Jed Forman

Sailing Neurath's Ship Across the Ocean of Samsara: Why Geluk Epistemology Provides the Most Reliable Compass
Jay L. Garfield

Buddhadicy: Is There a Buddhist Version of the Problem of Evil?
John Powers

"God Existing in Himself": Catholic Missionaries in Tibet and Their Revalorization of the Three Jewels
Michael J. Sweet

Is Prasangika a Global Eliminativist? Tsongkhapa and Taktsang Lotsawa on the Role of Madhyamaka Analysis and Its Implications
Sonam Thakchoe

Queering the Conventional
Sara McClintock

Ippolito Desideri on Tibetan Scholasticism
Trent Pomplun

Mahamudra, Extrinsic Emptiness, and the Otherness of Consciousness
Georges Dreyfus

Who / What Was Sherab Zangmo? Religious Identity in Contemporary Eastern Tibet
Alyson Prude

PART 2. BUDDHIST TANTRA

A Yab Without a Yum? Tsongkhapa's Vajrabhairava Controversy
Bryan J. Cuevas

Great-Seal Text, or Not? Saraha's Vajra-Secret Song
Roger R. Jackson

Everything Arises on Its Own: Inclusivism and the Spontaneous Union of Mahamudra in Kuddalapada's Acintyadvayakramopadesa
Adam C. Krug

Buddhist Mind-Body Problems: Dolpopa and Rendawa on Tantric Polemics of Emptiness and Bodiless Transference in the Kalacakra Tantra
Michael R. Sheehy

Locating Sambhala in the Kalacakra Tantra
John Newman

Emptiness and the Epistemology of Perception in Kalacakra Literature
Vesna Wallace

PART 3. CRITICAL TEXTUAL STUDIES

"Intertextual Promiscuity" and Appropriation Writ Large: Authorship and Citational Practice in Tibetan Texts
Rae Erin Dachille

Sera Jetsun's Text-Critical Note Anent a Passage in the 1449 Xylograph of Gyaltsab's Pramanavarttika Commentary
Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp

Iterated Rebirth Lineages of Thuken Losang Chokyi Nyima
Nancy G. Lin

The Unjust King? The Great Fifth Dalai Lama's Advice to Tusiyetu Qan Gombodorji
Matthew W. King

Orazio della Penna, the Lam rim chen mo, and the Serampore Dictionary
Leonard Zwilling

Practical Instructions on the Nine Vehicles
Nathaniel Rich

PART 4. TIBETAN BUDDHISM AND MATERIAL CULTURE

From Molten Lead to Momos: The Shifting Moral Dimensions of Selling Buddhist Objects in Tibet
Alex Catanese

Digital Projects in Tibetan Buddhist Studies
William Dewey

Reimagining the Mani Pill: Ritual Innovation and the Invention of Tradition in Tibetan Buddhist Material Religion
James Gentry

PART 5. TIBETAN ISLAM

Shifting Sacred Centers and the Reconstruction of Tibetan Muslim Religious Identity
Rohit Singh

The Tibetan Quran
Rory Lindsay

POSTLUDE
Our Histories, Our Selves: A Few Reflections on José Cabezón's 2020 AAR Presidential Address
Francis Clooney, S. J