RYI Graduates
Jae Pi, 2016
- “Candrakīrti as an object of reading: a methodological study of contemporary interpretations of Candrakīrti”
- PhD candidate Princeton University, USA
Maria Vasylieva, 2019
- “Vasubandhu’s Āryabhadracaryāpraṇidhānaṭīkā: A Contextual Study and Translation”
- PhD Candidate at the International Buddhist College (Songkhla, Thailand)
Andrew N. Hallahan, 2020
- “The Gods Must Be Angry: A Study of Sacred Geography, Buddhist Belief and Environmental Implications in the Langtang Valley, Nepal”
Han Kop, 2020
- “The Queen of Great Bliss: A translation of the commentary by Jigme Tenpe Nyima, Including an investigation into the treasure cycle and its synthesis of Nyingma and Sarma Elements”
David Teasdale, 2020
- “Gampopa’s Mahāmudrā Manuals The Yoga of the Innate (lhan cig skyes sbyor)”
- PhD student, Vienna University
Ellen Johannesen, 2020
- “Marvels From the Midst of the Sky: A Translation of Trülku Migyur Dorjé’s Inner Namthar by Karma Chakmé”
Rolf Truhitte, 2021
- “Imaginal Pilgrimage: The Gaṇḍavyūha Sutra as ‘Imaginal Practice Text'”
Johanne Donovan, 2021
- “Dharmakīrti’s Failure: Two Reasonable Constructions Regarding the Failure and Success of the Svabhāvapratibandha Reasoning in the Svārthānumāna Chapter of the Pramāṇavarttika”
- PhD candidate at Harvard 2022
Carla Ott, 2021
- “Adaptations of the Longchen Nyingtik Preliminary Practices: A Historical, Comparative and Field Study”
Moondil Jahan, 2021
- “Prajñā in Vajraḍākinī sādhana-nṛtya: A Study of the Significance of Wisdom in the Himalayan Buddhist Ritual Dances Using a Buddhist Female Figure in the Kathmandu Valley”
Champa Lhundrup, 2021
- “Sino-Tibetan Buddhism:” A Neglected Facet of the Historical Chinese and Tibetan Relationship”
- Tibetan Language Instructor, RYI
Utkarsh Chawla, 2022
- “Buddhist Phenomenology: From the Loka Sutta to the Viṃśikā”
Inka Wolf, 2022
- “Seeing the Interdependent Arising, the Dharma, and the Buddha: Introduction to and Translation of Professor Sempa Dorje’s Commentary on the Ārya Śālistamba-Sūtra”
- Instructor, Translator at RYI
August Sundin, 2022
Matteo De Micheli, 2022
- “Lhatsun Namkha Jigme’s Presentation of the Subtle Body”
- Berkeley, Doctoral student
Monica Thunder, 2022
- “Connecting with the deity in The Profound Essence of Tārā: Sacred relationship as a path to realizing emptiness”
Kaleb Yaniger, 2022
- “Blessings in the Nyingma Shedra System: Three Modes to Interpret the Lineage of Realization”
- Sangye Yeshe Shedra at Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling
Johanna Knutzen, 2022
- “Demons in Mind and Medicine: An Investigation into how Demons and Spirits Cause Mental Illness in Tibetan Medicine”
Laurence Zhou, 2022
- “Meeting Dharmendra Through the Tattvāsarasaṃgraha”
- UC Berkeley, Doctoral student
Jamyuang Li, 2022
- “Lost and Found in Time: A Preliminary Study of the Noble Sūtra on Samādhi, the Most Supreme”
Alejandro Martinez Gallardo, 2023
Chholay Dorji, 2023
- “In Praise of the Lord of the World: A Study of the Sanskrit Stotra of Avalokiteśvara”
Gilad Yakir, 2023
Jiangyong Songmao, 2023
- “Understanding the gTum mo practice of Naro Chos Drug: An Analysis of Bamda Gelek’s Instruction on gTum mo and Their Role in the Preparation of Death”
Kerstin Kuebast, 2023
- “Death Dharma – Opening the Doors of Perception, An Analysis of Non-Conceptual Meditation Based on the Ratnagotravibhāga“
Venus Gravagna, 2023
- “Viewpoints of Female Embodiment in the Kālacakratantra“
Søren Buskov Poulsen, 2023
- “An Ethnographic Perspective on 21st Century Monks and the Dalai Lama’s Secular Ethical Vision at Sera Monastery”
Tia Sinha, 2023
Bella Chao, 2023
Claudia Fregiehn, 2023
- “Who is the Author? Mangtö Ludrup Gyatso’s Essential Nectar in the Collected
Works of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo: A Case Study of the Attribution of Authorship in Tibetan Buddhist”
Kinley Dema, 2023
Michael David Smith, 2023