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| | |ArticleTitle=Buddha-Nature in Comparative Perspective, an Interview with Klaus-Dieter Mathes | | |ArticleTitle=Buddha-Nature in Comparative Perspective, an Interview with Klaus-Dieter Mathes |
| − | |AuthorName=Klaus-Dieter Mathes
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| | |PubDate=2018/04/24 | | |PubDate=2018/04/24 |
| − | |ArticleSummary=Klaus-Dieter Mathes, Head of the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna, granted an interview to Marcus Perman and Alex Gardner @ buddha-nature.tsadra.org on April 24, 2018. The discussion is almost an hour long and ranges from Klaus' personal interest in buddha-nature teachings to his ongoing and detailed research projects on the subject. | + | |ArticleContent=Klaus-Dieter Mathes, Head of the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna, granted an interview to Marcus Perman and Alex Gardner @ buddha-nature.tsadra.org on April 24, 2018. The discussion is almost an hour long and ranges from Klaus' personal interest in buddha-nature teachings to his ongoing and detailed research projects on the subject. Mathes discusses buddha-nature and the key ideas behind it, the controversies it generates, and some of the related Buddhist philosophy in comparative perspective. |
| − | |ArticleContent=<div class="bnw-jumbotron depth-1">In this interview, Professor Klaus-Dieter Mathes discusses buddha-nature and the key ideas behind it, the controversies it generates, and some of the related Buddhist philosophy in comparative perspective.</div>
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| | ! Buddha-nature has controversial points. | | ! Buddha-nature has controversial points. |
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| − | ! Do you accept Buddhahood or not? | + | ! Do you accept buddhahood or not? |
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| | ! Mathes talks about reification and two approaches in the Karma Kagyu Tradition. | | ! Mathes talks about reification and two approaches in the Karma Kagyu Tradition. |
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| | ! Mystic comes from a word that means to close ones eyes, but in Buddhism you are opening your eyes. | | ! Mystic comes from a word that means to close ones eyes, but in Buddhism you are opening your eyes. |
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| | ! Different approaches to buddha-nature—the debates are alive and well in contemporary Tibetan Buddhist communities. | | ! Different approaches to buddha-nature—the debates are alive and well in contemporary Tibetan Buddhist communities. |
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| − | ::Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Mathes is the Head of the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna. His current research deals with Tibetan Madhyamaka, Yogācāra and the interpretations of Buddha-nature in the 15th and 16th centuries. Klaus-Dieter Mathes was born in Mannheim (Germany) as the son of the businessman Kurt Mathes and the accountant Christel Mathes, née Gerner. He attended the Volksschule Wendelstein in the 1960s and graduated from the Pirckheimer Gymnasium in Nuremberg in 1977, after which he performed basic military service for one year and then began to study math and physics at the University of Erlangen.
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| − | ::From 1980-1984 he lived in the Himalayas and studied Buddhism, later obtaining a master's degree in Tibetology from the University of Bonn and then a Doctorate from Marburg in 1994 with a study of the Yogācāra text ''Dharmadharmatāvibhāga'' (published in 1996 in the series Indica et Tibetica). He served as the director of the Nepal Research Centre and the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project in Kathmandu from 1993 to 2001. He was then a lecturer and visiting professor variously at the University of Hamburg, Vienna, and EPHE, Paris, until his current appointment in March 2010 as full Professor of Tibetology and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna.
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| − | ::His publications include ''[[A Direct Path to the Buddha Within]]. Gö Lotsawa's Mahāmudrā Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhāga'' (Wisdom, 2008), ''[[A Fine Blend of Mahāmudrā and Madhyamaka]]. Maitrīpa's Collection of Texts on Non-conceptual Realization (Amanasikāra)'' (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2015). He is also a regular contributor to the ''Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies''. ''[[The Other Emptiness: Rethinking the Zhentong Buddhist Discourse in India and Tibet]]'' is forthcoming from SUNY Press in 2018.
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