About the interview
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.
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.
Listen to short clips from the Interview:
| Buddha-nature has controversial points. | File:Question1-Response-What is interesting about BN-Mathes-Interview-1min20sec.mp3 |
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| Do you accept Buddhahood or not? | File:Do-you-accept-Buddhahood-or-not-Mathes-Interview-42sec.mp3 |
| Mathes talks about reification and two approaches in the Karma Kagyu Tradition. | File:Two Approaches Nagarjuna and Saraha and Skillful Means-Mathes-Interview-2min-25sec.mp3.mp3 |
| Mystic comes from a word that means to close ones eyes, but in Buddhism you are opening your eyes. | File:Mystic-Not-Mystic-Mathes-Interview-33sec.mp3 |
| Different approaches to buddha-nature—the debates are alive and well in contemporary Tibetan Buddhist communities. | File:Question2-Debates-Alive-and-Well-Mathes-Interview-4min-38sec.mp3 |
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