Professor Khangkar Tsultrim Kelsang visits from Kyoto to discuss the different views of Madhyamaka philosophy as presented in Tsongkhapa’s fifteenth-century classic The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Lam rim chen mo), and in twentieth-century scholar Gendun Chopel’s Adornment for Nagarjuna’s Thought (Klu sgrub dgongs rgyan).
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Khangkar Tsultrim Kelsang
Khangkar Tsultrim Kelsang (ཁང་དཀར་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་སྐལ་བཟང་།), Emeritus Professor, Otani University, Kyoto, Japan, was born in Shelkar, Western Tibet, in 1942. He received his MA from Varanasi Sanskrit University in 1972. Since 1984, he has been teaching at Otani University in Kyoto, as well as many other universities in Japan, including Tokyo University, Kyoto University, Nagoya University, and Ryukoku University. In recognition of his contribution to Buddhist Studies and Tibetan Studies, he received "The Award for Distinguished Service for the Promotion of Buddhism" from Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai (Society for the Promotion of Buddhism) in 2012. He has published many academic books and articles in Tibetan, and he has translated Tibetan classics into Japanese.
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