Jacob P. Dalton

Jacob P. Dalton is the Khyentse Foundation Distinguished Professor of Tibetan Buddhism at Berkeley University.

He received his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Michigan in 2002. After working for three years (2002-05) as a researcher with the International Dunhuang Project at the British Library, he taught at Yale University (2005-2008) before moving to Berkeley.

He works on Nyingma religious history, tantric ritual, early Tibetan paleography, and the Dunhuang manuscripts. He is currently working on a study of tantric ritual in the Dunhuang manuscripts.

Bibliography

Books

• Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from Dunhuang: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Stein Collection at the British Library. Co-authored with Sam van Schaik. Leiden: Brill, 2006.
• Taming of the Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.
• Through the Eyes of the Compendium of Intentions: The History of a Tibetan Ritual Tradition (Columbia University Press, 2016),
• Conjuring the Buddha: Ritual Manuals in Early Tantric Buddhism (Columbia University Press, forthcoming).

Selected articles

• “The Questions and Answers of Vajrasattva.” In: David G. White, ed., Yoga in Practice. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011, pp. 185–203.
• “Mahayoga Ritual Interests at Dunhuang: A Translation and Study of the Codex IOL Tib J 437/Pelliot tibétain 324.” In: Yoshiro Imaeda, Matthew Kapstein, and Tsuguhito Takeuchi, eds., New Studies of the Old Tibetan Documents: Philology, History and Religion. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 2011, pp. 293–313.
• “Beyond Anonymity: Paleographic Analyses of the Dunhuang Manuscripts.” Co-authored with Tom Davis and Sam van Schaik. In: Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies; no. 3 (2007): 1-23.
• “Recreating the Rnying ma School: the Mdo dbang Tradition of Smin grol gling.” In: Bryan Cuevas and Kurtis Schaeffer, eds., Power, Politics, and the Reinvention of Tradition in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Tibet. Leiden: Brill, 2006, pp. 91–101.
• “A Crisis of Doxography: How Tibetans Organized Tantra during the 8th-12th Centuries.” In: Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies; 28.1 (2005): 115-181.
• “The Early Development of the Padmasambhava Legend in Tibet.” In: Journal of the American Oriental Society; 124.4 (2004): 759-772.
• “The Development of Perfection: The Interiorization of Buddhist Ritual in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries.” In: Journal of Indian Philosophy; 32.1 (2004): 1-30.
• “Where Chan and Tantra Meet: Buddhist Syncretism in Dunhuang.” Co-authored with Sam van Schaik. In Susan Whitfield, ed., The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith. Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2004, pp. 63–71.
• “Lighting the Lamp: An Examination of the Structure of the Bsam gtan mig sgron.” Co-authored with Sam van Schaik. In: Acta Orientalia; vol. 64 (2003): 153-175.
• “Nyingma,” “Dakini,” “Longchenpa,” “Padmasambhava,” “Samye,” “Samye Debate.” In: Encyclopaedia of Buddhism. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2003.

External links

• Jacob P. Dalton (faculty page), Berkeley University
• Jacob P. Dalton, Tsadra Commons
• Jacob P. Dalton, Wikipedia
• The Goodman Lectures: Tibetan Tantra at Dunhuang (Jacob P. Dalton) on YouTube
• The International Dunhuang Project