The Treasury of Lives

Joseph McClellan received a PhD from Columbia University's Department of Religion in 2013. He has taught humanities at colleges in several countries and is now an independent translator and writer based in Asia.

Published August 2007

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Cantwell, Cathay. 2020. Dudjom Rinpoche's Vajrakīlaya Works: A Study in Authoring, Compiling, and Editing Texts in the Tibetan Revelatory Tradition. Sheffield and Bristol: Equinox Publishing.

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Gayley, Holly. 2023a. "All in the Dudjom Family: Overlapping Modes of Authority and Transmission in the Golok Treasure Scene." In Histories of Tibet: Essays in Honor of Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp. Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications.

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