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IIBS Lecture on April 10, 2001

Lecturer: Dr. Harunaga Isaacson
Title: "Showing the continuity between the sutras and the tantras": Themes and Techniques in Ratnakarasanti's Tantra-commentaries

Harunaga Isaacson, IIBS Research Fellow for the year 2000-2001, studied philosophy and Indology at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands), getting a MA in 1990. He was given a PhD by the University of Leiden in 1995, for a dissertation on early Vaisesika. Now he is a Wissenschaftlicher Assistent at the Asien-Afrika-Institut, Abteilung für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens und Tibets, Universität Hamburg. His studies and research are mainly focussed on late Indian Tantric Buddhism. Besides, he is now working on a critical edition of the oldest recension of the Skandapurana and a critical edition of the oldest known commentary, by Vallabhadeva, on Kalidasa's Raghuvamsa.



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