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Dominic Sur is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Utah State University and the translator of Rongzom’s Entering the Way of the Great Vehicle (Shambhala, 2017).

Published February 2021

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Sur, Dominic. 2015. "A Study of Rongzom's Disclosing the Great Vehicle Approach (theg chen tshul 'jug) in the History of Tibet's Great Perfection Tradition." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Virginia.

Sur, Dominic. 2017a. Entering the Way of the Great Vehicle: Dzogchen as the Culmination of the Mahāyāna. Boulder: Shambhala Publications.

Sur, Dominic. 2017b. "Constituting Canon and Community in Eleventh Century Tibet: The Extant Writings of Rongzom and His Charter of Mantrins (sngags pa'i bca' yig)." Religions, vol. 8, no. 3, article number 40. doi:10.3390/rel803004

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