Jörg Heimbel
received his PhD from the University of Hamburg in 2014 where he is a lecturer for Classical and Colloquial Tibetan. He has published articles on topics such as the history of the Ngor and Sakya traditions, Buddhist ascetic traditions, vegetarianism, book culture, and Tibetan art. His recent book publications are Vajradhara in Human Form: The Life and Times of Ngor chen Kun dga’ bzang po (2017) and The Ngor Branch Monastery of Go mig (sTeng rgyud) in Spiti (2019). He is the founder of Ngor’s Textual Treasures, an interactive web application presenting the results of an ongoing cataloguing project of a collection of manuscripts from Ngor monastery.
Heimbel, Jörg. 2014. Ngor chen Kun dga' bzang po (1382 – 1456):An Investigation into the Life and Times of the Founder of the Ngor Subschool of the Sa skya Order. Dissertation im Promotionsfach Sprache und Kultur Tibets. Zur Erlangung der Würde des Doktors der Philosophie an der Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften der Universität Hamburg.
Ngor chen Kun dga' bzang po (1382–1456). 1993. Thob yig rgya mtsho. In Ngor chen kun dga’ bzang po’i bka’ ’bum, vol. 1 (ka), pp. 179-433. Dehra Dun, U.P.: Ngor Pal E-Wam Cho Dan. TBRC W11577.
Ngor chen Kun dga’ bzang po (1382–1456). 1993. Bla ma dam pa sa bzang ’phags pa gzhon nu blo gros kyi rnam par thar pa. In Ngor chen kun dga’ bzang po’i bka’ ’bum, vol. 1 (ka), pp. 169.2-177.6. Dehra Dun, U.P.: Ngor Pal E-Wam Cho Dan. TBRC W11577.
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