Another piece to the ongoing REL lecture series.

With whose Voice is the Buddha Speaking Mantra-dhāraṇīs?  Heteroglossia in Buddhist Mantras

Thursday, November 21^st, 2019 at 3pm-4pm AD 208

Prof. Ronald M. Davidson, Ph.D
Professor of Religious Studies ,
Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Studies
Fairfield Univesity

His area of expertise is in the social and linguistic dynamics of Buddhist ritual, particularly associated the use of mantras, dhāraṇīs and tantrism, and has translated texts from Sanskrit, Tibetan and Chinese. He has published five single-authored, most notably Indian Esoteric Buddhism: A Social History of the Tantric Movement and Tibetan Renaissance: Tantric Buddhism in the Rebirth of Tibetan Culture