Nyingma Studies
A Literary Transmission of the Traditions of Thang-Stong
rGyal-Po: A Study of Visionary Buddhism in Tibet.
Janet Gyatso’s doctoral dissertation University of California Berkeley, 1981. Contains a fascinating examination of the role of visionary experience in the revelation of teachings in Tibetan Buddhism.
rNying ma’I rgyud ‘bum: A Tibetan Buddhist Canon
Mihai Derbac’s master’s thesis, University of Alberta, 2007
The Rhetoric of Naturalness: A Critical Study of the gNas lugs mdzod
Gregory Alexander Hillis’ doctoral dissertation University of Virginia, 2003. Contains a discussion and translation of Lonchenpa’s rdzogs chen text _gnas lugs
mdzod_
The Doxographical Genius of Kun mkhyen kLong chen rab
'byams pa
Albion M. Butters' doctoral dissertation Columbia University, 2006
The Tibetan Tradition of the Great Perfection
An article by Jean-Luc Achard
The Development of Perfection: The interiorization of Buddhist Ritual in the
Eight and Ninth Centuries.
An Article by Jacob Dalton
Compassion in the Tibetan Book of the Dead and the Tractate Mourning: A comparative Study
Vanessa R. Sasson’s master’s thesis McGill University, 1998
Different Sets of Light-Channels in the Instruction Series of Rdzogs chen
An article by Daniel Scheidegger about the rtsa used in visionary practice of thod rgal
Lamps in the Leaping Over
Another article by Daniel Scheidegger about the visionary practice of thod rgal
The Funerary Transformation of the Great Perfection
(Rdzogs chen)
An article by David Germano
The Guhyagarbhatantra: and its fourteenth century commentary phyogs bcu mun-sel
Gyurme Dorje’s doctoral dissertation University of London 1988. A extremely important translation of a central text in the Nyingma tradition. Over 1500 pages long.
