ブータン王国における仏教研究プロジェクトを推進中の熊谷誠慈准教授(京都大学こころの未来研究センター上廣こころ学研究部門)が、2014年12月に、Vajra Publicationsより、編著『Bhutanese Buddhism and Its Culture』(ブータン仏教とその文化)を刊行いたしました。
-Foreword by Damcho DORJI (Minister, Ministery of Home & Cultural Affairs)
-Introduction Seiji KUMAGAI
[Chapter 1. Nyingma School]
- Karma URA “Longchen’s Forests of Poetry and Rivers of Composition in Bhutan: “The illuminating map – titled as forest park of flower garden - of Bumthang, the divine hidden land” composed in 1355 by Longchen Ramjam (1308-1363)”
- Akinori YASUDA “A Study of Rgyud bu chung Discovered by Pema Lingpa”
[Chapter 2. Drukpa Kagyu School]
- Gembo DORJI “The Lho-Druk Tradition of Bhutan: The Arrival and Spread of Buddhism”
- Karma URA “Monastic System of the Drukpa Kagyu (’Brug pa bka’ brgyud) School in Bhutan”
- Thupten Gawa MATSUSHITA “Introduction to the Theory of Mahāmudrā by the Founder of Drukpa Kagyü, Tsangpa Gyaré Yeshe Dorje (1161-1211)”
[Chapter 3. Other Schools]
- Françoise POMMARET “Bon in Bhutan. What is in the name?”
- Seiji KUMAGAI “History and Current Situation of the Sa skya pa School in Bhutan”
[Chapter 4. Buddhist Culture]
- Lungtaen GYATSO “A Note on the Concept of Happiness and Prosperity”
- Akiko UEDA “Understanding the Practice of Dual Residence in the Context of Transhumance: A Case from Western Bhutan”
- Elizabeth MONSON “Alternative Voices: The Unusual Case of Drukpa Kunley (’Brug pa kun legs)”
- Riam KUYAKANON KNAPP “Contemplations on a Bhutanese Buddhist Environmental Narrative”
- Dendup CHOPHEL and Dorji KHANDU “Byis pa’i dpa’ bo: The Dance of Youthful Heroes”