The John Campbell Years

John Campbell was the rapporteur for the Buddhist Studies Seminar from 1999-2002. Click on the links below to download and read his minutes from those meetings.

Professor Janet Gyatso
“Buddhist Monasticism and the role of sex.”

David Loy
"A Buddhist Perspective on the New Holy War.”

Richard Salomon
“Fragments of a lost canon: Interpreting the newly rediscovered Buddhist Literature of Gandhara.”

Raffaele Torella
“Intimate Interactions Between Buddhist and Shaiva Philosophers: relations between Kashmir Shaivism philosophy and Buddhist pramana Epistemology.”

Wendi Adamek
“The Impossibility of the Given: A Look at Chinese Buddhist Donor Inscriptions.”

Ronald M. Davidson
“Political Metaphors in Indian Esoteric Buddhism.”

Georges B. Dreyfus
“The Sound of Two Hands Clapping: Debate in Tibetan Monastic Tradition."

Anne C. Klein
“The Logic of Unbounded Wholeness: Doing and Knowing in a Bon Dzogchen Text."

E. Gene Smith
“The Importance of Precise Terminology: Redactions, Editions, Recuttings, and Reprints in the Tibetan Bibliographic Tradition.”