Splitting the Middle: Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism

Kevin A. Vose is the author of the Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism series volume Resurrecting Candrakirti. He is a Professor of Religious Studies at William & Mary and the author of several research articles on the transmission of Sanskrit Buddhist philosophical traditions from India to Tibet and the formation of Tibetan Buddhist scholastic traditions. His articles have appeared in the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Journal of Buddhist Philosophy, Journal of Indian Philosophy, and Journal of South Asian Intellectual History, among others. His work focuses in particular on a collection of eleventh- and twelfth-century Tibetan manuscripts discovered in one of the few libraries to survive the Cultural Revolution in Tibet and that provide a wealth of information on the formative period of Tibetan Buddhism. From this collection, he and Pascale Hugon are preparing an edition and translation of Gyamarwa’s Essence of the Middle Way, available as a work-in-progress on the website of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.