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  1. Living reference work entry

    Lalla of Kashmir

    Lalla, or Lal Děd, was a medieval female ascetic from Kashmir. Lalla has been known by many names, each signaling a way in which she has been...
    2025
  2. Article

    Seeing in the Dark: of Epistemic Culture and Abhidharma in the Long Fifth Century C.E.

    Abhidharma, the genre of knowledge concerned with putting into systematic shape what the Buddha taught, can seem a forbidding subject. In this essay,...

    Sonam Kachru in Journal of Dharma Studies
    01 October 2020
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    After the Unsilence of the Birds: Remembering Aśvaghoṣa’s Sundarī

    Once encountered in Beautiful Nanda, Aśvaghoṣa’s Sundarī is unforgettable. It is easy, then, to forget that we are given to see and hear her only in...

    20 March 2019
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    Ratnakīrti and the Extent of Inner Space: an Essay on Yogācāra and the Threat of Genuine Solipsism

    Though perhaps a dubious honor, Dharmakīrti (fl. c. 550–650 C.E.) is the first philosopher in any tradition to explicitly recognize the...

    Sonam Kachru in Sophia
    15 March 2019
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