Articles/A Dilettante's Ramblings on the Uttaratantra, Asaṅga, Mipham, and Buddha-Nature by John Canti

A Dilettante's Ramblings on the Uttaratantra, Asaṅga, Mipham, and Buddha-Nature by John Canti

John Canti

Interview

Interview

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About the interview

John Canti, longtime practitioner and translator, founder of Padmakara Translation Group, and Editorial Director at the 84000 Project, speaks with Lopen Dr. Karma Phuntsho about a wide range of topics related to buddha-nature teachings.

John Canti studied medicine and anthropology at Cambridge University (UK) and qualified as a doctor in 1975. While still a medical student he met and began to study with some of the great Tibetan Buddhist masters of the older generation, especially Kangyur Rinpoche, Dudjom Rinpoche, and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. After some years of medical work in northeastern Nepal in the late 1970s he went to the Dordogne, France, to complete two three-year retreats at Chanteloube, and has remained primarily based there ever since.

John is a founding member of the Padmakara Translation Group, was a Tsadra Foundation Fellow from 2001-2014, and was awarded the 2016 Khyentse Foundation Fellowship. In 2009, when 84000 first started, he was appointed Editorial Chair of 84000, and in 2020 has become Editorial Co-Director.

Clips from the interview

Clips from the interview

John Canti: On His First Encounter with Buddhism and Buddha-Nature Teachings

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10:49 min

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John Canti: On What Inspired Him to Work on the Uttaratantra & Mipham's Commentary

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4:19 min

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John Canti: On the Challenges of Translating Terms Like Tathāgatagarbha, Gotra, Dhātu, etc.

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14:08 min

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John Canti: On the Uttaratantra in Relation to the Other Works of Maitreya

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20:49 min

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John Canti: On the Relationship between Buddha-Nature and lhan cig skyes pa'i ye shes

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7:57 min

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John Canti: How Does Mipham View the 2nd and 3rd Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma?

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1:40 min

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John Canti: On Luminosity and It's Relationship to the Kāyas and Emptiness

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7:22 min

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John Canti: On the Legends behind the Five Treatises of Maitreya

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7:58 min

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John Canti: On How Buddha-Nature Teachings Have Affected Him

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6:52 min

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John Canti: How Can We Amplify the Message about Buddha-Nature?

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7:31 min

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