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*"[[The Other Emptiness]]: Rethinking the Zhentong Buddhist Discourse in Tibet. Edited with Michael Sheehy. [https://books.google.com/books?id=MBnCDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Albany, New York: SUNY Press], 2019.
*"[https://www.academia.edu/41001037/Mathes2019c_Introduction_The_Philosophical_Grounds_and_Literary_History_of_Zhentong_?source=swp_share Introduction: The Philosophical Grounds and Literary History of Zhentong].’” The Other Emptiness: Rethinking the Zhentong Discourse in Tibet. Albany: SUNY Press, 1-27 , 2019.
*"[https://www.academia.edu/36430505/Mathes_2018_Liberation_through_Realizing_the_Emptiness_of_Dependent_Origination_A_Modern_Interpretation_of_the_Buddhist_Beyond_in_the_Light_of_Quantum_Physics._ Liberation through Realizing the Emptiness of Dependent Origination: A Modern Interpretation of the Buddhist “Beyond” in the Light of Quantum Physics]." Experiencing the Beyond: Intercultural Approaches. Ed. by Gert Melville and Carlos Ruta (Challenges of Life: Essays on Philosophical and Cultural Anthropology 4). Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 198-211, 2018.
*"[https://www.academia.edu/35559585/Mathes_2017b_The_Eighth_Karmapa_Mi_bskyod_rdo_rje_1507-1554_on_the_Relation_between_Buddha_Nature_and_its_Adventitious_Stains._Critical_Review_for_Buddhist_Studies_22_2017._12_63-104 The Eighth Karmapa Mi bskyod rdo rje (1507-1554) on the Relation between Buddha Nature and its Adventitious Stains]." Critical Review for Buddhist Studies 22 (2017. 12), 63-104.
*"[https://www.academia.edu/35692640/Mathes2017c_._Did_Gos_Lo_ts%C4%81_ba_gZhon_nu_dpal_1392-1481_Espouse_a_gZhan_sTong_View_._In_Fifteenth_Century_Tibet_Cultural_Blossoming_and_Political_Unrest._LIRI_Seminar_Proceedings_Series_8._Lumbini_2017_291-311 Did ‘Gos Lo tsā ba gZhon nu dpal (1392-1481) Espouse a gZhan sTong View?]" In: Fifteenth Century Tibet: Cultural Blossoming and Political Unrest. LIRI Seminar Proceedings Series 8. Lumbini 2017, 291-311.
*"[https://www.academia.edu/33531913/Mathes_2016b_Introduction_The_History_of_the_Rang_stong_Gzhan_stong_Distiction_from_Its_Beginning_through_the_Ris-med_Movement_._Journal_of_Buddhist_Philosophy_2_2016_4-8 Introduction: The History of the Rang stong/Gzhan stong Distinction from Its Beginning through the Ris-med Movement]". Journal of Buddhist Philosophy 2 (2016), 4-8.
*"[https://www.academia.edu/33531917/Mathes_2016c_Presenting_a_Controversial_Doctrine_in_a_Conciliatory_Way_Mkhan_chen_Gang_shar_dbang_pos_1925-1958_59_Inclusion_of_Gzhan_Stong_Emptiness_of_Ohter_within_Pr%C4%81sa%E1%B9%85gika_._Journal_of_Buddhist_Philosophy_2_2016_114-131 Presenting a Controversial Doctrine in a Conciliatory Way]: Mkhan chen Gang shar dbang po's (1925-1958/59?) Inclusion of Gzhan Stong ("Emptiness of Other") within Prāsaṅgika". Journal of Buddhist Philosophy 2 (2016), 114-131.
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Klaus-Dieter Mathes
Klaus-Dieter Mathes is a professor of Buddhist studies at the University of Hong Kong. His current research deals with exclusivism, inclusivism, and tolerance in Mahāyāna Buddhism. He obtained his Ph.D. from Marburg University in 1994 with a study of the Yogācāra text Dharmadharmatāvibhāga (published in 1996 in the series Indica et Tibetica). From 1993 to 2001 he served as the director of the Nepal Research Centre and the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project in Kathmandu. Before joining the University of Hong Kong in August 2023 he was the head of the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna, where with his team he hosted the 2014 conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies. He has organized and given presentations at many other conferences and symposiums, and has served as the chairman of the board of trustees of the Numata Professional Chair for Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna.

His major publications include A Direct Path to the Buddha Within: Gö Lotsāwa's Mahāmudrā Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhāga (Wisdom, 2008), A Fine Blend of Mahāmudrā and Madhyamaka: Maitrīpa's Collection of Texts on Non-conceptual Realization (Amanasikāra) (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2015), and Maitrīpa: India's Yogi of Nondual Bliss (Shambhala, 2021). He is also a regular contributor to the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, and is the co-editor of the Vienna Series for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies.

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  • University of Hong Kong · workplace affiliation
  • Universität Wien · secondary affiliation
  • Universität Hamburg · secondary affiliation
  • Rangjung Yeshe Institute · secondary affiliation
  • CIRDIS · secondary affiliation
  • IABS · secondary affiliation
  • IATS · secondary affiliation
  • http://www.tantric-studies.uni-hamburg.de/people/klaus-dieter-mathes/ · websites