Teachers

Dominique Townsend

Dominique Townsend’s current research focuses on Tibetan Buddhist writing about dreams and dreaming as a source of cultural history. She is Associate Professor of Tibetan Buddhism at Columbia University. Dominique is the author of a book of poems, The Weather & Our Tempers (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2014), Shantideva (Wisdom Publications, 2015), and A Buddhist Sensibility (Columbia University Press, 2021). Her current book project is provisionally titled All this is Dreamlike (forthcoming from Columbia University Press).

Events with Dominique Townsend

Longing to Awaken: Buddhist Devotion in Tibetan Poetry and Song - Christina Monson Memorial Lecture Series
September 28, 2024

རང་སེམས་སངས་རྒྱས་མ་མཐོང་བར། ། བླ་མ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཟེར་ན་ཡང༌། ། བཅོས་མ་གཞན་གྱི་ལད་མོ་ཙམ། ། དད་པ་དེས་ཀྱང་རྐྱེན་མི་ཐུབ། །  Without seeing one’s own mind as Buddha, even if you say “my guru is a buddha,” such devotion will not withstand difficulties. It’s just a contrived imitation of others. —Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorjé   What is devotion in a Buddhist context? Devotion…