Dr. Orna Almogi
Born in Israel in 1962, Orna Almogi studied Tibetology (major) and Religious Studies and Psychology (minors) at the University of Hamburg (MA 1997). She received her PhD in Tibetology from the same University in 2006 (doctoral thesis: “Rong-zom-pa’s Discourses on Traditional Buddhology: A Study on the Development of the Concept of Buddhahood with Special Reference to the Controversy Surrounding the Existence of Gnosis (ye shes: jñāna) at the Stage of a Buddha”). From 1999 until 2004 she had been working for the German Manuscript Preservation Project (NGMPP) and the Nepalese-German Manuscript Cataloguing Project (NGMCP), where she had been responsible for the Tibetan materials.
Publications:
Forthcoming. “How Authentic Are Titles and Colophons of Tantric Works in the Tibetan canon? The Case of Three Works and Their Authors and Translators.” In Orna Almogi (ed.) Contributions to Tibetan Buddhist Literature. Proceedings of the Eleventh Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Königswinter 2006. Beiträge zur Zentralasienforschung. Halle: IITBS.
In press. “The Physicality and Immanence of Gnosis in Some rNying-ma Tantric Sources.” In Eli Franco & Dagmar Eigner (eds.) Yogic Perception, Meditation and Altered States of Consciousness, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
2005. “Analysing Tibetan Titles: Towards a Genre-based Classification of Tibetan Literature.” Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie 15, Conception et Circulation des Textes Tibétains, pp. 27–58.
2003. Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project (NGMPP). Preliminary List of Manuscripts, Blockprints and Historical Documents Microfilmed by the NGMPP. Part 2: Tibetan Material (Release 1). Compiled by Orna Almogi with the assistance of Alexander Schiller and Jan-Ulrich Sobisch. CD-ROM [ca. 13.000 entries].
2003. Manual to the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project (NGMPP). Preliminary List of Manuscripts, Blockprints and Historical Documents Microfilmed by the NGMPP. Part 2: Tibetan Material (Release 1). 33 pages.
2002. “Sources on the Life and Works of the Eleventh-Century Tibetan Scholar Rong-zom Chos-kyi-bzang-po: A Brief Survey.” In Henk Blezer (ed.) Tibet, Past and Present. Tibetan Studies 1. PIATS
2000: Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000. Brill, Leiden, pp. 67–80.
Currently she prepares for publication the following three monographs: (1) “Rong-zom-pa’s Discourses on Traditional Buddhology: A Study on the Development of the Concept of Buddhahood with Special Reference to the Controversy Surrounding the Existence of Gnosis (ye shes: jñāna) at the Stage of a Buddha” (2) The Life and Works of Rong-zom Paṇḍita (3) A Brief Survey of the Transmission of the bsTan-’gyur Based on Historical Sources