Expertise

Buddhist Philosophy, Tibetan Buddhism

Biography

Douglas Duckworth is Professor of Religion at Temple University. Duckworth is the author of Mipam on Buddha-Nature: The Ground of the Nyingma Tradition (SUNY 2008) and Jamgön Mipam: His Life and Teachings (Shambhala 2011). He is a co-author of Dignāga’s Investigation of the Percept (Oxford 2016) and Knowing Illusion, vol. 1-2 (Oxford 2021). Duckworth is a co-editor (w. A. Velez and E. Harris) of Buddhist Reponses to Religious Diversity: Theravāda and Tibetan Perspectives (Equinox 2020) and (with J. Gold) Readings of Śāntideva’s Guide to Bodhisattva Practice (Bodhicaryāvatāra) (CUP 2019). He also wrote Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature (OUP 2019) and translated an overview of the Wisdom Chapter of the Way of the Bodhisattva by Künzang Sönam, entitled The Profound Reality of Interdependence (OUP 2019).

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Selected Publications

• The Yakherds. Knowing Illusion, vols. 1-2. Oxford University Press, 2021.
• Duckworth, D., E. Harris, and A. Vélez, eds. Buddhist Reponses to Religious Diversity: Theravāda and Tibetan Perspectives. Sheffield, U.K.: Equinox, 2020. 
• Gold, J. and Duckworth, D., eds. Readings of Śāntideva’s Guide to Bodhisattva Practice. NY: Columbia University Press, 2019.
• Künzang Sönam. The Profound Reality of Interdependence: An Overview of the Wisdom Chapter of the Way of the Bodhisattva. Translated and introduced by Douglas S. Duckworth. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
• Duckworth, Douglas. Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
• Duckworth, D., D. Eckel, J. Garfield, J. Powers, Y. Thabkhas, S. Thakchoe. Dignāga’s Investigation of the Percept: A Philosophical Legacy in India and Tibet. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 
• Bötrül. Distinguishing the Views and Philosophies: Illuminating Emptiness in a Twentieth-Century Tibetan Buddhist Classic. Translated, annotated, and introduced by Douglas S. Duckworth. Albany: SUNY Press, 2011
• Duckworth, Douglas S. Jamgön Mipam: His Life and Teachings. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2011.
• Duckworth, Douglas S. Mipam on Buddha-Nature: The Ground of the Nyingma Tradition. Albany: SUNY Press, 2008.

Courses Taught

• Buddhist Philosophy
• Philosophy of Religion
• Indian Religions and Philosophies
• Yoga and Tantric Mysticism