Yael Bentor List of Publications

February 2015
I. Doctoral Dissertation:
1. Yael Bentor: The Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Consecration Ritual for
Stpas, Images, Books and Temples. Supervisor: Prof. Gregory
Schopen. Co-supervisor: Prof. Christopher I. Beckwith, 1991.
Published as a book in 1996 by E.J. Brill in Leiden, #2 below. Article
#10 is included within the dissertation.
II. Books:
Prior to the last promotion:
2. Yael Bentor: Consecration of Images and Stpas in Indo-Tibetan
Tantric Buddhism, 1996, 415p, E. J. Brill, Leiden. See #1.
3. Dan Martin in collaboration with Yael Bentor C: Tibetan Histories: A
Bibliography of Tibetan-Language Historical Works, 1997, 295p,
Serindia Publications, London.
Subsequent to the last promotion:
4. Yael Bentor: A Classical Tibetan Reader: Selected Short Stories
with Custom Glossaries, 2013, 160p, Wisdom Publications, Boston.
5. Yael Bentor: The Essence of the Ocean of Attainments:
Explanation of the Creation Stage of the Guhyasamja, King of All
Tantras, by the First Panchen Rinpoche, Blo-bzang-chos-kyi-rgyalmtshan, translated with Penpa Dorjee, forthcoming, July, 2014,
298p, The American Institute of Buddhist Studies at Columbia
University in New York with Columbia University's Center for
Buddhist Studies and Tibet House US, New York.
6. Yael Bentor: Clarifying the Meaning of the Arga and Consecration
Rituals by Jetsun Dragpa Gyeltsen, forthcoming 2015, International
Buddhist Academy, Kathmandu.

III. Books Edited:

IV. Chapters in Collections:
Prior to the last promotion:
7. Yael Bentor: Stra-style Consecration in Tibet and Its Importance
for Understanding the Historical Development of the Indo-Tibetan
Consecration Ritual for Stpas and Images, Tibetan Studies, eds.,
Ihara Shren and Yamagucchi Zuih, 1992, pp. 112, Naritasan
Shinshoji, Narita [reviewed].
8. Yael Bentor: Downpour of Virtue and Goodness: The Consecration
Ritual Based on the Dge-legs Char-'bebs Composed by the First
Panchen Lama. In A Turning of the Wheel, 1993, pp. 1824, Tibet
House, New Delhi [reviewed].
9. Yael Bentor: Tibetan Classifications of Relics. In Tibetan Studies,
ed., Per Kvaerne, 1994, vol. 1, pp. 1630, The Institute for
Comparative Research in Human Culture, Oslo [reviewed].
10.

Yael Bentor: Literature on Consecration (rab-gnas). In Tibetan

Literature: Studies in Genre, eds., Roger Jackson and Jos I.

Cabezn, 1996, pp. 290311, Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca
[reviewed]. See #1.
11.

Yael Bentor: The Horseback Consecration Ritual. In Religions

in Tibet in Practice, ed., Donald Lopez, 1997, pp. 234254, Princeton

University Press, Princeton [reviewed].
12.

Yael Bentor: Interiorized Fire Offerings of Breathing, Inner Heat

and the Subtle Body. In Tibetan Studies, eds., Helmut Krasser,

Michael T. Much, Ernst Steinkellner and Helmut Tauscher, 1997, vol.
1, pp. 5158, sterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Institut fr Kultur und Geistesgeschichte Asiens, Wien [reviewed].
13.

Yael Bentor: The Practice of the Mantric Path by Lce-sgom-pa.

In Tantra in Practice, ed., David Gordon White, 2000, pp. 326346,

Princeton University Press, Princeton [reviewed].

Subsequent to the last promotion:

14.

Yael Bentor: Fourfold Meditations: Outer, Inner, Secret and

Suchness. In Religion and Secular Culture in Tibet: Tibetan Studies

II, ed., Henk Blezer, 2002, pp. 4155, E. J. Brill, Leiden [reviewed].
15.

Yael Bentor: The Consecration of a Buddha Image. In

Buddhist Scriptures, ed., Donald S. Lopez, 2004, pp. 200211,

Penguin Books, London.
16.

Yael Bentor: Transforming Death into Buddhahood. In

Buddhist Scriptures, ed., Donald S. Lopez, 2004, pp. 430438,

Penguin Books, London.
17.

Yael Bentor: Identifying the Unnamed Opponents of Tsong-kha-

pa and Mkhas-grub-rje Concerning the Transformation of Ordinary

Birth, Death and the Intermediate State into the Three Bodies. In
Tibetan Buddhist Literature and Praxis: Studies in Its Formative
Period 9001400, eds., Ronald M. Davidson and Christian K.
Wedemeyer, 2006, pp. 185200, E. J. Brill, Leiden [reviewed].
18.

Yael Bentor: Can Women Attain Enlightenment through

Vajrayna Practices? In Karmic Passages: Israeli Scholarship on

India, eds,. David Shulman and Shalva Weil, 2008, pp. 123137,
Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
19.

Yael Bentor: Do 'The Tantras Embody What The Practitioners

Actually Do'? In Contributions to Tibetan Buddhist Literature, ed.,

Orna Almogi, 2009, pp. 351373, International Institute for Tibetan
and Buddhist Studies, Beitrge zur Zentralasienforschung 14, Halle
[reviewed].
20.

Yael Bentor: The Convergence of Theoretical and Practical

Concerns in a Single Verse of the Guhyasamja Tantra. In Tibetan

Rituals, ed., Jos Cabezn, 2009, pp. 89102, Oxford University
Press, New York [reviewed].
21.

Yael Bentor: Tsong-kha-pa's Guhyasamja Sdhana and the

rya Tradition. In Vimalakrtis House: A Festschrift in Honor of

Robert A. F. Thurman on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday, eds.,

Christian K. Wedemeyer, John D. Dunne, and Thomas F. Yarnall, The

American Institute of Buddhist Studies at Columbia University in
New York with Columbia University's Center for Buddhist Studies
and Tibet House US, 2015 [reviewed]. ISBN: 978-1-935011-19-4
22.

Yael Bentor: Women on the way to Enlightenment. In From

Bhakti to Bon: Festschrift for Per Kvaerne, eds., Charles Ramble and
Hanna Havnevik, 2015, pp. XXXX, Oslo: Novus forlag. The Institute
for Comparative Research in Human Culture [reviewed].
V. Articles:
Prior to the last promotion:
23.

Yael Bentor: 1988. The Redactions of the

Adbhutadharmaparyya from Gilgit. The Journal of the International

Association of Buddhist Studies, 11, pp. 2152 [reviewed].
24.

Yael Bentor: 1993. Tibetan Tourist Thangkas in the Kathmandu

Valley. Annals of Tourism Research, 20.1, pp. 107137 [reviewed].

25.

Yael Bentor: 1994. Inside Tibetan Images. Arts of Asia, 24.3,

pp. 102109 [reviewed].

26.

Yael Bentor: 1995. On the Symbolism of the Mirror in Indo-

Tibetan Consecration Rituals. Journal of Indian Philosophy, 23, pp.

5771 [reviewed].
27.
Yael Bentor: 1995. In Praise of Stpas: The Tibetan Eulogy at Chyung-kuan Reconsidered. Indo-Iranian Journal, 38, pp. 3154
[reviewed].
28.

Yael Bentor: 1995. On the Indian Origins of the Tibetan

Practice of Depositing Relics and Dhras in Stpas and Images.

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 115.2, pp. 248261
[reviewed].
29.

Yael Bentor: 2000. Interiorized Fire Rituals in India and in

Tibet. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 120.4, pp. 594613

[reviewed].
30.

Yael Bentor: 2003. The Content of Stpas and Images and the

Indo-Tibetan Concept of Relics. The Tibet Journal, 28.1&2, pp. 21

48 [reviewed].
Subsequent to the last promotion:
31.

Yael Bentor: 2015. Meditation on Emptiness in the Context of

Tantric Buddhism. The Journal of Buddhist Philosophy, Guest Editor,

Kevin Vose [reviewed].
32.

Yael Bentor: 2015. Interpreting the Body Maala: Tsongkhapa

versus Later Gelug Scholars. Revue d'Etudes Tibtaines 31, pp. 63

74. Reprinted in: Trails of the Tibetan Tradition: Papers for Elliot
Sperling, edited by Roberto Vitali, 2014, pp. 63-74. Dharamsala:
Amnye Machen Institute.

VI. Participation in Scientific Conferences, Lectures, and Other Activity:

Lectures prior to the last promotion:
1. Yael Bentor: Stra-style Consecration in Tibet and Its Importance
for Understanding the Historical Development of the Indo-Tibetan
Consecration Ritual for Stpas and Images. The 5th International
Seminar on Tibetan Studies, Narita, 1989.
2. Yael Bentor: Ritual Rationales: Mdhyamika Explanations for IndoTibetan Consecration. The 39th Annual Meeting of the Midwest
Conference on Asian Affairs, Bloomington, 1990.
3. Yael Bentor: Indo-Tibetan Classifications of Relics. The 6th
Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies,
Fagernes, 1992.
4. Yael Bentor: The Content of Stpas and Images and the IndoTibetan Concept of Relics. American Academy of Religion, Seminar
on Buddhist Relic Veneration, Chicago, 1994.
5. Yael Bentor: Interiorized Fire Rituals in the Indian Upaniads and
in Tibetan Buddhism. The 7th Seminar of the International
Association for Tibetan Studies, Schloss Seggau, Graz, 1995.
6. Yael Bentor: A Brief Outline of Consecration Attributed to Rinchen-bzang-po. International Seminar on Rin-chen-bzang-po and
Tabo Monastery, Spiti, 1995.
7. Yael Bentor: Embodiments of Enlightenment in Tibetan
Buddhism. American Academy of Religion, Seminar of Tantric
Studies, New Orleans, 1996.
Lectures at international conferences subsequent to the last promotion:
8. Yael Bentor: The Creative Power of the Mind in the Generation
Process (bskyed-rim) of Rdo-rje-jigs-byed. The 8th Seminar of the
International Association for Tibetan Studies, Bloomington, Indiana,
1998.
9. Yael Bentor: Recreating the Cosmos and Oneself: Continuity and
Change in the Creation Process. The 12th Conference of the

International Association of Buddhist Studies, Lausanne, 1999.

10.

Yael Bentor: Fourfold Meditations: Outer, Inner, Secret and

Suchness. The 9th Seminar of the International Association for

Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000.
11.

Yael Bentor: The Generation Process (bskyed-rim) according to

Mkhas-grub-rje. The 13th Conference of the International

Association of Buddhist Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok,
December 8th3th, 2002.
12.

Yael Bentor: Transforming Ordinary Birth, Death and

Intermediate State into the Three Bodies: Some Polemical Issues.

The 10th, Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan
Studies, Oxford, September 6th12th, 2003.
13.

Yael Bentor: How Does the Generation Process Work, and why

do Most Dge-lugs Commentaries Disagree with Tsong-kha-pas

Teacher Red-mda-ba? The 14th Conference of the International
Association of Buddhist Studies, SOAS London, August 29th
September 3rd, 2005.
14.

Yael Bentor: Do The Tantras Embody what the Practitioners

Actually Do? The 11th Seminar of the International Association for

Tibetan Studies, Bonn University, August 27thSept. 2nd, 2006.
15.

Yael Bentor: Can Women Attain Enlightenment through

Vajrayna Practices? The 15th Conference of the International

Association of Buddhist Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia,
June 23rd29th, 2008, Section: Vajrayna Buddhism.
16.

Yael Bentor: Debates Regarding the Meditation on Emptiness

in Tibet in Context of the Vajrayna. The 9th Annual Israeli Asian

Studies Conference, The University of Haifa, April 26th27th, 2010.
17.

Yael Bentor: Debates Regarding the Meditation on Emptiness

during the Creation Stage. The 12th Seminar of the International

Association for Tibetan Studies, Vancouver University, August 15th
21st, 2010. Panel: Toward a History of Madhyamaka in Tibet,
organized by Kevin Vose.
18.

Yael Bentor: How Did Tibetan Teachers Develop the Tradition

of Vajrayna Meditations of their Own Schools? The 10th

Conference of Asian Studies in Israel, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, May 24th26th, 2011.
19.

Yael Bentor: How Did Tsong-kha-pa Arrange his Sdhana of the

Guhyasamja? The 16th Congress of the International Association

of Buddhist Studies, Taipei, June 20th25th, 2011, Section: Tibetan
Textual Studies.
20.

Yael Bentor: What Happened to the Wonder-working

Bodhisattva in Tsongkhapa's Creation Stage? The 11th Annual

Conference of Asian Studies in Israel, Tel Aviv University, May 22nd
23rd, 2012.
21.

Yael Bentor: Interpreting the Body Mandala of the

Guhyasamja. The 13th Seminar of the International Association for

Tibetan Studies, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, July, 21st27th 2013.
22.

Yael Bentor: Organizing a panel on Hermes in Tibet: Tantra's

Exegetical Imperative. The 13th Seminar of the International

Association for Tibetan Studies, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, July 21st27th
2013.
23.

Yael Bentor and Meir Shahar: Heading a Research Group on

Chinese and Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, at the Israel Institute for

Advanced Studies, Sept. 2013 to June 2014, with weekly seminars
and biweekly readings.
24.

Yael Bentor: The Body in Buddhist Tantric Meditations. The

Evolution of Tantric Ritual, UC Berkeley, March 14th16th, 2014.

25.

Yael Bentor: Participant in The Workshop of Reading The

Guhyasamja, UC Berkeley, March 17th19th, 2014.

26.

Yael Bentor: Organizing a double panel on Tantric Buddhism.

The 12th Biennial Conference of Asian Studies in Israel, The

University of Haifa, 25th26th May 2014.
27.

Yael Bentor and Meir Shahar: Organizing a three day

international conference on Chinese and Tibetan Tantric Buddhism,

at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, June 16th18th, 2014.
28.

Yael Bentor: Conflicting Positions over the Interpretation of the

Body Mandala. Chinese and Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, at the Israel

Institute for Advanced Studies, June 16th18th, 2014.
29.

Yael Bentor: The Conflicting Positions of Tsongkhapa and Ngor

chen Kun dga' bzang po over the Interpretations of the Practice of

Cakrasavara. The 17th Congress of the International Association
of Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna, Austria, August 18th23rd,
2014.
30.

Yael Bentor: Mkhas grub rje vs. Ngor chen Kun dga' bzang po

on the Interpretation of the Body Maala. Towards a History of

15th Century Tibet: Cultural Blossoming, Religious Fervour and
Political Unrest, Lumbini International Research Institute (LIRI),
Nepal, March 9th14th, 2015.
31.

Yael Bentor: "Women on the way to Enlightenment." Gender in

Tibetan Buddhist Societies, Leiden, June 4th5th, 2015. Conference of

the Franco-German Project Social History of Tibetan Societies, 17 to
20 Centuries in collaboration with the NWO project Buddhism and
Social Justice.