Dominik Dell – external PhD student at the Department of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University, and researcher at the International Institute for Tibetan and Asian Studies, Vélez-Málaga, Spain. His research interests include life stories of Tibetan Buddhist masters of the Kagyü (bka’ brgyud) tradition as well as their works. He published several articles ranging from aspects of the Seventh Karmapa’s birth to the religious historical work Feast of the Wise (chos ‘byung mkhas pa’I dga’ ston). Currently, he is preparing his PhD thesis on the birth stories of several Karmapas.