Alumni

Eric HaynieThe Great Perfection of Kham: Dzokchen Monastery and the Assembling of Buddhist Tradition in Seventeenth-Century Tibet (D. Lopez, 2021).

 

T. Joseph LeachA Hidden Valley in the Iron Mountains: The Nyingma Tradition in Spiti’s Pin Valley (D. Lopez, 2019).

 


Hyoung Seok Ham – Buddhist Critiques of the Veda and Vedic Sacrifice: A Study of Bhāviveka’s Mīmāmsā Chapter of the Madhyamakahrdayakārikā and Tarkajvālā (M. Deshpande, 2016). Postdoctoral Fellow, Kyushu University

 

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Aaron Proffitt – Mysteries of Speech and Breath: Dohan’s (1179-1252) Himitsu Nenbutsu Sho and “Esoteric Pure Land” Buddhism (M. Auerback, 2015). Assistant Professor, University of Albany SUNY

 

Martino Dibeltulo – The Revival of Tantrism: Tibetan Buddhism and Modern China (D. Lopez, 2015).

 

 

David Fiordalis – Miracles and Superhuman Powers in South Asian Buddhist Literature (L. O. Gomez, 2008). Associate Professor, Linfield College

 

Andrew Quintman – Mi la ras pa’s Many Lives: Anatomy of a Tibetan Biographical quintmanCorpus (D. Lopez, 2006). Associate Professor, Wesleyan University

 

 

Alexander Gardner – The Twenty-Five Great Sites of Khams: Religious Geography,gardner Revelation, and Nonsectarianism in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Tibet (D. Lopez, 2006). Director and Chief Editor, The Treasury of Lives

 

Benjamin Bogin – The Life of Yol mo Bstan ‘dzin nor bu: A Critical Edition, boginTranslation, and Study of the Memoirs of a Seventeenth-Century Tibetan Buddhist Lama (D. Lopez, 2005). Associate Professor, Skidmore College

prankePatrick A. Pranke – The “Treatise on the Lineage of Elders” (VAMSADIPANI): Monastic Reform and the Writing of Buddhist History in Eighteenth-Century Burma (L. O. Gomez, 2004). Associate Professor, University of Louisville

 

Jacob DaltonThe Uses of the Dgongs pa ‘dus pa’i mdo in the Development of thedalton Rnying-ma School of Tibetan Buddhism (D. Lopez, 2002). Khyentse Foundation Distinguished Professor in Tibetan Buddhism, University of California, Berkeley 

 

Zeff Bjerken – The Mirrorwork of Tibetan Religious Historians: A Comparison ofbjerken Buddhist and Bon Historiography (D. Lopez, 2001). Associate Professor, College of Charleston

 

Reiko OhnumaDehadana: The ‘Gift of the Body’ in Indian Buddhist Narrativeohnuma Literature (L.O. Gomez, 1997). Professor of Religion, Dartmouth College

 

Richard S. Cohen – Setting the Three Jewels: The Complex Culture of Buddhism at cohenthe Ajanta Caves (L.O. Gomez, 1995). Associate Professor of South Asian Religious Literatures, UC San Diego

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Jonathan SilkThe Origins and Early History of the Maharatnakuta Tradition of Mahayana Buddhism, with a Study of the Ratnarasisutra and Related Materials (L.O. Gomez, 1994). Professor of Buddhist Studies, Universiteit Leiden

 

Alan Cole – Mothers and sons in Chinese Buddhism (T.G.Foulk/L.O. Gomez, 1994).cole Independent Researcher.

 

Robert SharfThe “Treasure Store Treatise” (Pao-tsang lun) and the sinification of sharf Buddhism in eighth century China (L.O. Gomez, 1991). D. H. Chen Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies, University of California, Berkeley

foulkT. Griffith Foulk – The “Ch’an School”and Its Place in the Buddhist Monastic Tradition (L.O. Gomez, 1987). Frieda Wildy Riggs Chair in Religious Studies, Sarah Lawrence College

C.W. Huntington – The “Akutobhaya” and Early Indian Madhyamika. (Volumes I and II)  (L.O. Gomez,1986). Professor of Religious Studies, Hartwick College