|
2003 - 2006 |
DPhil in Oriental Studies,
Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, UK. Thesis Title:
“Transferring to the Land of
Bliss: Among Sukhāvati Texts and Practices in Tibet.”
Doctoral fellowship awarded by the Jodo-Shinshu
Otani-ha Foundation.
|
|
2002 - 2003 |
Postgraduate Research,
Department for the Study of Religions, School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London, UK. Seminars: Indo-Tibetan Buddhism;
Tibetan and Sanskrit language. |
|
1995 - 1996 |
M.A. Film Studies,
Department of Film Studies, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Major:
Film theory and contemporary visual cultures.
|
|
1990-1992 |
Postgraduate Studies, Department of
Philosophy, University of Hawaii, USA. Seminars:
Comparative topics in Philosophy and Religion.
|
|
1989 - 1990 |
MA in Comparative Philosophy.
Department of Philosophy, University of Hawaii, USA. Major: Western and
Asian Philosophy. Tuition scholarship awarded by the Department of
Philosophy. |
|
1986 - 1988 |
BA in Philosophy.
Department of Philosophy, University of Hawaii, USA. Major: Philosophy.
Minor subjects: Science and Mathematics. |
|
Professional Experience
|
|
03/07 - 09/08. |
Research Assistant.
Research Project:
“Islam
and Tibet: Cultural, Religious and
Scientific Interactions (8th - 17th
centuries) ”
(http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/islamtibet/indexit.htm).
Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study,
University of London, UK.
|
01/08
- 06/08.
|
Visiting Lecturer,
Classical Tibetan
literature.
Faculty
of Oriental Studies,
University of
Oxford, UK.
|
|
01/08
- 06/08. |
Visiting Lecturer,
Cultural History
of Tibet.
School
of Oriental and African Studies, Department of the Languages and
Cultures of China and Inner Asia, University of London, UK. |
|
09/06 - 01/07. |
Adjunct Assistant
Professor, Indian Buddhist Philosophy &
Meditation
Traditions of the
East.
Antioch University, USA. Buddhist Studies Abroad Program, Bodh Gaya,
India.
|
|
09/03
- 06/04. |
Tutor, Foundations
of Tibetan Buddhism &
East-Asian
Religions. Faculty of Oriental
Studies and Wadham College, University of Oxford,
UK.
|
|
01/03
- 06/03. |
Research
Assistant. The International Dunhuang Project / digital reproduction
of Tibetan manuscripts. British Library, Oriental and India Office
Collections, UK.
|
|
09/02 -
12/02. |
Teaching
Assistant, Religions of East and Central Asia. Department for
the Study of
Religions, School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London, UK.
|
|
01/97
- 09/97. |
Instructor, English
Language and
Literature. Language Testing and Training Centre,
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
|
|
01/90
- 06/91 |
Instructor,
Philosophy and Logic. Freshmen Seminar Program. Department of
Philosophy, University of Hawaii, USA.
|
|
06/92
- 06/95. |
Academic
Advisor. Colleges of Arts & Sciences, University of Hawaii, USA.
Individual
& group
academic counselling and monitoring College graduation. |
|
Fieldwork Research
|
|
06/08
- 08/08. |
India: Ladakh.
Research:
Himalayan histories and folk-literature; Buddhist
scriptures and canonical collections. Funded by
the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK.
|
|
07/07
- 08/07. |
India:
Delhi, Kinnaur, Spiti, Lahaul & Ladakh.
Research:
trans-Himalayan trade;
Tibetan monasticism and art; regional histories
and national archives. Funded by the Arts and
Humanities Research Council, UK.
|
|
04/05 - 04/05. |
Japan: Kyoto. Otani University and Higashi
Honganshi Headquarters.
Research:
Japanese Pure Land Buddhism. Funded by Jodo-Shinshu Otani-ha Foundation,
Japan.
|
|
08/04 - 03/05. |
India: Dharamsala and Sarnath. Library of Tibetan
Works & Archives and
Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies. Research:
Tibetan Pure Land Buddhist texts and oral commentaries by Tibetan
scholars. Funded by several institutions, see Awards and Grants.
|
|
Publications
|
|
Monographs
Transferring
to the Land of Bliss: Pure Land Buddhism in Tibet and Central Asia.
Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press (forthcoming 2009/10).
Chapters
2009. “ Loss
and Continuity in Rampur-Bashahr: an Itinerant Study of
Seventeenth-Century Tibetan Murals.”
In Contemporary Visions in Tibetan Studies, ed. Brandon Dotson et
al. Chicago: Serindia Publications
(in
press 2009).
2009. “Compassionate Aspirations and their
fulfilment: Dol-po-pa ’s
A Prayer for Birth in Sukhāvatī .”
In As Long As
Space Endures: Essays on the Kālachakra Tantra in Honor of His Holiness
the Dalai Lama.
Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, pp. 259-275.
2008. “Buddhist Meditation Traditions in Tibet:
The Union of the Three Vehicles. ”
In Buddhist
Meditation: An Introduction, Chapter Eight, ed. Sharah Shaw. London/
New York: Routledge Press, pp. 159-186.
2007. “Between Breaths.” In Going Aerial: Air,
Art, Architecture, ed. Monika Bakker. Jan van Eyck Academie,
Maastricht, Netherlands, pp. 48-61.
Articles
(In
progress).
“ The
Greek Buddhist Heritage of Asia: Studies in Proselytism, Assimilation
and Enthusiasm.”
Expected publication 2010.
“The
Mind Transference Technique in Tibetan Buddhism: from Bodhgaya to
Sukhāvatī.” Expected publication 2010.
2009.
“Until
the Feathers of the Winged Black Raven Turn White: Perspectives and
Sources for the Tibet-Bashahr Treaty of 1679-1684.” In Mountains,
Monasteries and Mosques, ed. John Bray. Supplement to
Rivista Orientali (in
press 2009).
2009.
“The
Muslim Queens of the Himalayas: Princess Exchange in Ladakh and
Baltistan”
In
Islam-Tibet: Interactions along the Musk Routes,
ed. Anna Akasoy et al. Ashgate Publications
(forthcoming
2009).
2006. “Pure-Lands and other Visions in
Seventeenth-Century Tibet: a
Gnam-chos sādhana for the
pure-land Sukhāvatī revealed in 1658 by Gnam-chos Mi-’gyur-rdo-rje
(1645-1667).”
In Power, Politics
and the Reinvention of Tradition: Tibet in the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Century, ed. B. Cuevas et al. Leiden: Brill Publishers,
pp. 121-151.
2004. “Tibetan Buddhism Registered: Imperial
Archives from the Palace-Temple of
’Phang-thang.”
The Eastern
Buddhist, Kyoto. Vol. XXXVI, Nos. 1 & 2: pp. 46-105.
Edited
Volumes
Editor, et al.
Proceedings of the
International Seminar of
Young Tibetologists, SOAS 2007. Chicago: Serindia Publications
(forthcoming 2009).
Editor, et al. The World of the Silk Routes.
London/New York: Routledge Press (forthcoming 2011).
Translations
2009.
Tibetan Border-lands: Treaties
across the Himalayas. In
New Perspectives on Tibetan Traditionality,
Columbia: Columbia University Press (forthcoming 2009).
Online
Publications
Fieldwork images and texts deposited at the School
of Advanced Studies E-Repository, University of London.
Warburg Institute, Islam-Tibet Project.
[http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/dspace/handle/10065/580]
Translations
of Articles in Greek
2007. “Between Breaths ”
[Halkias
2007]. Translation Elias Mpoutzas.
Paionia, Journal of the Academy of Ancient
Greek and Traditional Chinese Medicine, Athens. Issue 7: pp. 12-20.
2005. “An Overview of Health Care According to the
Tibetan Medical Tradition ”
[Halkias
2005]. Translation Ioannis Feroukas, M.D.
Paionia, Journal of the Academy of Ancient
Greek and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Athens. Issue 2: pp. 11-18.
Book Reviews
2006. The Practice of
Dzogchen: Longchen Rabjam, annotated and translated by Tulku Thondup.
Snow Lion (2002). Tibet Journal (summer), Vol. XXXI, No. 1: pp.
181-183.
2004.
You are the Eyes of the World,
Longchenpa, translated by Kennard Lipmann and Merrill Peterson. Snow
Lion (2000.)
Tibet Journal (summer), Vol. XXIX, No. 1: pp. 117-119.
|
|
Public Lectures |
|
University of Vienna, Austria
(04/08). “On
Travel Notes through Kinnaur.”
University
of London, UK (02/08).
“Modern
Pasts: Tracing the 1679 Tibet-Bashahr Treaty.”
Tate Modern Museum, UK (11/07).
“Inhalation,
Exhalation and Realization: The Buddhist Path to Conscious Breathing.”
Jan
van Eyck Academie, Netherlands (06/05).
“Breathing
to Enlightenment: Buddhist Theories and Representations.”
Otani
University, Japan (04/05). “Buddhist
Studies in the UK.”
School of International Training, India
(09/04). “Fieldwork
Research in Tibetan Studies.”
Birkbeck College, UK (02/03).
“Introduction
to Tibetan Buddhism.”
|
|
Conference Papers |
|
Forthcoming (Invited)
05/09. Buddhism and Islam: Encounters, Histories,
Dialogue and Representation, Montreal, Canada.
“Muslim-Buddhist
Matrimonial Alliances in the Himalayas.”
Past
12/07. East-Asia and the West International
Conference, Taipei, Taiwan.
“The
State and Its Language of Conversion: Translation and Classification of
Buddhist Texts in Ninth-Century Tibet”
(invited).
08/07. 13th International
Association of Ladakhi Studies, Rome, Italy.
“Modern
Pasts: Tracing the 1679 Tibet-Bashahr Treaty.”
07/06. UK Association for Buddhist Studies,
Lancaster, UK. “Pure
Land Practices in Tibet.”
03/05. 19th World Congress of the International
Association for the History of Religions,
Tokyo, Japan.
“The
Prophesy of pan-Tibetan Consolidation: A Seventeenth-Century Church-State
Fusion in Tibet.”
01/05. South and Southeast Asian Association
for the Study of Religions, Delhi, India. “The
Violence of Ego: Buddhist Healing Paradigms from Traditional Tibetan
Medicine.”
08 /03.
10th International Conference for the Association of Tibetan
Studies, Oxford, UK. “Pure
Lands and Other Visions in Seventeenth Century Tibet.”
|
Fellowship and Grants
Ruhr-Universität, Germany.
Research Fellowship,
2009-2010. “Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe”
Consortium. Research: “The
History of Religions along the Trade Routes between the Mediterranean
Area and South / East Asia in Antiquity.”
J ōdo-Shinshū
Otani-ha, Japan.
Doctoral Fellowship, 2003 - 2006. Full
tuition and board for the duration of DPhil course at University of
Oxford.
The Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of
Oxford, UK. Grants for DPhil research in Japan (03/05), India
(06/04) and Germany (09/05).
Wolfson College ,
Oxford, UK.
Travel Grants for research visits in Japan
(03/05), India (06/04) and Spain (07/04).
Frederick Williamson Memorial Fund, University of
Cambridge, UK.
Research Grant for
consulting Tibetan Buddhist manuscripts in India
(05/04).
Society for South-Asian Studies, UK. Language
Training and Research Grant. Tibetan language training course and
archival research in India (04/04).
|
|
Affiliations
|
-
American Academy of Religion, USA. Member.
-
Indo-Hellenic Society for Culture and Development, Greece. Founding
Member.
-
International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies, Japan. Member.
-
Society for South Asian Studies, London. Member.
-
Greek Society for the Study of Culture and Religion, Greece. Member.
-
Graduate Buddhist Studies Group, Wolfson College, Oxford. Founding
Member.
-
Wolfson College, Oxford, UK. Common Room Member.
|
|
Referees |
|
United Kingdom
Professor Charles Burnett. Professor of the History of Islamic
Influences in Europe.
Warburg
Institute, Centre for Advanced Study, University of London
Woburn
Square, London WCIH OAB, UK.
E-mail:
charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk
Dr
Cathy Cantwell. Research Officer, Tibetan and Himalayan Studies.
Faculty
of Oriental Studies
Pusey
Lane, Oxford, OX1 2LE, UK.
E-mail:
catherine.cantwell@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Dr
Robert Mayer. Research Associate, Tibetan and Himalayan Studies.
Faculty
of Oriental Studies
Pusey
Lane, Oxford, OX1 2LE, UK.
E-mail:
robert.mayer@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Germany
Professor Ulrike Roesler. Professor of Indo-Tibetan studies.
University of Freiburg. Platz der Universität 3
79085
Freiburg, Germany.
E-mail:
ulrike.roesler@googlemail.com
USA
Professor Christopher Beckwith. Professor of Central Eurasian Studies.
Department of Central Eurasian Studies,
Goodbody Hall 157, 1011 E. 3rd St.
Indiana University in Bloomington, 47405-7005, USA.
E-mail:
beckwith@indiana.edu
Professor Robert Pryor. Director of Buddhist Studies Abroad Program.
Antioch
Education Abroad
795
Livermore Street, Yellow Springs
OH
45387-1697, USA.
E-mail:
rpryor@antioch-college.edu
|
