'''Appointments'''
Director of Programs
Mind & Life Institute
Faculty, Department of Religious Studies. Affiliated Faculty at the Contemplative Sciences Center and Tibet Center.
University of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA 2016—Present
Visiting Researcher
Kyoto University. Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability. Kyoto, Japan. 2018
Visiting Scholar
Harvard University, Divinity School. Cambridge, 2016
Director of Research
Buddhist Digital Resource Center (formerly Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center). Cambridge, MA 2011-2015
Adjunct Professor
Boston College. Theology Department. Boston, MA
Lecturer in Asian Religions
The New School University, Eugene Lang College. New York, NY 2009-2012
Academic Program Director
The New School University. Study Abroad in Tibet. New York, NY 2011-2012
Senior Editor
Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center. New York, NY 2009-2011
Adjunct Professor
Manhattanville College. Asian Studies Department. Purchase, NY 2008-2010
Adjunct Professor
City University of New York. Asian Studies Department. New York, NY 2008-2009
'''Recent Presentations and Public Lectures'''
A Comparative Analysis of Digital Manuscripts from Eastern Tibet
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Culture
University of Hamburg. Hamburg, Germany. 2015
Methods and Pathways in the Study of Digital Tibetan Manuscripts
The Martin Center for the Advanced Study of Religion
The University of Chicago Divinity School. Chicago, IL. 2015
An Ontology for the Digital Tibetan Book
“Symposium on the Tibetan Book”
The University of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA. 2014
The Jonang in 18th Century Tibet
Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. 2014
Ecumenism in Tibet
University of Colorado. Boulder, CO. 2013
A Buddhist Tradition on the Edge: The Migration and Marginalization of the Jonangpa in Tibet
Center for the Study of World Religions
Harvard Divinity School. Cambridge, MA. 2013
Three Years in Tibet: Reflections from a Buddhist Monastery
The University of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, AL. 2012
Values in Tibetan Buddhist Education
Wheaton College. Norton, MA. 2012
Bibliographic Sources for Tibetan Studies: A TBRC Workshop
Columbia University. New York, NY. 2012
Technology and Translation in the Future of Tibetan Studies
Tibetan Studies After Gene Smith and Directions for the Future
Columbia University. New York, NY. 2011
Applied Scholarship in Tibetan Cultural Regions of China
The University of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, AL. 2010
Zhentong Buddhist Philosophy in the Jonang Tradition
Skidmore College. Saratoga Springs, NY. 2010
Visualizing the Tantric Buddhist Mandala
Yale University. New Haven, CT. 2010
On the History of the Jonang Kalachakra Tradition
Tibet House. New York, NY. 2009
'''Conference Presentations'''
An Entangled Buddhist History: Shangs pa Lineage Networks, Transmission Strategies, and their Records of Reception in Tibet
“Transference and Transmission in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist ‘Philosophical’ Traditions”
XVIIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
University of Vienna. Austria. 2014
Materializing Dreams and Omens: Narrative Devices in the Autobiographical Writing of the Tibetan Yoginī Trinle Wangmo
“Writing Tibetan Women”
American Academy of Religion. Baltimore, MD. 2013
Charting Par khang Culture: Towards an Analytics of Early Xylographic Literary Production in Tibet
“Among Digital Texts: Remembering Gene Smith”
International Association of Tibetan Studies. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. 2013
In Your Face: Bamda Tubten Gelek’s Up-Close Personal Advice
“Translating Buddhist Luminaries: A Conference on Ecumenism and Tibetan Translation”
University of Colorado. Boulder. 2013
Relocating the Tibetan Manuscript Writings of Kunga Drolchok (1507-1566)
“Documentary and Manuscript Sources from Tibet”
Association of Asian Studies. San Diego, CA. 2013
Mapping Scholarship on Tibet: Recent Findings of Jonang Monasteries
National Outreach Scholarship Conference
The University of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, AL. 2012.
Conducting Tibetological Research: A TBRC Workshop
International Seminar of Young Tibetologists
Kobe City University of Foreign Studies. Kobe, Japan. 2012
Accessing a Global Vision of Tibetan Literary Culture
“Preservation of the Literary Heritage”
Third International Conference on the Tibetan Language.
Columbia University. New York, NY. 2011
A Buddhist Hermeneutic of Time: Tibetan Recalculations of the Buddhist Councils and Zhentong Literary History in India
“India in the Asian Buddhist Imagination,” Buddhism Section
American Academy of Religion. San Francisco, CA. 2011
Banned Books, Sealed Printeries and Neglected Dkar chag: Precursors and Prospects in Light of E. Gene Smith’s Contributions to Tibetan Literary Studies
“E. Gene Smith: Remembering His Life and Works”
International Association of Buddhist Studies. Taiwan. 2011
Codifying the Krtyuga: Preliminary Remarks on a Literary History of Gzhan stong in Tibet
“Rang stong / Gzhan stong: Perspectives on the Discourse in India and Tibet”
International Association of Buddhist Studies. Taiwan. 2011
Identity Politics of Re-Embodiment: Lineage Formation in Tibetan and Mongolian Accounts of Rje btsun Tā ra nā tha’s (1575-1635) Death and the Birth of Khal kha Blo bzang bstan pa’i rgyal mtshan (1635-1723)
“Madness, Smallpox, and Death in Tibet,” Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group
American Academy of Religion. Atlanta, GA. 2010
Revealing the Gsang ba’i ye shes: Reflections on the Autobiography of the Female Jo nang pa Adept Rje bstun ma ‘Phrin las dbang mo (1585-c.1668)
“The Jo nang pa: Narrative, Transmission, and Tradition Reconsidered”
International Association of Tibetan Studies.
University of British Colombia, Vancouver, Canada. 2010
Life after Tāranātha: Priorities and Strategies for Sustaining Esoteric Buddhist Knowledge Transmission Among the Jonangpa in 17th Century Tibet
“Strategies of Buddhist Knowledge Transmission: Texts, Techniques, and Technologies in Tibet,” Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group
American Academy of Religion. Montreal, Canada. 2009
Is the Uttaratantra-śastra Really a Madhyamaka Text?: Jonangpa Understandings of Tibetan Buddhist Doxography and Historiography
“The Uttaratantra in Tibet,” Buddhist Philosophy and Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group
American Academy of Religion. Chicago, IL. 2008
Tāranātha’s Secret: Reading from the Autobiography of the Tibetan Female Adept Phrin las dbang mo
TBRC/Rubin Foundation Scholars Seminar. New York, NY. 2008
Retelling Mahayana History: Jo nang Sources for the Indian and Tibetan Transmissions of Gzhan stong Madhyamaka
“Mahayana Buddhism Section”
International Association of Buddhist Studies. Atlanta, GA. 2008
===Employment===
*Since October 2010: Head of the Asien-Afrika-Institut of Hamburg University
*Since July 07: Professor for Indian Buddhism at the Asien-Afrika-Institut of Hamburg University and Director of the Zentrum für Buddhismuskunde of Hamburg University
*May 05–June 07: Director of the Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies (Division of International Comparative & Area Studies)
*Oct 03–June 07: Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies, Stanford University
*Apr–Oct 03: Postdoc research fellowship at the University of Munich in Indian Studies
*Apr 02–Mar 03: Directing the Nepal Research Centre in Kathmandu (an institute of the German Oriental Society) and the Nepalese branch of the Nepalese-German Manuscript Cataloguing Project (NGMCP) (a joint project between His Majesty's Government of Nepal and the Asia-Africa Institute of the University of Hamburg) in Nepal
*Apr 00–Mar 02: Instructor and lecturer in Indian Studies, Hamburg University; working for the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project (NGMPP); preparing the title-catalogue of more than 150,000 texts for digital publication
===Awards===
*2002 Förderpreis der Dr. Helmut und Hannelore Greve Stiftung für Wissenschaften und Kultur
*1999 Fellowship of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University, Tokyo
*1998 Fellowship of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University, Tokyo
*1997 Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai (BDK; Society for the Promotion of Buddhism) Fellowship (for one year research in Japan; directed by Prof. K. Mimaki)
*1996 Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai (BDK; Society for the Promotion of Buddhism) Fellowship (for one year research in Japan; directed by Prof. K. Mimaki)
*1994 Participating at the "Intensive Summer Course of the Japanese Language for European Students Held at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies" (awarded to thirty European students annually by the Japanese Foreign Ministry)
*1991 Five Year Study Grant of the Robert Bosch Corp. (Stuttgart, Germany)