Geoffrey Samuel | Academic Influence

Q: What Schools Are Affiliated With Geoffrey Samuel

Geoffrey Samuel is affiliated with the following schools: University of Sydney, University of Oxford, University of Newcastle , Cardiff University, University of Cambridge

Geoffrey Samuel's Degrees

PhD Indology University of Oxford
Masters Oriental Studies University of Oxford

Why Is Geoffrey Samuel Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, Geoffrey Samuel is an emeritus professor of religious studies at Cardiff University. He is known for his ethnographic studies of Tibetan and other Indic religions, investigating topics such as yoga, tantra, and the subtle body.

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Geoffrey Samuel's Published Works

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Published Works

Civilized Shamans: Buddhism in Tibetan Societies (1993) (243)
The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: Indic Religions to the Thirteenth Century (2008) (85)
The religions of Tibet (1983) (83)
Mind, body and culture : anthropology and the biological interface (1990) (73)
Healing powers and modernity: traditional medicine, Shamanism, and science in Asian societies (2001) (56)
Interdisciplinarity and the Authority Paradigm: Should Law Be Taken Seriously by Scientists and Social Scientists? (2009) (47)
The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: Frontmatter (2008) (45)
Miraculous Voices: The Auditory Experience of Numinous Objects [and Comments and Replies] (1984) (45)
The contemporary mindfulness movement and the question of nonself 1 (2015) (43)
Religion and the subtle body in Asia and the West: between mind and body (2013) (40)
Tibet as a Stateless Society and Some Islamic Parallels (1982) (31)
Tantric Revisionings: New Understandings of Tibetan Buddhism and Indian Religion (2005) (23)
Tibetan medicine in contemporary India: theory and practice (2001) (22)
Gender, religious change and sustainability in Bangladesh (2010) (21)
Islamic piety and masculinity (2011) (21)
Between Buddhism and Science, Between Mind and Body (2014) (19)
The daughters of Hariti: childbirth and female healers in South and Southeast Asia (2002) (19)
Nature religion today : paganism in the modern world (1998) (18)
The body in Buddhist and Hindu Tantra: Some notes (1989) (14)
Introducing Tibetan Buddhism (2012) (13)
Mind, body, and culture (1990) (13)
A recitation of the Tamang shaman in Nepal (1997) (11)
Tibetan Medicine and Biomedicine: Epistemological Conflicts, Practical Solutions (2006) (10)
Buddhism, international relief work, and civil society (2013) (10)
Healing, efficacy and the spirits (2010) (10)
Nature Religion Today (1998) (10)
Introduction: Medicine and Healing in Tibetan Societies (2013) (10)
Islam and the family in Bangladesh and the UK: The background to our study (2012) (9)
Contesting science for Islam: the media as a source of revisionist knowledge in the lives of young Bangladeshis (2010) (9)
Spirit Causation And Illness In Tibetan Medicine (2007) (9)
Tibetan and Indian ideas of birth pollution: similarities and contrasts (2003) (8)
Amitāyus and the development of tantric practices for longevity and health in Tibet (2012) (8)
Introduction to special issue of Contemporary Islam: Islamic piety and gender relationships among contemporary Muslims (2011) (8)
Religion in Tibetan Society - A New Approach, Part One: A Structural Model (1978) (8)
Autism and Meditation: Some Reflections (2009) (7)
The Female Lingam: Interchangeable Symbols and Paradoxical Associations of Hindu Gods and Goddesses [and Comments and Reply] (1980) (7)
The Indus Valley civilization and early Tibet (2000) (6)
Panentheism and the Longevity Practices of Tibetan Buddhism (2013) (6)
A short history of Indo-Tibetan alchemy (2010) (6)
The subtle body in India and beyond (2013) (5)
Possession and self-possession: Towards an integrated mind-body perspective (2010) (5)
Tamang Ritual Texts: II. Ethnographic Studies in the Oral Tradition and Folk-Religion of an Ethnic Minority in Nepal (1997) (5)
Tantra and Popular Religion in Tibet (1994) (5)
The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: The classical synthesis (2008) (5)
Mindfulness Within the Full Range of Buddhist and Asian Meditative Practices (2016) (4)
Nature Religion Today: Western Paganism, Shamanism and Esotericism in the 1990s. Conference at the Lake District Campus of Lancaster University, 9th to 13th April 1996 (1996) (4)
Healing and the mind-body complex: childbirth and medical pluralism in South Asia (2006) (4)
The effectiveness of goddesses, or, how ritual works (2001) (4)
From village religion to global networks: Women, religious nationalism and sustainability in South and Southeast Asia (2010) (4)
The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: MEDITATION AND YOGA (2008) (4)
Subtle-body processes: Towards a non-reductionist understanding (2013) (3)
The politics of Tibetan medicine and the constitution of an object of study: some comments (2008) (3)
Unbalanced Flows in the Subtle Body: Tibetan Understandings of Psychiatric Illness and How to Deal With It (2019) (3)
Buddhism and the State in Eighth Century Tibet (2002) (3)
Introduction: Finding Muslim partners, building Islamic lives (2012) (3)
Possession and Self-Possession: Spirit Healing, Tantric Meditation and āveśa (2008) (3)
Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine: The Creation of an Industry and the Moral Economy of Tibetanness (2016) (3)
Contextualizing the History of Yoga in Geoffrey Samuel’s The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: A Review Symposium (2011) (3)
The Taming of the Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism. By Jacob P. Dalton. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011. 336 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-15392-7 (hbk.) (2013) (3)
The Religious Meaning of Space and Time: South and Southeast Asia and Modern Paganism (2001) (3)
Asian medicine and globalization – Edited by Joseph S. Alter (2008) (2)
Book Reviews: The Other Side of Rationality: Desire in the Social System (2002) (2)
Inner work and the connection between anthropological and psychological analysis (2010) (2)
Shamanism, Bon and Tibetan Religion (2017) (2)
Monastic and Lay Traditions in North-Eastern Tibet (2013) (2)
The siddha as a cultural category (2006) (2)
Reb kong in the multiethnic context of Amdo: religion, language, ethnicity, and identity (2013) (1)
Janet Gyatso, Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (2016) (1)
Sufi Spaces in urban Bangladesh: gender and modernity in contemporary shrine culture (2012) (1)
Section IV: The varieties of ritual experience (2010) (1)
The Tibetan Symbolic World: Psychoanalytic Explorations . By Robert A. Paul. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. N.p. (1983) (1)
Mind, body and culture: Technical and transformational mechanisms (1990) (1)
Young Muslim Women and the Islamic Family: Reflections on Conflicting Ideals in British Bangladeshi Life (2012) (1)
Hidden Lands of Tibet in Myth and History (2020) (1)
Buddhism and Science: Breaking New Ground. Edited by B. Alan Wallace. Columbia University Press, 2003. 444 pages. $29.50. (2006) (1)
Hidden Lands in Himalayan Myth and History (2021) (1)
Tibet as a Stateless Society and (1982) (1)
Healing in Tibetan Buddhism (2014) (1)
The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: TANTRA (2008) (0)
8. Tibetan Longevity Meditation (2017) (0)
The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: The origins of the Buddhist and Jaina orders (2008) (0)
Obituary: Elizabeth Anne (Elise) Stutchbury (2020) (0)
Mind, body and culture: References (1990) (0)
Buddhist Chant in a Western Frame (1995) (0)
Kesar-Versionen aus Ladakh [Versions of the Gesar Epic from Ladakh] (1995) (0)
The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: Two worlds and their interactions (2008) (0)
Shamanic Powers, Village Religion and Esoteric Exchange: How Far is Tantra a Specifically Indian Phenomenon? (2007) (0)
The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: Preface (2008) (0)
Introduction to Special Section of Journal of Religion and Health, ‘Mental Health, The Mind and Consciousness: Tibetan and Western Approaches’ (2019) (0)
The Dharma’s Gatekeepers. Sakya Paṇḍita on Buddhist Scholarship in Tibet, by Jonathan C. Gold. New York: State University of New York Press, 2007. xii + 267pp. ISBN: 978-0- 791471-65-4 (hbk); ISBN: 978-0-791471-66-1 (pbk). $65/$29.95. (2012) (0)
Mind, body and culture: The multimodal framework (1990) (0)
Civilized Shamans - Buddhism in Tibetan Societies - Samuel,G (1994) (0)
The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: Tantra and the state (2008) (0)
Epilogue: Towards a Sowa Rigpa Sensibility (2011) (0)
Vision Statement of IASTAM as a Transdisciplinary Forum (2018) (0)
The 2017 Basham Medal Lectures (2018) (0)
Women in Tibet – Edited by Janet Gyatso & Hanna Havnevik (2008) (0)
The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: Tantra and the wild goddesses (2008) (0)
The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: The later history of yoga and Tantra (2008) (0)
Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's 100 Questions. Edited by Anne-Marie Blondeau and Katia Buffetrille (2013) (0)
Buddhism and Science: Breaking New Ground (review) (2006) (0)
Sufi Spaces in Urban Bangladesh (2012) (0)
Healing in the Himalayas (2014) (0)
Mind, body and culture: A natural science of society (1990) (0)
C. Pierce Salguero (Editor). Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources. xv + 379 pp., app., figs., refs., index. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. $150 (cloth); ISBN 9780231189361. E-book available. (2022) (0)
Mind, body and culture: Shamanic mechanisms (1990) (0)
The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: Subtle bodies, longevity and internal alchemy (2008) (0)
Reading Against the Orientalist Grain: Performance and Politics Entwined with a Buddhist Stain, by Syed Jamil Ahmed. Kolkata, India: Anderson Printing House Pvt. Ltd. (www. andersonindia.com ), 2008. xv + 357pp. ISBN: 978-8-190671-90-3. Rs. 1500. (2012) (0)
The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: Introduction (2008) (0)
Mind, body and culture: Interpreting the flow (1990) (0)
The Second Urbanisation of South Asia (2008) (0)
Body, performance, agency, and experience : including an e-book-version in PDF-format on CD-ROM (2010) (0)
The Roots of Tantra . Edited by Katherine Anne Harper and Robert L. Brown. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. ix, 270 pp. $71.50 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). (2003) (0)
Crystal Rosary : insight and method in an anthropological study of Tibetan religion (1975) (0)
Mind, body and culture: Starting points II (1990) (0)
Differing roads to grace: Spanish and Japanese sensory approaches to dance (2010) (0)
The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: Religion in the early states (2008) (0)
The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: Postlude (2008) (0)
The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: Stories and sources (2008) (0)
Tamang Ritual Texts 2:Ethnographic Studies in the Oral Traditions and Folk-Religion of an Ethnic Minority in Nepal. By Andras Hofer (1999) (0)
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Biography. By Donald S. Lopez, Jr. (2013) (0)
Mind, body and culture: New paradigms and modal states (1990) (0)
The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: Interlude: Asceticism and celibacy in Indic religions (2008) (0)
Capwell, Charles. Sailing on the sea of love: the music of the Bauls of Bengal. xiv, 242 pp., maps, illus., musical notation, bibliogr. CDs. Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2011. £16.00 (paper) (2013) (0)
The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: The Brahmanical alternative (2008) (0)
Angry Monk: Reflections on Tibet Written, directed, and produced by Luc Schaedler (2010) (0)
The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: References (2008) (0)

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