Kurtis Schaeffer

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Kurtis Schaeffer is affiliated with the following schools: University of Virginia, University of Washington, Harvard University

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According to Wikipedia, Kurtis R. Schaeffer is Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia and Chair of the Religious Studies department. His primary topics of research are the history of the regions of Nepal, India, Tibet, and China, with a focus on the forms of Buddhism present in these areas, most especially Tibetan Buddhism. Some specific issues he has been concentrated on include Indo-Tibetan poetry, the development of classical learning and printed literature in Tibetan cultural regions, and the history of women, saints, and Dalai Lamas in Tibet. For his work, Schaeffer has received Fulbright, Ryskamp, and Whiting fellowships.

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Kurtis Schaeffer's Published Works

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Published Works

Among Tibetan Texts: History and Literature of the Himalayan Plateau (2001) (77)
The Culture of the Book in Tibet (2009) (47)
Tibetan Histories: A Bibliography of Tibetan-Language Historical Works (1998) (42)
Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun (2004) (35)
Textual Scholarship, Medical Tradition, and Mahāyāna Buddhist Ideals in Tibet (2003) (20)
Sources of Tibetan tradition (2013) (20)
An early Tibetan survey of Buddhist literature : the Bstan pa rgyas pa rgyan gyi nyi 'od of Bcom ldan ral gri (2009) (17)
The Attainment of Immortality: From Nāathas in India to Buddhists in Tibet (2002) (16)
Dreaming the Great Brahmin: Tibetan Traditions of the Buddhist Poet-Saint Saraha (2005) (12)
The Tibetan history reader (2013) (11)
Impact of a Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Course and Application of Related Modern Contemplative Practices on College Students’ Psychological Well-being: a Pilot Study (2017) (9)
New Scholarship in Tibet, 1650–1700 (2011) (6)
Power, politics, and the reinvention of tradition : Tibet in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (2006) (6)
A letter to the editors of the Buddhist canon in fourteenth-century Tibet : The Yig mkhan rnams la gdams pa of Bu ston Rin chen grub (2004) (5)
6. Dying Like Milarépa Death Accounts in a Tibetan Hagiographic Tradition (2017) (5)
The Religious Career of Vairocanavajra – A Twelfth-Century Indian Buddhist Master from Daksina Kośala (2000) (5)
The Resolve to Become a Buddha: A Study of the Bodhicitta Concept in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, written by Dorji Wangchuk (2015) (4)
Dreaming the Great Brahmin (2005) (3)
The Life of the Buddha (2015) (2)
Appendix 3. The Cost of the Canon at Degé (2009) (1)
The Madman’s Middle Way: Reflections on Reality of the Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel. By Donald S. Lopez, Jr. Chicago University Press, 2006. 258 pages. $35.00 (cloth). (2006) (1)
The Hidden Life of the Sixth Dalai Lama (2011) (0)
Book reviews and notices (2006) (0)
Ornamental Flower for the Dohās (2005) (0)
Letter from the Editors (2022) (0)
Commentary and Controversy on the Treasury of Dohā Verses in Tibet (2005) (0)
Bringing the Treasury of Dohā Verses to Tibet (2005) (0)
Epilogue: The Boy Who Wrote Sūtras on the Sky (2009) (0)
5. The King’s Canons (2009) (0)
Book reviews (2004) (0)
Introduction to the Commentary (2005) (0)
4. The Physician’s Lament (2009) (0)
The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead (review) (2006) (0)
Tales of the Great Brahmin (2005) (0)
The Madman's Middle Way: Reflections on Reality of the Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel (review) (2006) (0)
Tibetan Songs of Realization: Echoes from a Seventeenth-Century Scholar and Siddha in Amdo . By Victoria Sujata. Leiden: Brill, 2005. xviii, 462 pp., CD-ROM. $154.00 (cloth). (2007) (0)
1. The Stuff of Books (2009) (0)
Meeting the Great Brahmin in Rituals, Paintings, and Dreams (2005) (0)
Images of Tibet in the 19th and 20th Centuries . Edited by Monica Esposito. Paris: École Française d'Extrême-Orient, 2008. xxiv, 856 pp. 2 vols. €100.00 (paper). (2010) (0)
Matthew T. Kapstein. The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Contestation, and Memory. New York, Oxford University Press, 2000, xx+316 pp., $55.00, ISBN 0 19 513122 3 (2004) (0)
The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. By Bryan J. Cuevas. Oxford University Press, 2003. 328 pages. $25.00 (paper). (2006) (0)
J.Z. Smith on the study of religion, humanities, and human nature (2017) (0)
Editor's Note: JAAR Letter of Apology (2008) (0)
Contesting the Great Brahmin (2005) (0)
Prisoners of Shangri-la: Tibetan Buddhism and the West, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, with a new preface. By Donald S. Lopez Jr. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2018. 283 pp. ISBN: 9780226485485 (paper). (2020) (0)
6. The Cost of a Priceless Book (2009) (0)
JAAR Letter of Apology (2007) (0)
Recreating the Treasury of Dohā Verses (2005) (0)
Appendix 1. Büton Rinchendrup’s Letter to Editors (2009) (0)
The archaeology of Tibetan books, written by Agnieszka Helman-Ważny (2016) (0)
3. The Scholar’s Dream (2009) (0)
Appendix 2. The Contents of the Buddhist Canons (2009) (0)
Synthesizing Image and Text in the Life of the Buddha (2021) (0)

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