Kurtis Schaffer

Frances Myers Ball Professor and Department Chair, Department of Religious Studies

Teaching Interests: Buddhism, Global Religion
Research Interests: Buddhist history and culture, Indian Buddhism, spiritual literature of Tibet and the Himalayas
Regional Specialization: Tibet, Nepal

Publications

The Life of the Buddha

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Penguin Classics (2015)

Sources of Tibetan Tradition

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Columbia University Press (2013)

The Tibetan History Reader

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Columbia University Press (2013)

The Culture of the Book in Tibet

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Columbia University Press (2014)

Power, Politics and the Reinvention of Tradition in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Tibet coverr

Power, Politics and the Reinvention of Tradition in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Tibet: Proceedings of the International Association for Tibetan Studies

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Oxford University Press (2003)

Dreaming the Great Brahmin: Tibetan Traditions of a Buddhist Poet Saint

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Oxford University Press (2005)

Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun

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Oxford University Press (2004)

Among Tibetan Texts: Essays on Tibetan Religion, Literature, and History

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Wisdom Publications (2001)