Meyers, K.
| English Phonetics | Karin Meyers |
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| Sort Name | Meyers, Karin |
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- Primary Affiliation (Workplace)
- Mangalam Research Center
- Secondary Affiliation
- Rangjung Yeshe Institute
PhD University
- University of Chicago
Education
- PhD University of Chicago Divinity School (2011): Dissertation: "Freedom and Self-Control: Free Will in South Asian Buddhism."
Biographical Information
Karin received a PhD with distinction from The University of Chicago Divinity School in 2010, and since then has taught Buddhist Studies at several colleges and universities in the US and abroad, including Kathmandu University and Rangjung Yeshe Institute’s Centre for Buddhist Studies in Nepal, where she directed the masters program in Buddhist Studies until returning to the US in 2017. Karin’s scholarly work focuses on bringing Buddhist perspectives to bear on cross-cultural and interdisciplinary inquiry into fundamental metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical questions. Karin has practiced Buddhism in Tibetan and Theravāda traditions and took a year in 2019 to serve as retreat support fellow at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA. Before attending graduate school she worked at the Buddhist Peace Fellowship in the Bay Area and has recently returned to these socially engaged roots, promoting Buddhist activism in regard to the accelerating climate and ecological crisis. (Source: Mangalam Research Center)
- Wiki Pages
Full Name[edit]
Affiliation[edit]
Rangjung Yeshe Institute
Email: karin.meyers@ryi.org
karin.l.meyers@gmail.com
Education[edit]
- 2011-Current: Assistant Professor Rangjung Yeshe Institute
- 2010: Visiting Assistant Professor Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA (USA)
- 2010: Visiting Assistant Professor Allegheny College, Meadville, PA (USA)
- 2010: PhD (with distinction) The University of Chicago Divinity School, Chicago, IL (USA)
- 1996: BA Hampshire College, MA (USA)
Other Information[edit]
Karin was born in the United States and was first introduced to the academic study of Buddhism as an undergraduate at Hampshire College. At that time she had the opportunity to study abroad at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath and the Buddhist School of Dialects in Dharamsala, India. After college, she worked at the Buddhist Peace Fellowship in Berkeley, CA before entering graduate school at the University of Chicago Divinity School, where she completed her PhD in 2010. She is pleased to have the opportunity to continue her studies in Buddhist philosophy, Tibetan and Sanskrit with Tibetan and Nepali scholars while teaching in the BA and MA programs at RYI's Centre for Buddhist Studies. (Source)
- Publications
- "The Pleasant Way: The Dhyāna-s, Insight and the Path according to the Abhidharmakośa," Buddhist Philosophy and Meditation Practice, Academic Papers presented at the 2nd International Association of Buddhist Universities Conference. Ayutthaya, Thailand: IABU, 2012: 259-277.
- “Freedom and Self-Control: Free Will in South Asian Buddhism," PhD Dissertation, University of Chicago, 2010.
- Conference Presentations
- "Mindfulness and Direct(?) Realization in the Abhidharmakośa," American Academy of Religion (Chicago, November 2012)
- "The Pleasant Way: The Dhyāna-s, Insight and the Path according to the Abhidharmakośa," 2nd International Association of Buddhist Universities Academic Conference (Bangkok, May 2012)
- “Mapping the Territory of the Path: The Place of Dhyāna according to Vasubandhu’s Abhidharmakośabhāṣya,” International Association of Buddhist Studies (Taiwan, June 2011)
- “Memory, Volition, and Moral Formation in Vasubandhu’s Abhidharmakośabhāṣya,” presented at the Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (Atlanta, June 2008)
- “Karma, Cetanā, and Free Will in Buddhaghosa and Vasubandhu,” presented at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting (San Diego, November 2007)