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|bio=Dan Hirshberg’s study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism began as an undergrad in 1996 and culminated in a PhD at Harvard University (2012) where his dissertation focused on Nyang-rel Nyima Ozer (1124–92), the first of the great Buddhist treasure revealers, and the textual and religious innovations that produced the first biography of Padmasambhava. Dan is now Assistant Professor of Religion at the The University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA, where he directs the Contemplative Studies program and serves as associate director of the Leidecker Center for Asian Studies. His first book, Remembering the Lotus-Born: Padmasambhava in the History of Tibet's Golden Age (Wisdom Publications 2016), explores the earliest re/construction of Tibet's most popular narrative, its conversion to Buddhism under the emperors, by means of Tibetan innovations in reincarnation theory, textual revelation, and historiography. It won Honorable Mention for the E. Gene Smith Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies in 2018.
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|affiliation=University of Mary Washington
|affiliationsecondary=Nitartha Translation Network
|religiousaffiliation=Nyingma; Tibetan Buddhism
|phduniversity=Harvard University
|education=*2012, Ph.D. Harvard University
*2005, M.A. Naropa University
*1998, B.A. Wesleyan University
|studentof=Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
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|pagecreationdate=2015/06/10
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