Hirshberg, D.: Difference between revisions

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PersonType	Category:Professors Category:Translators
FirstName / namefirst	Dan
LastName / namelast	Hirshberg
namemiddle	Alexander
MainNamePhon	Daniel Alexander Hirshberg
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.
languageprimary	English
languagetranslation	Tibetan
languagetarget	English
affiliation	University of Mary Washington
affiliationsecondary	Nitartha Translation Network
religiousaffiliation	Nalandabhodi
StudentOf	Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
phduniversity	Harvard University
education	2012, PhD, Harvard University 2005, M.A. Naropa University B.A. Wesleyan University
IsInGyatsa	No
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-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. Since becoming a student
-of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche in 2004, he has translated several
-liturgies and their supplementary rituals as a member of the Nitartha
-Translation Network. Dan is now Assistant Professor of Religion at the
-University of Mary Washington. (2014 Translation & Transmission Conference Program)
 |affiliation=University of Mary Washington
 |affiliationsecondary=Nitartha Translation Network