Alex Gardner
Gardner, A.
| PersonType | Category:Authors of English Works |
|---|---|
| FirstName / namefirst | Alexander |
| LastName / namelast | Gardner |
| MainNamePhon | Alex Gardner |
| bio | Alexander Gardner is the Director and Chief Editor of the Treasury of Lives, an online biographical encyclopedia of Tibet and the Himalayan Region. He completed his PhD in Buddhist Studies at the University of Michigan in 2007. From 2007 to 2016 he worked at the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, serving as their Executive Director from 2013 to 2016. His research interests are in Tibetan life writing and the cultural history of Kham in the nineteenth century. He is the author of The Life of Jamgon Kongtrul the Great, published by Shambhala in 2019. Alex served as the writer-in-residence for Tsadra Foundation's Buddha-Nature Project from 2017-2019. |
| YearBirth | 1969/11/08 |
| BornIn | Burlington, Vermont |
| affiliation | Treasury of Lives |
| phduniversity | University of Michigan |
| education | University of Michigan
Ph.D., 2006. Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. Dissertation title: “The Twenty-five Great Sites of Khams: Religious Geography, Revelation, and Nonsectarianism in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Tibet.” Committee: Donald S. Lopez (Chair), Luis Gomez, Tomoko Mazuzawa, and James Robson. M. A., 2000. Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. Thesis: “Drawing Fear from the Wilderness: Tibetan Rituals of Domestication.” Thesis advisor: Professor Donald S. Lopez University of Vermont M.A., 1996. Department of History. Thesis: “One God or Twenty: Fundamentalism, Pluralism, and the Battle over ‘Secular Humanism’ in the United States.” Thesis advisor: Professor Doris Bergen Marlboro College B.A., Philosophy. Graduated with Honors, 1992.
Thesis: “Self in the Absence of a Self.” |
| publications | The Life of Jamgon Kongtrul the Great. Boulder: Shambhala Publications, 2019.
2016. "Open View, Solid Ground." Buddhadharma, Fall 2016 issue, pp. 64-69. 2009. “The Twenty-five Great Sites of Khams: A Native Map of an Imperiled Place.” In Studies on the History of Eastern Tibet. Wim van Spengen and Lama Jabb, eds. Leiden: Brill. 2005-2006. “The Sa Chog: Violence and Veneration in a Tibetan Soil Ritual.” Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines 36-37: 283-323. 2003. “Lama” and “Om Mani padme h?m.” In Encyclopedia of Buddhism, edited by Robert E. Buswell. New York: Macmillan. Book Reviews: 2007. Tibetan Treasure Literature: Revelation, Tradition, and Accomplishment in Visionary Buddhism. By Andreas Doctor (Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 2005). Journal of Asian Studies 66:1146-1147. 2006. Pioneer in Tibet; the Life and Perils of Dr. Albert Shelton. By Douglass A. Wissing (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). Tibet Journal 30, no. 3: 107-110. 2003. Khams pa Histories: Visions of People, Place and Authority (review article). Edited by Lawrence Epstein (Leiden: Brill, 2002). Tibet Journal 28, no. 3: 61-96. Book Reviewer, Buddhadharma, 2007-2011. Ten book briefs four times a year. Books were both academic and popular titles. |
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