Nyingcha, Dorje
| PersonType | Category:Authors of English Works Category:Professors |
|---|---|
| FirstName / namefirst | Dorje |
| LastName / namelast | Nyingcha |
| MainNamePhon | Dorje Nyingcha |
| SortName | Nyingcha, Dorje |
| bio | Dorje Nyingcha is Associate Professor at the Center for Studies of Ethnic Minorities in Northwest China at Lanzhou University. He began studying Tibetan literature at Northwest Minzu University in Lanzhou where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1995. He received his doctorate in South Asian Studies at Harvard University. His research focuses on biographies and Tibetan Buddhist intellectual history, particularly pre-fourteenth-century intellectual history. His dissertation was on Garungpa Lhai Gyaltsen (1319-1402/3), a student of Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen (1292-1361) who became an important scholar and defender of the Jonang tradition in the fourteenth century. (Sheehy and Mathes, The Other Emptiness: Rethinking the Zhentong Buddhist Discourse in Tibet, 381) |
| affiliation | Center for Studies of Ethnic Minorities in Northwest China, Lanzhou University |
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