Jacob P. Dalton

PersonType	Category:Professors
FirstName / namefirst	Jacob
LastName / namelast	Dalton
namemiddle	P.
MainNamePhon	Jacob P. Dalton
bio	Jacob Dalton, Professor and Khyentse Foundation Distinguished Professor of Tibetan Buddhism, received his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Michigan in 2002. After working for three years (2002-05) as a researcher with the International Dunhuang Project at the British Library, he taught at Yale University (2005-2008) before moving to Berkeley. He works on Nyingma religious history, tantric ritual, early Tibetan paleography, and the Dunhuang manuscripts. He is the author of The Taming of the Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism (Yale University Press, 2011) and Through the Eyes of the Compendium of Intentions: The History of a Tibetan Ritual Tradition (Columbia University Press, under review), and co-author of Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from Dunhuang: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Stein Collection at the British Library (Brill, 2006). He is currently working on a study of tantric ritual in the Dunhuang manuscripts. (Source: UC Berkeley)
languageprimary	English
languagetranslation	Tibetan
languagetarget	English
affiliation	University of California at Berkeley
affiliationsecondary	Khyentse Foundation; International Dunhuang Project
religiousaffiliation	Nyigma
phduniversity	University of Michigan
IsInGyatsa	No
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The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century.