Daniel Alexander Hirshberg

PersonType	Category:Professors Category:Translators
FirstName / namefirst	Dan
LastName / namelast	Hirshberg
namemiddle	Alexander
MainNamePhon	Daniel Alexander Hirshberg
SortName	Hirshberg, Daniel
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	Nyingma; Tibetan Buddhism
StudentOf	Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
phduniversity	Harvard University
education	2012, Ph.D. Harvard University 2005, M.A. Naropa University 1998, B.A. Wesleyan University
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.