Miroj Shakya
Shakya, Miroj
| PersonType | Category:Editors Category:Professors |
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| FirstName / namefirst | Miroj |
| LastName / namelast | Shakya |
| MainNamePhon | Miroj Shakya |
| SortName | Shakya, Miroj |
| bio | Dr. Miroj Shakya is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of the West in Rosemead, California, USA. His research interests include the Sanskrit language, literature, Pali language, the Buddhist canon, Indian Mahayana Buddhism, Newar Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, and Hinduism. He is the Project Coordinator of the Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Project (www.dsbcproject.org) and the Rare Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscript Preservation Project at the University of the West. Additionally, he holds the position of Director at the Nagarjuna Institute of Buddhist Studies in Lalitpur, Nepal. Dr. Shakya is also a founding member of the Great Compassion Fund, Los Angeles, which provides funds for food and financial support to impoverished people in Nepal (greatcompassionfund.org). Furthermore, he served as the Convener of the Sanskrit Language Working Group for the Union Catalog of Buddhist Texts, sponsored by the International Association of Buddhist Universities (IABU) in Bangkok, Thailand. Dr. Shakya has contributed to academic publications, including his role as the editor of “Catalog of Digitized Rare Sanskrit Buddhist Manuscript Vol. 1 (2010)” and “Vol. 2 (2019),” as well as co-editor of the book titled “Sacred Art of Nepal” (2013). He received the Straniak Foundation Grant through the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, for the Spring semester 2008. That year, he also spent a semester as a Visiting Scholar at ECAI, International Area Studies, at the University of California, Berkeley. (Source Accessed Oct 18, 2024) |
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