Sheehy, M.
| PersonType | Category:Translators Category:Authors of English Works Category:Independent Researchers |
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| FirstName / namefirst | Michael |
| LastName / namelast | Sheehy |
| namemiddle | R. |
| bio | Michael R. Sheehy is a Research Assistant Professor in Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, Director of Scholarship at the Contemplative Sciences Center, and affiliated faculty with the Tibet Center at the University of Virginia. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Tibet, including three years training in a Buddhist monastery in the far eastern cultural domain of Golok. Michael’s research interests include Buddhist philosophy of mind, practices of contemplation, and the history of thought and science in Tibet. His writings and translations have given attention to histories of marginalized lineages in Tibet, most notably the zhentong (gzhan stong) and Kālacakra lineages of the Jonang order of Tibetan Buddhism.
For over a decade, through extensive collaborations with monastic communities, Michael worked on-the-ground to digitally preserve rare Tibetan manuscripts across the plateau. From 2008 to 2016, he was the editor-in-chief and research director at the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (formerly the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center, TBRC). He worked closely with the late Tibetologist E. Gene Smith (1936-2010) to digitize Tibetan literature, develop scholarly resources, and architect the encyclopedic digital library. In 2004, together with Jonangpa exemplars, he founded the Jonang Foundation, an international nonprofit that preserves and promotes research on the Jonang order of Tibetan Buddhism. Michael’s current research focus is contexts and dynamics of Tibetan contemplative practices. Most broadly, his interest lies in questions about how Buddhism, and Tibetan contemplative traditions more specifically, can contribute to discourses in the humanities, cognitive science, and cultural psychology about consciousness and its transformations. He is particularly interested in Tibetan contemplative practices of attention, dream, imagination and visualization, and embodiment as detailed in Tibetan yoga and meditation manuals. He recently coedited with Klaus-Dieter Mathes (Vienna University) the book, The Other Emptiness: Rethinking the Zhentong Buddhist Discourse in Tibet (SUNY Press 2019), an anthology of scholarship on the history, literature, and philosophy of zhentong in Tibet. With David Germano, he is Series Editor of the Traditions and Transformations in Tibetan Buddhism and the Contemplative Sciences book series published by the University of Virginia Press. Recent publications include:
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| associatedwebsite | http://www.michaelrsheehy.com |
| affiliation | University of Virginia |
| affiliationsecondary | Jonang Foundation |
| religiousaffiliation | Jonang |
| phduniversity | California Institute of Integral Studies |
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| cv | Appointments
Director of Programs Mind & Life Institute Faculty, Department of Religious Studies. Affiliated Faculty at the Contemplative Sciences Center and Tibet Center. University of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA 2016—Present Visiting Researcher Kyoto University. Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability. Kyoto, Japan. 2018 Visiting Scholar Harvard University, Divinity School. Cambridge, 2016 Director of Research Buddhist Digital Resource Center (formerly Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center). Cambridge, MA 2011-2015 Adjunct Professor Boston College. Theology Department. Boston, MA Lecturer in Asian Religions The New School University, Eugene Lang College. New York, NY 2009-2012 Academic Program Director The New School University. Study Abroad in Tibet. New York, NY 2011-2012 Senior Editor Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center. New York, NY 2009-2011 Adjunct Professor Manhattanville College. Asian Studies Department. Purchase, NY 2008-2010 Adjunct Professor City University of New York. Asian Studies Department. New York, NY 2008-2009
A Comparative Analysis of Digital Manuscripts from Eastern Tibet Centre for the Study of Manuscript Culture University of Hamburg. Hamburg, Germany. 2015 Methods and Pathways in the Study of Digital Tibetan Manuscripts The Martin Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School. Chicago, IL. 2015 An Ontology for the Digital Tibetan Book “Symposium on the Tibetan Book” The University of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA. 2014 The Jonang in 18th Century Tibet Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. 2014 Ecumenism in Tibet University of Colorado. Boulder, CO. 2013 A Buddhist Tradition on the Edge: The Migration and Marginalization of the Jonangpa in Tibet Center for the Study of World Religions Harvard Divinity School. Cambridge, MA. 2013 Three Years in Tibet: Reflections from a Buddhist Monastery The University of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, AL. 2012 Values in Tibetan Buddhist Education Wheaton College. Norton, MA. 2012 Bibliographic Sources for Tibetan Studies: A TBRC Workshop Columbia University. New York, NY. 2012 Technology and Translation in the Future of Tibetan Studies Tibetan Studies After Gene Smith and Directions for the Future Columbia University. New York, NY. 2011 Applied Scholarship in Tibetan Cultural Regions of China The University of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, AL. 2010 Zhentong Buddhist Philosophy in the Jonang Tradition Skidmore College. Saratoga Springs, NY. 2010 Visualizing the Tantric Buddhist Mandala Yale University. New Haven, CT. 2010 On the History of the Jonang Kalachakra Tradition Tibet House. New York, NY. 2009
Conference Presentations An Entangled Buddhist History: Shangs pa Lineage Networks, Transmission Strategies, and their Records of Reception in Tibet “Transference and Transmission in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist ‘Philosophical’ Traditions” XVIIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies University of Vienna. Austria. 2014 Materializing Dreams and Omens: Narrative Devices in the Autobiographical Writing of the Tibetan Yoginī Trinle Wangmo “Writing Tibetan Women” American Academy of Religion. Baltimore, MD. 2013 Charting Par khang Culture: Towards an Analytics of Early Xylographic Literary Production in Tibet “Among Digital Texts: Remembering Gene Smith” International Association of Tibetan Studies. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. 2013 In Your Face: Bamda Tubten Gelek’s Up-Close Personal Advice “Translating Buddhist Luminaries: A Conference on Ecumenism and Tibetan Translation” University of Colorado. Boulder. 2013 Relocating the Tibetan Manuscript Writings of Kunga Drolchok (1507-1566) “Documentary and Manuscript Sources from Tibet” Association of Asian Studies. San Diego, CA. 2013 Mapping Scholarship on Tibet: Recent Findings of Jonang Monasteries National Outreach Scholarship Conference The University of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, AL. 2012. Conducting Tibetological Research: A TBRC Workshop International Seminar of Young Tibetologists Kobe City University of Foreign Studies. Kobe, Japan. 2012 Accessing a Global Vision of Tibetan Literary Culture “Preservation of the Literary Heritage” Third International Conference on the Tibetan Language. Columbia University. New York, NY. 2011 A Buddhist Hermeneutic of Time: Tibetan Recalculations of the Buddhist Councils and Zhentong Literary History in India “India in the Asian Buddhist Imagination,” Buddhism Section American Academy of Religion. San Francisco, CA. 2011 Banned Books, Sealed Printeries and Neglected Dkar chag: Precursors and Prospects in Light of E. Gene Smith’s Contributions to Tibetan Literary Studies “E. Gene Smith: Remembering His Life and Works” International Association of Buddhist Studies. Taiwan. 2011 Codifying the Krtyuga: Preliminary Remarks on a Literary History of Gzhan stong in Tibet “Rang stong / Gzhan stong: Perspectives on the Discourse in India and Tibet” International Association of Buddhist Studies. Taiwan. 2011 Identity Politics of Re-Embodiment: Lineage Formation in Tibetan and Mongolian Accounts of Rje btsun Tā ra nā tha’s (1575-1635) Death and the Birth of Khal kha Blo bzang bstan pa’i rgyal mtshan (1635-1723) “Madness, Smallpox, and Death in Tibet,” Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group American Academy of Religion. Atlanta, GA. 2010 Revealing the Gsang ba’i ye shes: Reflections on the Autobiography of the Female Jo nang pa Adept Rje bstun ma ‘Phrin las dbang mo (1585-c.1668) “The Jo nang pa: Narrative, Transmission, and Tradition Reconsidered” International Association of Tibetan Studies. University of British Colombia, Vancouver, Canada. 2010 Life after Tāranātha: Priorities and Strategies for Sustaining Esoteric Buddhist Knowledge Transmission Among the Jonangpa in 17th Century Tibet “Strategies of Buddhist Knowledge Transmission: Texts, Techniques, and Technologies in Tibet,” Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group American Academy of Religion. Montreal, Canada. 2009 Is the Uttaratantra-śastra Really a Madhyamaka Text?: Jonangpa Understandings of Tibetan Buddhist Doxography and Historiography “The Uttaratantra in Tibet,” Buddhist Philosophy and Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group American Academy of Religion. Chicago, IL. 2008 Tāranātha’s Secret: Reading from the Autobiography of the Tibetan Female Adept Phrin las dbang mo TBRC/Rubin Foundation Scholars Seminar. New York, NY. 2008 Retelling Mahayana History: Jo nang Sources for the Indian and Tibetan Transmissions of Gzhan stong Madhyamaka
“Mahayana Buddhism Section”
International Association of Buddhist Studies. Atlanta, GA. 2008 |
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