Cuevas, B.

Full Name

Bryan Jaré Cuevas

Affiliation

The Florida State University
John F. Priest Professor of Religion
Director of Graduate Studies

Departmental Area: History and Ethnography of Religions
Research Areas : Buddhist and Tibetan Studies

Address: Department of Religion
641 University Way / P.O. Box 3061520
The Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1520
Office: 120E Dodd Hall
Email: bcuevas@fsu.edu

Education

B.A., Emory University, 1989 M.A., University of Virginia, 1993. PhD., University of Virginia, 2000.

Other Information

Background

Bryan J. Cuevas (Ph.D. University of Virginia) teaches courses in Asian religious traditions, specializing in Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhism, Tibetan history, language, and culture. He has held visiting appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2007-08), UC Berkeley (2005-06), Princeton University (2001-02), and Emory University (2000), and is co-director of the Tibetan History Collections of the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library (http://www.thlib.org/). His research focuses on Tibetan history and historiography, including monastic politics, family-clan relations, and Buddhist popular religion within the broader context of premodern Tibetan religious culture. He is currently working on a study of Tibetan sorcery and the politics of war magic from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Recent publications include The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Oxford, 2003); Power, Politics, and the Reinvention of Tradition: Tibet in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, with Kurtis Schaeffer (Brill, 2006); The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations, with Jacqueline Stone (Kuroda Institute/Hawai'i, 2007); and Travels in the Netherworld: Buddhist Popular Narratives of Death and the Afterlife in Tibet (Oxford, 2008).

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Publications

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bio	Bryan J. Cuevas (Ph.D., University of Virginia) joined the Department of Religion faculty of Florida State University in Fall 2000. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Asian religious traditions, specializing in Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhism, Tibetan history, language, and culture. His principal research interests focus on Tibetan history and biography, Buddhist magic and sorcery, and the politics of ritual power in premodern Tibetan societies. He is currently working on the history of the Buddhist Vajrabhairava and Yamāntaka/Yamāri traditions in Tibet, with special focus on the Raluk (Rwa lugs) transmissions and their lineages from the twelfth through early eighteenth centuries. This is a component of a broader long-term study of Tibetan sorcery and the politics of Buddhist ritual magic in Tibet up through the nineteenth century. Dr. Cuevas has been a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, and has held visiting appointments at UC Berkeley, Princeton University, and Emory University. His research has been supported by fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), as well as grants from public and private endowments. Dr. Cuevas is currently accepting graduate students (M.A. and Ph.D.) interested in pursuing research topics in Tibetan and Buddhist studies for the upcoming 2022-23 academic year. (Source Accessed Feb 23, 2022.)
associatedwebsite	https://religion.fsu.edu/person/bryan-j-cuevas
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