PersonType
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Category:Professors
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FirstName / namefirst
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Jacob
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LastName / namelast
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Dalton
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namemiddle
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P.
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MainNamePhon
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Jacob P. Dalton
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bio
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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)
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languageprimary
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English
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languagetranslation
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Tibetan
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languagetarget
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English
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affiliation
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University of California at Berkeley
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affiliationsecondary
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Khyentse Foundation; International Dunhuang Project
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religiousaffiliation
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Nyigma
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phduniversity
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University of Michigan
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IsInGyatsa
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No
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