Gold, J.

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Professors
FirstName / namefirst	Jonathan
LastName / namelast	Gold
namemiddle	C.
MainNamePhon	Jonathan C. Gold
nameprefix	Dr.
SortName	Gold, Jonathan C.
bio	Jonathan C. Gold is Assistant Professor and Behrman Faculty Fellow in the Department of Religion at Princeton University, which he joined in 2008. His research focuses on Indian and Tibetan Buddhist approaches to interpretation, translation, learning and knowledge. He is the author of The Dharma’s Gatekeepers: Sakya Paṇḍita on Buddhist Scholarship in Tibet (State University of New York Press, 2007) and Paving the Great Way: Vasubandhu’s Unifying Buddhist Philosophy (Columbia University Press, 2014). He is founder of the Princeton University Buddhist Ethics Reading Group and co-chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Comparative Philosophy.
YearBirth	1969
BornIn	USA
associatedwebsite	http://religion.princeton.edu/main/people/all-people/core-faculty/jonathan-gold/
languageprimary	English
languagetranslation	Tibetan
languagetarget	English
affiliation	Princeton University; Department of Religion
StudentOf	Kapstein, M.
currentworks	Current projects (2015) include studies in Buddhist ethics through the Tibetan "Three Vows" (sdom gsum) literature and Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra, and a trans-national history of the doctrine of non-violence.
phduniversity	University of Chicago
education	Ph.D. The University of Chicago, 2003, Philosophy of Religions. Dissertation:“Intellectual Gatekeeper: Sakya Paṇḍita Envisions the Ideal Scholar.” Committee: Matthew T. Kapstein (advisor), Paul J. Griffiths and Sheldon Pollock M.A. The University of Chicago, 1996, Divinity. B.A. Amherst College, 1991, Religion, magna cum laude.
IsInGyatsa	No
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