Cuevas, B.
Full Name[edit]
Bryan Jaré Cuevas
Affiliation[edit]
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[edit]
B.A., Emory University, 1989 M.A., University of Virginia, 1993. PhD., University of Virginia, 2000.
Other Information[edit]
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).