Hackett, P.
| English Phonetics | Paul G. Hackett |
|---|---|
| Sort Name | Hackett, Paul |
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PhD University
- Columbia University
Education
- Ph.D. in Religion, Columbia University (2008). Dissertation: "Barbarian Lands: Theos Bernard, Tibet, and the American Religious Life." Thesis advisor: Robert Thurman.
- M.Phil. Religion, Columbia University
- M.L.S. College of Information Studies, University of Maryland - College Park
- M.A. History of Religions, University of Virginia
- B.S. Physics and Astronomy, University of Arizona
Biographical Information
Paul Hackett specializes in canonical Buddhist philosophy and Tibetan culture, as well as their influence on contemporary alternative religion in America. He is also active in the field of applied computational linguistics and serves as the chair of the Tibetan Information Technology Panel for the International Association for Tibetan Studies. He previously taught Classical Tibetan language at Columbia and Yale universities. (Source Accessed Nov 21, 2023)
Paul's doctoral dissertation, "Barbarian Lands: Theos Bernard, Tibet, and the American Religious Life" (2008), presented the first and only comprehensive narrative of the life of Theos Bernard (1908-1947). In the context of this narrative, the dissertation examined such issues as Bernard’s place in the early history of the American subculture and counter-culture informed by Indian concepts of religiosity and the narrative of the genesis and spread of Indian and Buddhist religious traditions in America over the last 150 years. In addition, Bernard’s life and writings are examined as a paradigm of an ethnically American counter-culture religious experience and his academic activities are discussed in terms of their broader implications for the study of religion.
His masters thesis, "Approaches to Tibetan Information Retrieval: Segmentation vs. n-grams" (2000), reported the results of research evaluating automatic word-segmented indexing for Tibetan documents against a system using n-gram indexing in a search and retrieval system. For the thesis an algorithm for automatic sentence- and word-segmentation for Tibetan was designed and implemented in conjunction with a shallow parser performing automatic Part-of-Speech tagging.
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