Lin, N.

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Professors • Translators

Nancy G. Lin

English Phonetics	Nancy G. Lin
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Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

Contact information

Website:	Academia.edu // Shin Institute of Buddhist Studies

About

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley

PhD University

University of California at Berkeley

Education

• 2001 - Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
• 2003 - M.A. in East Asian Regional Studies, Columbia University.
• 2000 - A.B. cum laude, Government, Harvard University.
  

Biographical Information

Title: Associate Professor of Tibetan and South Asian Studies at the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley, CA.

Nancy Lin joined the faculty in 2021 after previously teaching at Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on how literary and visual cultures have shaped Buddhist traditions of Tibet and the Himalaya. Her current book project is a study of worldly Buddhists and courtly cultures of Tibet in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her teaching emphasizes how people draw from the resources of their historical and living traditions, including rituals, narratives, values, objects, environments, and cosmologies.

Degrees

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

MA, Columbia University

AB, Harvard University

Research and Teaching Interests

Buddhism in Tibet and the Himalaya, South Asia, and Inner Asia

World-engaging and world-renouncing aspects of Buddhist thought and practice

Karma and rebirth

Poetic language, rhetoric, and narrative

Buddhist visual and material culture

Translation and circulation of words and images

Courtly cultures and networks

Selected Publications

“Ornaments of This World: Materiality and Poetics of the Fifth Dalai Lama’s Reliquary Stūpa.” In Jewels, Jewelry, and Other Shiny Things in the Buddhist Imaginary, edited by Vanessa R. Sasson. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, forthcoming.

“Recounting the Fifth Dalai Lama’s Rebirth Lineage.” Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 38 (February 2017): 119–156.

“Purity in the Pudding and Seclusion in the Forest: Si tu paṇ chen, Monastic Ideals, and the Buddha’s Biographies.” Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies 7 (August 2013): 86–124.

“Döndrup Gyel and the Remaking of the Tibetan Ramayana.” In Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change, edited by Lauran R. Hartley and Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani, 86–111. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.

Courses Taught

Buddhism and World Religions

Buddhist Pastoral Care

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