Lin, N.

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Lin, N. on the DRL

Professors • Translators

Nancy G. Lin

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Month
Gender
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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Month
Gender
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Animal
Rab Jyung

Contact information

Website:	http://as.vanderbilt.edu/religiousstudies/people/lin.php

About

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

Vanderbilt University

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: Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Buddhist Traditions of South Asia, Assistant Professor of History of Art, specialist in the Buddhist Traditions of South Asia

Research

Professor Lin specializes in South Asian Buddhism, with focus on the cultural history of Tibetan Buddhism during the early modern period. Her research interests include Buddhist hagiographical literature and art, the innovative interpretation of canonical tradition amidst social change, and Tibetan engagement with other courtly cultures of South and East Asia. Her current book project examines how Tibetan monastic and courtly culture intersected during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially through productions of the Wish-Fulfilling Vine (Skt. Avadanakalpalata, Tb. Dpag bsam ’khri shing), Ksemendra’s Sanskrit anthology of Buddhist narratives. Professor Lin’s other research projects address Tibetan re-imaginings of the Buddha’s life and the development of classical Tibetan poetry and poetics from Sanskrit models in institutional, material, and ritual contexts.

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