Schaeffer, K.

Full Name

Kurtis R. Schaeffer

Affiliation

University of Virginia Associate Professor 2005 to Present (2010)
Source

Education

Ph.D. Tibetan and South Asian Religions, 2000
Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies
Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp

M.A. Asian Languages and Literatures, 1995
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Advisor: Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp

B.A. Religious Studies, 1988
Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR

Other Information

Email: schaeffer at virginia dot edu

Mail:
Box 400126 University of Virginia
Charlottesville VA 22904-4126

Telephone. 434-924-3770

Vita

Employment

Associate Professor 2005 to Present
Department of Religious Studies
University of Virginia

Associate Professor 2000 to 2005
Department of Religious Studies
University of Alabama

Education

2000
Ph.D. Tibetan and South Asian Religions
Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies
Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Advisor: Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp
Dissertation:

1995
M.A. Asian Languages and Literatures
Department of Asian Languages and Literature
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Advisor: Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp
M. A. Thesis:

1988
B.A. Religious Studies
Department of Religious Studies
Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR

Recent Fellowships

2007 through 2009. Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), The University of Virginia. Project: Mapping the Dalai Lamas.

Publications

More Publications

Books

• Dreaming the Great Brahmin: Tibetan Traditions of the Buddhist Poet-Saint Saraha. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

• Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Edited Books

• E. Gene Smith. Among Tibetan Texts: History and Literature of the Tibetan Plateau. Kurtis R. Schaeffer, editor. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2001.

• Power, Politics and the Reinvention of Tradition in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Tibet: Proceedings of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Xth Seminar, Oxford University, 2003. Kurtis R. Schaeffer and Bryan J. Cuevas, Editors. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2006.

Articles

• "Dying Like Milarepa: Death Accounts in a Tibetan Hagiographic Tradition. In The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations. Bryan J. Cuevas and Jaqueline I. Stone, Eds. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism No. 20. pp. 208-233.

• "Death, Prognosis, and the Physician's Reputation in Tibet." In Heroes and Saints: The Moment of Death in Cross-cultural Perspectives. Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara, Eds. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. pp. 159-172.

• "Ritual, Festival, and Authority under the Fifth Dalai Lama." Power, Politics and the Reinvention of Tradition in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Tibet: Proceedings of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Xth Seminar, Oxford University, 2003. Kurtis R. Schaeffer and Bryan J. Cuevas, Editors. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2006. pp. 187-202.

• "Future Directions in Modern Tibetan Studies: Religion/History." The CSSR (Council of Societies for the Study of Religion) Bulletin 35/1 (2006): 17-19.

• “The Autobiography of a Medieval Tibetan Hermitess.” In Women in Tibet: Past and Present. Janet Gyatso and Hanna Havnevik, Eds. Columbia University Press, New York. 2005.

• "The Fifth Dalai Lama." In The Dalai Lamas: A Visual History. Martin Brauen, Ed. Chicago, Serindia Publications, 2005. pp. 64-91.

• “A Letter to Editors of the Buddhist Canon in 14th Century Tibet.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 124/2 (2004): 1-17.

• "Professing Buddhism in Alabama." The CSSR (Council of Societies for the Study of Religion) Bulletin 33/2 (2004): 43-46.

• “Textual Scholarship, Medical Tradition, and Mahayana Buddhist Ideals in Tibet.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 31/5-6 (2003): 621-641.

• “The Attainment of Immortality: From Nathas in India to Buddhists in Tibet." Journal of Indian Philosophy 30/6 (2003). pp. 515-533.

• “The Religious Career of Vairocanavajra—A Twelfth-Century Indian Buddhist Master from Daksina Kosala.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 28/4 (2000). pp. 361-384.

• “Printing the Words of the Master: Tibetan Editorial Practice in the Collected Works of 'Jam dbyangs bzhad pa'i rdo rje I (1648-1721).” Acta Orientalia 60 (1999). pp. 159-177.

Schaeffer, K. on the DRL

Kurtis R. Schaeffer

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

Day
Month
Gender
Element
Animal
Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

Day
Month
Gender
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Animal
Rab Jyung

Contact information

Website:	http://www.as.ua.edu/rel/schaeffer.html

About

Primary Language:	English
Translates from:	Tibetan
Translates to:	English

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

University of Virginia

PhD University

Harvard University

Education

2000 Ph.D. Tibetan and South Asian Religions
Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies
Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp

1995 M.A. Asian Languages and Literatures
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Advisor: Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp

1988 B.A. Religious Studies
Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR

Biographical Information

Kurtis R. Schaeffer received an M.A. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Washington in 1995, a Ph.D. in Tibetan and South Asian Religions from Harvard in 2000 and is now an associate professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia. His books include Sources of Tibetan Tradition (2013), The Tibetan History Reader (2013), The Culture of the Book in Tibet (2009), An Early Tibetan Catalogue of Buddhist Literature (2009), Dreaming the Great Brahmin, and Himalayan Hermitess (2004). (2014 Translation & Transmission Conference Program)

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