CURICULUMVITAE

VesnaA.Wallace

UniversityofCalifornia

DepartmentofReligiousStudiesHSSB,3rdfloor

SantaBarbara,CA93105E-mail:vwallace@religion.ucsb.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (Department of South and Southeast Studies),1995

M.A.,UniversityofWashington,Seattle (DepartmentofAsianLanguagesandLiterature),1988

B.A., University of Zagreb, Croatia (Department of Indology and Department ofComparativeLiterature),1979Postdoctoral Study, Pedagogical State University (Mongolian Language Department,Ulaanbaatar),2000

ACADEMICEMPLOYMENT Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008-

present Professor,YehanNumataChairinBuddhistStudies.FacultyofOrientalStudies,Universityof

Oxford,2008–2010

AcademicDirector.OxfordCentreforBuddhistStudies(OCBS),Oxford,2008-2010

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InternationalPh.D.Supervisor.OpenSocietyInstitute,HigherEducationSupportProgram,CentralAsiaTrainingandResearchInitiative,2008-present

AssociateProfessor.DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,Santa Barbara,2005-2008 AssistantProfessor.DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,Santa Barbara,2001-2005 Lecturer. Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1997-

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Visiting Scholar. Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, 1996-SpringQuarter,1997

ResearchFellow.DepartmentofSouthandSoutheastAsianStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley,SummerTerm,1996

ResearchFellow.DepartmentofSouthandSoutheastAsianStudies,UniversityofCalifornia, Berkeley,1995-1996 VisitingLecturer.DepartmentofLinguistics:SpecialLanguageProgram,StanfordUniversity,

Stanford,1993-1995

Teaching Assistant. Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, 1992-1996

Visiting Lecturer. Innovative Academic Courses, Program in Special UndergraduateEducation.StanfordUniversity,Stanford,WinterQuarter,1991

Teaching Assistant. Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of

California,Berkeley,1990 Instructor.UniversityExtension,UniversityofWashington,Seattle,1987-1988

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SCHOLARLYPUBLICATIONSBOOKS

TheK›lacakratantra:TheChapteronS›dhanatogetherwiththeVimalaprabh›.TanjurTranslationInitiative,TreasuryofBuddhistSciencesSeries.NewYork:AmericanInstitute of Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, co-published with the ColumbiaUniversity’s Center for Buddhist Studies and Tibet House. 2010. (Annotated translationfromSanskrit,Tibetan,andMongolian, togetherwitha critical editionof theMongoliantext.)

TheK›lacakratantra:TheChapterontheIndividualtogetherwiththeVimalaprabh›.

TanjurTranslation Initiative,TreasuryofBuddhistSciencesSeries. NewYork:AmericanInstitute of Buddhist Studies, co-published with the Columbia University’s Center forBuddhist Studies and Tibet House, 2004. (Annotated translation from Sanskrit, Tibetan,andMongolian,togetherwithacriticaleditionoftheMongoliantext.)

The InnerK›lacakratantra:ABuddhistTantricViewof the Individual. NewYork:Oxford

UniversityPress,2001.

A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life. Bodhic›ry›vat›ra. Translated from Sanskrit andTibetan by Vesna A. Wallace and B. Alan Wallace. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications,1997.

A Textbook for the First Year Intensive Serbo-Croatian. Co-author. Washington DC, State

Department,1988.BOOKCHAPTERS

“TheLegalizedViolence:”PunitiveMeasuresofBuddhistKhansinMongolia.”InBuddhistWarfare. Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer and Michael Jerryson. New York: OxfordUniversityPress,2010.“Texts as Deities: Mongols’ Rituals of Worshipping SÒtras and Rituals of AccomplishingVarious Goals by Means of SÒtras.” In Ritual in Tibetan Buddhism. Edited by José I.Cabezón.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,2009.

“The Body as a Text and the Text as the Body: A View from the K›lacakratantra’sPerspective.”InAsLongasSpaceEndures:EssaysontheK›lacakraTantrainHonorofH.H.TheDalaiLama.EditedbyEdwardA.Arnold.Ithaca,NY:SnowLionPublications,2009.

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“MedicineandAstrology in theHealingArtsof theK›lacakratantra.” InAsLongasSpaceEndures: Essays on the K›lacakra Tantra in Honor of H. H. The Dalai Lama. Edited byEdwardA.Arnold.Ithaca,NY:SnowLionPublications,2009.

“Diverse Aspects of the Mongolian Buddhist Manuscript Culture and Realms of ItsInfluence.” In Buddhist Manuscript Culture: Knowledge, Ritual, and Art. Edited by StevenBerkwitz,JulianeSchober,andClaudiaBrown.London:Routledge,2008.

“AConvergenceofMedicalandAstro-SciencesinIndianTantricBuddhism:ACaseoftheK›lacakratantra.”InAstro-Medicine:AstrologyandMedicine,EastandWest.Micrologus’Library, 25. Edited by Anna Akasoy, Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim. Florence,Italy:SismelEdzionidelGalluzzo,2008.“A Generation of Power Through Ritual Protection and Transformation of Identity inIndian Tantric Buddhism.” In Asian Ritual Systems: Syncretisms and Ruptures. Edited byPamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathen. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2007. (ThepaperwaspreviouslypublishedintheJournalofRitualStudies)"The Methodological Relevance of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship to the Study ofBuddhism." In Buddhist Theology: Critical Reflections of Contemporary Buddhist Scholars.EditedbyJohnMakranskyandRogerJackson.London:CurzonPress,1999.

"Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Perspective on the Treatment of Mentally Retarded Children inLatin America." In Ethics and World Religions: Cross-cultural Case Studies, ed. by Regina,Wentzel,WolfeandChristineE.Gudorf.Maryknoll,NY:OrbisBooks,1999.

JOURNALANDENCYCLOPEDIAARTICLES

“Why is theBodiless (anaºga)GnosticBody (jñ›na-k›ya)ConsideredaBody?” JournalofIndianPhilosophy,Vol.37,No.1,February2009:45-60.“Mediating the Power of Dharma: The Mongols’ Approaches to Reviving Buddhism inMongolia.”TheSilkRoadJournal,No.6/1,(2008):36-45,2008.“The Provocative Character of the ‘Mystical’ Discourses on the Absolute Body in IndianTantric,Buddhism.PacificWorld: Journalof the InstituteofBuddhistStudies,ThirdSeries,Number6,Fall2004,issuedin2006:245-57.

“AGenerationofPowerThroughRitualProtectionandTransformationofIdentityin

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IndianTantricBuddhism.”JournalofRitualStudies,SpecialIssueon“Ritualandthe RitualExpressionofIdentityinAsia,”Vol.19,Number1,2005:115-28. “K›lacakra.”InEncyclopediaofReligion,SecondEdition,Vol.8.NewYork:Macmillan Reference,2005:5056-5059. "TheBuddhistTantricMedicine intheK›lacakratantra,."ThePacificWorld:Journalofthe

InstituteofBuddhistStudies,NewSeries,Nos.11-12(1995):155-74,1995.BOOKREVIEWS

“Brian Bauman. Divine Knowledge: Buddhist Mathematics According to the AnonymousManualofMongolianAstrologyandDivination.Leiden:Brill,2008.” In JournalofAsianStudies,Vol.69,Issue01,Feb.,2010:244-245.

“EvaJaneNeumannFriedman,SacredGeography:ShamanismAmongtheBuddhistPeoplesofRussia.BibliothecaShamanistica,vol.12.Budapest:AkadémiaiKiadó,2004.” InReligion,Vol.36,Issue1,2006.

“Walther Heissig and Klaus Sagaster, eds. Gedanke und Wirkung. Festschrift für Nikolaus

Poppe zum 90. Geburtstag Asiatische Forschungen: Monographienreihe Zur Geschichte,Kultur und Sprache der Völker Ost-und Zentralasiens, Band 108.” Wiesbadden: OttoHarrassowitz,1989.InAsianFolkloreStudies,Vol.50(1),1992,NanzanUniversity,Nagoya,Japan.

INSTRUCTIONALANDDOCUMENTARYFILMS

“RevivalofBuddhism inMongolia:Part1&Part2.”SantaBarbara:ErdeneProductions,2004(ExecutiveProducer,Researcher,andNarrativeWriter).“ShamanintheCity:Ulaanbaatar,OuterMongolia.”SantaBarbara:ErdeneProductions,2003(ExecutiveProducer,Researcher,andNarrativeWriter).“RevivaloftheTraditionalMongolianCulture.”SantaBarbara:ErdeneProductions,2004(ExecutiveProducer,Researcher,andNarrativeWriter).

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OXFORDBIBLIOGRAPHYONLINE

“K›lacakra.”InOxfordBibliographiesOnline,2010.http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/display/id/obo-9780195393521-0083

“BuddhisminMongolia.”InOxfordBibliographiesOnline,2010.http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/display/id/obo-9780195393521-0111

“Astronomy,Cosmology,andAstrology.”InOxfordBibliographiesOnline,2010.http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/display/id/obo-9780195393521-0019

WORKINPRESS

“How Vajrap›˚i became a Mongol: A Case Study of the Acculturation of Buddhism inMongolia.” In Tantric Traditions on the Move: Their Development through Time, andTransmission throughCulturalSpace.EditedbyDavidGray.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress.(bookchapter)

“The Six-phased Yoga of the Abbreviated Wheel of Time Tantra (Laghuk›lacakratantra)According toVajrap›˚i.” InYoga inPractice.EditedbyDavidGordonWhite.Princeton:PrincetonUniversityPress.“Buddhist Laws in Mongolia.” In Buddhism and Law. Edited by Rebecca French.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress.

“Rendering Buddhism into Mongolian Language: Mongols’ Translation Methods ofBuddhistTexts.”InFestschrifttoRobertA.F.ThurmaninHonoroftheSeventiethBirthday.EditedbyChristian,K.Wedemeyer,JohnD.Dunne,andThomasF.Yarnall.NewYork:AmericanInstituteofBuddhistStudiesandColumbiaUniversityPress.“TheMethod-and-WisdomModelinTheoreticalSyncretismoftheTraditionalMongolianMedicine.”JournaloftheCenterforMedicineandHumanities,UniversityofHongKong.“Mongolian Livestock Rituals and Their Appropriations, Adaptations, and Permutations.”In Understanding Religious Rituals: Theoretical Approaches and Innovations. Edited by JohnHoffmann.London:Routledge.

“Mongolia.” In Encyclopedia of Global Religion. Edited by W. Clark Roof and MarkJuergensmeyer.SageReference.

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“MongolEmpire.”InEncyclopediaofGlobalReligion.EditedbyW.ClarkRoofandMarkJuergensmeyer.SageReference.

SCHOLARLYWORKINPROGRESS

TheCriticaleditionandannotatedtranslationofthefirstchapteroftheSanskritmanuscriptoftheSaddharmam¸tyupasth›naSÒtra.Monograph,BuddhismandLawinMongolia

“HomaRitualintheK›lacakratantra” “CompetingReligiousConversionsandRe-conversionsinContemporaryMongolia”

AWARDS,FELLOWSHIPS,ANDGRANTS

ArtsandHumanitiesResearchCouncil(AHRC)Grantforathree-yearlongresearchprojecton “Authorship, Originality, and Innovation in Tibetan Religious Literature” (VesnaWallaceasaPI,andDr.CatherineCantwellandDr.RobertMayeras researchers),U.K.,September,2010.The“Honors foraContributiontotheAcademicDisciplineofMongolianBuddhismandCulture.”AwardedbyZanabazarBuddhistUniversity,Ulaanbaatar,Mongolia,September,2009.Soros Foundation, Central Asia Research and Teaching Initiative (CARTI), Budapest,Hungary,2008-2009.AmericanCenterforMongolianStudiesgrantforlanguagestudyandresearchatMongolianNationalUniversity,June2008.FacultyResearchGrant for researching interactionsbetweenBuddhism, law,andnomadicculture in Mongolia, awarded by the UCSB Academic Senate Council on Research andInstructionalResources,July2007.

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Travel Award for presenting the paper at the Annual National Meeting of the AAR inWashington, DC, awarded by the UCSB Academic Senate, Committee on Research,November2006.Faculty Research Grant for the archival research in Mongolia on Buddhism and law inMongolia,awardedby theUCSBAcademicSenateCouncilonResearchandInstructionalResources,July2006.TheChinaandInnerAsiaCouncil(CIAC)oftheAssociationforAsianStudies(AAS)SmallGrantforpreparinganEnglishtranslationoftheMongolianlegalcodeLawsandRegulationstoActuallyFollow(JinkheneDagajYavakhKhuulyDürem),2006.TravelAwardforpresentingthepaperattheconferenceoftheInternationalAssociationofBuddhistStudies,SOAS,London,August-September2005.FacultyResearchGrantforsummerresearchinMongolia,awardedbytheUCSBAcademicSenateCouncilonResearchandInstructionalResources,July2005.

TravelAwardforpresentingthepaperattheAnnualNationalMeetingoftheAARinSan

Antonio, TX, November 2004, awarded by the UCSB Academic Senate, Committee onResearch,2004.

TravelAwardforpresentthepaperattheAnnualNationalMeetingoftheAARinAtlanta,GA, November 2003, awarded by the UCSB Academic Senate, Committee on Research,2003.NEH(NationalEndowmentfortheHumanities)fellowshipawardedforpreparingacriticaledition and translation of a newly discovered, Buddhist Sanskrit manuscript of theSm¸tyupasth›nasÒtra,foranine-monthsperiod,beginningwiththeSpringQuarter2002andendingatthebeginningoftheWinterQuarter2003.Humanitarian Award of the Government of Mongolia for establishing educationalinstitutions,scholarship funds,micro-enterprise,andcommunitydevelopment in theGobidistrictofMongolia,presentedbytheGovernorofGobiinDalangazadonAugust11,2002.ResearchGrantforthestudy“TheReligiousandCulturalRevivalinMongolia,”awardedbytheInstituteofNoeticSciences,July2002.Faculty Research Grant awarded by UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research forproducingadocumentaryfilmonthe“ReligiousRevivalinMongolia,”June2002.

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HumanitiesandArtsResearchGrantawardedbyUCSBAcademicSenate,CommitteeonResearch forproducingadocumentary filmon the“Revivalof theTraditionalMongolianCulture,”June2002.Overseas Travel Award for attending the international conference on “Symbol, Language,andMetaphorinEsotericTraditions,”UniversityofSanMarino,Italy,June2002.AwardedbyUCSBAcademicSenate,CommitteeonResearch,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraIREX (International Research and Exchanges Board in Washington, DC) AdvancedResearch Opportunity Grant for the field and library research in the Buddhist revival inMongolia,summer2001.IREX (International Research and Exchanges Board in Washington, DC) grant for theintensivestudyoftheMongolianlanguageattheMongolianStatePedagogicalUniversityinUlanBatorandfortheresearchinreligiousrevivalinMongolia,summer2000.

ResearchgrantforwritingabookTheInnerK›lacakratantra:ABuddhistTantricViewofthe

Individual,awardedbytheFetzerInstitute,Kalamazoo,Michigan,1997-1998. Research grant for writing a monograph on the history of Buddhist methods of investigatingconsciousness.AwardedbytheIONS,Sausalito,California,1997.

American Academy of Religion Western Region's Award for the best student paper"CourtesansintheContextofBuddhistDharma,"1992.

Humanities Graduate Research Grant for dissertation research at the University of Romeand at the Instituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, Italy. Granted by theUniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley,FallQuarter1991.

RegentsFellowship,awardedbyUniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley,1988-1989.

FLAS foreign language fellowship forstudyofNepali language,UniversityofWashington,Seattle,1987-1988.

FLASforeignlanguagefellowshipforstudyofHindilanguage,UniversityofWashington,

Seattle,Summer,1986. FLAS foreign language fellowship for studyofHindi language,UniversityofWashington,

Seattle,1985-1986.

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CONFERENCESORGANIZED

Internationalconferenceon“BuddhismandScience”(co-organizedwithDr.DenisNoble).Co-sponsored by Oriental Institute, Physiology Department, and Oxford Centre forBuddhistStudiesoftheUniversityofOxfordandSantaBarbaraInstituteforConsciousnessStudies.UniversityofOxford,March,2010.

International conference on “Contemporary Approaches to the Study of MongolianBuddhism.” Sponsored by Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies and Oriental Institute.UniversityofOxford,May,2009.

EXCHANGEPROGRAMSESTABLISHED

Established the exchange program between the Oriental Institute of the University ofOxfordandInternationalCollegeofPost-GraduateBuddhistStudies,Tokyo,2008.EstablishedtheexchangeprogrambetweentheDepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraandCollegeofReligiousStudies,MahidolUniversity,Bangkok,2001.

CONFERENCEPRESENTATIONSANDGUESTLECTURES

“Buddhism’sEncounterwithReligiousPluralisminContemporaryMongolia.”AguestlecturepresentedatRuhr-University,Bochum,Germany,May,2011.

“MongolianBuddhistTraditionsofTranslation.”Presentedthatthesymposiumon“ReligionandtheArtsofMongolia,”UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley,February,2011.

“BuddhistRitualsofProtectingtheStateandLivestockwhileRecreatingChinggisKhan’sBuddhistIdentityinContemporaryMongolia.”PresentedatStanfordUniversity,February,2011.

“LivingTextsandOpenCanonsintheBuddhistTradition.”PresentedatthedepartmentalcolloquiumintheDepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara,November,2010.

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“SurvivingModernityintheTraditionallyTibetanBuddhistRegions.”PresentedatThe2010InternationalConferenceonTibetanBuddhism,EmoryUniversity,Atlanta,October,2010.

Mongols’RoleintheSpreadofBuddhism.”PresentedattheFirstInternationalConferenceontheFutureofBuddhisminMongolia,ZanabazarUniversity,Ulaanbaatar,September2010.“TheReligio-PoliticalCultofVajrap›˚i inMongolia.”Presented in theSchoolofAfricanandOrientalStudies(SOAS),UniversityofLondon,May,2010.“BuddhismandLaw inMongoliaduring theQingDynasty.”Presented in theCentre forChineseStudies,UniversityofOxford,May,2010.“TheMethod-and-WisdomModelinTheoreticalSyncretismoftheTraditionalMongolianMedicine.”Presentedat theconferenceon“ConvergenceandCollision:Disease,Religion,andHealinginAsia,”SchoolofHumanities,UniversityofHongKong,March,2010.

“IsThereaBuddhistScience?”Presentedattheinternationalconferenceon“BuddhismandScience.”UniversityofOxford,March,2010.“Mongolian Emanations of Vajrap›˚i (Ochirvaany) and Their Roles in the Lives of theMongols.”PresentedattheMongoliaandInnerAsiaStudiesUnit(MIASU),UniversityofCambridge,March,2010.“TibetanasaScripturalLanguage:FromSanskrittoTibetanandFromTibetantoSanskrit.”Presented at the colloquium on “Tibetan Literature: Issues of Genre and Authorship,”OrientalInstitute,UniversityofOxford,February,2010.“Buddhist Laws in Mongolia.” Presented in the Circle of Central Asian and HimalayanGroupatSOAS(SchoolofOrientalandAfricanStudies),London,January,2010.“ResponsetoGeoffreySamuel’sOriginsofYogaandTantra:IndicReligionstotheThirteenthCentury.”PresentedattheannualmeetingoftheAmericanAcademyofReligion,Montreal,November,2009.“Religious Conversions of the Mongols: Past and Present.” Presented at the MellonFoundation Sawyer Seminar on “About Turns: Conversion in Late Antique Christianity,IslamandBeyond.”UniversityofOxford,October,2009.

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“The Origins of Mah›y›na Revisited,” Zanabazar Buddhist University, Ulaanbaatar,Mongolia,September,2009.“Buddhist Approach to Mental Health and Illness.” Presented at the internationalconference on Buddhism and Clinical Psychology: Ancient Wisdom and ModernKnowledge,MahidolUniversity,Bangkok,August2009.“History of Buddhism in Mongolia.” A guest lecture at the College of Religious Studies,MahidolUniversity,Bangkok,August,2009.

“Rendering Buddhism into Mongolian: A Historical Look into Mongolian Methods ofTranslating Buddhist Texts." Presented at the conference of the U.K. Association ofBuddhistStudies,SOAS,London,July,2009.“When a Buddha Becomes a Mongol.” Inaugural lecture. University of Oxford, Oxford,May,2009.“Envisioning a Buddhist Legal Consciousness in the Early 20th Century Mongolia.”Presented at the international conference on “Contemporary Approaches to the Study ofMongolianBuddhism,”UniversityofOxford,Oxford,May,2009.“How istheBuddhaVajrap›˚iSignifyingtheMongolianBuddhistIdentity?”Presentedatthe international conference on “Mongolian Buddhism: Rebirth and Transformation,”SmithCollegeinNorthampton,Massachusetts,March2009.

“The Mongols’ Methodological Concerns in Translating Buddhist Medical Texts.”PresentedattheseminaronMedicalTextsinTranslation,WellcomeTrustfortheHistoryofMedicine,UniversityCollege,London,February,2009.

“Mediating the Power of Dharma” the Mongols’ and Tibetans’ Approaches to RevivingBuddhisminMongolia.”PresentedattheInstituteofAsianResearch,UniversityofBritishColumbia,Vancouver,BC,April,2008.“Contribution of Tibetan Missionaries to the Revival of Mongolian Buddhism.” A guestlecturepresentedatSimonFraserUniversity,HarbourCentre,Vancouver,BC,April,2008.“Why is theBodiless(anaºga)GnosticBody(jñ›na-k›ya)stillcalleda“Body?”ANumatalecture sponsoredby theDepartmentofReligiousStudies,McMasterUniversity,Canada,March,2008.

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“ConstructionsandLegitimizationsofBuddhistLegalSystems inMongolia.”Presentedatthe Central Eurasian Studies Society’s Conference (CESS), University of Washington,Seattle,October,2007.“ConstructionsoftheAbsoluteBodyinIndianVajray›na.”AguestlecturepresentedattheCenterforSouthAsianStudies,CornellUniversity,Ithaca,September,2007.“TheK›lacakratantraastheBody,andtheBodyastheK›lacakratantra.”Presentedonthepanel “Seeing K›lacakra, Being K›lacakra: An Exploration of the Farther Limits ofBiomedicine,Neuroscience,andTibetanBuddhism,”CornellUniversity,Ithaca,September,2007.

“Manifestations of Vajrap›˚i in Mongolia.” Presented at the international conference on“ContemporaryReflectionsonEsotericBuddhism,”Edmonton,Canada,August,2007.“Buddhism and Law During the Bogd Khaan State and Its Heritage.” A guest lecturesponsoredbytheAmericanCenterforMongolianStudies,MongolianNationalUniversity,Ulaanbaatar,Mongolia,June,2007.“Texts as Deities: Mongols’ Rituals of Worshipping SÒtras and Rituals of AccomplishingThings with SÒtras.” Presented at the international conference on “Ritual in TibetanBuddhism,”UCSB,Spring,2007.“MongolianBuddhismandNomadicCulture.”Aguestlecturepresentedinthecourseon“SilkRoad,”UCSB,February,2007.“Buddhism and Violence in Mongolia during the Theocratic Period.” Presented at theAnnual National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Washington, DC,November,2006.“Interlacing Buddhism, Law, and Nomadic Values in Mongolia.” Presented at StanfordUniversity and sponsored by Center for Buddhist Studies and Department of ReligiousStudies,Stanford,November,2006. “The InterplayofBuddhismandLaw in thePre-communistMongolia.”PresentedatUCBerkeleyandsponsoredbyBuddhistStudiesCenter,Berkeley,November2006.“Buddhist Manuscript Culture in Mongolia with Its Diverse Aspects and Realms ofInfluence.” Presented at the conference “Buddhist Objects: Knowledge, Ritual, and Art,”ArizonaStateUniversity,October,2006.

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“Buddhism, State, and Law in Mongolia: A Historical Perspective.” Presented at theconference "Mongolia Matters: The Legacy of Chinggis Khan and Mongolia’s GreatEmpire,”WoodrowWilson InternationalCenter forScholars,AsiaProgram,Washington,DC,October,2006.“DoSubstantialandProceduralLawsintheVinayaQualifyItasaLegalText?”Presentedatthe conference on “Buddhism, Law, and Social Change,” Buffalo University Law School,Buffalo,September,2006.“Methodological Concerns in Evaluating Buddhist Revival in Mongolia’s Rural Areas.”Presented in the “Colloquie sur le Nomadisme et le Chamanisme Mongols,” MongolianNationalUniversityandFrenchCulturalCenter,Ulaanbaatar,Mongolia,June,2006.“BuddhistEthicalGuidelines forEnterprise andLeadership.”Aguest lecturepresented intheseminaronEthics,EnterpriseandLeadership,sponsoredbytheDepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara,April,2006.

“Buddhism and Legislative Measures on Property, Theft, and Debt in Outer Mongolia.”PresentedattheInternationalConferenceonBuddhismandLawinBellagio,Italy,March,2006.

“AResponse to thePapersPresentedon thePanelon ‘DialoguesandDebatesonTibetanMedicine, Healing, and Religion.’” Presented at the Annual National Meeting of theAmericanAcademyofReligioninPhiladelphia,November,2005.

“TheMongols’ConsiderationsofMah›y›naSÒtrasandTheirFunctions.”Presentedattheconference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, SOAS, University ofLondon,August,2005.

“Where the Indian Medicine and Astro-Sciences Meet: A Case of Indian TantricBuddhism,” presented at the Colloquium on Medicine and Astrology: East and West,WarburgInstituteforAdvancedStudies,UniversityofLondon,May,2005.Three-lecture series “Western Academic Approaches to the Study of Buddhism,” DehraDhun, India. Sponsored by the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala,India,December,2004.

“The Body as a Tantric Text: ‘A Buddhist Tantric ‘Genome Project.’” Presented at theAnnual National of Meeting of the American Academy of Religion in San Antonio, TX,November,2004.

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“Mongols’Resistance toCulturalHybridity:Re-imaginingMongolianBuddhist Identity.”TheguestlecturepresentedintheDepartmentofInnerAsianStudies,HarvardUniversity,Cambridge,March,2004.

Apaneldiscussanton“SpecialEducationalChallenges,”heldattheconferenceon“ReligiousEducation: Shifting Educational Paradigms” at Mahidol University, Bangkok, January,2004.

“LiteraryCreationofBuddhistIdentityandExpressionsofMongolianEthnicity.”Presentedat theAnnualNationalofMeetingof theAmericanAcademyofReligion inAtlanta,GA,November,2003.

“WhoSpoke forMongolianBuddhists?”PresentedattheAnnualNationalMeetingoftheAmericanAcademyofReligioninAtlanta,GA,November,2003.

“WhyShouldWeStudyJainaPhilosophy?”Presentedattheconferenceon“PerspectivesonJainStudies,”UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara,May,2003.“Idiosyncrasies in the Renewal of Faith: Religious Revival in Mongolia.” A guest lecture,sponsoredbytheCenterforBuddhistStudiesandDepartmentofEastAsianLanguagesandCultures,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles,February,2003.“Translation Strategies of the Mongols: The Past and Present.” Presented at the AnnualNationalMeetingoftheAmericanAcademyofReligion,Toronto,November,2002.

“Bridging the Disciplines: Integrative Buddhist Monastic Education in Classical India.”Presented at the conference on “Completing the Global Renaissance: The IndicContributions,” sponsored by the Columbia Center for Buddhist Studies at ColumbiaUniversityandInfinityFoundation,NewYork,July,2002.

“AProvocativeCharacterofthe‘Mystical’DiscoursesontheAbsoluteBodyin

IndianTantricBuddhism.”Presentedattheinternationalconferenceon“Symbol,Language,andMetaphorinEsotericTraditions,”UniversityofSanMarino,Italy,June,2002.“TheProblematicNatureoftheContemporaryMongolianTranslationsofBuddhistTexts.”Presentedat the212thAnnualNationalMeetingof theAmericanOrientalSociety (AOS),Houston,March,2002.“TheOriginsandDevelopmentofBuddhistMedicine inIndia.”Aguest lecturepresentedin the course on “Religion and Healing in Global Perspective,” taught by Catherine

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Albanese,DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara,January,2001.“BuddhistMedicineinContemporaryTibetandMongolia.”Aguestlecturepresentedinthecourse on “Religion and Healing in Global Perspective,” taught by Catherine Albanese,DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara,February,2000.Adiscussantatthe“SymposiumontheNewDirectionsandMethodsinPreparingCriticalEditions of Sanskrit Buddhist Manuscripts,” hosted by the Institute for Tibetology andBuddhist Studies at the University of Vienna and by the Austrian Academy of Sciences,Vienna,Austria,March,2000.

"BuddhistTantricEmbryologicalTheoriesandTheirRoleinIndianBuddhistMedicine."Aguest lecture presented in the course on "Religion and Healing in Global Perspective,"taught by Professor Catherine Albanese, Department of Religious Studies, University ofCalifornia,SantaBarbara,October,1999.

Apaneldiscussantattheinternationalconferenceonthe“RoleofScripturesandImagesinBuddhismandChristianity,”Prato,Italy,May,1999.

"The K›lacakratantra, Science, and Non-duality." Presented at the conference on “Non-

dualityandGlobalizingPhilosophy,”ColumbiaUniversity,NewYork,April,1999.

"The Vajra Family and Its Three Major Aspects in Tantric Buddhism." Presented at theAnnualNationalMeetingofAmericanAcademyofReligion,Orlando,Florida,November,1998.

"MedicineandAlchemy in IndianBuddhism."Aguest lecturepresented in thecourseon"Religion and Healing in Global Perspective," taught by Professor Catherine Albanese,DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara,October,1998.

"BuddhistGnosticismintheK›lacakratantra."Presentedatthe35thInternationalCongressofAsianandNorthAfricanStudies,Budapest,Hungary,July,1997.

"IndianBuddhistTheoriesofConsciousness."AguestlecturesponsoredbytheDepartment

ofPhilosophy,StanfordUniversity,Stanford,March,1997.

"TheScienceofSoundsinIndo-TibetanBuddhistTradition."PresentedattheThirdUCSantaBarbaraConferenceon“TibetanBuddhism:TheFiveFieldsofKnowledgeinTibetanBuddhistCulture,”UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara,November,1996.

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"TheFiveFieldsofKnowledgeinIndianBuddhistMonasticEducation."PresentedattheConference on “Models of Education in the Contemplative Traditions of the East andWest,”FetzerInstitute,Kalamazoo,Michigan,July,1996.

"Primordial Wisdom and the Four Bodies of the Buddha in the Anuttara-yoga-tantras."Presentedatthe2ndUCSantaBarbaraConferenceon“TibetanBuddhism: The Nature of Mind in Tibetan Buddhism,” University of California SantaBarbara,May,1995.

"TheConceptofScienceinTantricBuddhism."PresentedattheAnnualWesternRegionalMeetingofAmericanAcademyofReligion,RedlandsUniversity,Redlands,March,1995.

"Characteristics of Syncretism in the K›lacakratantra." A guest lecture sponsored by theDepartmentofReligiousStudies,ColumbiaUniversity,NewYork,January,1995.

"The Study of KleŸas in the K›lacakratantra." Presented at the American Academy ofReligionAnnualNationalMeeting,SanFrancisco,October,1992.

"KarmaandAssociatedIssues in theSecondChapterof theK›lacakratantra."Presentedat

theInternationalAnnualMeetingonTantra,Stanford,May,1992.

"Courtesans in theContextofBuddhistDharma."Presentedat theAmericanAcademyofReligion Annual Western Regional Meeting, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, March,1992.

“Courtesans in the Hindu, Jaina, and Buddhist Dharmas.” Presented at the South AsiaColloquium on “Gender Studies in South Asia,” University of California, Berkeley, June,1992."Philological and Comparative Study of the Notions of Compassion in Jainism andBuddhism." Presented at the Annual National Meeting of American Oriental Society,Berkeley,March,1991.

FIELDRESEARCH

2010–July-SeptemberinMongolia–AresearchonBuddhistpastoralritualsinMongolia2009 – August-September in Mongolia – A research on the collections of MongolianBuddhistmanuscripts

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2008–June-AugustinMongolia–AdvancedspokenMongolianlanguage2006,2007–June-AugustinMongolia–AresearchonMongolianBuddhismandlaw2005–SummerinMongolia–AresearchinthecontemporaryMongols’usageof Mah›y›nasÒtras2004–SummerinMongolia–AresearchonthedevelopmentofBuddhistscholarshipandrelationsbetweenthegovernmentandBuddhistinstitutionsinthecontemporaryMongolia2002–September-October–AtwoweekslongresearchintheLibraryofTibetanArchivesinDharamsala,India2002–SummerinMongolia–AresearchpertainingtotheproductionoftwodocumentaryfilmsontheReligiousRevivalinMongoliaandontheRevivaloftheTraditionalMongolianCulture2001 – Summer in Mongolia – A research on the current development of Buddhism inMongoliaanditsinteractionwithco-existingreligioustraditions.2000–SummerinMongolia–ThepostdoctoralstudyattheStatePedagogicalUniversityinUlanBatorand fieldresearchon thereligiousrevivalanddevelopmentofBuddhism intheOuterMongolia.1992-SummerinCentralandEasternTibet-AresearchintheTibetanmonasticstudyandpracticeoftheK›lacakratantra.SponsoredbytheAcademyofSocialSciences,Lhasa,Tibet

ACADEMICANDPROFESSIONALSERVICESSERVICESATTHEUNIVERSITYOFOXFORD

Chair of the Buddhist Studies Unit Group, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University ofOxford,2008–2010AffiliateProfessor,TheologyDepartment,UniversityofOxford,2008-2010

MemberoftheGoverningBoardofBalliolCollege,UniversityofOxford,2008-2010

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SERVICESATTHEUNIVERSITYOFCALIFORNIA,SANTABARBARA

MemberoftheGraduateStudiesCommittee,DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCaliforniaSantaBarbara,2010-2011Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Religious Studies, University of California SantaBarbara,2006-2008Member of the Executive Committee, Department of Religious Studies, University ofCaliforniaSantaBarbara,2006-2008

Member of the Curriculum Committee, Department of Religious Studies, University ofCaliforniaSantaBarbara,2006-2008MemberoftheGraduateRecruitmentFellowshipCommittee,GraduateDivision,UniversityofCaliforniaSantaBarbara,2006Member of the Development Committee, Department of Religious Studies, University ofCalifornia,SantaBarbara,2005-2007Acting Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Religious Studies, University of California,SantaBarbara,SpringQuarter,2004–FallQuarter2004Member of the Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of Religious Studies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara,2003-2004

MemberoftheGraduateStudiesCommittee,DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara,2002-2003,2005-2006 MemberoftheUniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraFulbrightCommittee,2001-2006

OTHERPROFESSIONALANDACADEMICSERVICESEditorialBoards

AdvisoryEditoroftheOxfordBibliographiesOnline,OxfordUniversityPress,2009-2010Memberof theEditorialAdvisoryBoardofRoutledgeCriticalSeries inBuddhism,2007 -present

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MemberoftheEditorialBoardoftheseries“TreasuresoftheBuddhistandIndicSciences”published by the American Institute of Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, 2005-present

Member of the Editorial Board of the electronic journal Religion Compass, BlackwellPublisher,2006-presentMember of the Editorial Committee of the Tibetan Museum Society, Washington, DC,2006-2009

OtherProfessionalBoardandCommitteeServices

Member of the Board of Directors of the Mongolia Society at Indiana University,Bloomington,2005-2009

MemberoftheSteeringCommitteeoftheBuddhismSectionattheAmericanAcademyofReligion,2004-2007Memberof theSteeringCommitteeof theMysticismGroupat theAmericanAcademyofReligion,2001-2008

REVIEWINGSERVICES

ReviewerAmericanPhilosophicalSociety,LewisandClarkFund,May,2011ReviewerforOxfordUniversityPress,January,2010ReviewerforMellenPress,August,2010ReviewerforRoutledge,June,2010Reviewer for American Philosophical Society, Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration andFieldResearcht,April,2010Reviewer for the American Center of Mongolian Studies (reviewing applications for theAmericanCenterforMongolianStudiesfellowships),March,2010ReviewerfortheelectronicjournalCompassReligion,BlackwellPublishing,August,2009

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ReviewerfortheUniversityofHawaiiPress,May,2009Reviewer for theWellcomeTrust,Centre for theHistoryofMedicine,UniversityCollege,London,February2009ReviewerforthejournalHistoryofReligions,December,2008RevieweroftheHimalayanReligionsGroupforAmericanAcademyofReligion,Chicago,November,2008ReviewpanelistforLuceFoundationresearchgrantsdistributedthroughAmericanCenterforMongolianStudies,April,2008ReviewerforCambridgeUniversityPress,May,2008ReviewerforBlackwellPublishing,2007ReviewerfortheelectronicjournalCompassReligion,BlackwellPublishing,2007ReviewerfortheelectronicjournalCompassReligion,BlackwellPublishing,2007ReviewerforColumbiaUniversityPress,2007ReviewerforRoutledge,2007ReviewerforColumbiaUniversityPress,2006ReviewerforStateUniversityNewYorkPress,2005

ReviewerforHarvardUniversityAsiaCenterPublications,2004ReviewerforAltmaMiraPress,2004Reviewer for theWellcomeTrust,Centre for theHistoryofMedicine,UniversityCollege,London(Reviewingthegrantapplication“AHimalayanMelange:ExoticInfluences intheMedicalWorksofa17thCenturyTibetanScholar”)ReviewpanelistfortheNationalEndowmentfortheHumanities(NEH),Washington,DC,2003

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PROFESSIONALMEMBERSHIPS

MemberoftheAmericanAcademyofReligion,EmoryUniversity,Atlanta,1992-presentMemberoftheAmericanOrientalSociety,UniversityofMichigan,AnnArbor,1991-presentMember of the Association for Asian Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1997-present

MemberoftheMongoliaSociety,IndianaUniversity,Bloomington,1992-present

MemberoftheAmericanCenterforMongolianStudies,2003-present

MemberoftheInternationalAssociationofBuddhistStudies,2004-present

MEDIAINTERVIEWS SouthChinaPost,PostMagazine,article“Testoffaith,”byPaulMooney,January,9,2011

NewYorkTimes,article“BringingMonasteriesBacktoLife,”bySheilaMelvinJanuary19,2011Los Angeles Times, “Buddhism Continues to flower in Mongolia” by Nomi Morris,September11,2010

PUBLICLECTURES

“Buddhist Principles in Business.” Presented at Sakyadhita international conference,Ulaanbaatar,Mongolia,June2008.A three-lecture series on “The ‘S›dhan› Chapter’ of the K›lacakratrantra in Its BroaderTheoreticalandPracticalFrameworkoftheK›lacakraTradition.”PresentedattheInstituteofBuddhistStudies,NamgyalMonastery,September2007.

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“Buddhists,Christians,andShamans inPost-CommunistMongolia.”Presented forSaradaConvent,Vedantatemple,Montecito,March2007.

“Buddhism in Contemporary Mongolia.” Presented in the series of public lectures“BuddhismThroughoutAsia,”FaulknerGallery,PublicLibrary,SantaBarbara,May2006.

“Consciousness and Compassion in the Early Ved›nta.” Presented in Ved›nta SaradaConvent,Montecito,June2005.

“A Cultivation of the Four Divine Attitudes in Indian Buddhism.” Presented in Ved›ntaSaradaConvent,Montecito,July2003.

“Religion and Democracy in Mongolia: New Ideas, Problems, and Directions.” PresentedfortheAmistadInternational,PaloAlto,September2002.

“BuddhistNotionsofRest.”PresentedforthePhilosophicalResearchSociety,LosAngeles,February2002.

“The Fundamental Beliefs and Practices of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism.” Presented for theJunior-HighschoolclassintheJewishtempleB’naiB’rith,SantaBarbara,November2001.

Athree-lectureserieson“EarlyDevelopmentandComparisonoftheTherav›da,Mah›y›na,and Vajray›na Buddhist Traditions.” Presented for the Clear Light Sangha in the TrinityEpiscopalChurch,SantaBarbara,fromNovember-March2001“TheEquivocalAttitudeofBuddhismTowardWomen.”PresentedintheUCSBAffiliates’SpiritualityandCultureseries,FacultyClub,SantaBarbara,March2001.A ten-lecture series,entitled“BuddhistPsychologyandMethodsofHealing.”PresentedatthePhilosophicalResearchSociety,LosAngeles,September2000.Atwo-lectureseries“BuddhistContributiontotheCultureandArtofIndia.”PresentedfortheSantaBarbaraMuseumofArt,SantaBarbara,October2000.

TEACHINGEXPERIENCEUNDERGRADUATECOURSES

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Lower-DivisionCoursesIntroductiontoBuddhism,DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraIntroductiontoAsianReligiousTraditions,DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara

Upper-DivisionCoursesTeachingsandPracticesofEarlyBuddhism,Oriental InstituteandTheologyDepartment,UniversityofOxfordBuddhisminHistoryandSociety,OrientalInstituteandTheologyDepartment,UniversityofOxford

Religions of Mongolia, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, SantaBarbara

ReligionandHealinginGlobalPerspective,DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraBuddhistTantra,DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraIndianPhilosophy,DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraBuddhistEthics,DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraReligionsofIndia,DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraSouth Asian Buddhism, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, SantaBarbara

CeylonBuddhism,DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara

Socially Engaged Buddhism, Department of Religious Studies, University of California,SantaBarbara

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Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist Ethics, Innovative Academic Courses, sponsored by theDepartmentofReligiousStudies,StanfordUniversity

GRADUATESEMINARS

SeminaronResearchMethods intheStudyofBuddhism,OrientalInstitute,UniversityofOxfordGraduate Seminar in Buddhist Tantra, Department of Religious Studies, University ofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraGraduate Seminar in Hindu Philosophical Traditions, University of California, SantaBarbaraGraduate seminar in South Asian Buddhism (Mah›y›na Buddhism), Department ofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraGraduateseminarinJainism,DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraGraduateseminar inTherav›daBuddhism,DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraGraduateseminar inSouthAsianBuddhistTraditions(BuddhistPhilosophy),DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraGraduate seminar in South Asian Philosophical Traditions: Constructions of PersonalIdentitywithintheSixDarŸanas,DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraGraduate seminar in South Asian Buddhism: Buddhist Hermeneutics, Department ofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara

Graduate Seminar in the “Comparative Study of Foucault and Buddhist Theories ofSexuality and Religious Experience,” Department of Religious Studies, University ofCalifornia,SantaBarbara

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SANSKRIT,PfiLI,ANDVEDICLANGUAGESAdvancedSanskritCoursesandSeminars

ReadingSanskritmanuscriptsofRatn›k›raŸ›nti’sS›ratm›,OrientalInstitute,UniversityofOxfordReadingSanskritmanuscriptoftheSaddharmasm¸tyupasth›naSÒtra,OrientalInstitute,UniversityofOxfordReadings in the K›lacakratanta (Sanskrit and Tibetan), Oriental Institute, University ofOxfordBuddhist Tantric Literature in Sanskrit, Department of Religions Studies, University ofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraReadingBuddhistSanskritTexts (AdvancedSanskritcourse in reading selected texts fromthe corpus of Buddhist Mah›y›na and Vajray›na scriptures), Department of ReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraJainLiteratureinSanskrit(SelectedreadingsfromJainaSanskritLiterature),DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraBuddhistLiteratureinP›li(SelectedreadingsfromtheBuddhistP›licanonicalliterature),DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraAdvancedSanskrit(ReadingtheYogasÒtrasofPatañjaliwithVy›sa’sCommentary),DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraAdvancedSanskrit(ReadingselectedtextsfromBuddhistphilosophicalliterature),DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraAdvanced Sanskrit (Reading selected texts from classical Indian philosophical literature),DepartmentofReligiousStudied,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraAdvanced Sanskrit (Reading the selected texts from Buddhist Mah›y›na literature),DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara

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Reading Sanskrit Jain Texts (Reading the selected reading from the Jain classic,PraŸamaratiprakara˚amwithHaribhadra’scommentary),DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara

AdvancedSanskrit(ReadingtheselectedreadingspertainingtotheSouthAsiantheoriesofthe body from the Major Upani˝ads, Manus˙rti, Bh›gavata Pur›˚a, and fiyurvedicSa˙hit›s),DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraAdvanced Sanskrit (Reading the Bhairavavil›sa and the selected readings from theKath›saritas›gara),DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbaraAdvanced Sanskrit (Reading the Hindu tantric text Ras›r˚ava), Department of ReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara

Vedic Language (Selected readings from the Vedas, Br›hma˚as and ⁄rauta SÒtras),DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara

AdvancedSanskrit(ReadingselectedreadingsfromtheworksofAŸvagho˝a),DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara

Advanced Sanskrit (Reading Buddhist Tantric works: the K›lacakratantra and the

Vimalaprabh›),DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara

AdvancedSanskrit(Selectedreadings from theMajorandYogaUpani˝ads),DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,Santa Barbara

Advanced Sanskrit (Reading the Kul›r˚avatantra), Department of Religious Studies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara

AdvancedSanskrit(ReadingtheYogavasi˝˛ha),DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara

Advanced Sanskrit (Reading Hindu Philosophical Texts: the ⁄iva SÒtras with K˝emar›ja'sVimarŸinı),DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara

Advanced Sanskrit (Reading Sanskrit Philosophical Texts: the figamaŸ›stra of Gau˜ap›da

with ⁄aºkara's commentary), Department of Religious Studies, University of California,SantaBarbara

SanskritLanguage:UndergraduateCourses

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First-yearSanskrit.DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara,1998-2001

Intermediate Sanskrit, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa

Barbara,FallQuarter,1997

First-year Sanskrit. Department of Linguistics: Special Language Program, StanfordUniversity,Stanford,1993-1995

Readings in the Sanskrit A˝˛as›hasrik› Prajñ›p›ramit›, Department of Religious Studies,StanfordUniversity,Stanford,WinterQuarter,1993

M.A.COMMITTEES,DEPARTMENTOFRELIGIOUSSTUDIES,UCSB

JulianneCordero 2003

CarlosPomeda 2003AmiShah 2004HollyJ.Grether 2005AlysonA.Prude 2005JaredLindhal 2005AutumnJacobsen 2005AaronUllrey 2006ChaseBossart 2006NathanMcGovern 2006NathanielRich 2007StevenBerry-Anthony2008GregorySeton 2009CatherineTsuji 2009DavidCooper 2009

Ph.D.COMMITTEES,DEPARTMENTOFRELIGIOUSSTUDIES,UCSB

MarkElmore 2003,2005-AssistantProfessor,UCDavis

ArrianneConty 2003-Lecturer,AmericanUniversity,Rome EllenPosman 2004-AssociateProfessor,BawdenCollege MichaelJerryson 2005-AssistantProfessor,EckerdCollege AaronUllrey 2006-Ph.D.candidate RahuldeepSingh 2006,2009-AssistantProfessor,CaliforniaLutheranUniversity HollyGrether 2006-Lecturer,UniversityofMontana

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ToddPerreira 2007-Ph.D.candidate ZoranLazovic 2008-Ph.D.candidate ChloeMartinez 2008-Ph.D.candidate AlexCatanese 2009-Ph.D.candidate NathanMcGovern 2009-Ph.D.candidate NathanielRich 2010-Ph.D.candidate AmiShah 2010–Ph.D.candidateD.PhilCOMMITEES,ORIENTALINSTITUTE,UNIVERSITYOFOXFORD RachelStevens 2010-Ph.D.candidate CharlesManson 2010-Ph.D.candidate FrederickChen 2010-Ph.D.candidate UNDERGRADUATEPROJECTSDIRECTEDATUCSB

ChrisBerlin-Aresearchpaperon“BuddhistAbhidharma:MethodandMind,”2003ShaunPenington-Aresearchpaperon“EckhartandBuddhism:RealityQuestioned,”2003Shaun Pennington - Honors Thesis: “A Cultivation of Emotional Intelligence inBuddhism,”2003Vanessa Turner - A research paper on “Language and Meaning in Buddhist Vajray›naTradition.”2003BenjaminMichael-Aresearchpaperon“TibetanBuddhistMonasticisminIndia,”2003DonaldGomez-HonorsThesis:“Emptiness,”2003Harminder Singh Desi - A research on “Hindu Temple Architecture in Southern andNorthernIndia”2003KolbyGraham-Aresearchpaperon“TibetanBuddhisminAmerica,”2004Lindsay M. Kohn - A research paper on “A Comparative Study of the fiyurvedicConceptionsofPr›˚aandTaoistConceptionsofQi,”2004RajeevK.Ahuja–Aresearchpaperon“BuddhistTantra,”2005

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PennyJ.Layton-Aresearchpaperon“DeathandDyinginTibetanBuddhism,”2005Alexis M. Halligan – Honors Thesis ““A Comparative Study of Tibetan and NativeAmericanMedicalSystems,”2006AlexanderNazerian-Aresearchpaperon“MedicineEmergingfromaJungle,”2007RachelAguirre-Aresearchpaperon“TheFeastofHeavenandEarth:SpiritualityandFoodinAsianReligiousTraditions,”2007Brenda Aguilerra - A research paper on “Sacred Space in Christian and BuddhistTraditions,”2007ShirleyTrong -Aresearchpaperon“PopularVietnameseBuddhistPractices inAmerica,”2007EricStrokell-Aresearchpaperon“SacredRitualSubstancesandHealing,”2007KalionzesKledja–Aresearchpaperon“ReligionandHealinginPeru,”2007Terylin Kelly McFeely – A research paper on “Methods in the Study of Religion andAlternativeMedicalPractices,”2007ErdenebaatarErdene-Ochir–“TranslationandAnalysisoftheRealizationofRecognizingMyMother,thePerfectionofWisdom,”2009Erdenebaatar Erdene-Ochir - “An Analysis of the Bhagavadgıta from a BuddhistPerspective,”2010AnnaAlter–““TheLinkBetweenStressandthePerceptionofPain,”2010

TEACHINGASSISTANTSHIPSINASIANRELIGIONS Teaching Assistant for the course "Introduction to Buddhism, (Prof. Bernard Faurre),DepartmentofReligiousStudies,StanfordUniversity,Stanford, WinterQuarter,1996 TeachingAssistantfortheundergraduateseminar"SouthAsianThought"

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(Prof. Frits Staal), Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, FallQuarter,1994

Teaching Assistant for the course "Religious Classics of Asia," (Prof. Carl Bielefeldt),

DepartmentofReligiousStudies,StanfordUniversity,Stanford,FallQuarter,1993

Teaching Assistant for the course "Introduction to Buddhism," (Prof. Bernard Faurre),DepartmentofReligiousStudies,StanfordUniversity,Stanford,WinterQuarter,1993

Teaching Assistant for the course "Introduction to Buddhism," (Prof. Jan Nattier),DepartmentofReligiousStudies,StanfordUniversity,Stanford,SpringQuarter,1992

GraduateStudentInstructorforthecourse"IndiaintheWriter'sEye,"(Prof.LindaHess),Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley,SpringSemester,1990

TeachingAssistantforthecourse"IntroductiontoZenBuddhism," (Prof. Carl Bielefeldt), Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University, Stanford,SpringQuarter,1993-1996

TeachingAssistant for thecourse"ChineseReligiousBeliefsandPractices,"(Prof.BernardFaurre), Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, Winter Quarter,1994

ACourseinSerbo-Croatian

First-year Serbo-Croatian. University Extension, University of Washington, Seattle, 1987-1988.

LANGUAGEPROFICIENCYASIANLANGUAGESSouthAsianLanguagesYearsofStudyintheUndergraduateandGraduatePrograms Sanskrit 15academicyears BuddhistHybridSanskrit 1academicyear Vedic 2academicyears P›li1academicyear ModernHindi6academicyearsMediaevalHindi1academicyear

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Nepali1academicyear CentralAsianLanguagesModernMongolian 1 academic year, in addition to the 2 intensive summer

programsinMongoliaClassicalMongolian3academicyears,inadditiontoanintensivesummerprogramin MongoliaClassicalTibetan2academicyears,inadditiontoindividualtutoringEUROPEANLANGUAGESEnglishSerbo-CroatianRussianGermanLatin

PUBLICANDHUMANITARIANSERVICES

Member of the Advisory Board of the humanitarian, non-profit organization, AmistadInternational,PaloAlto,2001–present

DirectoroftheNairamdalProjectdedicatedtosocio-economicandculturaldevelopmentinMongolia,2001–present

FoundingmemberandamemberoftheAdvisoryBoardoftheDalaiLamaFoundation,PaloAlto,2003-present