Description: Based on presentations at the Twelfth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies held in Vancouver in 2010.
Brief description: Benjamin Bogin is assistant professor of Buddhist Studies in the Theology Department at Georgetown University. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. (Buddhist Studies) from the University of Michigan and spent six years living in Kathmandu, Nepal where he directed study-abroad programs in the Himalayas for American students. His primary research interests are Tibetan Buddhist autobiography and the intersections of visual art, narrative, and sacred geography in Buddhist cultures. He lives in Washington, DC.
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