SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

Overview

Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia

Research Associate

Tibetan Studies

Research Associate

Name:

Dr Karma Phuntsho

Biography

Dr Lopen Karma Phuntsho is a Research Associate in Department of China and Inner Asia, SOAS. He was a Research Associate in the Department of Social Anthropology and Spalding Fellow of Comparative Religions at Clare Hall, Cambridge University and a post-doc researcher at CNRS, Paris. Dr Phuntsho finished full Tibetan Buddhist monastic training in Bhutan and India before he joined Balliol College, Oxford to read Sanskrit and Classical Indian Religions. He received a M.St. in Classical Indian Religions and D.Phil. in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford. He was also a visiting fellow at Harvard, a lecturer at Ngayur Nyingma Institute, Mysore, acting abbot of Shugbseb Nunnery, Dharamsala and the founding director of the Loden Foundation.

Dr Phuntsho is the author of Mipham’s Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness (RoutlegeCurzon 2005) and Tshad ma rigs pa’i them skas, a textbook on logic and epistemology. He has also edited several books and written 34 articles, monographs and book reviews and taught over 15 courses and given some 50 talks and presentations. His The History of Bhutan is being published by Random House India.