Jonathan Samuel
Research Associate
Buddhist Studies
Heidelberg University
Germany
Biography
Jonathan Samuels spent 20 years in Tibetan communities in India and Nepal. He holds a Geshe degree, the highest academic degree in the Tibetan Buddhist monastic educational system. He has many years experience teaching Tibetan, and conceived and organised teaching programmes for translators and interpreters from Tibetan to English. He completed MSt and DPhil degrees at the Oriental Institute of the University of Oxford, and has recently produced a textbook on Colloquial Tibetan with Routledge.
Research Interest
Buddhist Studies
Publications
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2016 Revisiting the Emic Perspective: Lessons to be Learnt from the Worldly–Other-worldly Distinction in Tibet and Elsewhere. Buddhism and the Dynamics of Transculturality, Religion and Society. Berlin: de Gruyter (forthcoming).
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2016 Revisiting the Emic Perspective: Lessons to be Learnt from the Worldly–Other-worldly Distinction in Tibet and Elsewhere. Buddhism and the Dynamics of Transculturality, Religion and Society. Berlin: de Gruyter (forthcoming).
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2016 Review of Lama Jabb’s Oral and Literary Continuities in Modern Tibetan Literature: The Inescapable Nation, Lexington Books, 2015, International Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 13, Issue 02 (July)
