Jonathan Samuels
Professor
Buddhist Studies
Heidelberg University
Germany
Biography
Jonathan Samuels, DPhil (Oxford) Academic Staff Position Research Associate Buddhist Studies 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. Projects D16 Reasoning in South Asian and Tibetan Buddhism (project completed) MC3.3 Negotiating Boundaries in Religious Discourse and Practice Professorship Buddhist Studies
Research Interest
Buddhist Studies
Publications
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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)
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2014 Review of James B. Apple Stairway to NirvÄṇa: A Study of the Twenty Saṃghas Based on the Works of Tsong Kha Pa, New York: State University of New York Press, 2008. Indo-Iranian Journal. Volume 57, Issue 1-2: 146– 150.
