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Bryan J. Cuevas

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Bryan J. Cuevas (born 1967) is an American Tibetologist and historian of religion. He is John F. Priest Professor of Religion and Director of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at Florida State University, where he specializes in Tibetan Buddhist history, literature, and culture.[1] His research focuses on Tibetan history and historiography, hagiography and biographical literature, Buddhist popular religion, the literary history of death narratives and death-related practices, and the politics of magic and ritual power in premodern Tibetan societies, from roughly the eleventh through the early eighteenth centuries.[2]

Education

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Cuevas was born in Atlanta, Georgia.[3] He received his B.A. degree in Philosophy in 1989 from Emory University,[4] and his M.A. (1993) and Ph.D. (2000) degrees in History of Religions and Buddhist and Tibetan Studies from the University of Virginia.[5]

Academic career

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In addition to his current position at FSU, Cuevas has been a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study[6] and has held visiting appointments at the University of California, Berkeley[7] and Princeton University. He has served on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion and has been book review editor for the Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies. His work has received fellowship support from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University, and the American Institute of Indian Studies.

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References

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  1. ^ "Faculty Profiles - Department of Religion - Florida State University".
  2. ^ "Amazon Author Pages". Amazon.
  3. ^ "Video Lecture (University of Virginia, April 8, 2005) - "Here, There, and in Between: Reflections of a Young Tibetologist"".
  4. ^ "Curriculum Vitae - Florida State University".
  5. ^ "Alumni of Tibetan Studies at UVA".
  6. ^ "IAS - Scholars". 9 December 2019.
  7. ^ "Past Visiting Scholars - Buddhist Studies - University of California, Berkeley". Archived from the original on 2017-04-19. Retrieved 2016-09-14.