Dr. Jonathan Samuels, who was a research associate within the remit of the Professorship for Buddhist Studies, has been appointed as a Junior Research Fellow for Tibetan and Himalayan Studies at Wolfson College, the largest graduate college within the University of Oxford. There, he will be investigating Tibetan monastic education and the practice of public debate in the fourteeth century, before the identities, canons and tenets of the different Tibetan Buddhist schools had solidified. Samuels further hopes to de-iconize this stage of Tibet’s religious past and to reveal how networks, regional rivalries, and social structures shaped religious discussions.
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