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JOSE IGNACIO CABEZON, Ph. D.
BIOGRAPHY
José I. Cabezón is now the XIV Dalai Lama Endowed Chair in Tibetan Buddhism
and Cultural Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at University of California Santa Barbara. He was formerly Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Iliff School of Theology, Denver, Colorado. He received his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1986. Some of his major publications included Buddhism, Sexuality and Gender, A Dose of Emptiness, and Buddhism and Language. His research has focused on cross-cultural comparison as a method and classical Tibetan polemical literature on the doctrine of emptiness.
Read more at... http://www.religion.ucsb.edu/Faculty/cabezon.htm
Statement by José I. Cabezón:
The discipline of Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the United States has shifted its focus over the last three decades. Beginning as a project that was concerned principally with the study of philosophical texts, and relying almost exclusively on emic, or tradition-centered, interpretive schemes, the field has broadened its scope considerably. Today, scholars are still concerned with philosophical texts, but also with the ritual, historiographical and visionary literature, with the oral texts in which Tibetans describe their lives and daily practices, and with the material aspects of Tibetan religious culture. The way of understanding this material has also shifted, as Tibetologists draw on a wide array of theoretical models and hermeneutical tools: from comparison to Continental thought to gender studies and queer theory. In my studies, I am interested in bringing these contemporary, Western approaches to understanding religion into conversation with indigenous Tibetan theory. My goal, in part, is to demonstrate the richness and sophistication of the Tibetan intellectual tradition, a richness that goes beyond Tibet's mere use as a datum.
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