College:
Wadham College
Course:
DPhil Candidate in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Indo-Tibetan)
Thesis Title:
“Nectar, Water, or Blood? Buddhist Perspectives on Perception Across Realms, and Conventional and Ultimate Epistemic Instruments”
Educational background:
2020-2021 MSt in Oriental Studies (Tibetan) at the University of Oxford.
Thesis title: “Luminosity as the basis, pramāṇa as the path, and infinite potential as the result: rGyal tshab and Mi pham on Dharmakīrti’s thought.”
2015-2020 Philosophy Tutor for the Masters Programme in Buddhist Studies of Sutra and Tantra (a full-time traditionally orientated study programme based on the Tibetan Geshe degree) Nalanda Monastery, France
2008-2014 Masters Programme in Buddhist Studies of Sutra and Tantra, Instituto Lama Tsongkhapa Italy.
Research interests:
Perceptual relativism. The relationship between Buddhist meditative theory and philosophy. Indian and Tibetan Buddhist history. Tibetan systems of epistemology. Digital Humanities.
Publications:
Forthcoming. “Different moon same finger? Tsong-kha-pa and Mi-pham’s application of Dharmakīrti’s pramāṇa theory for meditating on emptiness.”
