DPhil in Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
MA in Oriental and African Religions, University of London
MA in the History and Culture of Medicine, University of London +
University of Michigan
Ph.D., 2006. Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.
Dissertation title: “The Twenty-five Great Sites of Khams: Religious Geography, Revelation, and Nonsectarianism in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Tibet.”
Committee: Donald S. Lopez (Chair), Luis Gomez, Tomoko Mazuzawa, and James Robson.
M. A., 2000. Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.
Thesis: “Drawing Fear from the Wilderness: Tibetan Rituals of Domestication.” Thesis advisor: Professor Donald S. Lopez
University of Vermont
M.A., 1996. Department of History.
Thesis: “One God or Twenty: Fundamentalism, Pluralism, and the Battle over ‘Secular Humanism’ in the United States.” Thesis advisor: Professor Doris Bergen
Marlboro College
B.A., Philosophy. Graduated with Honors, 1992.
Thesis: “Self in the Absence of a Self.” +
BA in Natural Science (physics), Oxford (1967)
PhD in Social Anthropology, Cambridge (1975).
Dissertation: "The Crystal Rosary: Insight and Method in an Anthropological Study of Tibetan Religion."
Downloadable from http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/236973 +
Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, 1976; M.A. in Chinese, Seton Hall University, 1965; B.A. in English & Asian Studies, Seton Hall University, 1964 +
Ph.D. in History of Religion/Buddhist Studies, Columbia University, (February 2001)
M.Phil. Columbia University (May 1998)
M.A. Columbia University (May 1995)
B.A. in Religious Studies, Wesleyan University (May 1993) +
Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1979). Dissertation: "The Zen Master Dōgen's Understanding of the Buddha-nature in Light of the Historical Development of the Buddha Nature Concept in India, China, and Japan." +