Dr. Manuel Lopez

Interim Dean of Studies

Associate Professor of 宗教 and Buddhist Studies

宗教 | 国际 & 区域研究 | 人文学科

教育

Ph.D. 弗吉尼亚大学
M.A. 弗吉尼亚大学
B.A. Universitat Pompeu Fabra

I am a scholar of Buddhism with a particular regional focus on Tibet and the Himalayas (Tibet, 不丹, 尼泊尔). I am an Assistant Professor of 宗教 at 网赌平台网站, where I teach courses on Buddhism, Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhism, Buddhist Contemplative Systems, 印度教, and Asian 宗教s in general. I am also interested in the intersection of religion and popular culture and write about it in 一个博客.

I am currently working on a research project that explores the changes in the monastic curriculum that have taken place in the Himalayan Kingdom of 不丹 over the last few decades. This project is a collaboration with Prof. Dorji Gyeltshen, of the Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law (JSWSL). In order to work on this project, we are visiting monastic institutions in 不丹, both Nyingma (such as Tamzhing Lhündrup Monastery) and Drukpa Kagyu (such as Tango University), to see if there have been significant changes (in texts used, in what the monks learn, in pedagogical techniques, 等.), and what those changes are. We are also exploring this issue in the larger context of the curricular changes that have occurred all throughout the Buddhist world in the 20th century (including Tibet, 中国, 和台湾). The first research trip for this project took place during the summer of 2018.

I completed my undergraduate studies at the University Pompey Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona, Spain and my graduate work at the 弗吉尼亚大学. I also have extensive experience studying in Asia. 1999年至2001年, I studied Tibetan and Chinese as well as Buddhism and Tibetan literature at Northwest Minorities University in Lanzhou (Gansu Province), and at Tibet University, in Lhasa (Tibetan Autonomous Region). In 2013 I studied and did field research for my dissertation at Minzu University of 中国. Between 2003 and 2009 I also 工作 as director and lecturer of the SIT Study Abroad Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Program, 总部设在加德满都, 尼泊尔, which allowed me to experience and study the rich diversity of the religious traditions across the Himalayas, 在我有生之年, 工作, and traveled in Northern India (Dharamsala), 尼泊尔, 不丹, 以及西藏本身.

最近的课程

Buddhism for Beginners: The Buddha, his Quest for Enlightenment, and the Rise of a Global 宗教
The Many Gods of 印度教: Ritual, Faith, and Representation in India
Zombies, Handmaids, and Superheroes: 宗教 in Popular Culture
佛经
Emperors, Monks, and Samurais: Introduction to Japanese 宗教s
Buddhism in the Himalayas
Introduction to Chinese 宗教s

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选定的出版物

书

即将到来: Monastic 教育 in 不丹: Tradition and Transformation in the 21st Century.

同行评议的文章

• “Shifting Grounds: A Comparison of the Notion of the Ground (gzhi) in the Tibetan Great Perfection Tradition with the Idea of the Unconscious in the Analytical Psychology of Carl Gustav Jung.” Under review at the 国际 Journal of Jungian Studies.
• “In Search of the Lost Manuscript: The Obscure Recension History of the Tenth Century Text The Lamp for the Eye in Meditation.” Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 52, October 2019.
• “Contemplative Practice, Doxographies, and the Construction of Tibetan Buddhism: Nupchen Sangyé Yeshé and The Lamp for the Eye in Meditation” in 宗教s 2018, 9(11), 360; doi: 10.3390 / rel9110360.
• “The Twenty or Eighteen Texts of the Mind Series: Scripture, 传输, and the Idea of Canon in the Early Great Perfection Literature.” Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 24, January 2018.

书的章节

• Gyeltshen, Dorji, 曼努埃尔·洛佩兹, “如果你建造它们, They Will Come: The Transformation of Female Monastic 教育 in Contemporary 不丹.“在…… 克努特·雅各布森. Routledge Handbook of South Asian 宗教s. 弥尔顿:泰勒 & 弗朗西斯集团，2020.
• Gyeltshen, Dorji, 曼努埃尔·洛佩兹, “So Old and Yet So New: Buddhist 教育 and the Monastic Curriculum in Contemporary 不丹.” In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Seminar of the IATS, 2019. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 接受.

书评

• Review of If You Meet the Buddha on the Road: Buddhism, Politics, and Violence. 迈克尔·杰瑞森著. Oxford University Press, 2018. 新宗教，卷. 24, no. 4(2021年5月)
• Review of American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity, by Ann Gleig Nova Religio, (May 2020).
• Review of Architects of Buddhist Leisure: Socially Disengaged Buddhism in Asia’s Museums, 纪念碑, 及游乐场. By Justin Thomas McDaniel. University of Hawai’i Press, 2017. 新宗教，卷. 22, no. 3(2019年2月).
• Review of Remembering the Lotus-Born. Padmasambhava in the History of Tibet’s Golden Age by Daniel Hirshberg, in Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 45, 2018年4月.
• Review of The Buddha Party: How the People’s Republic of 中国 Works to Define and Control Tibetan Buddhism by John Powers 新宗教，卷. 21, no. 3(2018年2月).
• Review of New World Dharma, by Trevor Carolan. 新宗教，卷. 20, no. 4(2017年5月).