Ian J MacCormack
Lecturer in Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Depts. of Comparative Religion/Asian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (ian.maccormack@mail.huji.ac.il)
Formerly postdoctoral fellow in Buddhist Studies, University of California, Berkeley
PhD (2018), Harvard University, Committee on the Study of Religion
Research interests include: Tibetan Buddhist literatures; Tibetan cultural, political, and intellectual history; Buddhist kingship. Currently working on a project studying the major texts and works of the late 17th-century central Tibetan state.
Phone: (972) 053-5231164
Address: Dept. of Comparative Religion
Faculty of Humanities, Mt Scopus
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Formerly postdoctoral fellow in Buddhist Studies, University of California, Berkeley
PhD (2018), Harvard University, Committee on the Study of Religion
Research interests include: Tibetan Buddhist literatures; Tibetan cultural, political, and intellectual history; Buddhist kingship. Currently working on a project studying the major texts and works of the late 17th-century central Tibetan state.
Phone: (972) 053-5231164
Address: Dept. of Comparative Religion
Faculty of Humanities, Mt Scopus
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Thesis Chapters by Ian J MacCormack
Though famous as a politician, Sangyé Gyatso’s thinking about Buddhism and state has received less attention in scholarship. This project sheds light on several of his texts, both in the interest of fostering further study and to suggest alternative possibilities for thinking about religion and politics, beyond exposing the mechanisms of power. Over six chapters, this dissertation highlights three major productions of Sangyé Gyatso’s rule: a model for public speaking, a holiday to commemorate the Dalai Lama, and a new palace built in Lhasa. It argues for the direct participation of cosmological and theological discourses and their related practices in the work of situating, articulating, and realizing a Buddhist state.
Papers by Ian J MacCormack
Though famous as a politician, Sangyé Gyatso’s thinking about Buddhism and state has received less attention in scholarship. This project sheds light on several of his texts, both in the interest of fostering further study and to suggest alternative possibilities for thinking about religion and politics, beyond exposing the mechanisms of power. Over six chapters, this dissertation highlights three major productions of Sangyé Gyatso’s rule: a model for public speaking, a holiday to commemorate the Dalai Lama, and a new palace built in Lhasa. It argues for the direct participation of cosmological and theological discourses and their related practices in the work of situating, articulating, and realizing a Buddhist state.