Visiting Scholars in Tibetan Studies at UVa

Current Visiting Scholars

Quentin Devers

(August 2008-August 2009): A French archaeologist, Quentin Devers’ research is on the archaeology of Ladakh, and he is working at UVa on THL’s overall geographical data sets.

John Flower

John Flower researches local history, development, cultural landscape, and folklife in Ya’an municipality (western Sichuan province), a border region which includes Han, Tibetan, and Yi ethnicities. He was director (2000-2001) of “Preserving Living Traditions” a multi-year research and cultural exchange project on Tibetan and Appalachian Folk Music that was a partnership with the Tibetan and Himalayan Library. He is co-author, with Pamela Leonard, of the forthcoming digital monograph and online database Moral Landscape in a Sichuan Mountain Village, produced in collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), University of Virginia, and with the support of an American Council of Learned Societies Digital Innovation Fellowship (2008).

Thubten Phuntsok

Thubten Phuntsok is a Distinguished International Fellow and Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia for 2009.  He is a senior professor of Tibetology at Central Nationalities University in Beijing and a leading scholar of Tibetan medicine and Tibetan history.  Trained as a medical doctor in the Tibetan tradition, he has published numerous books in a range of disciplines and is founder and president of the first non-profit on the Tibetan plateau working to prevent HIV/AIDS.

Yangmotso

Yangmotso is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Virginia for 2009-2010 as well as a rising young scholar of classical Tibetan studies in China. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in the department of Tibetology at Minzu University of China (MUC) in Beijing. She is focusing her dissertation on the ancient Tibetan kings of the Imperial Period.

Liu Zhiyang

Past Visiting Scholars

Padmatsho

(February 2008-August 2009): One of the few female Tibetan Ph.D.s in China, Padmatsho is a professor of Tibetan Buddhism and Society at the Southwest Nationalities University in Chengdu.

Sinongpentso

(August 2008-August 2009): Author of an important book on Katok Monastery, Sinongpentso is a professor of Tibetan Buddhism and Society at the Southwest Nationalities University in Chengdu.

Tsewang Lhamo

(August 2007-August 2008): A prominent scholar in Bejing focused on Tibetan language and literature, Tsewang Lhamo is a professor of Tibetan Language at the Central University of Minorities in Beijing.

Tsering Perlo

(January 2007-July 2007, October 2007-March 2008): Director of the Eastern Tibetan NGO Rabsal, Tsering Perlo trained in participatory film making at UVa and worked on our Eastern Tibetan video collections.

Ania Urbanska (January to May 2008)

Rikpai Dorje

Drongbu Tsering Dorje

Tsering Gyalpo

Drolkar

Wang Songping

Li Tao

Lobsang