Bryan
J. Cuevas
Associate Professor
of Religion
Director of Graduate Studies
M05
Dodd Hall
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306
Office: 120E
Dodd Hall
Phone: (850) 644-9879
Fax: (850) 644-7225
Email: bcuevas@fsu.edu
Office Hours: TBA
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Background
Bryan
J. Cuevas (Ph.D. University of Virginia) teaches
courses in Asian religious traditions, specializing in Tibetan
and Himalayan Buddhism, Tibetan history, language, and culture.
He has held visiting appointments at the Institute for Advanced
Study, Princeton (2007-08), UC Berkeley (2005-06),
Princeton University (2001-02), and Emory University (2000),
and is co-director of the Tibetan History Collections
of the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library (www.thdl.org).
His research focuses on Tibetan history and historiography,
including
monastic politics, family-clan relations, and Buddhist popular
religion within the broader context of premodern Tibetan religious
culture. He is currently working on a study of Tibetan sorcery
and the politics of war magic from the sixteenth to eighteenth
centuries. Recent
publications include The Hidden History
of the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Oxford,
2003); Power,
Politics, and the Reinvention of Tradition: Tibet in the
Seventeenth
and Eighteenth Centuries,
with Kurtis Schaeffer (Brill, 2006); The Buddhist
Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations, with
Jacqueline Stone (Kuroda Institute/Hawai'i, 2007); and Travels
in the Netherworld: Buddhist Popular Narratives of Death
and the Afterlife in Tibet (Oxford, 2008).
Recent
Courses
Fall
2008
- REL3358:
Tibetan & Himalayan Religions
- REL4359/5354
Seminar: Buddhist Tantra
- REL5937:
Advanced Literary Tibetan I
Spring 2009
- REL3340:
Buddhist Tradition
- REL4359/5354
Seminar: Tibetan Religious History
- REL5937:
Advanced Literary Tibetan II
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