Position:
Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies
Faculty / College Address:
Oriental Institute / Wolfson College
Email:
ulrike.roesler@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
- Indo-Tibetan Buddhism
- The Bka‘ gdams pa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism
- Tibetan narrative literature
- Tibetan historiography, biographical literature, and travelogues
Current Projects:
- The early history of Reting monastery
- Bon monasticism
Courses Taught:
- Elementary Tibetan
- Readings in classical and modern Tibetan
- Tibetan history and civilization
- Religions of Tibet
- The Tibetan literary heritage
Recent Publications:
Articles:
2019 “Atiśa and the Kadampa Masters.” Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism, vol. II., editor-in-chief Jonathan Silk. Leiden, Boston: Brill, pp. 1145-1158.
2019 “Between Self-Expression and Convention: Tibetan Reflections on Tibetan Life Writing.” In The Selfless Ego: Memory and Imagination in Tibetan Life Writing. Edited by Lucia Galli and Franz Xaver Erhard. Special Issue of Life Writing (2020). https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2019.1620581.
2019 “Biographies, Prophecies, and Hidden Treasures: Preliminary Remarks on Some Early Bka’ gdams pa Sources.” In: Unearthing Himalayan Treasures. Ed. by Marta Sernesi, Nicolai Solmsdorf, and Volker Caumanns. Marburg: Indica et Tibetica Verlag, pp. 345-366.
2018 "Rgya gar skad du – in Sanskrit? Indian Languages as Mirrored in Tibetan Travel Accounts.” Saddharmāmṛtam: Festschrift für Jens-Uwe Hartmann zum 65. Geburtstag. Herausgegeben von Oliver von Criegern, Gudrun Melzer und Johannes Schneider. Wien: Arbeitskreis für tibetische und buddhistische Studien, pp. 351-368.
Books edited:
Tibetan & Himalayan Healing: An Anthology for Anthony Aris. Edited by Charles Ramble and Ulrike Roesler.Kathmandu: Vajra Books 2015.
Lives Lived, Lives Imagined: Biography in the Buddhist Traditions. Proceedings of the Conference held in Oxford, 28-29 April 2007. Edited by Linda Covill, Ulrike Roesler and Sarah Shaw. Boston: Wisdom Publications 2010.
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