Bryan J. Cuevas

John Priest Associate Professor of Religion Director of Graduate Studies Departmental Area: History and Ethnography of Religions Research Areas : Buddhist and Tibetan Studies Address: 303 University Way P.O. Box 6061520 Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306 Office: 120E Dodd Hall Email: bcuevas@fsu.edu Office Hours: By appointment

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 (http://www.thlib.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

Spring 2009
REL3340: The Buddhist Tradition
REL4359/5354 Seminar: Tibetan Religious History
REL5937: Advanced Literary Tibetan II

Fall 2009
HUM2937: (Honors Seminar): Magic and the Supernatural in the Asian World
REL3348: Tibetan and Himalayan Religions
REL5356: Readings in Tibetan Religious Texts
REL5906: Tibetan Bibliography