Karma Phuntsho

Lopen Dr. Karma Phuntsho was born in Ura village in the Bumthang valley of central Bhutan and went to school in Bhutan. In 1986, he left school to become a monk and study Buddhism. After a year in Cheri monastery in Bhutan, he moved to India to continue his studies in Tibetan monasteries. Karma spent a year at Sera monastery and ten years in Ngagyur Nyingma Institute, where he was trained to be a Khenpo. Since 1994, Karma has taught Buddhism and related subjects in both Tibetan and English and has served as an abbot at Shugseb Nunnery and a lecturer at Ngagyur Nyingma Institute.

In 1997, Karma joined Balliol College, Oxford to read for an M.St. in Sanskrit and Classical Indian Religions. In 2003, Karma received a D.Phil. in Buddhist Studies from Oxford. His dissertation is now published by RoutledgeCurzon as the book Mipham's Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness: To be, Not to be or Neither. Since then, Karma has worked as a post-doctoral researcher in CNRS, Paris and is currently a Research Associate in the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University. He is also the Spalding Fellow in Comparative Religions at Clare Hall. Lopen Karma specialises in Buddhism, Tibetan & Himalayan Studies and Bhutan, and has published a number of works including two books, translations, book reviews and articles on Buddhism, Bhutan and Tibetan Studies.

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Published Works

Books

• Mipham's Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness: To be, not to be or neither [ISBN 0415352525]

Active Projects

• Digital documentation of manuscript collection in Gangtey
• The Loden Foundation

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