Gray Tuttle
Leila Hadley Luce Assistant Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies Columbia University East Asian Lang-Cult
URL:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ealac/
Biography Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Assistant Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies (EALAC), received his Ph.D. in Inner Asian Studies at HarvardUniversity (2002). He studies the history of twentieth-century Sino-Tibetan relations as well as Tibet’s relations with the China-based Manchu Qing Empire. The role of Tibetan Buddhism in these historical relations is central to all his research. His publications include Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China (2005). His current research project focuses on the support that Tibetan Buddhist institutions have received from the governments of China from the 17th to 20th century and how this support, along with economic growth in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands, has fueled expansion and renewal of these institutions into the contemporary period. Forthcoming projects include Sources of Tibetan Tradition, co-edited for the series Introduction to Asian Civilizations, and the jointly authored volume Tibet : History, Society, and Culture.
