Biography
Christopher
Kelley is currently a PhD candidate, under Robert Thurman, in
Indo-Tibetan Buddhism at Columbia University. He received a B.A. in
Anthropology and Sociology from Lafayette College (1997), an M.A. in
Religion from Columbia University (2003), and an M. Phil from Columbia
University (2009).
He
is presently writing a dissertation on the nature of karma and moral value in
Indian and Tibetan Buddhism.
Kelley is a preceptor in the core curriculum at Columbia College, and
occasionally teaches classes at The New School in New York City.
He
is also the rapporteur and co-founder of the Columbia Society
for Comparative Philosophy (www.cbs.columbia.edu/cscp/),
and a contributor to the Buddhist Studies Weblog.
In
2007 he directed a team that produced a rigorous two-day event entitled
"Mind and Reality: A Multidisciplinary Symposium
on Consciousness." The proceedings are available online as an
e-seminar (www.mindandreality.org).
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