Participant Info
- First Name
- Dominique
- Last Name
- Townsend
- Country
- United States
- State
- NY New York
- Dtownsend@bard.edu
- Affiliation
- Bard College
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Buddhism, Tibet, Religion, Cultural Production, Aesthetics, Poetry
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Dominique Townsend is a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism and culture. She teaches Buddhist Studies at Bard College, in the Hudson Valley of New York. Her research focuses on religion, cultural production, and aesthetics, with a focus on the mutually constitutive relationship between the “religious” and the “secular.” Townsend is also a poet (The Weather & Our Tempers, Brooklyn Arts Press) and the author of a children’s book about Buddhist philosophy (Shantideva, Wisdom Publications).
- Recent Publications
“How to Constitute a Field of Merit: Structure and Flexibility in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery’s Curriculum,” Religions 2017, 8, 174. http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/8/9/174/htm
“Buddhism’s Worldly Other: Secular Subjects of Tibetan Learning,” HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies: Vol. 36 : No. 1 , Article 15.
http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol36/iss1/15
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @dominique_fox77
- Country Focus
- Tibet
- Expertise by Geography
- Asia
- Expertise by Chronology
- 17th century, 18th century, Early Modern, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Local & Regional, Material Culture, Pedagogy, Religion
