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Andrew Quintman is a scholar of Buddhism in Tibet and the Himalaya, and associate professor in the Department of Religion at Wesleyan University. He writes, teaches, and lectures about Buddhist literature and history, sacred geography and pilgrimage, and visual cultures of the Himalayan region. For seven years he served as the academic director of the School for International Training's Tibetan Studies program based in Kathmandu. He is the author of The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of the Great Tibetan Saint Milarepa (Columbia University Press 2014), winner of the American Academy of Religion's 2014 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, and the 2015 Heyman Prize for outstanding scholarship from Yale University. His English translation of The Life of Milarepa was published in 2010 in the Penguin Classics series. He also co-edited Himalayan Passages: Tibetan and Newar Studies in Honor of Hubert Decleer (Wisdom 2014). He is former Co-Chair of the Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group of the American Academy of Religion and co-leads an ongoing collaborative workshop on Religion and the Literary in Tibet. He helped establish the Yale Himalaya Initiative for which he served as Faculty Coordinator. From 2015–2017, he was a Collaborative Research Fellow in the ACLS-Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies. From 2018–2019, he was a Research Fellow in the ACLS-Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies. He is co-founding editor of the Journal of Tibetan Literature. www.andrewquintman.com
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