Dan A. Hirshberg

Daniel A. Hirshberg, Ph.D. is Associate Teaching Professor of Tibetan Studies and Associate Faculty Director of Himalayan Languages in the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has held one-year fellowships at UC Santa Barbara, LMU Munich, and UVa’s Contemplative Sciences Center, and served as Visiting Faculty at Naropa University’s Center for Psychedelic Studies. His research centers on cultural memory, the narrative of Tibet’s conversion to Buddhism, and the apotheosis of its protagonist, Padmasambhava, in literature and iconography. His first book, Remembering the Lotus-Born: Padmasambhava in the History of Tibet’s Golden Age (Wisdom Publications, Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, 2016), won Honorable Mention for the E. Gene Smith Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies.