Research Expertise and Interest

religion, ritual, Tibet, Buddhism, Tantra, Dunhuang

Research Description

Jacob Dalton works on tantric ritual, Nyingma religious history, and the Dunhuang manuscripts.  He is co-author of Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from Dunhuang: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Stein Collection at the British Library (Brill, 2006) and author of The Taming of the Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism (Yale University Press, 2011), Through the Eyes of the Compendium of Intentions: The History of a Tibetan Ritual Tradition (Columbia University Press, 2016), and Conjuring the Buddha: Ritual Manuals in Early Tantric Buddhism (Columbia University Press, 2023).