Dr. Nathaniel Rich

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Dr. Nathaniel Rich

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Nathaniel Rich studied philosophy and history as an undergraduate in Texas and completed an MA and PhD in religious studies at the University of California Santa Barbara.

Nathaniel Rich studied philosophy and history as an undergraduate in Texas and completed an MA and PhD in religious studies at the University of California Santa Barbara with an academic focus on the intellectual and institutional history of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He is currently investigating the place of sūtra literature in the historical development of Tibetan Buddhist traditions and is especially interested in developing course materials for the study of the Kangyur in both undergraduate classrooms and Buddhist communities.