Dr. Paul G. Hackett

Paul has pursued research in the field of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, including natural language processing (NLP) for literary Tibetan, Indo-Tibetan Buddhist philosophy with a particular focus on canonical sources and their reception in Tibet, and Buddhism as alternative religion in America. He completed his PhD in Indo-Tibetan studies at Columbia University in 2008, following previous studies at the University of Virginia and the University of Maryland. He subsequently taught Buddhism and Classical Tibetan at Columbia and Yale Universities.