Journey and Milestones
Background Information
Experience
Dr. Paul G. Hackett
Associate Translator
Paul Hackett completed his doctorate in Indo-Tibetan studies at Columbia University in 2008, building on his previous studies at the University of Virginia.
Paul Hackett completed his doctorate in Indo-Tibetan studies at Columbia University in 2008, building on his previous studies at the University of Virginia, where he received his masters in Religion and at the University of Maryland where he received another masters in Library and Information Science. He subsequently held a position as an editor/translator for the American Institute of Buddhist Studies and as Classical Tibetan language instructor at Columbia and Yale Universities.
His research interests are wide-ranging 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 the Geluk tradition, and the history of Tibetan Buddhism as alternative religion in America.
His dissertation was published as “Theos Bernard, The White Lama: Tibet, Yoga, and American Religious Life” (Columbia Univ. Pr., 2012), while his two most recent publications are a pair of Tibetan language reference and study works: “A Tibetan Verb Lexicon” and “Learning Classical Tibetan” (Snow Lion, 2019).
He lives in New York City and is currently engaged in research on the Guhyasamāja Tantra and related literature.