Sara McClintock, Ph.D

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Sara McClintock, Ph.D

Board Member

Sara L. McClintock, PhD, is Associate Professor of Religion at Emory University in Atlanta where she teaches courses in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and narrative traditions.

Sara L. McClintock, PhD, is Associate Professor of Religion at Emory University in Atlanta where she teaches courses in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and narrative traditions. Her published work includes a monograph, Omniscience and the Rhetoric of Reason (2010), and a co-authored volume with Georges Dreyfus, The Svātantrika-Prāsaṅgika Distinction (2003).

She earned her doctorate from Harvard University (2002), and she has conducted research at the Central University for Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, India; the University of Lausanne, Switzerland; and the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia at the Austrian Academy of Science in Vienna, Austria.

She is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, and a Research Fellow at the Mind and Life Institute. She is a 2019 recipient of a Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation in Buddhist Studies Research Fellowship for work she is conducting on a new book project entitled Transactional Reality, Transactional Truth.

Her Dharma practice includes instruction from a wide range of teachers in diverse lineages. Sara joined the Board of 84000 in 2011.