• Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa
  Assistant Professor
  Ph.D., Australian National University
  
  aholmes12@bama.ua.edu
  
  

  Research Interests:

• Cultural history of the Himalayas and western China
• Modes of authority in the Tibetan cultural sphere
• The modern history of cultural interchange in borderland areas of the Tibetan cultural sphere: Sikkim, Kham, Bhutan, and Ladakh
• The creation of memory and indigenous historiography in Asian societies
• Tibetan lay religious lineages
  

Current and Forthcoming Courses:

• History of Asian Religious and Intellectual Traditions
• History of Asian Civilization until 1400 CE
• History of Tibet
• History of Imperialism in Asia and the Pacific
• History of Gender and Sexuality in Asia
• History of Buddhism between China, Tibet and the Himalayas

Recent Publications:

• "Contesting and Coalescing Definitions of Lay Buddhist Communities in Tibet: A case study of the lineage of Togden Shakya Shri (1853- 1919)," in Proceedings from Lay Buddhist in Everyday Life Conference, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2007. Seoul: Chongji Education Office, 2007.
• "The Making of a Bhutanese Buddha: Preliminary Remarks on the Biography of Tenzin Gyatso, a Bhutanese Scholar- Yogi," in Journal of Bhutan Studies, Volume 16, Summer 2007.
• "Bone and Heart Sons: Real and Imagined Kin in the Creation of Tibetan Buddhist Family Lineage," in Liz Wilson (ed.). Family in Buddhism: Asian Buddhist Constructions of Kinship and Religious Authority. Forthcoming, 2009.

Current Projects:

• Mapping Constellations of Power in Himalayan Buddhism: The Life and Lineage of Togden Shakya Shri (1853-1919).
• The Genealogy of the Lhathog Kings.