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Brandon Dotson is Professor and Thomas P. McKenna Chair of Buddhist Studies at Georgetown University's Department of Theology and Religious Studies. He holds a D.Phil and M.Phil from Oxford University and a B.A. from Wesleyan University. His research examines ritual, narrative, and cosmology in Tibetan culture, particularly through Dunhuang manuscripts from the Tibetan Empire period (7th-9th centuries CE).
Specializing in the interaction between Buddhist and non-Buddhist traditions, his work explores divination practices, textual production, and cultural exchange along the Silk Road. Recent publications analyze ninth-century sutra production, scribal practices in Dunhuang, and narrative transmission.
He has held academic positions at Oxford, SOAS, UCSB, and Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, with research periods in China and Tibet.
