Bryan J. Cuevas

Bryan J. Cuevas is John F. Priest Professor of Religion and Director of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at Florida State University. He is a specialist of Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhism, whose principal research interests focus on Tibetan history and biography, Buddhist magic and sorcery, the politics of ritual power in premodern Tibetan societies, and the literary history of Tibetan Buddhist death narratives and death-related practices, from roughly the eleventh through the early eighteenth centuries. Prof. Cuevas's research has received support from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton University's Center for the Study of Religion (CSR), the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), and by grants from public and private endowments.