Kapstein, Matthew

Matthew Kapstein is Numata Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Chicago. His previous publications include the "Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Contestation, and Memory" and, with the anthropologist Melvyn C. Goldstein, "Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity". He is co-translator of the late H.H. Dujom Rinpoche's "The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism". Since 2002 he has also served as director of Tibetan Studies at the ecole Pratique des Hautes etudes, Paris.