Jacob Dalton
Tibetan, Buddhist Studies, South and Southeast Asian Studies Programs
Khyentse Foundation Distinguished Professor
3114 Dwinelle
Jacob Dalton works on tantric ritual, Nyingma religious history, and the Dunhuang manuscripts. He is co-author of Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from Dunhuang: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Stein Collection at the British Library (Brill, 2006) and author of The Taming of the Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism (Yale University Press, 2011), Through the Eyes of the Compendium of Intentions: The History of a Tibetan Ritual Tradition (Columbia University Press, 2016), and Conjuring the Buddha: Ritual Manuals in Early Tantric Buddhism (Columbia University Press, 2023). He is currently working on two books: an introduction to tantric Budddhism and an interpretive study of Tibet's early Great Perfection Heart Essence tradition.
