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Dorji Wangchuk was born on 1967 in East Bhutan, is an A tibetologist. Discover Dorji Wangchuk's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 57 years old?
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1967 |
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East Bhutan |
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Dorji Wangchuk Height, Weight & Measurements
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Dorji Wangchuk Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Dorji Wangchuk worth at the age of 57 years old? Dorji Wangchuk’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from Bhutan. We have estimated Dorji Wangchuk's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Dorji Wangchuk (born c. 1967) is a Bhutanese-German professor for Tibetan (Buddhist) Studies at the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies in the University of Hamburg's Asien-Afrika-Institute and is a contemporary Tibetologist and a Buddhologist.
He is also the founder and director of the Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship (KC-TBTS), a research center within the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies at the University of Hamburg's Asien-Afrika-Institute.
His main teaching and research interests lie in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, Tibetan intellectual history and history of ideas, and Tibetan Buddhist intellectual, literary, and textual culture.
Currently, he is working on the perception and reception of Yogācāra in Tibet and on the identity, superiority, and authenticity issues of the Vidhyādharapiṭaka in Tibetan Buddhism.
Between 1992 and 1996, he taught Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns in monastic seminaries in India.
Since 1998, he has been teaching and researching at the University of Hamburg in various capacities.
He also taught a term each at the University of Copenhagen, McGill University, and Renmin University of China.
After completing a nine-year course in the study of Tibetan Buddhism from the monastic seminary of India's Ngagyur Nyingma Institute in Bylakuppe, Mysore, Dorji Wangchuk majored in both Classical Indology and Tibetology at the University of Hamburg, graduating with an Masters of Arts in 2002.
He wrote his doctoral dissertation on "The Resolve to Become a Buddha: A Study of the Bodhicitta Concept in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism" and received his PhD from the same university in 2005.
On January 6, 2011, Wangchuk founded the Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship.
The research center focuses on the preservation and distribution of Buddhist texts.
In May of 2012, the research center launched a bilingual version of its website, available in English and German.
In 2015, Wangchuk co-founded BuddhaNexus, a digital library developed for the purposes of matching text with Tibetan works, with professors Orna Almogi and Sebastian Nehrdich.
In 2018, BuddhaNexus collaborated with the International Institute for Digital Humanities in Tokyo to create charts of various matches within Tibetan Buddhist texts.
