Dorji Gyeltshen
Professor
Biography
2021: American Academy of Religion “The Commentarial Curriculum and the Transformation of Female Monastic Education in Contemporary Bhutan, San Antonio, Texas, November 20-23
2019: Woodenfish Conference “Monasticism and Monastic Codes Across the Buddhist World,” the paper presentation “The Silent Revolution: the Transformation of Female Monastic Education in Bhutan.” June 22-24 in Gold Coast Hotel, Hong Kong
2019: International Association of Tibetan Studies (IATS), Presenting paper “Monastic Education in Bhutan: Tradition and Transformation” with my colleague Prof. Manuel A. Lopez Zafra from, New College of Florida US, Paris, July 7-13.
2018: GNH and Law Conference presenting paper “Tsema as an indispensable part of a legal Education in Bhutan, July 17-18
2016-2018: External Examiner, Paro College of Education
2009-2017: Associate Professor in Dzongkha, Royal Thimphu College, Thimphu
2009-2017: Program Leader in Dzongkha Department, Royal Thimphu College, Thimphu
2017: Member of Dzongkha Expert Group, Dzongkha Development Commission
2011-2017: College Academic Committee Member, Royal Thimphu College, Thimphu
2016-2018: External Examiner, Paro College of Education
2011-2014: External Examiner, College of Language and Cultural Studies, RUB, Taktse
2011-2013: Resource Person for Distance Education , Paro College of Education
2011-2013: College Examination Committee Member, Royal Thimphu College, Thimphu
2009-2013; Part time Lecturer, Dzongkha Language Institute, Thimphu
2006-2007: Philosophy Lecturer and HOD of Philosophy, Institute of Language and Cultural Studies, RUB, Simtokha.
2004: Lecturer in Palyul Chokhorling Institute, Bir, HP, India
2003: Lecturer in Philosophy, Gangteng Shedra, Wangduephodrang
2001-2002: Philosophy Instructor, Ngagyur Nyingma University, Mysore, India
1996; Philosophy Teaching Practice, Samye Jedren Institute, Kathmandu, Nepal
Areas of Interest
- Buddhist logic, TsedMa
- National language: Sumtag
- Research: Religious and cultural
Publications
2022: TseDma Textbook རིགས་ལམ་ཉི་མའི་འོད་ཟེར། JSWLAW,2022
2022: TseDma Textbook གཏན་ཚིགས་རིགས་པ་ཟླ་བའི་འོད་ཟེར། JSWLAW,2022
2021: Research on Local Deities of Thimphu, Department of cultural,2021
2020: Research on So Old and Yet So New:Buddhist Education and the Monastic Curriculum in Contemporary, JBS 45 (Winter 2021)
2020: Research on If You Build Them, They Will Come: The Transformation of Female Monastic Education in Contemporary Bhutan. Routledge, 2021
2019: Research on Travel Festival of Chizhi Lam, JSWLAW,2022
2018: Tshema (Pramana) as an indispensable key to Law, GNH & Law conference. 2018
2017: Research on Dung Chhen Terma, 8th colloquium, National Museum of Bhutan,2017
2015: Composed Zhabten for His Majesty Drugyel Zhipa during 60th Birth Anniversary, Royal Thimphu College
2015: Composed Zhabten for His Holliness Jekhenpo during 60th Birth Anniversary, Royal Thimphu College
2014: Research on Dakar Ter Chham, 7th Colloquium. National Museum of Bhutan, 2014
2012: Composed the College Song, Royal Thimphu College
2011: Article on A Brief Explanation of the Buddhist Doctrine, First Faculty Research Meet (18-19 November 2011) Royal University of Bhutan
Courses
- TsedMa, Spring 2022
- Sumtag, Fall 2022
Education History
- 2005: Post Graduate Certificate in Education, Samtse College of Education, Royal University of Bhutan
- 2003: Doctorate in Buddhist Philosophy, Ngagyur Nyingma University
Bylakuppee, Mysore, India - 2000: MA in Buddhist Philosophy, Ngagyur Nyingma University
Bylakuppee, Mysore, India - 1998: BA in Buddhist Philosophy, Ngagyur Nyingma University
Bylakuppee, Mysore, India - 1985-1990: Basic Buddhist Philosophy under Late Drapai Lopen Rinpoche, Tango University of Buddhist Studdies, Thimphu