About
Jacob Fisher is a DPhil Candidate at the University of Oxford. Prior to this, he completed the seven-year Masters Programme in Buddhist Studies of Sutra and Tantra, a full-time traditionally orientated study programme based on the Tibetan Geshe degree, at Instituto Lama Tsongkhapa Italy. He then spent five years teaching the programme in Nalanda Monastery, France. Following this, he completed an MSt in Oriental Studies (Tibetan) at the University of Oxford. His current PhD research focuses on Indian and Tibetan Buddhist epistemology. Specifically, he is writing a philosophical history of relativism in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism.
Publications
· Forthcoming. “Different moon same finger? Tsong-kha-pa and Mi-pham’s Application of Dharmakīrti’s Pramāṇa Theory for Meditating on Emptiness.” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 46, 2023.