Søren Buskov Poulsen

I am a Danish PhD-student in Anthropology at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. Since 2011, I have collectively spent more than two years in Tibetan monastic communities in exile, using anthropological research methods in my social and academic work with different projects on modern education for Tibetan monastic scholars. I have been interested in contemplative practices and traditions before my formal studies in anthropology began, but my appreciation of Buddhist contemplative life and studies further developed when, from 2011 to 2013, I worked as a research assistant on a project funded by the University of Manitoba, Canada that worked with monk-scholars at the International Buddhist Academy, Kathmandu, Nepal to examine and develop an English language curriculum with the skills required to be a contemporary monastic leader. In 2014, I began a PhD-project focused on the science education of Tibetan monk-scholars underway in some major monastic universities in exile.