Dr. Sangseraima Ujeed

Biography

Sangseraima Ujeed is an Assistant Professor specializing in Tibetan Buddhism Studies at the University of Michigan's LSA. She obtained her DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2018. Her primary research interests encompass the transnational, transregional, and cross-cultural aspects of Tibetan Buddhism, particularly focusing on the early modern period. Her work emphasizes lineage, reincarnation, identity formation, and knowledge transmission within a broad and cosmopolitan Tibetan Buddhist world. Ujeed's methodological approach incorporates ongoing discourses in decolonialism, transnationalism, translation theory, narratology, and oral literature. She actively engages with a wide variety of textual genres and archival materials from the Qing period, composed in Tibetan, Mongolian, Manchu, and Chinese. Ujeed is currently working on her monograph "Mirror Lives: Tibetan Buddhism, Lineage, Identity in the Early Modern Period," which explores Buddhist literary works from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Additionally, she aims to illuminate the role of Mongolian monastic scholars within the wider Tibetan Buddhist community. Her teaching covers various aspects of Tibetan Buddhist traditions, ranging from introductory surveys to specialized seminars. Ujeed’s teaching philosophy combines traditional European philological methods with the mainstream North American theoretical framework, enhancing student engagement and comprehension in the field of religious studies.

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