Benjamin J. Nourse
Ben Nourse is Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Denver and a Senior Fellow with the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School. He is the author of the book The Power of Publishing in Early Modern Tibetan Buddhism (Lexington, 2025) on the growth and impact of Tibetan woodblock publishing in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His research has also been published in the journal East Asian Publishing and Society and the edited volume Tibetan Printing: Comparison, Continuities and Change (Brill, 2016), among other venues. He has also researched and presented on the history of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon (the Kangyur and Tengyur) and Dunhuang manuscripts of the Heart Sūtra in Chinese and Tibetan. He has been active in promoting the study of Tibetan book history through hosting conferences, such as The Symposium on the Tibetan Book (University of Virginia, 2014) and Buddhist Book Cultures (University of Denver, 2017). He has received numerous fellowships and grants, including a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, a Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship from the Asian Division of the Library of Congress, an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School, and grants from the University of Wisconsin Libraries and the Jefferson Trust. He received a B.A. in Asian Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia.