Ken Liberman
Professor, Sociology
Phone: (541) 346-5008
Email: liberman@uoregon.edu
Ken Liberman specializes in Tibetan practices of reasoning, intercultural communication, and race and ethnic relations. In addition to Tibet, he is also involved with Australian Aboriginal communities. His monograph of Tibetan philosophical debating, Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture: An Ethnomethodological Inquiry into Formal Reasoning was published 2004. It included an interactive, multimedia CD-ROM that demonstrates Tibetan debates with actual video and English translations. Liberman is a Senior Fulbright professor and spent time in 2004 teaching at the University of Mysore. He was the Chair of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences from 1993-1995. He is also author of "Negative Dialectics in Madhyamika and the Continental Tradition," in Ninian Smart and B. Srinivasa Murthy, East-West Encounters in Philosophy and Religion, (1996); "A Case for Convergence in Tibetan and Vedantin Meditative Practice," in the Journal of the Indian Council for Philosophical Research, (1994), and he has translated thirteen zen koans into Tibetan. He is presently working on a translation of an 18th century text by the First Panchen Lama.
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