Job title:
2022-2023 Dallan and Karen Leong Clancy Fellowship Recipient
Bio/CV:
Zack Beer received a BA in Religious Studies from Stanford and an MA from Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal. Currently a PhD candidate in the Group in Buddhist Studies at UC Berkeley, his interest in Silk Road studies was cemented by a trip he took to Dunhuang with a Berkeley team in 2018. He is completing a dissertation focusing on secrecy rhetoric in tantric Buddhism at the interface between India and Tibet, incorporating evidence from the Tibetan collections found in the Dunhuang Library Cave.
