DrFlavio Geisshuesler
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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- Senior LecturerFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Research projects & supervision summary
- Beyond Calm — a monograph reframing meditation as a cultural technology for confronting crisis, against the contemporary reduction of contemplative practice to relaxation and stress management.
- Pre-Buddhist substrata of Dzogchen — continuing work on the indigenous Tibetan and wider Inner Asian religious complexes (sky worship, hunting cults, vitality) that shaped the early Great Perfection before its buddhicisation.
- Meditation, trauma, and dissociation — ongoing research on the psychological and cognitive dimensions of Dzogchen's formative myths and practices.
- Ernesto de Martino and twentieth-century continental philosophy of religion — further studies on de Martino's dialogue with phenomenology, hermeneutics, and the parapsychological fringe of Weimar science.
RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONA Critical Edition of IM 14+21, A Gandharan Buddhist Verse Text