Curriculum Vitae
Name: Yael Bentor.
Family Status: Married to Dan Martin.
Education
Ph.D. in Tibetan Studies from the Department of Uralic and Altaic Studies at Indiana University 1991. Minors in Religious Studies and Sanskrit Religious Literature in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University. Dissertation Director: Prof. Gregory Schopen. Co-director: Prof. Christopher I. Beckwith. Dissertation title: The Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Consecration Ritual for Stūpas, Images, Books and Temples.
M.A. in Inner Asian Studies at the Department of Uralic and Altaic Studies, 1987. Director: Prof. Gregory Schopen. Thesis title: Miniature Stūpas, Images and Relics — the Sanskrit Manuscripts of the Adbhutadharma-paryāya from Gilgit and its Tibetan Translation.
B.Sc. Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1974.
Academic Employment
Chair of the Department of Comparative Religion, April 1st 2010 to Aug. 31st 2011.
Senior Lecturer in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, teaching classes on Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Culture, as well as Classical Tibetan language, 1999 to present.
Chair of the Department of Indian, Iranian and Armenian Studies, March 1st 2003 - June 30th 2005.
Lecturer in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, teaching classes on Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Culture, as well as Classical Tibetan and Buddhist Sanskrit languages, Feb. 1994 to 1999.
Post-Doctoral Fellowship (with teaching duties as above) in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Feb. 1991 - June 1993.