Contact Information
Email: nurboo@hss.iitd.ac.in
Office: MS 617
5th floor, MS Building
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016
Phone: 011-2659-1365 (O)
Research Areas
-Buddhist Philosophy
-Debates in Classical Indian Philosophy
-Nagarjunian Logic, Dignagian Logic, Reasoning and Argumentation
-Pyrrhonism
-Philosophical Mindfulness
Academic Background
> Post Doctoral Research: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay, Mumbai
> PhD: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay, Mumbai
> MA: Panjab University, Chandigarh
> Shastri (BA): Central Institute of Buddhist Studies, Leh
> Purvamadhyama (10th) and Uttaramadhyama (12th): Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, Varanasi
Publications
Nurboo, Tsering. "Dignāga on the Primacy of Perception." Indian Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 1-2 (February 2025): 62-89.
Nurboo, Tsering. "Candrakīrti's Epistemology: A Re-examination of Jamyang Zhepa's Interpretation." Journal of Indian Philosophy. Published online: 23 June 2023 (Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-023-09547-3
Nurboo, Tsering. “The Concept of Svasaṃvedana in Dignāga and Candrakīrti.” Asian Philosophy: An International Journal of the Philosophical Traditions of the East 32:4 (2022): 448–465 (Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group).
https://doi.org/10.1080/09552367.2022.2119674
Nurboo, Tsering. “Does Dharmakīrti Diverge from Dignāga on Perception?” Indian Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 3–4 (June 2021): 79–106.
Nurboo, Tsering. “Is the Pramāṇavārttika a Madhyamaka Treatise?” Journal of Indian Philosophy 48:5 (2020): 827–844 (Springer Nature).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-020-09443-0
Conferences
1. Nurboo, Tsering. (2025). "Buddhist Logic," 7th Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic, Sponsored by Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR) and Association for Logic in India (ALI), Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 6-8 February 2025.
2. Nurboo, Tsering. (2025). "Dignāga and Candrakīrti on Cognition: A Pyrrhonian Reflection," UGC and ICPR Sponsored National Seminar on Buddhism, Science and Technology: Challenges in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Department of Buddhist Studies, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, 22-23 January 2025.
3. Nurboo, Tsering. (2025). "Dignāga on the Primacy of Truth in Pramāṇasamuccaya," International Symposium on the "Notions of Truth and Being", Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, 14-17 January 2025.
Projects
Philosophy in Kagyur (the Buddha's words): A Reconstruction, Seed Grant, IIT Delhi.
Honours
The Young Faculty Incentive Fellowship, IIT Delhi ( 2023-2026).
Institute Post Doctoral Fellowship, IIT Bombay, December 2021 - December 2022.
Digamber & Nilima Joshi Award, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 20th August 2022.