About - Jetsun DELEPLANQUE

Jetsun DELEPLANQUE is currently a Shinjo Ito Postdoctoral Fellow in Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He completed his PhD in 2022 at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School in the Department of the History of Religions. His current book project, drawing on his dissertation titled “Visions of Theocracy: The Rise of Ecclesiastical Power in Tibet and the Founding of the Bhutanese State,” explores the dynamics that led to the founding of the Bhutanese theocracy of Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyel in the seventeenth century.