Jacob Fisher completed his DPhil (PhD) in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy at the University of Oxford in 2025. His research centres on the transmission of contemplative and meditative dimensions of Madhyamaka philosophy from India to Tibet, examining how these practices became systematized and embodied in distinctive Tibetan literary forms, particularly the Guides to the Madhyamaka View (dbu ma’i lta khrid) genre that emerged between the 11th and 13th centuries. Fisher’s work explores how Indian Madhyamaka philosophical arguments were not only translated as theoretical positions but were read as meditative instructions within Tibetan contemplative traditions. His DPhil dissertation is titled: “Nectar, Water, or Blood? A Buddhist History of Perceptual Relativism” and his publications address Madhyamaka phenomenology and meditative theory.

Fisher completed the seven-year Masters Programme in Buddhist Studies of Sutra and Tantra at Istituto Lama Tsongkhapa (Italy) before spending five years as a Buddhist philosophy tutor at Nalanda Monastery (France). He subsequently completed an MSt in Oriental Studies (Tibetan) at Oxford. He has served as Professor of Applied Buddhist Studies at Tergar Institute in Kathmandu for over a year, and taught Tibetan language and Buddhist philosophy at Oxford University where he served as Sub Dean at Wadham College.

Since January 2026, Fisher has joined the IKGA in the framework of the ERC-funded research project “The Dawn of Tibetan Buddhist Scholasticism (11th–13th c.)” (TibSchol). His work focuses on reconstructing early Tibetan scholarly networks and intellectual lineages during the crucial formative period of Tibetan Buddhist scholasticism in the 11th–13th centuries.

2026. “Saying Nothing is Sometimes Better than Saying Something: Candrakīrti’s Non-Analysis as a Meditative Technique,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy,  https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2026.2650646

2025.“The Tibetan Traditions of Guides to the Madhyamaka View (dbu ma’i lta khrid) and the Schooling of View by Meditation,” Journal of Indian Philosophy, 53, 311–337. https://doi.org/10.1007/S10781-025-09600-3

2023.“Different moon same finger? Tsong-kha-pa and Mi-pham’s application of Dharmakīrti’s pramāṇa Theory for Meditating on Emptiness,”Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 46, 177-207.  https://doi.org/10.2143/JIABS.46.0.3293162

“Who’s Right About Being Wrong? Dharmakīrti and Candrakīrti on Reliable Cognition, Memory, and the Certification of Mistakes,” Journal of Buddhist Philosophy, 6. (in press)