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About Us: Participants in the Meru Nyingpa Monastery Project

Hosting Institution
University of Virginia

Director and Principal Investigator
Will Rourk (UVa)

Collaborating Institutions
Tibet Academy of Social Sciences (TASS) Tibet Heritage Fund Tibet University

Faculty Collaborators
David Germano (UVA), Buchung (TASS), Andre Alexander (Tibet Heritage Fund)

Chief THL Research Assistant for the Project
David Newman (2001-2005), Dan Haig (2005-2008), Steven Weinberger (2008-)

THL Staff Assistants
Mark Ferrara, Than Grove, Travis McCauley, Steven Weinberger, Eric Woelfel

Student Assistants
Mary Rodeghier

Will Rouk

Will Rourk, the director and principal investigator of the Sera Project, is an architect and digital technologist. He works at the University of Virginia Library's Digital Media Lab, and is finishing a masters in Architectural History.

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