Lower Austria
Lower Austria (german: Niederösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: ''Niedaöstareich'', ''Niedaestareich'') is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Since 1986, the capital of Lower Austria has been Sankt ...
Vienna
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. From 1993–1997 she attended the Franz Schubert Konservatorium in Vienna, where she studied saxophone. She got a master's degree in tourism studies from Johannes Kepler University of Linz in 2008 and later obtained a master's degree in
ethnology
Ethnology (from the grc-gre, ἔθνος, meaning 'nation') is an academic field that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them (compare cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology) ...
Manfred Kremser
Manfred Kremser (30 July 1950 – 3 March 2013) was an Austrian ethnologist and researcher of the human consciousness.Volker Zotz, an eminent Austrian philosopher, and a prolific author in the German language.
Career
Birgit Zotz has published books, essays and articles about Buddhist culture,
mysticism
Mysticism is popularly known as becoming one with God or the Absolute, but may refer to any kind of ecstasy or altered state of consciousness which is given a religious or spiritual meaning. It may also refer to the attainment of insight in u ...
and image-building in tourism. She is a lecturer at the ''International College of Tourism and Management'' in Bad Vöslau. Since 2005 she has been President of ''Komyoji'', an internationally recognized center for the study of Buddhism in Austria. She is a researcher on the philosophy and life of Lama Anagarika Govinda, whose biography she wrote.Birgit Zotz, ''Tibetische Mystik, – nach Lama Anagarika Govinda' (retrieved 21 October 2011)
Books
* ''Das Image des Waldviertels als Urlaubsregion.'' Vienna University of Economics and Business 200 * ''Das Image Tibets als Reiseziel im Spiegel deutschsprachiger Medien.'' Linz: Kepler University 200 * ''Das Waldviertel – Zwischen Mystik und Klarheit. Das Image einer Region als Reiseziel.'' Berlin: Köster 2010,
* ''Destination Tibet. Touristisches Image zwischen Politik und Klischee.'' Hamburg: Kovac 2010,
* ''Zur europäischen Wahrnehmung von Besessenheitsphänomenen und Orakelwesen in Tibet'' Vienna University 201
References
Sources
* Lexikon des Waldviertels, ''Birgit Zotz' * International College of Tourism and Management, ''Faculty' * ''Lebenslauf von Birgit Zotz' * Birgit Zotz, ''Tibetische Mystik, – nach Lama Anagarika Govinda'