He did his graduate training at Oxford University (2007), and has worked and taught at Oxford, the School of Oriental and African Studies, and Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich. He has worked extensively on Tibetan Dunhuang manuscripts, including Tibet’s first historical records, legal texts, and ritual texts. Dotson is currently researching early Tibetan dice divination in the context of the Buddhist assimilation of Tibetan rituals, cosmologies, and narratives from the 9th to the 11th centuries.