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Living Treasure: Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in Honor of Janet Gyatso (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism)

Release date: 6 June 2023
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Senior scholars and former students celebrate the life and work of Janet Gyatso, professor of Bud... Read More

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Senior scholars and former students celebrate the life and work of Janet Gyatso, professor of Buddhist studies at Harvard Divinity School. Inspired by her contributions to life writing, Tibetan medicine, gender studies, and more, these offerings make a rich feast for readers interested in Tibetan and Buddhist studies.Janet Gyatso has made substantial, influential, and incredibly valuable contributions to the fields of Buddhist and Tibetan studies. Her paradigm-shifting approach is to take a topic, an idea, a text, a termoften one that had long been taken for granted or overlookedand turn it inside out, to radically reimagine the kinds of questions that might be asked and what the answers might reveal. The twenty-nine essays in this volume, authored by colleagues and former studentsmany of whom are now also colleaguesrepresent the breadth of her interests and influence and the care that she has taken in training the current generation of scholars of Tibet and Buddhism. They are organized into five sections: Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Biography and Autobiography; the Nyingma Imaginaire; Literature, Art, and Poetry; and Early Modernity: Human and Nonhuman Worlds. Contributions include Jos Cabezn on the incorporation of a Buddhist rock carving in Central Asian culture; Matthew Kapstein on the memoirs of an ambivalent reincarnated lama; Willa Baker on Jikm Lingpas theory of absence; Andrew Quintman on a found poem expressing worldly sadness on the forced closure of a monastery; and Padma tsho on Tibetan womens advocacy for full female ordination. These and the many other chapters, each fascinating reads in their own right, together offer a glowing tribute to a scholar who indelibly changed the way we think about Buddhism, its history, and its literature.

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Title: Living Treasure: Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in Honor of Janet Gyatso (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism)
Author: Holly Gayley
Publisher: CROSSWORD
SKU: BK0488275
EAN: 9781614297796
Number Of Pages: 536
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Release date: 6 June 2023

About Author

Andrew Quintman is a scholar of Buddhism in Tibet and the Himalaya, and associate professor in the Department of Religion at Wesleyan University. He writes, teaches, and lectures about Buddhist literature and history, sacred geography and pilgrimage, and visual cultures of the Himalayan region. For seven years he served as the academic director of the School for International Training's Tibetan Studies program based in Kathmandu. He is the author of The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of the Great Tibetan Saint Milarepa (Columbia University Press 2014), winner of the American Academy of Religion's 2014 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, and the 2015 Heyman Prize for outstanding scholarship from Yale University. His English translation of The Life of Milarepa was published in 2010 in the Penguin Classics series. He also co-edited Himalayan Passages: Tibetan and Newar Studies in Honor of Hubert Decleer (Wisdom 2014). He is former Co-Chair of the Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group of the American Academy of Religion and co-leads an ongoing collaborative workshop on Religion and the Literary in Tibet. He helped establish the Yale Himalaya Initiative for which he served as Faculty Coordinator. From 2015–2017, he was a Collaborative Research Fellow in the ACLS-Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies. From 2018–2019, he was a Research Fellow in the ACLS-Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies. He is co-founding editor of the Journal of Tibetan Literature. www.andrewquintman.com Holly Gayley is a scholar and translator of Buddhist literature in contemporary Tibet. An early enthusiasm for travel in Himalaya led her to pursue academic training, first an M.A. in Buddhist Studies at Naropa University and then a Ph.D. at Harvard University in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies. Since 2008, Gayley has taught at the University of Colorado Boulder where she currently she serves as Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies. Her research areas include gender and sexuality in Buddhist tantra, ethical reform in contemporary Tibet, and theorizing translation, both literary and cultural, in the transmission of Buddhist teachings to North America. In addition, Gayley is co-founder and director of the Tibet Himalaya Initiative at CU Boulder, co-chair of a five-year seminar on "Transnational Religious Expression: Between Asia and North America" at the American Academy of Religion, and part of the founding team for the Contemplative Resource Center on the CU Boulder campus. Holly also regularly leads meditation workshops and retreats. For more about this author, visit: hollygayley.org

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