Janet Gyatso

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley

Janet Gyatso (B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley) is a specialist in Buddhist studies with concentration on Tibetan cultural and intellectual history. Her books include Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary and Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet, which focuses upon alternative early modernities and the conjunctions and disjunctures between religious and scientific epistemologies in Tibetan medicine in the sixteenth–eighteenth centuries. She is currently working on Indic poetics in Tibetan literature, and a book and set of video shorts on animal ethics.

Amy Paris Langenberg

Amy Paris Langenberg is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Eckerd College. She is a specialist in classical South Asian Buddhism with a focus on female monasticism, gender, sexuality, and the body. She also conducts ethnographic research on contemporary Buddhist feminisms, contemporary female Buddhist monasticism, and, more recently, sexual abuse in American Buddhism. She is the author of Birth in Buddhism: The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom (Routledge, 2017) and is currently collaborating with Dr. Ann Gleig on a study of sexual abuse in American Buddhism, titled Abuse, Sex, and the Sangha, which will be published with Yale University Press.

Dawa T. Lokyitsang

Dawa T. Lokyitsang is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her work looks at the development of sovereignty by Tibetans in exile through the making of schools in response to Chinese colonialism and for securing Tibetan continuity and futurity. As such, her scholarship sits at the intersection of empire, colonialism, and nationalism. Lokyitsang has also presented and published on topics involving belonging, colonialism and imperialism, and decolonization and indignity through the frameworks of Tibet and China. Most of her work can be found on Lkhakar Diaries.