Anne Carolyn Klein

Anne Carolyn Klein is Professor of Religion at Rice University, co-founder of Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism (www.dawnmountain.org) and a Lama in the Ancient (Nyingma) Tibetan tradition. Her training includes close study with renowned Tibetan Lamas in three of Tibet’s great traditions, often living for long periods in close community with them. She writes in and translates from Tibetan literary and oral traditions. Her core interest is the embodied interaction between head and heart as illustrated across a spectrum of Buddhist descriptions of consciousness and its cultivation.

Khamokyit

Khamokyit studied Tibetan Buddhism and Literature at the Southwest University for Nationalities and the University of Virginia. In 2021, she received her Ph.D. and authored the dissertation Narrative and Ethics in Tibet: The Ethical Cosmology of Female Revenants. Her research explores the biographies of the seventeenth-century Tibetan delok (revenant) Karma Wangzin as a case study in the analysis of delok genre literature, Buddhist cosmology and ethical beliefs, gender roles, rituals, practices, and the Buddhist societies embedded within these narratives. Her research focuses on studying women in Tibetan Buddhist history and on contemporary Tibetan cultural heritage preservation.

Padma ‘tsho (Baimacuo)

Padma ‘tsho (Baimacuo) is Professor in the Philosophy Department of Southwest University for Nationalities in Chengdu, China. She holds a Ph.D. from Sichuan University in Chengdu and M.A. from Central Nationalities University in Beijing. She was an Instructor at Front Range Community in 2016-2017. She has published about 50 articles in several languages and two books. Her areas of research and teaching include Tibetan Buddhism, ritual, and culture, as well as the education of Buddhist nuns in Tibetan areas. Her articles have appeared in edited volumes, such as Eminent Buddhist Women, edited by Karma Lekshe Tsomo; Voices from Larung Gar, edited by Holly Gayley; and numerous journals, including Religions,Contemporary Buddhism, China Tibetology, Journal of Ethnology, Sichuan Tibetan Studies, and Asian Highlands Perspective. In the last decade, Professor Padma ‘tsho has spent time at several North American universities as a Visiting Research Scholar, including Harvard, Columbia, University of Virginia, and CU Boulder.