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Janet Gyatso is a specialist in Buddhist studies with concentration on Tibetan
and South Asian religious culture. Her books include
Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary;
In the Mirror of Memory: Reflections on Mindfulness and Remembrance in Indian and Tibetan
Buddhism; and Women of Tibet. Her current book project is on
traditional medical science in Tibet, its relation to modernity, and its
relation to Buddhism. She has also been writing on conceptions of sex and
gender in Buddhist monasticism and in Tibetan medicine. Previous topics of her
scholarship have included visionary revelation in Buddhism; issues concerning lineage, memory, and authorship;
philosophical questions on the status of experience; and autobiographical writing in Tibet.
Professor Gyatso was president of the International Association of Tibetan Studies
from 2000 to 2006, and is
now co-chair of the Buddhism Section of the American Academy of Religion. She teaches lecture courses and advanced seminars on Buddhist history, ritual, and
ideas, and on Tibetan literary practices and religious history. She is also
spearheading a new initiative for the teaching of Buddhist ministry at the
Divinity School. In both teaching and writing she draws on cultural and literary theory, and is concerned to widen the spectrum of
intellectual resources for the understanding and interpretation of Buddhist history. She leads an ongoing reading group for graduate students in Buddhist
studies, and is the faculty director of the Buddhist Studies Forum. She has
also chaired the Committee for the Study of Women and Gender. She is helping
to develop a track for the training of Buddhist lay ministers and leaders in
the master of divinity program at the Divinity School. Professor Gyatso taught at Amherst College before coming to
Harvard as the Divinity School's first Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies.
On leave academic year 2007-08.
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