Janet Gyatso

Janet Gyatso is a specialist in Buddhist studies with a concentration on Tibetan and South Asian cultural history. She is the cochair of the Buddhism Section of the American Academy of Religion and former president of the International Association of Tibetan Studies. 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. She teaches Buddhist history, ideology, ritual, Tibetan literary practices, and religious history. She is committed to widening the spectrum of intellectual resources to enhance the understanding and interpretation of Buddhist history. Her current book project is an intellectual history of traditional medical science in Tibet and raises questions about early modernity and disjunctures between religious and scientific epistemologies.