Gyatso, J.
| English Phonetics | Janet Gyatso |
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| Sort Name | Gyatso, Janet |
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| Website: | http://hds.harvard.edu/people/janet-gyatso |
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| Primary Language: | English |
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| Translates from: | Tibetan |
| Translates to: | English |
- Primary Affiliation (Workplace)
- Harvard University
- Secondary Affiliation
- American Academy of Religion; Committee for the Study of Women and Gender
- Religious Affiliation
- The Dalai Lama Foundation
PhD University
- University of California at Berkeley
Education
- Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, 1981: Buddhist Studies.
- Dissertation: The Literary Traditions of Thang-stong rGyal-po: A Study of Visionary Buddhism in Tibet.
- M.A. University of California at Berkeley, 1974: Sanskrit.
- B.A. University of California at Berkeley, 1972: Religious Studies.
Biographical Information
Janet Gyatso (BA, MA, PhD, University of California at Berkeley) holds the Hershey Professorship in Buddhist Studies in the Divinity School at Harvard University, 2001–present. She is a specialist in Buddhist studies with concentration on Tibetan and South Asian cultural and intellectual history. 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 has recently completed a new book, 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 disjunctions between religious and scientific epistemologies in Tibetan medicine in the sixteenth–eighteenth centuries. (Source Accessed May 5, 2020)
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