Gayley, H.

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Assistant Professor of Religion, University of Colorado at Boulder

Research Interests

• Buddhism, Religion in Tibet, Religious Modernism
• Gender, Subaltern Agency, Minorities in China
• Buddhist Hagiography, The Role of the Senses in Ritual

Overview

Holly Gayley became interested in the academic study of Buddhism through her travels among Tibetan communities in India, Nepal, and China. She completed her Masters in Buddhist Studies at Naropa University in 2000 and Ph.D. at Harvard University in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies in 2009. During her dissertation research, she spent 2005–6 engaged in field research in and around the Tibetan region of Golok on a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship. Holly Gayley recently completed her dissertation on the life and writings of a contemporary female tertön or "treasure revealer," Khandro Tāre Lhamo, who played a significant role in the Buddhist revival in Golok since the 1980s. Her second project explores the emergence of Buddhist modernism in Tibetan areas of the PRC, particularly in the writings of Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok and scholars at the Buddhist Academy he founded in Serta. Recent Publications

• "The Ethics of Cultural Survival: A Buddhist Vision of Progress in Mkhan po 'Jigs phun's Advice to Tibetans of the 21st Century." In Mapping the Modern in Tibet. Sankt Augustin, Germany: International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, 2012.
• "Ontology of the Past and its Materialization in Tibetan Treasures." In The Invention of Sacred Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2008.
• "Soteriology of the Senses in Tibetan Buddhism." Numen 54/4 (2007): 459-499.
• "Patterns in the Ritual Dissemination of Padma gling pa's Treasures." In Bhutan: Traditions and Changes. Leiden: Brill, 2007.

Courses

• Foundations of Buddhism
• Women in Buddhism
• Tibetan Buddhism
• Ritual and Media
• Hagiography
• Ritual Theory
• Buddhist Modernism

Recent Publications

"Reimagining Buddhist Ethics on the Tibetan Plateau." The Journal of Buddhist Ethics 20 (2013): 247-286.

"The Ethics of Cultural Survival: A Buddhist Vision of Progress in Mkhan po 'Jigs phun's Advice to Tibetans of the 21st Century." In Mapping the Modern in Tibet. Sankt Augustin, Germany: International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, 2011.

"Ontology of the Past and its Materialization in Tibetan Treasures." In The Invention of Sacred Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

"Soteriology of the Senses in Tibetan Buddhism." Numen 54/4 (2007): 459-499.

"Patterns in the Ritual Dissemination of Padma gling pa's Treasures." In Bhutan: Traditions and Changes. Leiden: Brill, 2007.

Recent Conference Papers

"Heroine in Troubled Times: The Miracles of Khandro Tāre Lhamo during the Socialist Transformation of Tibet," paper accepted for panel on Buddhist Women Masters at the meeting of DANAM, the Dharma Academy of North America (to be held concurrently with the 2013 American Academy of Religion conference in Baltimore, November 23–26, 2013).

"Constructing the Secular in Buddhist Advice to the Laity in Contemporary Tibet," paper presented at the Thirteenth Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, hosted by The Mongolian Academy of Sciences in Mongolia, July 21–27, 2013.

• "Eating Monkey Brains: Exoticizing the Chinese Banquest in a Tibetan Buddhist Argument for Vegetarianismm," paper presented on a panel that I co-organized on "The Culinary in Buddhism: Miracles, Medicine & Monstrosity" at the American Academy of Religion conference held in San Francisco on November 19–22, 2011.

• "The New Upāsaka: Lay Ethicization in Tibetan Regions of the PRC," paper presented at a panel on "The Role of the Laity in the Formation of Modern Buddhism: A Cross-Cultural Examination" at the XVIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies conference, in Taiwan on June 20–25, 2011.

• "Science vs. Superstition: Repositioning Tibetan Buddhism in the PRC," paper presented at a panel that I co-organized with Paul Hackett of Columbia University on "Scientific Buddhism" among Tibetans and their Western Interlocutors at the American Academy of Religion conference held in Atlanta on October 30–November 1, 2010.

• "Satire as Sectarianism: Yogic Triumphalism in Mdo mkhyen brtse Ye shes rdo rje's Babble of a Foolish Man," paper for panel that I co-organized with Annabella Pitkin at Columbia University on Sectarian Articulations: Creative Processes of Lineage Formation for the Twelfth Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, hosted by University of British Columbia on August 15–21, 2010.

• "Buddhist Ethics as Modernist Discourse: Three Tibetan Voices," paper presented at a conference on Research on Contemporary Tibet: New Challenges, New Methods that I co-organized with Emily Yeh and Carole McGranahan at the University of Colorado, Boulder on February 26, 2010.

• "All in the Dudjom (Bdud 'joms) Family: Overlapping Modes of Authority and Transmission in the Golok Treasure Scene," paper presented at the American Academy of Religion conference held in Montreal on November 7–10, 2009.

• "The Sport of Attraction: Sexuality and Memory in Love Letters between Tibetan Visionaries," paper presented at a conference on Sex and Texts: Representations of Sexuality in Asian Religious Traditions held at the University of Colorado, Boulder on October 15–16, 2009.

• "T-Pop and the Lama: Buddhist 'Rites Out of Place' in Tibetan Monastery-Produced VCDs," paper presented the American Academy of Religion conference held in Chicago on November 2–4, 2008.

Publications

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bio	Holly Gayley is Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research focuses on the revitalization of Buddhism in the Tibetan region of Golok since the 1980s. She completed her master’s degree in Buddhist Studies at Naropa University in 2000 and Ph.D. at Harvard University in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies in 2009. Currently, she is finalizing a manuscript on the life and love letters of the contemporary female tertön, Khandro Tāre Lhamo, and her consort Namtrul Rinpoche. As a second project, already well underway, she is translating texts of advice to the laity by Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok and his successors at Larung Buddhist Academy in Serta, including his Heart Advice to Tibetans for the 21st Century (Dus rabs nyer gcig pa’i gangs can pa rnams la phul ba’i snying gdam). Together with Josh Schapiro of Fordham University, Holly Gayley organized the conference, “Translating Buddhist Luminaries: A Conference on Ecumenism and Tibetan Translation,” on April 18-20, 2013, which brought together a dozen translators and scholars into a conversation about the art of translation in relation to pithy texts of advice by 19th century ecumenical masters such as Patrul Rinpoche, Ju Mipham, and Jamgön Kongtrul. This conference was co-sponsored by the Tsadra Foundation and the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado, and the translations will appear in an edited volume with Wisdom Publications, tentatively titled Buddhist Luminaries: Inspired Advice from the Great Ecumenical Masters of Tibet. (2014 Translation & Transmission Program)
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education	PhD Harvard University MA Naropa University
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