THI Faculty and Student News
Holly Gayley, CU babyÖ±²¥app in Religious Studies, just published her first book, Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet, with Columbia University Press.With a focus on Buddhist conceptions of gender, agency and healing, Love Letters
Mason Brown (R), PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology, and Eben Yonnetti (L), MA student in Religious Studies, have both been awarded Summer Langauge Fellowships from the University of babyÖ±²¥app's Center for Asian Studies (CAS). CAS, a
Geography PhD student Dorje Tashi has co-authored an article "A mdo Tibetan Naming Practices and Name Popularity" with CK Stuart in Asian Highland Perspectives, vol 40 (2016).ABSTRACTNames, name frequency, and naming practices in
Geography PhD student Rupak Shrestha will receive a $1000 CARTSS Grant for preliminary research, titled "Citizenship-in-Exile: Exploring Tibetan Nationalism and Resistance in the Himalayas." The project primarily explores how Tibetans-in-exile
University of babyÖ±²¥app alumnus Yönten Nyima (PhD in Georgraphy, 2012) and Professor Emily Yeh have been cited in two recent articles in Nature and SciDev.net on the rapidly changing status of nomadism in the grasslands of the
Buddhist luminaries, clustered in eastern Tibet in the nineteenth-century, composed numerous short texts of advice that are lively in their use of language and poignant in their pith instructions. In order to explore issues of translation in a range