Janet Gyatso

Janet Gyatso is a scholar in Buddhist studies with concentration on Tibet. Her books include a study of Tibetan autobiography; and an intellectual history of medicine in early modern Tibet, the recipient of several awards.  She has also been writing on memory; sex and gender; and on the current female ordination movement in Buddhism. Her present research focuses on poetics, and a project in animal studies. Gyatso was president of the International Association of Tibetan Studies and co-chair of the Buddhism Section of the American Academy of Religion. Gyatso is Harvard Divinity School's first Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies and is Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs.