#  Janet Gyatso 

Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies at Harvard University

 

 

 



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 email <jgyatso@hds.harvard.edu> 

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Janet Gyatso works on intellectual history and literature in early modern Tibet. Her books include Being Buddhist in a Human World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (2015) and Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary (1998). Her teaching and current work centers on alternative epistemologies and animal ethics, and topics in Buddhist Studies.



 

 

 





 

 

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