HollyGayley
- Associate Professor
- Co-Director of the Tibet Himalaya Initiative
- RELIGIOUS STUDIES
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Education
Ph.D., Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Harvard University, 2009
M.A., Buddhist Studies, Naropa University, 2000
B.A., Development Studies, Brown University, 1989
Regional and Thematic Interests
South Asia;Central Asia
Gender;Literature and the Arts;Religion
Profile
Holly Gayley, Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies at the 鶹Ѱ, is a scholar and translator of contemporary Buddhist literature in Tibet and Himalaya. Her research areas include gender and sexuality in Buddhist tantra, ethical reform in contemporary Tibet, and theorizing translation, both literary and cultural, in the transmission of Buddhist teachings to North America. Gayley is author of (Columbia University Press, 2016), co-editor of (Wisdom Publications, 2017), translator of (Snow Lion, 2019), and editor of (Snow Lion Publications,2021).
Her recent journal articles and chapters on Tibetan and Himalayan women writers, gender and sexuality include “,”co-authored with Somtso Bhum inRevue d'Etudes Tibétaines(April 2022),"Karma and Female Agency in Novels by Bhutanese Women Writers" in Innaugural Issue of theInternational Journal for Bhutan and Himalayan Research(Fall 2020), "Gendered Hagiography in Tibet: Comparing Clerical Representations of the Female Visionary, Khandro Tāre Lhamo" in , edited by Karma Lekshe Tsomo (2019), and "" in Religions(June 2018).
Herwork on the emergence of Buddhist modernism on the Tibetan plateau and a new ethical reform movement spawned by cleric-scholars at Larung Buddhist Academy in Serta culminated in the anthology, . Her journal articleson the topic include "" (Himalaya Journal, 2016), "" (Contemporary Buddhism, 2016 with Padma 'tsho), " (Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 2013), and "The Ethics of Cultural Survival: A Buddhist Vision of Progress in Mkhan po 'Jigs phun's Advice to Tibetans of the 21st Century" in(International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, 2011), revised as a chapter inVoices for Larung Garto introduce select translations from Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok's "Heart Advice to Tibetans for the Twenty-First Century."
In addition, Dr. Gayley is co-founder of the Tibet Himalaya Initiative at 鶹ѰBoulder, co-chair of a five-year seminar on "" at the American Academy of Religion, and part of the founding team for the Contemplative Resource Center at 鶹ѰBoulder.