Professor
Harvard University
Janet Gyatso (B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley) is a specialist in Buddhist studies with concentration on ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and South Asian cultural and intellectual history. Her books include Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Visionary; In the Mirror of Memory: Reflections on Mindfulness and Remembrance in Indian and ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Buddhism; and Women of Tibet. She has recently completed a new book, Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet, which focuses upon alternative early modernities and the conjunctions and disjunctures between religious and scientific epistemologies in ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ medicine in the sixteenth–eighteenth centuries.