Associate Professor
McGill University
Lara Braitstein is Associate Professor of Indian and ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Buddhism at McGill University. She has also taught at the Karmapa International Buddhist Institute (K.I.B.I.) in New Delhi, and the Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Kathmandu. She teaches Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhist philosophy, Buddhist hagiography, and ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½/Himalayan Buddhist literature and historiography. She translated the 14th Shamarpa’s The Path to Awakening, and is the author of The Adamantine Songs: Study, Translation, and ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Critical Edition, a study of Saraha’s Mahamudra poems. Her recent research is a study dedicated to untangling the history and representation of the 10th Shamarpa Chodrup Gyatso.