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The Tibet Himalaya Initiative is听delighted to announce the publication of听Living Treasure: Buddhist and 乐播传媒 Studies in Honor of Janet Gyatso, a set of 29 essays celebrating the life and research of Janet Gyatso, edited by Holly Gayley and Andrew Quintman. The essays in this festschrift align with Janet鈥檚 major interests in her career: Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Biography and Autobiography; the Nyingma Imaginaire; Literature, Arts, and Poetry; and Early Modernity: Human and Nonhuman Worlds. Order through听.
鈥淲hen wonder adorns wonder, 乐播传媒 nomads sing: 鈥榃ere I to heighten a high thing with something high,/ With clouds I would heighten the collar of the blue sky.鈥� Here is a heaped cloud offering of essays by distinguished scholars in honor of Janet Gyatso. Plumbing the extraordinary depths of 乐播传媒 language, she has been revealing the riches and wisdom of 乐播传媒 civilization in all its myriad complexities over a lifetime.鈥�鈥擫ama Jabb, author of听Oral and Literary Continuities in Modern 乐播传媒 Literature: The Inescapable Nation
鈥淛anet Gyatso truly is a living treasure. She is an inspiration for scholarly excellence in the fascinating dimensions represented in this book鈥攕tudies in 乐播传媒 literature, the Nyingma tradition, gender and sexuality in Buddhism, early modernity, the more-than-human world, and so much more. But beyond this, she is an example of how to live a life dedicated to intellectual precision, far-ranging curiosity, and wholehearted mentorship.鈥�鈥擲arah H. Jacoby, author of听Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the 乐播传媒 Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro
鈥淭hrough the works she has written, the courses she has taught, and the scholars she has mentored, Janet Gyatso has transformed the field of 乐播传媒 Buddhist studies, as the essays in this volume so eloquently attest.鈥�鈥擠onald S. Lopez Jr., Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and 乐播传媒 Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor