HOLLY GAYLEY | Writings on Contemporary Buddhism & Tibet
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It’s been an amazing year of celebrating Tibetan women writers, thanks to the UVA Tibet Center, Tibet Himalaya Initiative at CU Boulder, Northwestern University, and more. In April, CU Boulder was honored to host Tibetan women writers Tsedrön Kyi, Nyima Tso, and Min Nangzey for a public reading of their works and lunch symposium with Tibet Himalaya Initiative faculty, graduate students, visiting scholars, and local translators. Thanks to Tashi Dekyid, Erin Burke, and Jue Liang for gathering an incredible gr
Here are a few of the events that I have been honored to participate in and help with this year:
It’s auspicious that this year was also the culmination of a collaboration with Somtso Bhum, my previous MA student now doing her Ph.D. at Northwestern University. Our article, “ Parody and Pathos: Sexual Transgression by ‘Fake’ Lamas in Tibetan Short Stories ,” was published in April 2022 in Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines . It takes up contemporary Tibetan short stories about sexual abuse by Buddhist lamas and features several short stories by Tsedrön Kyi.
HOLLY GAYLEY | Writings on Contemporary Buddhism & Tibet