Janet Gyatso
Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies, Harvard Divinity School
Janet Gyatso is a religious studies scholar who is currently the Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies at the Harvard Divinity School. Prof. Janet Gyatso's research interests are in Buddhism and its relationship to Tibetan and South Asian civilizations.
Prof. Gyatso’s published works include In the Mirror of Memory: Reflections on Mindfulness and Remembrance in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism (1992); Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary (1998); Women of Tibet (2005); and Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (2016).
Janet Gyatso was president of the International Association of Tibetan Studies from 2000 to 2006, and co-chair of the Buddhism Section of the American Academy of Religion from 2004 to 2010. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science in 2018.