Sarah Jacoby, Ph.D.,
University of Virginia, Department of Religious Studies
 

Sarah Jacoby received her Ph.D. in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies from the University of Virginia’s Department of Religious Studies. Her primary interests are Tibetan Buddhist revelation (gter ma), religious autobiography, gender studies, and Eastern Tibetan area studies. Her dissertation, titled “Consorts and Revelation in Eastern Tibet: The Auto/biographical Writings of the Treasure Revealer Sera Khandro (1892-1940),” is an analysis of the biographical writings of the most prolific female author in Tibetan literature. Her dissertation explores the ways in which Sera Khandro represents her role as a revealer of Buddhist scriptures and artifacts (a gter ston), as a female religious adept, and as a consort in the nomadic highlands of early twentieth century Golok.

As a fellow, Sarah will expand upon her dissertation research to conduct a wider study on gender and sexuality in Tibetan Buddhism drawing from biographical, doctrinal, and exegetical Tibetan sources.

She is teaching a seminar on "Buddhist Auto/biography" in the spring.

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