Janice Willis Presents the Tessa J. Bartholomeusz Lecture
Janice Willis
Professor, Wesleyan University
Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 4:30 PM in Dodd Hall Auditorium. Reception following
"'What Caste Are You?': Reflections on a Journey East"
Jan
Willis (BA and MA in Philosophy, Cornell University; PhD in Indic and
Buddhist Studies, Columbia University) is Professor of Religion at
Wesleyan University. She has studied with Tibetan Buddhists in India,
Nepal, Switzerland and the United States for more than three decades,
and has taught courses in Buddhism for twenty-five years. She is the
author of The Diamond Light: An Introduction to Tibetan Buddhist Meditation (1972), On Knowing Reality: The Tattvartha Chapter of Asanga's Bodhisattvabhumi (1979), and Enlightened Beings: Life Stories from the Ganden Oral Tradition (1995); and the editor of Feminine Ground: Essays on Women and Tibet
(1989). One of the earliest American scholar-practitioners of Tibetan
Buddhism, Professor Willis has published numerous essays and articles
on Buddhist meditation, hagiography, and women and Buddhism. She enjoys
NFL football.
This event is part of the ongoing Tessa J. Bartholomeusz Lecture Series.
