Student Profile

Andrew S. Taylor

PhD Candidate, Religious Studies

About

Andrew S. Taylor received his PhD in Religious Studies at the University of Virginia in 2021. He has spent the better part of a decade conducting research across the Tibetan Plateau, first as an undergraduate at Guilford College, and then as a master’s student at Harvard University. His research hopes to reinvigorate the discipline of comparative religion by juxtaposing Tibetan Buddhist practices and doctrines with those of radically dissimilar groups.

Works

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Tibet’s First Female Philosophers

Tibet’s First Female Philosophers

Khenmo Lhakyi’s story is not only one of overcoming hardships, but of institutional transformation