Translations by Sarah Jacoby

Sarah H. Jacoby is a professor in the Religious Studies Department at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She specializes in Tibetan Buddhist studies, with research interests in Buddhist revelation (gter ma), religious auto/biography, Tibetan literature, gender and sexuality, translation studies, and the history of eastern Tibet. She is the author of Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro (Columbia University Press, 2014), co-author of Buddhism: Introducing the Buddhist Experience (Oxford University Press, 2014; 2025), and co-editor of Buddhism Beyond the Monastery: Tantric Practices and their Performers in Tibet and the Himalayas (Brill, 2009). She has recently written articles on Buddhism and motherhood as well as the history of Vajrayāna sexuality. She has also recently sent her completed Tibetan-English translation of the autobiography of Sera Khandro Dewai Dorje (1892–1940) to press. At Northwestern she teaches a range of Buddhist Studies courses for both undergraduate and graduate students.