RYI Research Affiliate

2024 

Marin Adam, PhD 

• “Buddhist Ethics” 

David Di Valerio, PhD 

• “Contextualizing Contemplative Practice: Three-year Meditative Retreat in the Tibetan Buddhist Communities of Nepal” 

Vincent Sablich 

• “Of Mountains and Minds: The Climbing Industry’s Effect on Sherpa Buddhism” 

2023 

Alexandra Sukhanova 

• “The Life and Deeds of mNga’ ris Paṇ chen Padma dbang rgyal According to His Biography by Rig ‘dzin Padma ‘phrin las” 

Alice Millington 

• Reviving the Forgotten History of Lhastün Namkha Jigme’s (1597-1653) gnas-gsol Ritual in East Nepal 

Anne Kukucka 

• “Gender, Service Work and Lived Buddhism: Himalayan Women’s Everyday Lives in Urban Nepal” 

Austin Simoes-Gomes 

• “Female Deity Possession in the Kathmandu Valley” 

Champa Lhundrup 

• “An Ethnographic Study of Inter-Spirituality in Modern Nepal” 

Gerd Klintschar 

• “A Study of the Question of Realization of Śrāvakas and Pratyekabuddhas in Tibetan Buddhism” 

Joseph Faria 

• “Non-Dual Union: The Mahāmudrā Thought of Mikyö Dorje” 

John Pettit, PhD 

• “Tradition, Innovation and Revival in Contemporary Nepali Buddhism” 

Tong Cheng 

• The Inner Journey to Khecara: The Flower of the Five Golden Dharmas of the Glorious Shangpa 

Kendall Ogle 

• “The Sacred Life of Bees: Wild Honeybee Health in the Temple Groves of the Kathmandu Valley” 

Margot Clavier 

• “Buddhist Rituals in Rö/ Samagaun Village of Nubri Valley” 

Petra Lamberson 

• “Identities in Situ: The Contested Sacred Sites of Nepal” 

Tina Lang 

• “The Role of Renunciation in the Oral Pith Instructions of the Chöd Tradition of Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery, Nepal” 

2022 

Elena Sautkina, PhD 

• “Psychological and Health Benefits of Tibetan Yoga (Trul-Khor) Practices, and Traditional Buddhist” 

Julian Schott, PhD 

• “Indrabhūtis Jñānasiddhi: An In-depth Study of its Indian Origins and Early Tradition within the Indo-Tibetan Mahāmudrā Teachings”