UVA Tibet Center is pleased to join the Virginia Center for the Study of Religion in supporting an online talk by Dr. Pasang Yangjee Sherpa:
“Living in the Midst of Dying: Reflections of a Sherpa Mother-scholar”

Register here:

https://virginia.zoom.us/…/tJ0ldO2hqT8sEtB…

About Dr. Sherpa: Dr. Sherpa’s research focuses on Indigeneity, human dimensions of climate change, and the Sherpa diaspora. She is Assistant Professor of Lifeways in Indigenous Asia at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. More on her scholarship available here: https://asia.ubc.ca/profile/pasang-yangjee-sherpa/

Dr. Sherpa’s talk is one of two organized by UVA Religious Studies doctoral candidate Devin Zuckerman on the theme of Environmental Repair & Relatedness in Himalayan Buddhism as part of her course Buddhism and Environmental Thought and Practice (RELB2067).