HollyGayley

  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Chair of Graduate Studies
  • Co-Director of the Tibet Himalaya Initiative
  • RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Address

Office: HUMN 290

Courses

  • UNDERGRADUATE: Foundations of Buddhism, Women in Buddhism,
    Tibetan Buddhism, and Meditation: Ancient and Modern
  • GRADUATE:Gender in Hagiography, Buddhist Ethics, Ritual Theory,
    Transnational Buddhism, and Buddhist Literature in Tibet

Primary Teaching Areas and Opportunities for Student Supervision

  • Buddhism, women in Tibet, gender and sexuality in Buddhist tantra, Buddhist ethics, tantric ritual,
    Buddhist modernism,minorities in China, transnational Buddhism, mindfulness movement

Overview:

Holly Gayley, Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies at the 鶹Ƶ, is a scholar and translator of contemporary Buddhist literature in Tibet and Himalaya. Her research areas include gender and sexuality in Buddhist tantra, ethical reform in contemporary Tibet, and theorizing translation, both literary and cultural, in the transmission of Buddhist teachings to North America. Gayley is author of (Columbia University Press, 2016), co-editor of (Wisdom Publications, 2017), translator of (Snow Lion, 2019), and editor of (Snow Lion Publications,2021).

Her recent journal articles and chapters on Tibetan and Himalayan women writers, gender and sexuality include “,”co-authored with Somtso Bhum inRevue d'Etudes Tibétaines(April 2022),"Karma and Female Agency in Novels by Bhutanese Women Writers" in Innaugural Issue of theInternational Journal for Bhutan and Himalayan Research(Fall 2020), "Gendered Hagiography in Tibet: Comparing Clerical Representations of the Female Visionary, Khandro Tāre Lhamo" in , edited by Karma Lekshe Tsomo (2019), and "" in Religions(June 2018).

Herwork on the emergence of Buddhist modernism on the Tibetan plateau and a new ethical reform movement spawned by cleric-scholars at Larung Buddhist Academy in Serta culminated in the anthology, . Her journal articleson the topic include "" (Himalaya Journal, 2016), "" (Contemporary Buddhism, 2016 with Padma 'tsho), " (Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 2013), and "The Ethics of Cultural Survival: A Buddhist Vision of Progress in Mkhan po 'Jigs phun's Advice to Tibetans of the 21st Century" in(International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, 2011), revised as a chapter inVoices for Larung Garto introduce select translations from Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok's "Heart Advice to Tibetans for the Twenty-First Century."

In addition, Dr. Gayley is co-founder of the Tibet Himalaya Initiative at CU Boulder, co-chair of a five-year seminar on "" at the American Academy of Religion, and part of the founding team for the Contemplative Resource Center at CU Boulder.

Research Areas and Publications

Women in Tibet and Himalaya, Gender and Sexuality in Buddhist Tantra

  • “,” co-authored with Somtso Bhum. Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 63 (April 2022): 62-98.
  • "Karma and Female Agency in Novels by Bhutanese Women Writers." In Innaugural Issue of theInternational Journal for Bhutan and Himalayan Research. Fall 2020.
  • . Snow Lion Publications, 2019.
  • "Gendered Hagiography in Tibet: Comparing Clerical Representations of the Female Visionary, Khandro Tāre Lhamo." In , edited by Karma Lekshe Tsomo. State University of New York Press, 2019.
  • "." Religions 9.6 (June 2018). DOI: 10.3390/rel9060179.
  • "." History of Religions 56.03 (February 2017): 311–351.
  • "Yeshé Tsogyal as Female Exemplar." In Chonyi Drolma (trans.), . Shambhala Publications, 2017.
  • . Columbia University Press, 2016.
  • "Modern Miracles of a Female Buddhist Master." In , edited by Jeffrey Samuels, Justin McDaniels, and Mark Rowe. University of Hawai'i Press, 2016.

Buddhist Ethics, Advice Literature, Cultural Revitalization in Contemporary Tibet

  • Translation of and Introductory Essay for "Heart Advice to Tibetans for the Twenty-First Century" by Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok in(Snow Lion Publications, 2021).
  • "Buddhist Ethics in Contemporary Tibet." In , edited by Daniel Cozort and James Mark Shields. Oxford: Oxford University Press (May 2018).
  • "." Journal of Religious Ethics 45.1 (March 2017): 29–57.
  • , co-edited by Holly Gayley and Joshua Schapiro. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2017.
  • "Advice for Solitary Retreat." Essay and original translations of works by Do Khyentsé Yeshé Dorjé, Patrul Rinpoché, and the Third Dodrupchen Jikmé Tenpai Nyima in . Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2017.
  • Introduction to , an anthology of translations, co-authored by Holly Gayley and Joshua Schapiro. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2017.
  • "," co-authored by Holly Gayley and Padmatso. Contemporary Buddhism 17.1 (June 2016): 62-80.
  • "." Himalaya Journal 36.1 (May 2016): 22-43.
  • "." Journal of Buddhist Ethics 20 (2013): 247–286.
  • "The Ethics of Cultural Survival: A Buddhist Vision for Progress in Mkhan po 'Jigs phun's Heart Advice to Tibetans of the 21st Century." In , edited by Gray Tuttle. Sankt Augustin, Germany: International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, 2011.

Buddhist Modernism,the Secular in Tibet, and Contemporary Himalayan Literature

  • Translation of by Akyab Dargye with Tsewang Dorjee for Yeshe: A Journal of Tibetan Literature, Arts, and Humanities(2022).
  • , edited by Holly Gayley. Snow Lion Publications, 2021.
  • Editor's Introduction and Translation of "Heart Advice for the Twenty-First Century" by Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok in.
  • "Contemporary Bhutanese Literature." In Innaugural Issue of theInternational Journal for Bhutan and Himalayan Research. Fall 2020.
  • "Karma and Female Agency in Novels by Bhutanese Women Writers." In Innaugural Issue of theInternational Journal for Bhutan and Himalayan Research. Fall 2020.
  • . Special Issue of Himalaya Journal, co-edited by Holly Gayley and Nicole Willock. May 2016 (36/1) issue.
  • "." Introduction to Special Issue on The Secular in Tibetan Cultural Worlds, co-authored by Holly Gayley and Nicole Willock. Himalaya Journal 36/1 (2016): 12–21.
  • "T-Pop and the Lama: Buddhist 'Rites out of Place' in Tibetan Monastery-Produced VCDs." In , edited by Megan Sijapati and Jessica Birkenholtz. New York: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series, 2016.

Treasure Revelation in the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism

  • . New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.
  • "Ontology of the Past and its Materialization in Tibetan Treasures." In , edited by Olav Hammer and James Lewis, 213–240. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  • "." Numen 54.4 (2007): 459–499.
  • "Patterns in the Ritual Dissemination of Padma gling pa's Treasures." In , edited by Francoise Pommaret and John Ardussi, 97–119. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
  • Introduction to , translated by Sarah Harding. Boulder, CO: Snow Lion Publications, 2003: 1–28.