RUTH GAMBLE is a lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and History at La Trobe University. She is also a member of La Trobe’s China Studies Research Centre and its Centre for the Study of the Inland. She is an environmental and cultural historian of Tibet and the Himalaya, and her first book Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism: The Third Karmapa and the Invention of a Tradition traces the links between Tibet’s reincarnation lineages and its sacred geography. Ruth has produced and coauthored an eTextbook series, Introduction to the Tibetan Language, and numerous articles and book chapters on Himalayan secular and sacred environments. She is part of the Lokaksi Translator team, which translates Buddhist texts for the 84000 translation project. Ruth’s current research focuses on the Yarlung Tsangpo River and the nexus between belief and ecology in the Himalayas.
RUTH GAMBLE is a lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and History at La Trobe University. She is also a member of La Trobe’s China Studies Research Centre and its Centre for the Study of the Inland. She is an environmental and cultural historian of Tibet and the Himalaya, and her first book Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism: The Third Karmapa and the Invention of a Tradition traces the links between Tibet’s reincarnation lineages and its sacred geography. Ruth has produced and coauthored an eTextbook series, Introduction to the Tibetan Language, and numerous articles and book chapters on Himalayan secular and sacred environments. She is part of the Lokaksi Translator team, which translates Buddhist texts for the 84000 translation project. Ruth’s current research focuses on the Yarlung Tsangpo River and the nexus between belief and ecology in the Himalayas.
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