I consider myself a scholar of the variety and politics of religious and cultural expressions (in short, a word nerd), and their gendered forms in particular. My research queries how religious practitioners express themselves using the cultural repertoire at their disposal, how context shapes expression, and how said expression subverts or reshapes normative vocabularies.
Within my specific field of Tibetan Buddhism, I am interested in the tension between the Buddhist teaching that enlightenment is free from gender differences, and the lived realities of gendered beings as Buddhists. My research situates this very question in a body of narrative literature about the “Mother of Tibet,” Yeshe Tsogyel, and also in the pro-women discourse by a group of scholar nuns in Eastern Tibet.
Most of my published articles can be found on my academic.edu page.
Jue Liang 