James Gentry is assistant professor of religious studies at Stanford University. He specializes in Tibetan Buddhism, with particular focus on the literature and history of its Tantric traditions. He is the author of Power Objects in Tibetan Buddhism: The Life, Writings, and Legacy of Sokdokpa Lodrö Gyeltsen. Gentry’s research ranges across Tibetan and Himalayan intellectual history, material culture, contemplative and ritual practice, scriptural translation, revelation, and canonicity, from the Tibetan imperial period to the present. Before joining Stanford, Gentrywas on the faculty of the University of Virginia. He has also taught at Rangjung Yeshe Institute’s Centre for Buddhist Studies and served as director of the Master of Arts in Translation, Textual Interpretation, and Philology program at Kathmandu University. He was editor-in-chief of the project 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, which commissions English translations of the Buddhist sutras, tantras, and commentaries preserved in Tibetan translation and publishes them in an online open-access forum.
James Gentry
