Tibetan Buddhist monks performed the traditional Cham (lama dance) at the Tsechu Fair in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, to commemorate the birth anniversary of Guru Padmasambhava, revered as the founder of ...

His research centers on cultural memory, the narrative of Tibet’s conversion to Buddhism, and the apotheosis of its protagonist, Padmasambhava. His first book, Remembering the Lotus-Born: ...

Hirshberg. “Refractions of Lotus Light: The Elaboration and Delimitation of Padmasambhava’s Eight Names.” In Histories of Tibet: Essays in Honor of Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp, 115–32. Somerville, MA: ...