Authors & Contributors

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 (Brill, 2017), which examines the roles of Tantric material and sensory objects in the lives and institutions of Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhists. He is also the author of The Bodhisattva’s Body in a Pill (forthcoming from University of Virginia Press). 

JOURNAL OF CONTEMPLATIVE STUDIES

• The Philosophy and Practice of Amulets in Tibetan Buddhist Tantra: Wearing, Analyzing, and Recognizing Your Way to Liberation by James Gentry

CONTEMPLATIVE CURRENTS

• Contemplation + SENSEmaking: An Interview With James Gentry by JCS Editor