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Dominique Townsend(2023)

Dominique Townsend is Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies at Bard College with a focus on literary and historical materials. She is the author of A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet’s Mindröling Monastery, Shantideva: How to Wake Up a Hero, an adaptation of the classic text for young readers, and a collection of poems, The Weather & Our Tempers. Her research interests include the interplay between the religious and the secular, Tibetan Buddhist approaches to dreams and dreaming, aesthetics, poetics, and translation theory.