Chelsea Hall

Chelsea E. Hall is currently working on her PhD in Religion, Gender, and Culture focusing on Tibetan Buddhism at Harvard University under the direction of Janet Gyatso. She focuses on the largest Tibetan Buddhist nunnery in the world, Serta Larung Gar, in Kham (Sichuan), where she has lived and conducted ethnographic research. She graduated with an MA in 2008 in the History of Religions from the University of Virginia under the supervision of David Germano, and did her undergraduate thesis at New College of Florida in Religion and Tibetan Buddhism with John Newman. Her research interests include present-day religious communities or “dharma encampments” in Tibet, gender and Buddhism, the Kham cultural area of Tibet, nomadic life, and comparative and interfaith dialogue. She currently focuses on the published
works of a group of female Khenmos (cleric-scholars) at Serta Larung Gar.