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Vyvyan Cayley

Vyvyan Cayley is an author and editor known for her work on Tibetan and Buddhist subjects. She authored Children of Tibet: An Oral History of the First Tibetans to Grow Up in Exile, published in 1994 by Pearlfisher in Balmain. This book features a foreword by H.H. the Dalai Lama.

In addition to her own writing, Cayley has contributed to editing important Buddhist texts. She edited The Life of the Mahasiddha Tilopa, a biography of the 11th-century Indian Buddhist master Tilopa, which was translated by Fabrizio Torricelli and Sangye T. Naga. This work is believed to have been originally composed by the Tibetan yogi Marpa Lotsawa.