Reiko Ohnuma

Reiko Ohnuma is professor and chair of the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College, where she is also affiliated with the Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program and the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. Her research focuses on South Asian Buddhist narrative literature preserved in Sanskrit and Pali, and she is the author of Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood: Giving Away the Body in Indian Buddhist Literature (Columbia, 2007); Ties That Bind: Maternal Imagery and Discourse in Indian Buddhism (Oxford, 2012); and Unfortunate Destiny: Animals in the Indian Buddhist Imagination (Oxford, 2017). (Source: Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice, 285)