Jan Willis (BA and MA in Philosophy from Cornell University; PhD in Indic and Buddhist Studies from Columbia University) is Professor of Religion Emerita at Wesleyan University. She has studied with Tibetan Buddhists in India, Nepal, Switzerland, and the U.S. for five decades, and has taught courses in Buddhism for over 45 years. She is the author of “The Diamond Light: An Introduction to Tibetan Buddhist Meditation” (1972), “On Knowing Reality: The Tattvartha Chapter of Asanga’s Bodhisattvabhumi” (1979), “Enlightened Beings: Life Stories from the Ganden Oral Tradition” (1995); and the editor of “Feminine Ground: Essays on Women and Tibet” (1989). In April of 2020, her book “Dharma Matters: Women, Race, and Tantra—Collected Essays by Jan Willis” was released.
