Susan A. Landesman

Susan A. Landesman

Susan Landesman is an independent scholar and educator living and working in New York City. She is the author of “Tārā and the Tārā-mūla-kalpa: The Tara Cult’s Formative Period in India,” “Goddess Tārā: Silence and Secrecy on the Path to Enlightenment,” “Tara” (in the Oxford Bibliographies), and The Tārā Tantra: Part II: The Uttara-tantra (forthcoming). She specializes in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan art, and women in Buddhism, having completed her doctorate in Indian and Tibetan languages and cultures at Columbia University.