Dr. Karma Sonam Palmo

Karma Sonam Palmo holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tasmania (School of Humanities: Asian Philosophy & Gender Studies), Australia. She works as a Research Assistant in the Dictionary Department of Research Section. She is currently working on a Tri-Lingual Abhidharma Thematic Dictionary (Tibetan-Sanskrit-English). Besides working on her main dictionary project, she teaches English in the Dept. of Classical and Modern Languages, Faculty of Shabda Vidya. She has taught courses on Buddhist Philosophy (Abhidharma); Gender and Buddhism; and Women in Buddhism as a Visiting Faculty in Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Sikkim, India and Smith College, MA, USA. Her research interests are Abhidharma and Yogacara Buddhist Philosophies; Women in Buddhism; Buddhism and Gender; and Buddhist Narrative & Hagiographic Literature.