Lara Braitstein is a professor of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism at McGill University (Montreal, Canada). She taught for a number of years at the Karmapa International Buddhist Institute (New Delhi, India), has taught at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute (Kathmandu, Nepal), and is a teacher in the Bodhi Path community. She specializes in Mahayana & Vajrayana Buddhist Philosophy, Buddhist Hagiography, and Tibetan/Himalayan Buddhist literature and historiography.
