KARMA LEKSHE TSOMO is a professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of San Diego, where she teaches World Religions, Buddhist Thought and Culture, and Dying, Death, and Social Justice. She was ordained as a novice nun in France in 1977 and received full ordination in Korea in 1982. After studying Buddhism in India for 15 years, she completed a doctorate in Comparative Philosophy at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in 2000. She is a founder and past president of Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women and the director of Jamyang Foundation, a nonprofit that supports education for girls and women in India, Bangladesh, and other developing countries. Her publications include Women in Buddhist Traditions; Buddhist Feminisms and Femininities; Into the Jaws of Yama: Buddhism, Bioethics, and Death; Sisters in Solitude: Two Traditions of Monastic Ethics for Women, and numerous books on women in Buddhism.