Journey and Milestones
Background Information
Dr Dawn H. Collins lectures in Religions and Anthropology, focusing on Asian Religions, Tantra, Sacred Geography, Ecology and Spirituality, Divination, Dance, and Death Studies. Her ethnographic research is inspired by her practices as a dance artist and as a massage therapist.
Experience
Dr Dawn H. Collins has worked as a contemporary dancer, a massage therapist, as support for a tech start up with admin, finance, and recruitment; and, more recently, as an academic researcher, writer, and tutor. Current research interests are ritual healing, sacred wellsprings, theurgy, and tantra.
Dr. Dawn Collins
Copyeditor
Dawn's role for 84000 is to copyedit the English translations to the best of her ability.
Dr. Dawn H. Collins holds an MA in Buddhist Studies from SOAS University of London and a PhD from Cardiff University focusing on Tibetan landscapes and ritual healing. She has worked as a contemporary dancer, a massage therapist, as support for a tech start up with admin, finance, and recruitment, and, more recently, as an academic researcher, writer, and tutor. Her current research interests are ritual healing, sacred wellsprings, theurgy, and tantra. Dawn lectures in Religions and Anthropology, focusing on Asian Religions, Tantra, Sacred Geography, Ecology and Spirituality, Divination, Dance, and Death Studies. Her ethnographic research is inspired by her practices as a dance artist and as a massage therapist.
It lifts Dawn’s heart to see how every member of the 84000 team comes together with kindness each day in the effort to translate and communicate the words of the Buddha Śākyamuni as best possible.