Dr. Rory Lindsay

Rory Lindsay is a research editor at 84000 and an assistant professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. He is also a visiting scholar at the Buddhist Texts Translation Initiative at the University of California Santa Barbara. His forthcoming book Saving the Dead: Tibetan Funerary Rituals in the Tradition of the Sarvadurgatipariśodhana Tantra (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 2022) examines the history of Kunrik funerary practices in Tibet and the intersecting forms of agency—human nonhuman and material—that are described in Kunrik ritual manuals. Rory completed his BA and MA degrees at the University of Toronto and his PhD at Harvard University.