About the Author

Dan Cozort is professor and chair of the Department of Religion at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he teaches about the religions of India and Native America and lives with his wife and two children. A native of North Dakota, he earned degrees from Brown University and the University of Virginia, where he studied with Jeffrey Hopkins. He has written two books on Buddhist tantra, a catalogue for an exhibition on tantric art, a video documentary on sand mandalas, a book on the Prasangika-Madhyamika School, and a book on the schools of Indian Buddhism. He has also published several articles and book chapters on topics such as anger, Western Buddhist teachers, and Tibetan Buddhism in America. Before coming to Dickinson, he taught at the University of Virginia, James Madison University, and Bates College. He was one of the founders of the South India Term Abroad (SITA) study program, a collaborative effort of several small liberal arts colleges, and served as its director in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, in 1992-93. In 2003-2005 he directed Dickinson's program in humanities at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England.