Seeking Potalaka: Avalokiteśvara’s Sacred Mountain in Chinese and Tibetan Buddhism

Dr. Yao Shuang is an Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature at the School of Liberal Arts, Renmin University of China. She holds a PhD from Tsinghua University, an MSc in Art in the Global Middle Ages from the University of Edinburgh and a BA from Beijing Foreign Studies University, and was a Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar postdoctoral fellow at Tsinghua’s Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences (2021–2023). Trained in Tibetan and Buddhist philology and art history, she works on comparative Sino-Tibetan Buddhist studies, Tibetan monastic art and traditional writings on the arts. She co-edited What Is Philology? (2021), and is an experienced translator and interpreter who has translated exhibition catalogues for the Palace Museum, Beijing.