Khenpo Tsultrim Lodroe is one of the foremost religious leaders within the People’s Republic of China (PRC) today. For more than twenty years, he has overseen monastic education at Larung Gar Five Sciences Buddhist Academy, the largest and most significant site of Tibetan Buddhism in contemporary China. Tsultrim Lodroe has been highly influential across the Tibetan Plateau over the past two decades, promoting various Buddhist modernist movements. These include advocating for vegetarianism, the “new ten virtues,” the slaughter-renunciation movement, and promoting education and environmental awareness. He has also been deeply involved in promoting continuity in Tibetan language and culture and has written extensively on Buddhism and science.

Emily Yeh is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on Tibet, China, and the Himalaya, with interests spanning political ecology, conservation, and cultural politics.