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Professor Holly Gayley delivered lecture at USC and served on panel at the Claremont Colleges

Female Esoterics in Song

Professor Holly Gayley delivered a lecture, "On Love and Destiny: Reading the Epistolary Courtship of a Buddhist Tantric Couple,� at the University of Southern California on March 22, 2017, hosted by their Deparment of Religious Studies.

The following day, she participated on a pre-performance panel for the World Premier of  at the Garrison Theatre, Scripps College in Claremont. For the piece, “Persevere,� an NEA commission by composer Karola Obermüller, featuring soprano Anne Harley and harpist harpist Barbara Poeschl-Edrich, Professor Gayley contributed selections from Khandro Tare Lhamo’s letters to the libretto and a short essay on “Three Generations of Visionary Buddhist Women� to the program notes.