Changing Vision

Catherine Hartmann was first exposed to Buddhism in a church Bible study group. “We were reading a book about other world religions and why they were wrong,” Hartmann says. According to the PhD candidate in the study of religion, the lessons from the book completely backfired. “I was very intrigued by the Buddhist beliefs about impermanence,” Hartmann explains. “I found it so compelling and fascinating, and it awoke in me the desire to learn more.”

This desire would take Hartmann to India, the birthplace of Buddhism, and down an academic path that would eventually lead her to Harvard and the Committee on the Study of Religion, where she studies the phenomenon of pilgrimage in Tibetan Buddhism. 

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