Karin Meyers Senior Professorial Lecturer Philosophy and Religion
- Degrees
- PhD University of Chicago Divinity School
- Bio
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Karin Meyers (she/her) earned a PhD (with distinction) from the University of Chicago in 2010. In addition to teaching Buddhist and Asian philosophy and religion at several universities and colleges in the US; she spent seven years on the faculty of Kathmandu University and Rangjung Yeshe Institute鈥檚 Centre for Buddhist Studies, where she was Director of the master's degree program in Buddhist Studies; and served as Academic Director of Mangalam Research Center in Berkeley, CA from 2000-2024. Her scholarly work focuses on cross-cultural and interdisciplinary inquiry into fundamental ontological, epistemological, and ethical questions with an emphasis on South Asian Buddhist perspectives. She has published articles on intention, free will, and contemplative practice in Buddhism, as well as on methods in comparative philosophy and the ecological crisis.
Karin is currently editing two books for Mangalam Press, The Imagination and Imaginal Worlds in the Mirror of Buddhism based on a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute that she co-directed in 2022, and an introductory Classical Sanskrit textbook designed for students of Buddhism (Svaya峁僢h奴vyak膩ra峁嘺m by Mattia Salvini).
Karin has practiced meditation in Therav膩da, Tibetan, and Zen Buddhist traditions and is a certified qi gong instructor. She is originally from the Washington, DC area.
In June 2025 she will be co-directing a NEH Summer Institute for Higher Education Faculty, "Buddhist Perspectives on Nature in an Age of Global Climate Change" at Mangalam Research Center in Berkeley, CA.
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