My current research with "Heart Openings: Cultivation and Experience of Love in Religious Traditions: Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism" under the supervision of Christian Suhr, Aarhus University explores experiences of a felt-sense of compassion, devotion, and faith in Tibetan Buddhist contemplative practices in Nepal and the USA. Using film and in-depth interview methods (micro-phenomenology), I explore specific experiences related to compassion, and awakened mind. Through participant observation and life history interviews, I explore how people understand the ways in which such experiences shape their lives, and how different life trajectories and contemplative practices may impact these experiences.

Overall in my work, I look at the adaptation and evolution of themes in contemplative practices through South and Central Asia, Buddhism, in particular. This reflection makes use of multiple aspects of religion such as literature, praxis, cultural, and philosophical components. I am also interested in how body and identity are incorporated into this process of transformation.

My fields of interest include Asian religions, literature, language, and history and how communal and individual identity are created through these modalities. My interests range from Tibetan language, biography, religious contemplative practices to Buddhist philosophy, including epistemology and ontology.