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Bee Scherer
<p>Professor <strong>Bee Scherer</strong>, PhD is a long-time practitioner of Buddhism and has been globally teaching as a Buddhist lay teacher. Bee currently serves as the vice-chair of the International Lay Buddhist Forum.<br><br></p><p>After the study of classics, Indic (Sanskrit, Pāli, Prakrits) and Tibetan philology in Germany and the United States, completed by a PhD (Groningen, The Netherlands 2002), Bee published among others on karma; Nāgārjuna and early Mind-only; and, in recent years, on transnational Tibetan Buddhism; radical, reform and socially engaged Buddhism in Asia; and on Buddhist perspectives on gender and sexuality.</p><p><br></p><p>Currently, Bee is chair (full professor) in Religious Studies & Gender Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University and directs the INCISE research institute (http://incise.center).<br><br></p><p>As a trans/non-binary scholar-cum-activist Bee has established the interdisciplinary, transnational Queering Paradigms Social justice academic network and conference series.<br><br></p><p>Prof. Scherer has authored more than a dozen monographs and edited volumes in German, Dutch and English, among which features the substantial <em><strong>Introduction to Buddhism</strong></em> (2005, in German) with a foreword by HH. The Dalai Lama.</p>