Barbara Hazelton

Barbara Hazelton has a BA in Fine Art History and Buddhist Studies. As a graduate student at U of T, her research focuses on Tibetan epic literature and performance. She has lived for many years with Tibetan communities in Asia and Canada and is a practicing artist studying with a Tibetan Thanka painter in Toronto. She has a background in Tibetan visual imagery and ritual through studies with Tibetan scholars and ritual specialists, including experience with shrine imagery, torma, reliquaries, musical instruments and Tibetan music reading, thangka painting, and all sorts of Buddhist common and esoteric rituals.