Mengyan Li
Mengyan Li studied Tibetology at Renmin University of China and obtained her MA in 2011 with a thesis on dPal-ldan Bla-ma-dam-pa bSod-nams-rgyal-mtshan (with the title “A Study of the Biography of dPal ldan Bla ma dam pa bSod nams rgyal mtshan: Translation and Annotation”). Since October 2013, she has been enrolled as a PhD candidate at the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Asia-Africa Institute, University Hamburg. Currently she is working and writing her doctoral thesis which deals with the history of the translation, transmission, and reception of Tantric Buddhism in early Tibet. Her main interests lie in the history of Tibetan Buddhism in general and in early Tantric Buddhism in Tibet in particular.