Jan Willis is a professor emerita of religion at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. She is one of the earliest American scholar-practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism. Time named her one of six “spiritual innovators for the new millennium,” while Ebony called her one of its “Power 150” most influential African Americans. Some of her books include The Diamond Light: An Introduction to Tibetan Buddhist Meditation, On Knowing Reality: The Tattvartha Chapter of Asanga’s Bodhisattvabhumi and Enlightened Beings: Life Stories from the Ganden Oral Tradition.
| Email address | jwillis@wesleyan.edu |
| Phone number | 860-685-2298 |
| Categories | Beliefs & practices, Race & ethnicity, Society & culture |
| Locations | Connecticut, United States of America |
| Resource Types | Sources |
| Faiths | Buddhism |
| Languages | English |