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Gitte Poulsen

Gitte has a Masters in Religious Studies from Aarhus University, Denmark but has completed most of her studies in Varanasi, India, and as a visiting student at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. Gitte’s focus is on Yoga, Tantra, and Sanskrit. She is also a dedicated practitioner of āsana and prāṇāyāma. She manages the OCHS Kathmandu Office where she oversees the daily operation and focuses on Nepali and Newari language as well as Śākta traditions among the Newar community of The Kathmandu Valley.

Dr Karen O’Brien-Kop

Karen O’Brien-Kop is a Lecturer in Asian Religions and Ethics at Roehampton University, London. She researches classical South Asian Sanskrit texts and culture on meditation and yoga, in particular exploring the interconnections of Hinduism and Buddhism. More broadly, her research interests are Indian religion and philosophy, philosophy of mind, theory and method in the study of religion, global philosophies, and literary criticism and theory. She is co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies (2020) and has a forthcoming monograph with Bloomsbury Academic on Classical Yoga and Buddhism.

Anuradha Dooney

Anuradha Dooney, Bachelors Degree in Social Science, from University College Dublin (1985). Curriculum writer for religious education courses in the UK and Belgium. Anuradha was awarded her MSt in the Study of Religion, from Oxford in 2003. Her thesis was an exploration of faith development in Vaishnava Hinduism. Anuradha teaches courses in London, Birmingham, Oxford, Cambridge, and Leicester.

Shaunaka Rishi Das

Tushar Shah is pursuing a PhD at Cambridge focusing on the role of the guru in modern Hindu traditions. He completed an MSt in Study of Religions at Oxford and most recently spent nine months in India studying Sanskrit and Hindu shastra. He has been delivering lectures and presentations on Hinduism for several years and has tutored OCHS Continuing Education courses since 2014.

Prof. Julius Lipner

Professor of Hinduism and the Comparative Study of Religion at the University of Cambridge. Prof. Lipner is an old friend and regular contributor to OCHS Summer Schools.