The ever-growing popularity of mindfulness—from corporate boardrooms to inner-city schools—has finally made my academic interest a conversation-starter at dinner parties. “Ah, the Buddha was talking…
Nalika Gajaweera
Nalika Gajaweera (Ph.D., University of California, Irvine) is an anthropologist and research associate in the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California. Her core research interests are in the anthropology of religion, Buddhism, transnationalism and humanitarian ethics, with an area expertise in South Asia.
