Author Biography
Gautama V. Vajracharya is a Sanskritist and scholar specializing in the art and culture of South Asia. As a young Newar scholar in Kathmandu, he assisted Mary Slusser when she was writing Nepal Mandala. He received a prestigious Rockefeller grant to work as a trainee at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art with Pratapaditya Pal, PhD, Senior Curator of Indian and Southeast Asian Art, on the first exhibitions of Nepalese art. Vajracharya later earned a Master’s degree in Art History from the Claremont Graduate School, California, and a PhD in South Asian language and culture from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He then taught Indian art and culture there for more than two decades. Among his most recent publications is the book Frog Hymns and Rain Babies: Monsoon Culture and the Art of Ancient South Asia. He was guest curator for the exhibition Nepalese Seasons: Rain and Ritual in 2017 at the Rubin Museum, and author of the related catalogue of the same title.
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Vajracharya, Gautama V.. 2018. Obituary | Mary Shepherd Slusser (1918–2017). HIMALAYA 38(1).
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