**About the Editor**

#### **Nicola Schneider**

Nicola Schneider is an anthropologist specialised in the Tibetan cultural area. She is the author of *Le renoncement au f´eminin. Couvents et nonnes dans le bouddhisme tib´etain* (2013, Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest) and several articles on Tibetan Buddhist nuns and female saints (*khandroma*). From 2018 to 2021, she was a guest professor at the Department for Tibetan Studies at the University of Bonn. She is currently lecturing at the INALCO University in Paris and an associate researcher at the East Asian Civilizations Research Centre.
