A book review is presented for The Sound of Vultures' Wings: The Tibetan Buddhist Chöd Ritual Practice of the Female Buddha Machik Labdrön, authored by Jeffrey W. Cupchik, by Michael R. Sheehy.
Author Biography
Michael R. Sheehy specializes in Tibetan Buddhism with a focus on the literature, history, and phenomenology of contemplative practices. His writing and translation give attention to Vajrayāna Buddhist meditation, the history of thought in Tibet, and interfaces between Buddhism and science. His research works to bring practices and experiences detailed in Tibetan meditation manuals in dialogue with contemporary discourses in the humanities, cultural psychology, and the cognitive sciences.
Sheehy is Research Associate Professor and the Director of Research at the Contemplative Sciences Center, University of Virginia. As founding Principal at the Contemplative Innovation + Research Co-Lab (CIRCL), he directs a transdisciplinary experimental collaboratory that studies how contemplative practices work in bodies and minds, cultures and ecologies, ourselves and our worlds. Additionally, he holds appointments by courtesy in the Department of Religious Studies and the UVA Tibet Center. At the University of Virginia Press, he is the coeditor of two monograph series: Varieties of Contemplative Experience and Traditions and Transformations in Tibetan Buddhism.
Sheehy, Michael R.
(2026)
"The Sound of Vultures' Wings: The Tibetan Buddhist Chöd Ritual Practice of the Female Buddha Machik Labdrön,"
Yale Journal of Music & Religion:
Vol. 12:
No.
1, Article 6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17132/2377-231X.1361
