Federica Venturi is a researcher attached to the ERC-funded “TibArmy” Project at the CRCAO, CNRS in Paris, and currently a visiting scholar in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA. Her interests center around various aspects of Tibetan history, including the sanctioning of violence for political reasons by Tibetan Buddhist hierarchs and how the interrelation of politics, economics and religion affected the history of holy places in Tibet. She has published several articles and a monograph on Tibetan holy places, as well as articles on different aspects of the Tibetan army, most recently as co-editor (with Alice Travers) of the first collective volume of the TibArmy project, Buddhism and the Military in Tibet during the Ganden Phodrang Period (1642-1959).
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