User:ShaktaScholar

About me
I'm a scholar (PhD candidate) of Asian Philosophy & Religion, with a focus on Indian religions, specifically Shaktism, Tantra, and the goddess traditions within Hinduism, and in particular the Northeast of India. I also have an interest in Tantric Buddhism and its historical connections to Hindu Tantrism, and the general relationship (historical, substantive, phenomenological, etc) between Hinduism and the various heterodox traditions of India (Buddhism, Jainism, etc.). I've contributed as researcher & author in several encyclopedias of Hinduism, world religion, and ethnomusicology, have published several articles in the field of Hindu studies and Tantric studies, and am a Sanskritist, as well.

I edit pages when I find information that's incorrect, ambiguous or otherwise unclear, particularly when it's within my field of specialty. I also look for biased content that represents ideologically-driven opinions rather than factual information driven by strong, documented evidence.