Kali Nyima Cape, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Graduate Studies at Georgia State University. A historian of Buddhist philosophy, she focuses on transnational Tibetan Buddhism, contemplative traditions, women in Buddhism, and the philosophical literature on ultimate reality, meditation, and esoteric practice. Her work brings rigorous historical and philological inquiry into dialogue with questions of embodiment, gender, resilience, and multiple ways of knowing, with particular attention to the fourteenth-century formation of Tibetan contemplative canons.

Cape received her PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia, where her dissertation focused on women and sexuality in esoteric Tibetan contemplative literature, especially Great Perfection (rdzogs chen). Drawing on decades of immersion in Tibetan Buddhist communities across India, Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, and North America, she writes with unusual depth at the intersection of Buddhist philosophy, contemplative pedagogy, feminist and decolonial theory, and the study of religious transformation. Her current manuscript, Yoginīs in Tibet, recovers the neglected history of women in Great Perfection traditions and contributes a vital new perspective to Buddhist studies, gender studies, and the history of consciousness.