Dr. Carola Roloff (Bhikṣuṇī Jampa Tsedroen) is a permanent visiting professor of Buddhism and Dialogue in Modern Societies at the Academy of World Religions of the University of Hamburg. From 2010 she led a DFG research project on Buddhist nuns’ ordination, and is author of The Buddhist Nun’s Ordination in the Tibetan Canon, Possibilities Of The Revival of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Bhikṣuṇī Lineage. She received śrāmaṇerikā ordination at Tibetan Centre Hamburg in 1981 and bhikṣuṇī ordination at Miao-T’ung Monastery, Taiwan in 1985.
