Nikhil Stewart is currently a researcher for the Religions and Ancient Civilizations department at the University of Hawai’i Mānoa. His research interests span Indian and Tibet Buddhist philosophy, political theory, semiotics, media theory, and linguistics. His current project ‘Digital Dharma: Tibetan Buddhism and Social Media in the Kathmandu Valley’ is an ethnographic study exploring how social media alters the life ways of Tibetan Buddhist monastic communities in the Kathmandu Valley.
