Temple painting from Wat Phutthaisawan, Thailand depicting two Buddha footprints, one in Thailand and another in Sri Lanka, separated by a dangerous sea — Late seventeenth-century temple painting at *Wat* *Phutthaisawan*, Ayutthaya, Thailand,
depicting *Śrī Pāda*, the Buddha footprint in central Sri Lanka

Hi, I’m Tyler.

I am an assistant professor of history and a faculty affiliate in gender, women, and sexuality studies at Virginia Wesleyan University. My primary research, publication, and teaching areas encompass South and Southeast Asian Buddhist lineages, European seaborne empires, transregional and transnational religious and political movements in the global south, and gender and sexual normativity in the early modern Indian Ocean. Read more.