Sera Khandro Dewé Dorjé (1892-1940) was born in Lhasa, Tibet, to a wealthy and politically powerful family. She renounced her privileged upbringing and joined a group of pilgrims from the eastern Tibetan region of Golok, where she spent the rest of her life dedicated to Buddhist practice, eventually becoming a renowned visionary who discovered Buddhist revelations, a guru, and a Tantric consort.

Sarah H. Jacoby is professor of religious studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro (Columbia, 2014) and coauthor of Buddhism: Introducing the Buddhist Experience (fourth edition, 2024), among other works.