Upayadhi S. Luraschi is a scholar of Buddhist Studies at the University of Chicago, where she focuses on the Indian Buddhist Revival, transnational Buddhist networks, and the relationship between religious narrative and political imagination. Much of her research has focused on Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s radical Buddhist imagination, which she places in conversation with Womanist and Black liberation theologians. Integrating her work as a researcher, interfaith chaplain and meditation instructor, she co-founded Awareness is Revolutionary, an international Buddhist collective committed to cultivating Beloved Community and accelerating racial literacy within a Buddhist framework. Born in Paris, Upayadhi moves between France, the US, the UK and increasingly India for her research. For the last 20 years she has been practicing with the Triratna Buddhist Community, otherwise known as the Triratna Bauddha Mahāsaṅgha (TBM) in India, a transnational sangha drawing inspiration from Dr. Ambedkar, and which has played an important role in the Indian Buddhist revival since the 1980s.