Dr. Gautama V. Vajracharya is a Sanskritist with a deep interest in South Asian languages, art and culture. He has been teaching Nepali language at the University of Wisconsin since 1981. In his youth, he went to gurukula type of traditional Sanskrit school. He started his carrier as an editor of Nepali journal called Purnima and published about 50 articles and 4 books on Nepalese history and culture. He received a prestigious Rockefeller grant to study Nepalese and Tibetan works at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California. Later on, he earned a master degree in art history at the Claremont Graduate School, California, and a PhD in South Asian language and culture at the Department of South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Recently he finished writing a monograph on monsoonal culture of South Asia, which has been accepted to be published by Marg in 2012.

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