Angela Dietrich United Kingdom The Attainment of Buddhahood Lies in the Attainment of Humanhood Angela Dietrich's main passion in life has been her quest for authentic spirituality and social justice. Starting when she was the first in high school in the US to protest against the Vietnam war, then, while at Heidelberg University and during the year she spent at SOAS in London. She had developed a fascination with Sikhism as an engaged religious movement, and researched and published articles about Sikh revivalism in India. By the time she decided to continue her quest in Nepal about ten years later, she was one of the few westerners ever to enroll formally at Tribhuvan University. Her doctoral thesis is published under the title Tantric Healing in the Kathmandu Valley and is a comparative study of Hindu and Buddhist (spiritual or tantric) ritual healing traditions primarily catering to the marginalised elements in society. Having published numerous articles, for example, about the persecution of Buddhists in Nepalese history, besides anthropology and spiritual healing during her five years in Nepal, she also took refuge there in the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. Though career-wise Angela has mainly been involved in teaching and educational administration, she has still found the time to be engaged in campaigning for human and religious rights; for example, while briefly volunteering as co-editor of Seeds of Peace in Bangkok, she contributed the article, Santi Asoke: Buddhism the Ghandian Way. Thus it perhaps comes as no surprise that she plans to devote her forthcoming retirement to continuing to research Buddhism and comparative religion - especially as regards Buddhism's articulation in different cultures, and its response to the challenges posed by modernism and globalisation. Angela very much hopes that either a book or a further PhD will result from this research.