James Apple

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Professors Category:Translators
FirstName / namefirst	James
LastName / namelast	Apple
MainNamePhon	James Apple
SortName	Apple, James
bio	James B. Apple is full Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Calgary. He received his doctorate in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2001 Dissertation: “Twenty varieties of the Saṃgha: Tsong kha pa's soteriological exegesis.” His current research focuses upon the critical analysis of Mahāyāna sūtras and topics within Indian and Tibetan Buddhist scholasticism. GESHÉ LHUNDUP SOPA (1923–2014) introduced Dr. Apple to stages of the path (lam rim) theory and practice at Deer Park Buddhist Center in Oregon, Wisconsin. He has published over fifty peer-reviewed articles in international academic journals. His books include Stairway to Nirvāṇa (State University of New York Press, 2008), A Stairway taken by the Lucid: Tsong kha pa’s Study of Noble Beings (Aditya Prakashan, 2013), Jewels of the Middle Way, The Madhyamaka Legacy of Atiśa and His Early Tibetan Followers (Wisdom Publications, 2018), Atiśa Dīpaṃkara Illuminator of the Awakened Mind (Shambala, 2019), and An Old Tibetan Dunhuang Manuscript of the Avaivartikacakrasūtra (Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, 2021), and Atisha's Stages of the Path to Awakening (Wisdom Publications, 2025).
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affiliation	University of Calgary
phduniversity	University of Wisconsin-Madison
education	Doctor of Philosophy Buddhist Studies, Wisconsin - Madison, 2001 M.A. Religious Studies, Wisconsin - Madison, 2001 B.A. Religious Studies, Indiana University, 1993
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