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Katie Javanaud is a visiting lecturer and researcher at the Department of Religion [Princeton], affiliated with the University Centre for Human Values. Katie’s research focuses on cross-cultural philosophy and religion and her areas of specialism include Buddhism and Jainism. She recently completed her D.Phil at the University of Oxford where, for her doctoral dissertation, she addressed the free will problem using Madhyamaka Buddhist conceptual resources. Katie is also interested in areas of applied ethics, especially in environmental ethics and animal rights. Her publications appear in ''The Journal of Buddhist Ethics'', ''The Journal of Indian Philosophy'', ''The Journal of Animal Ethics'' and ''Aeon'' magazine. ([https://religion.princeton.edu/people/faculty/lecturers/katie-javanaud/ Source Accessed Apr 14, 2021]) +
Sumitra M. Katre (1906-1998) a lexicographer, Indo-Aryan and Paninian Linguist, was born on 11th April at Honnavar, Karnataka, and died on 21st October in San Jose, California, USA. Prof. Katre made the initiation of the gigantic Sanskrit Dictionary Project, Encyclopedia of Sanskrit on Historical Principles, with 11 million slips preserved in the scriptorium. His work The Formation of Knokani is his tribute to his mother tongue Konkani. S.M. Katre's 1966 work, The Formation of Konkani, which utilized the instruments of modern historical and comparative linguistics across six typical Konkani dialects, showed the formation of Konkani to be distinct from that of Marathi. He was president of the 7th Session of All India Konkani Parishad held on 27th & 28 April, 1957 at Mumbai. Source: ([https://www.mlbd.in/products/astadhyayi-of-panini-sumitra-m-katre-9788120805217-8120805216?_pos=1&_sid=901584408&_ss=r Motilal Banarsidass]) +
Katrin Querl is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Indology and Central Asian Studies. Before joining the University of Leipzig, she studied at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, the Kagyu College in Dehradun, and the University of Vienna. Katrin Querl's dissertation dealt with the presentation of the three wheels of Dharma in the works of the Tibetan Buddhist scholar Jigten Sumgön, the founder of the Drikung Kagyu tradition. In addition to her academic research, she collaborates with several translation projects, such as the Vikramashila Translation Project, the Rinchenpal Translation Project, and the Buddhist Translation Studies project (BTS). Her recent publications include the translation of several texts from the collected works of Jigten Sumgön and two translations for the project "84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha". Katrin was a Tsadra Foundation study scholarship recipient from 2013 to 2017 and began a translation project with a grant from Tsadra Foundation in 2022. +
Katsuhito Inoue is a Professor at Kansai University in the Faculty of Letters, Department of Humanities. He is the author of numerous articles on Japanese philosophy and Confucian thought. +
Professor Shōryū Katsura received his training in Sanskrit and Buddhist Studies at Kyoto University and the University of Toronto. From 1974 to 2004 he taught in the Department of Indian Philosophy at Hiroshima University; from 2004 he was Professor of Buddhist Philosophy at Ryukoku University, Kyoto, until his retirement in 2012. He remains active at Ryukoku University, where he is Director of their Research Center for Buddhist Cultures in Asia. He is the author or editor of seven books, and has published over sixty articles on various facets of classical Indian Buddhist thought. He is perhaps best known for his work on Buddhist epistemology—the thought of Dignaga, Dharmakirti, and their commentators—but has also made important contributions to the study of Madhyamaka, Abhidharma, and later Mahayana thought. In addition he serves as chief priest of Kodaiji, a small Jodo-shinshu temple in Shiga Prefecture. ([http://www.wisdompubs.org/author/shoryu-katsura Source Accessed Sept 4, 2015]) +
A student of Khenpo Drakpa Bum, Khenchen Dewa Pal, Lopön Tukjé Palzang, Lopön Chöden Palzang, etc. A teacher of Joden Khenpo Sönam Drakpa, Butön Rinchen Drup, Zhangtön Sönam Drak, etc. Kadam master; important figure in the transmission lineage of both the kha che tradition of the vinaya and the gzhung pa transmission of the lam rim. ([https://library.bdrc.io/show/bdr:P2130 Source Accessed Feb 8, 2023]) +
Kazuaki Tanahashi (棚橋一晃, born October 4, 1933) is an accomplished Japanese calligrapher, Zen teacher, author and translator of Buddhist texts from Japanese and Chinese to English, most notably works by Dogen (he began his translation of ''Shobogenzo'' in his twenties). He first met Shunryu Suzuki in 1964, and upon reading Suzuki's book ''Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind'' he stated, "I could see it's ''Shobogenzo'' in a very plain, simple language." He has helped notable Zen teachers author books on Zen Buddhism, such as John Daido Loori. A fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science—Tanahashi is also an environmentalist and peaceworker. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuaki_Tanahashi Source Accessed July 24, 2023]) +
Kazunobu Matsuda is a Professor of Buddhist Studies at Bukkyo University in Kyoto, Japan. He is the author of numerous papers on Buddhist Sanskrit manuscripts and is particularly known for his work on the Buddhist manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection. He was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (2001-2002). And he received an ACLS grant to work on a collaborative project—The Eighth Century Schøyen fragments of the Mulasarvastivada Vinaya—a project that brings together an international collaborative team with expertise in Buddhist manuscripts, palaeography, and the Mulasarvastivada vinaya (MSV) in order to sort, transcribe, study and catalog a set of unique eighth century birch bark manuscript fragments presently held in the Schøyen Collection in Oslo. +
Kazunori Sasaki is a Japanese scholar of Buddhism in India, Tibet and Nepal. He is a faculty member in Buddhist Studies at Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan. +
Kazuo Enoki was born in Kobe city in 1913 and was an educator and historian. In 1955 he became a Professor of Tokyo University. He studied mainly Central Asia under guidance of Shiratori Kurakichi. Besides this, he wrote several historical books about China and Japan. In 1974, he was Director General of Toyo Bunko. Also, he was in England (1952-53) as guest professor of London University. He was related to [the] amassing of distinctive materials of Toyo Bunko after WW2, such as documents unearthed from Dunhuang and Turfan, Middle Eastern Documents, the Jesuitas na Asia from the Biblioteca de Ajuda in Lisbon, etc. In 1990. his bereaved donated his 30,000 books to Toyo Bunko. ([http://www.toyo-bunko.or.jp/toyobunko-e/library3/shozou/enoki-e.html; http://www.toyo-bunko.or.jp/toyobunko-e/library3/shozou/enoki-e.html Adapted from Sources Mar 23, 2021]) +
Dr. Kano is an associate professor at Komazawa University in Japan and a specialist of Sanskrit and Tibetan tathāgatagarbha literature. His particular research interests focus on philosophical interpretations of the ''Ratnagotravibhāga''. ([https://conference.tsadra.org/past-event/2019-vienna-symposium/ Source Accessed July 22, 2020]) +
Keutsang Rinpoche is a Gelugpa lama of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. He was born in Lhoka, Tibet in 1944. He was recognized at the age of 2 as the fifth Keutsang Rinpoche. His previous incarnation, the fourth Keutsang Rinpoche, was a high Tibetan lama who was responsible for finding the reincanation of the 13th Dalai Lama, now the 14th Dalai Lama. The present Keutsang Rinpoche, was imprisoned for 20 years starting at the age of 16; he was imprisoned as a class enemy under the Chinese occupation of Tibet. He was released from prison in 1980, and in 1985, he left Tibet for India. He currently resides at H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama's residence in Dharmsala, India.
Source[http://www.deerparkcenter.org/NewFiles/keutsang.html] +
Keiko Takioto Miller is Assistant Professor of Japanese and French and Director of Asian Studies Program at Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pennsylvania. +
Keith Dowman is a translator and teacher of Dzogchen. A student of the great Dzogchen lamas Dudjom Rinpoche and Kanjur Rinpoche, he has lived in Banares, India, and Kathmandu, Nepal, for 50 years. His translations include SkyDancer, and Longchenpa’s Natural Perfection and Spaciousness.
A cultural refugee from his native England, Keith Dowman arrived in Banares, India in 1966, after travelling overland from Europe. Apart from an occasional foray back to the West he has spent a lifetime in the sub-continent, engaged in existential buddha dharma. In India and Nepal, not always in Tibetan refugee society, he has lived as a yogin, monk, pilgrim, and then as a householder, and as a scholar and poet gloriously free from western academia and cultural institutions of all shapes and sizes.
In India in the ‘sixties he was fortunate enough to encounter the grandfather-lama refugees just after their arrival in India in the wake of the Chinese invasion of Tibet. In those heady years when the old lamas were totally receptive to the solicitation of western disciples seeking confirmation of the validity of their existential trajectories, he received initiation, empowerment, pith instruction and personal guidance from Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje and Kanjur Rinpoche Longchen Yeshe Dorje, who became his root gurus, among many other Nyingma lamas and lamas of other schools, notably Khamtrul Rimpoche and the 16th Karmapa Rikpai Dorje. As Chogyal Namkhai Norbu remarked "In communion with many great masters [Keith Dowman] has fortuitously absorbed the realization of Dzogchen."
Settled in Kathmandu, in the ‘eighties he translated the Rabalaisian hagiography of The Divine Madman (Drukpa Kunley) and also that of the Guru’s Consort, Yeshe Tsogyel, in Skydancer, both of which remain in print. Entering Tibet immediately after it opened to foreign travelers, his three years of seasonal trekking in central Tibet resulted in The Pilgrim’s Guide to Central Tibet. The Power Places of Kathmandu was also written in the ‘eighties, description of pilgrimage in the Kathmandu Valley. Masters of Mahamudra: the Legends of the Eighty-Four Mahasiddhas was the fruit of his connection with the Kagyu school. More recently, spending less time in the polluted Kathmandu Valley, leaving Vajrayana behind, he has concentrated exclusively on the translation of Dzogchen texts: The Flight of the Garuda, Natural Perfection, Maya Yoga, The Great Secret of Mind, and Spaciousness: Longchenpa’s Treasury of the Dharmadhatu. Guru Pema Here and Now, The Mythology of the Lotus-Born, his most recent book, reverts to the imagery of the myth of Padmasambhava to illustrate the reality of Dzogchen.
Teaching the Dharma since 1992, his original concern was to assist in bridge building from East to West, a conduit for the lamas’ buddha-dharma. Now that aim has been achieved, leaving even the Dzogchen that is embedded in Vajrayana behind, the essence of Dzogchen which he calls radical Dzogchen is his primary concern and the main content of his teaching.
Still based in Kathmandu, he leads a nomadic lifestyle, teaching Dzogchen nonmeditation worldwide. This Dzogchen, derived from the early Nyingma tantras, free of the tendency toward the spiritual materialism so evident in western Buddhism, nonculturally specific, easily assimilable into Western culture, can, he believes provide a key to a renaissance, or at least a reformation, of Western mysticism in the existential mold. ([http://keithdowman.net/footer-pages/about-keith-dowman.html Source Accessed Feb 3, 2021])
Following Dogen Zenji, the Dharma lamp was transmitted to Ejo Zenji, then to Gikai Zenji, and then to Keizan Zenji, who was the fourth ancestor in the Japanese Soto Zen lineage.
Keizan Zenji was born in 1264 in Echizen Province, which is present-day Fukui Prefecture. His mother, Ekan Daishi, was a devoted believer in Kannon Bosatsu (Avalokiteshvara), the bodhisattva of compassion. It is said that she was on her way to worship at a building dedicated to Kannon when she gave birth. For that reason, the name that Keizan Zenji was given at birth was Gyosho.
At the age of eight, he shaved his head and entered Eiheiji where he began his practice under the third abbot, Gikai Zenji. At the age of thirteen, he again went to live at Eiheiji and was officially ordained as a monk under Ejo Zenji. Following the death of Ejo Zenji, he practiced under Jakuen Zenji at Hokyoji, located in present-day Fukui. Spotting Keizan Zenji’s potential ability to lead the monks, Jakuen Zenji selected him to be ino, the monk in charge of the other monks’ practice.
In contrast to Dogen Zenji, who deeply explored the internal self, Keizan Zenji stood out with his ability to look outwards and boldly spread the teaching. For the Soto Zen School, the teachings of these two founders are closely connected with each other. In spreading the Way of Buddha widely, one of them was internal in his approach while the other was external.
After more years of practice in Kyoto and Yura, Keizan Zenji became resident priest of Jomanji in Awa, which is present-day Tokushima Prefecture. He was twenty-seven years old. During the next four years, he gave the Buddhist precepts to more than seventy lay people. From this we can understand Keizan Zenji’s vow to free all sentient beings through teaching and transmitting the Way.
He also came forth emphasizing the equality of men and women. He actively promoted his women disciples to become resident priests. At a time when women were unjustly marginalized, this was truly groundbreaking. This is thought to be the origin of the organization of Soto Zen School nuns and it was for this reason many women took refuge in Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.
Keizan Zenji finally moved back to Daijoji, in present-day Kanazawa City, where he became the second abbot, following Gikai Zenji. It was here that he gave teisho on Transmission of Light (Denkoroku). This book explains the circumstances by which the Dharma was transmitted from Shakyamuni Buddha through the twenty eight ancestors in India, the twenty three patriarchs in China, through Dogen Zenji and Keizan Zenji in Japan until Keizan’s teacher, Tettsu Gikai.
In 1321 at the age of fifty-eight, a temple called Morookaji in Noto, which is present-day Ishikawa Prefecture, was donated to Keizan Zenji and he renamed it Sojiji. This was the origin of Sojiji in Yokohama, which is, along with Eiheiji, the other Head Temple (Daihonzan) of the Soto Zen School.
Keizan Zenji did not, by any means, make light of the worldly interests of ordinary people and along with the practice of zazen used prayer, ritual, and memorial services to teach. This was attractive to many people and gave them a sense of peace. For this reason, the Soto Zen School quickly expanded.
Even in the Soto Zen School today, while all temples have zazen groups to serve the earnest requests of believers, they also do their best to fulfill the requests that many people have for benefiting in the everyday world, which include memorial services and funerals.
Keizan Zenji died in 1325 at the age of sixty-five. In succeeding years, his disciples did a good job in taking over for him at Sojiji on the Noto Peninsula. However, that temple was lost to fire in 1898. This provided the opportunity in 1907 to move Sojiji to its present location. The former temple was rebuilt as Sojiji Soin and continues today with many supporters and believers. (Source: [https://www.sotozen.com/eng/what/Buddha_founders/dogen_zenji.html Sotozen.com])
K. Dhondup was a prominent literary and cultural figure of the Tibetan exile world in the eighties and nineties. Working at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (LTWA) in Dharamsala, he was Managing Editor of the Tibet Journal as well as on the editorial board of Pema Thang, which was possibly the first Tibetan literary journal in English. He wrote three histories of Tibet, of which two were published and the third remained incomplete. An editor, journalist and historian, K. Dhondup also wrote poetry and published a translation of the Sixth Dalai Lama's poetry. +
Ken is currently Director of Studies at Kagyu Samye Ling. His life is spent teaching in Samye Dzongs in various countries, writing and translating dharma works, and he also occasionally interprets for visiting Tibetan lamas. He has also lectured in elementology and astro-science for the Tara-Rokpa College of Tibetan Medicine. He was a founder member of the Scottish Inter-Faith Council and has worked with the British Cabinet Office and the European Community on training programmes. He represented Buddhism at the seminal 2002 meetings in Brussels to discuss religious representation in the new European constitution. ([https://www.samyeling.org/buddhism-and-meditation/teaching-archive-2/dharmacharya-ken-holmes/ Source Accessed Jul 22, 2020]) +
Ken McLeod is a senior Western translator, author, and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism. He received traditional training mainly in the Shangpa Kagyu lineage through a long association with his principal teacher, Kalu Rinpoche, whom he met in 1970. McLeod resides in Los Angeles, where he founded [https://unfetteredmind.org/ Unfettered Mind]. +
Kendra Smith holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has worked widely as a psychiatric social worker. She has received training in organizational development from N.T.L.-U.C.L.A. Graduate School of Business and in family therapy from Boston Family Institute. She is a graduate of the 1974 Human Development Training Program. (Source: 1975 publication: [[Reflections of Mind: Western Psychology Meets Tibetan Buddhism]]) +
Kengo Harimoto has been a faculty member in the Buddhist Studies department at Mahidol University in Thailand since 2015. He is a Sanskritist focusing on Indian Philosophy, an expert reader of manuscripts, and has a wide academic background ranging from Vedānta, to Āyurveda, to the edition of Buddhist philosophical commentaries. ([https://www.facebook.com/BuddhistPhDMahidol/photos/a.10152914725503032/10153873367343032/?type=1&theater Source Accessed April 27, 2020]) +
