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Laura Harrington received her received her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Columbia University and subsequently taught Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Asian Religions, Buddhist Art and Comparative Asian Medical Traditions at Trinity College and Wesleyan University. Her interests also include Tibetan Buddhism in the United States.
Professor Harrington’s research focuses on the study of Buddhist material culture, with a particular emphasis on the role of embodiment and emotion in the production of religious belief. Her interests also include the impact of so-called “modernity” discourse on the study of Tibet. She is contributing editor (with Robert Barnett) of the volume ''New Perspectives on Tibetan Traditionality'', and contributing editor for the books ''Tibetan Astro-Science'' (Tibet Domani, 2000) and ''Kālachakra'' (Tibet Domani, 1999). Her present book in progress is titled ''Secular Incarnations: Buddhist Tantra in Euro-American Thought''.
Her recent publications include a translation of a Tantric commentary by the second Dalai Lama of Tibet, and an exploration of a Tibetan Buddhist ritual through the lens of cognitive aesthetics. ([https://www.bu.edu/core/people/laura-harrington/ Source Accessed Dec 4, 2023]) +
Laura Swan began her study of Tibetan and Buddhadharma in 2005 at Rangjung Yeshe Institute and continued her studies at Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling’s monastic shedra. She has translated for Samye Translations, 84000, Rangjung Yeshe Publications, and more recently for the Khyentse Vision Project. ([https://www.lotsawahouse.org/translators/laura-swan/ Source Accessed Jan 20, 2025]) +
Dr Laxman S. Thakur till recently held the Dr Y. S. Parmar Chair Professor, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India. +
Ph.D. Research Scholar, School of Buddhist Studies & Civilization, Gautam Buddha University,
Greater Noida, UP, India +
Lea Terhune is a professional writer and journalist based in India, where she has lived since 1982. Currently editor of SPAN (a magazine of the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi), she has also worked as a correspondent and producer for CNN International, ABC News Radio, and Voice of America. Her work has appeared in The Far-Eastern Economic Review, Asiaweek, International Herald Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Yoga Journal, and ABCNews.com. She lives in New Delhi. (Source: [https://wisdomexperience.org/content-author/lea-terhune/ Wisdom Experience]) +
Lead Educational Technologist
Amod Lele helps faculty navigate a wide array of technologies for use in their classes and professional life. He leads and manages a team of educational technologists and has been a part of BU’s Educational Technology team for more than eight years. Amod is interested in the use and promotion of open educational resources (OER) in higher education. He holds a PhD from Harvard University in religious studies and has almost ten years of college and university teaching experience. He regularly teaches a course on Indian philosophy in the CAS philosophy department. As a lifelong learner, Amod also earned an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Metropolitan College in 2016. In his spare time, he publishes [https://blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethics/?s=amod+lele scholarly articles on Buddhist ethics] and [https://loveofallwisdom.com/ writes a biweekly updated blog] on cross-cultural philosophy. ([https://digital.bu.edu/edtech/what-we-do-edtech-2/our-team-edtech/ Source Accessed Nov 5, 2021])
Dissertation: ''Ethical Revaluation in the Thought of Śāntideva.'' Advisor: Prof. Parimal Patil. Available at http://loveofallwisdom.com/other-writings/ +
Leo M. Pruden (March 1938 - October 1991) was an American scholar and translator. His major works include a translation into English of Louis de La Vallée Poussin's six-volume French translation of the Abhidharma-kosa. For this translation, Pruden consulted the Sanskrit source text, as well as contemporary Chinese and Japanese sources.
Pruden studied at Tokyo University, in the Department of Indian and Buddhist Studies, from 1961 to 1964.
He began teaching on the Abhidharma at Brown University (1970-1971), and subsequently at the Nyingma Institute (Berkeley, California), and at the University of Oriental Studies (Los Angeles).
In 1973, Pruden and Venerable Dr. Thich Thien-An co-founded the American University of Oriental Studies in Los Angeles, California. This institution was later restructered as Buddha Dharma University. ([https://encyclopediaofbuddhism.org/wiki/Leo_M._Pruden Source: Encyclopedia of Buddhism online]) +
Leon Hurvitz (1923-1992) was professor in the Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia. He spent time as a translator and interpreter and later studied in Japan during the occupation, specializing in early Chinese Buddhism. (Source: [http://cup.columbia.edu/book/scripture-of-the-lotus-blossom-of-the-fine-dharma/9780231148955 Columbia University Press]) +
Leonard A. Bullen was one of the pioneers of the Buddhist movement in Australia. He was the first president of the Buddhist Society of Victoria when it was established in 1953 and one of the first office-bearers of the executive committee of the Buddhist Federation of Australia. He was also a coeditor of the Buddhist journal ''Metta''. He passed away in 1984 at the age of 76.
His other publications issued by BPS are ''A Technique of Living'' (Wheel No. 226/230) and "Action and Reaction in Buddhist Teaching" in ''Kamma and Its Fruit'' (Wheel No. 221/224). (https://www.dhammawiki.com/index.php/Leonard_A._Bullen Source Accessed Mar 30, 2023]) +
Leonard Zwilling was born in New York City in 1945. He studied Tibetan Buddhism and the Tibetan language with Geshe Wangyal at Labsum Shedrub Ling in Freewood Acres, New Jersey (1967-1969) and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a B.A. in Indian Studies in 1970, going on to receive a masters degree in Hindu Studies (1972), and a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies (1976), also at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His doctoral dissertation, on the theory of apoha in Buddhist logic, was done under the direction of Prof. Geshe Lhundub Sopa. He did pre-doctoral research in Sri Lanka (1973-74) and in Nepal (1975-76), under Ford Foundation and Fulbright-Hayes scholarships respectively.
From 1977-83 Dr. Zwilling taught Asian Religions, Sanskrit and Tibetan at the University of Wisconsin (Madison and Milwaukee), Gustavus Adolphus College, Western Illinois University, and Beloit College. He received a masters in library science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985, and from 1986-2009 was General Editor (and Bibliographer until 2004) at the Dictionary of American Regional English in the Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is presently Senior Scientist Emeritus.
Dr. Zwilling has published research in a number of fields, including pioneering work on the history of sexuality in ancient India. Since 2005 his research has centered on Ippolito Desideri and the Catholic missions to Tibet, and he is currently working with Michael Sweet on a new and complete English translation of Desideri’s Notizie Istoriche del Tibet. ([http://win.ippolito-desideri.net/doc/biografie/Zwilling-en.pdf Source Accessed May 12, 2020]) +
Leonard van der Kuijp is professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies and chairs the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies. Best known for his studies of Buddhist epistemology, he is the author of numerous works on Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism. Recent publications include An Early Tibetan Survey of Buddhist Literature (Vol. 64, Harvard Oriental Series, 2008), coauthored with Kurtis R. Schaeffer, and In Search of Dharma: Indian and Ceylonese Travelers in Fifteenth Century Tibet (Wisdom, 2009). Van der Kuijp’s research focuses primarily on the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist thought, Tibetan Buddhist intellectual history, Tibetan Buddhism, and premodern Sino-Tibetan and Tibeto-Mongol political and religious relations. He teaches three new courses this term, covering histories, the era of the 5th Dalai Lama, and the historical geography of the Tibetan cultural area. Van der Kuijp received his Master's degree at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada, and his doctorate at the University of Hamburg in Germany. He joined the faculty at Harvard in 1995. He is the former chair of the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies (now the Department of South Asian Studies). In 1993 van der Kuijp received the MacArthur Fellowship for "pioneering contributions to the study of Tibetan epistemology, biography and poetry." Van der Kuijp worked with the Nepal Research Center of the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Washington in Seattle. In 1999, he founded the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC), together with E. Gene Smith. ([https://ealc.fas.harvard.edu/people/leonard-van-der-kuijp Source Accessed Jan 14, 2019]) +
LESLIE D. ALLDRITT is an Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin. He earned his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Temple University in 1991 and was privileged to study with Dr. Richard DeMartino at Temple University. His current research interest is Japanese Buddhism and its relationship to the ''burakumin'', a discriminated group in Japan. Born in Kansas, he currently resides in northern Wisconsin with his wife, Vicki, and son, Owen. ([https://ia802900.us.archive.org/7/items/religionsoftheworldbuddhismlesliealldrittd._239_D/Religions%20of%20the%20World%20%20Buddhism%20Leslie%20Alldritt%20D..pdf Source Accessed Feb 13, 2023]) +
Leslie S. Kawamura was an Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Calgary, Alberta. He held a Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, in Far Eastern Studies (1974). He studied at the Kyoto University (Japan) and taught at the Nyingma Institute (Berkeley), Institute of Buddhist Studies (Berkeley), and the University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon). His publications include ''Mind in Buddhist Psychology'' (with H.V. Guenther, Dharma Press, 1975) and ''Golden Zephyr'' (Dharma Press, 1975). He was a founding member of the Honpa Buddhist Church of Alberta and the Canada-Mongolia Society. ([https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Contributors/K/Kawamura-Leslie Adapted from Source May 18, 2021]) +
Review of PhD Thesis: http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2594
Lewis Doney is a philologist and scholar of Buddhist Studies. He received his BA (Religious Studies) from Lancaster University in 2002, and his MA and PhD (Study of Religions) from SOAS, London, in 2004 and 2011. Since then he has been engaged in postdoctoral research on Tibet at LMU, Munich and FU, Berlin. His publications include a book with the title The Zangs gling ma: The First Padmasambhava Biography. (International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, 2014). He researched reflections of India in early Tibetan Buddhist historiography as part of the European Research Council-funded project “Asia Beyond Boundaries” at the British Museum. At Ruhr-Universität Bochum he worked on the BuddhistRoad project on "Localising Tibetan Tantric Communities at Dunhuang" - https://buddhistroad.ceres.rub.de/en/ +
Lewis Lancaster (born 27 October 1932) is Emeritus Professor of the Department of East Asian Languages at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and has served as President, Adjunct Professor, and Chair of the dissertation committee at University of the West since 1992. He graduated from Roanoke College (B.A.) in 1954 and received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Roanoke in 2007. He is also a 1958 graduate of USC-ST (M.Th.) and a 1968 graduate of the University of Wisconsin (Ph.D.). He received an Honorary Doctorate of Buddhist Studies from Vietnam Buddhist University in 2011.
Professor Lancaster has published over 55 articles and reviews and has edited or authored numerous books including ''Prajñāpāramitā and Related Systems'', ''The Korean Buddhist Canon'', ''Buddhist Scriptures'', ''Early Ch’an in China and Tibet'', and ''Assimilation of Buddhism in Korea''. He also founded the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative to use the computer-based technology to map the spread of Buddhism from the remote past to the present. In 2008 he gave the Burke Lectureship on Religion & Society. Professor Lancaster is the research advisor for the Buddha's Birthday Education Project. He was the Chair of Buddhist Studies at UC, Berkeley, USA and Editor of the Berkeley Buddhist Studies Series. . . .
Professor Lancaster was a key figure in the creation of descriptive catalogue and digitization of the Korean Buddhist Canon. He was awarded the 2014 Grand Award from the Korean Buddhist Order for his contribution to Buddhism. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Lancaster Source Accessed March 23, 2020]) +
Mark Edward Lewis, who received his doctorate from the University
of Chicago in 1985, is currently university lecturer in Chinese Studies at
Cambridge University. He is the author of Sanctioned Violence in Early
China and is currently researching the origins in China of the idea of the
“classic” (ching) and its impact on the theories of writing and genre.
Source: [[Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha]] +
Murub Tsenpo was the second of the three sons of King Trisong Deutsen. Also known as Yeshe Rolpa Tsal and Lhase Lotsāwa, several prominent tertöns were considered to be his emanations, including Sangye Lingpa, Zhikpo Lingpa, and Chogyur Lingpa. +
Lhatsun Namkha Jikme was an important conduit of the Dzogchen teachings who was considered to be the combined emanation of Vimalamitra and Longchenpa. He is credited with the "opening" of the hidden land of Sikkim and was instrumental in the establishment of the royal dynasty of this Himalayan kingdom. He was a student of two of the most influential treasure-revealers of his day, Jatsön Nyingpo and Dudul Dorje, though he is perhaps best known for his own pure vision cycle the ''[[Rtsa gsum rig 'dzin srog sgrub]]''. The mountain smoke offering from this cycle has become extremely widespread, especially in the West due to its propagation by Dudjom Rinpoche and his students. +
Lhodrak Dharma Senge was the author of a commentary on the ''Ultimate Continuum''. Apart from the obvious association of the author with the southern Lhodrak region of Central Tibet, we have no information on when and where he lived. However, the style and content of the commentary suggest its composition was completed in the early classical period of the twelfth-thirteenth centuries, most likely before the well-known commentaries on the ''Ultimate Continuum'' appeared at the peak of the classical period in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. +
A direct student of Sakya Paṇḍita Kunga Gyaltsen (1182–1251), from whom he received detailed teachings on the ''Bodhicaryāvatāra''. He wrote a commentary on the ''Bodhicaryāvatāra'' as a synopsis of the teachings he had received from Sakya Paṇḍita. +
