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Bhikṣuṇī Thubten Choedroen (Lydia Muellbauer), 1947 geboren, Schülerin von Geshe Thubten Ngawang, leitet Kurse im Meditationshaus Semkye Ling. Sie ist seit 1982 Buddhistin, nahm 1988 die volle Ordination. Sie war 15 Jahre in Deutschland als Lehrerin tätig und arbeitete drei Jahre in London bei Wisdom Publications. Sie ist Absolventin des ersten Lehrgangs des Systematischen Studiums des Buddhismus. Seit März 2016 wohnt sie in dem von ihr mitgegründeten Buddhistischen Nonnenkloster Shide in Lünzen, Schneverdingen. ([https://www.tibet.de/zentrum/lehrende/weitere-referentinnen-und-referenten Source Accessed Sep 10, 2024]) +
Editor of several Buddhist books, especially the work of B. Alan Wallace. +
Henri-Léon Feer, born in Rouen on November 22, 1830 and died in Paris on March 10, 1902, was a French linguist and orientalist .
Léon Feer studied at the Royal College (then high school) in Rouen (1842-49). He learned Persian at the School of Oriental Languages with E. Quatremère as a teacher, then Sanskrit at the College de France with Philippe-Édouard Foucaux.
He became a professor at the School of Oriental Languages in 1864, succeeding Philippe-Édouard Foucaux in the Chair of Tibetan and in 1872 librarian in the manuscripts department of the National Library.
He participated in the Congresses of Orientalists in Paris (1873), London (1874), Leiden (1883), Vienna (1886), Stockholm (1889) and Geneva (1894). He also became a member of the council of the Indo-Chinese Academic Society , and published, in addition to books, articles in numerous journals. A specialist in Sanskrit , also knowing Tibetan , Mongolian and Pali , he translated many ancient texts (notably the Tibetan Kanjur ). ([https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Feer Source Accessed Aug 29, 2023]) +
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M. Cody Poulton has been teaching Japanese language, literature and theatre in the Department of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Victoria since 1988. His research has focused on Japanese theatre and drama, particularly of the modern period. He has also been active as a translator of kabuki and modern Japanese fiction and drama, for both publication and live stage productions in Canada, the United States, Europe, Australia and Japan. Poulton’s books include ''Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyoka'', ''A Beggar’s Art: Scripting Modernity in Japanese, 1900‑1930'', and his translation of Yasuhiko Ohasi’s ''Godzilla''. ([https://www.jgshillingford.com/poulton-m-cody/ Source Accessed Sep 18, 2021]) +
Madan Gopal Chitkara (Hindi: मदन गोपाल चितकारा), born on September 22, 1932 in the Bannu district of what is now Pakistan, is an Indian lawyer and writer. After the partition of India, he moved with his family to Shimla. He has served as the Advocate General of Himachal Pradesh and Vice-President of the Himachal Pradesh Administrative Court since 1993. ([https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madan_Gopal_Chitkara Source Accessed Apr 8, 2021]) +
Maggy Jones served several roles at Samye Ling Monastery. She was the Samye Ling Librarian and devoted her time to the task of compiling what became, according to Dr Conrad Harvey, “… one of the most extensive repositories of Buddhadharma in the whole of Europe." Maggy was also a student of Ringu Tulku Rinpoche and transcribed and edited many of his teachings for his Bodhicharya Archive site. ([https://bodhicharya.org/manyroads/maggy-jones-31-05-41-28-09-24/ Source Accessed March 21, 2024]) +
Dr. Derek F. Maher joined the ECU faculty in 2003. He earned a PhD and MA in the History of Religions: Tibetan Studies from the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, and a BA in Philosophy and BS in Physics from Evergreen State College. He is an associate professor of religious studies at East Carolina University. Dr. Maher teaches courses in Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Methodology, and Religion and Violence.
His research interests include Tibetan biography, history, philosophy, politics, and especially religion. In particular, he is working on a series of biographies to see how they enact religious, philosophical and political agendas. He is actively engaged in publishing and presenting his research at national and international organizations. ([https://religionprogram.ecu.edu/derek-f-maher-phd/]) +
Known in Tibetan as the "Lord of Love" or the "Noble Loving One" <span class="tibetan-jomolhari font-size-130-em align-sub">འཕགས་པ་བྱམས་པ།</span> (Pakpa Jampa), the "Loving Protector" <span class="tibetan-jomolhari font-size-130-em align-sub">བྱམས་པའི་མགོན་པོ་</span> (Jampay Gonpo), in Chinese as 弥勒佛 (Mi Le Fo), Japanese as Miroku, and commonly as Maitreya throughout Asia and beyond. Maitreya is the bodhisattva called the "future Buddha" who resides in Tushita heaven until coming to the human realm to take the role of the next Buddha after Śākyamuni Buddha. According to tradition, Asaṅga received teachings from Maitreya and recorded them in the Five Dharma Treatises of Maitreya, which form the basis for buddha-nature teachings and the larger Yogācāra teachings in general.
The list of five is: Ornament of Clear Realization (Abhisamayālaṃkāra, mngon rtogs rgyan, 現觀莊嚴論); Ornament for the Mahāyāna Sūtras (Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra, theg pa chen po mdo sde rgyan, 大乘莊嚴經論); Differentiation of the Middle and the Extremes (Madhyāntavibhāga, dbus mtha' rnam 'byed, 辨中邊論頌); Differentiation of Phenomena and Their Nature (Dharmadharmatāvibhāga, chos dang chos nyid rnam 'byed, 辨法法性論); and The Mahāyāna Treatise of the Highest Continuum (Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra, theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos, 分別寶性大乘無上續論). +
Maitrīyogi, or Kusalī Jr. (circa 10th), was a dedicated yogi of Maitreya and important mind training teacher of Atiśa. He was reportedly a proponent of the lineage of first equalizing and then exchanging self and others when meditating on the awakening mind. ([https://wisdomexperience.org/lojong-themes/ Source Accessed April 25, 2025]) +
Malcolm David Eckel is Professor of Religion and Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Religion at Boston University. He received a B.A. from Harvard, a B.A. and M.A. from Oxford, and a Ph.D. in the Study of Religion from Harvard. His scholarly interests include the history of Buddhist philosophy in India and Tibet, the relationship between Buddhism and other Indian religions, the expansion and adaptation of Buddhism in Asia and the West, Buddhist narrative traditions and their relationship to Buddhist ethics, and the connection between philosophical theory and religious practice. His teaching at Boston University has been recognized by the Metcalf Award for Teaching Excellence (1998), and he has served as the Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Humanities (2002-5). He also has served as Assistant Dean and Director of the Core Curriculum (2007-13), an integrated program in the liberal arts for first- and second-year students in the College of Arts and Sciences.
His publications include ''Bhāviveka and His Buddhist Opponents'' (Harvard); ''Buddhism: Origins, Beliefs, Practices, Holy Texts, Sacred Places'' (Oxford); ''To See the Buddha: A Philosopher’s Quest for the Meaning of Emptiness'' (Princeton); ''Jñānagarbha’s Commentary on the Distinction Between the Two Truths: An Eighth-Century Handbook of Madhyamaka Philosophy'' (State University of New York); and “Is There a Buddhist Philosophy of Nature?” in ''Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Buddhism and Ecology'' (Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions). He is the editor of two volumes of essays: ''India and The West: The Problem of Understanding'' (Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions) and ''Deliver Us from Evil'' (Continuum).
Before joining the faculty at Boston University, he served as Associate Professor at Harvard Divinity School and as Administrative Director of the Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions. He recently returned to Harvard to serve on the Visiting Committee of Harvard Divinity School. In 2013, he was invited to deliver a series of lectures entitled “Modes of Recognition: Aspects of Theory in Mahayana Buddhist Narrative” as Visiting Professor in Buddhist Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. ([https://www.bu.edu/religion/faculty/m-david-eckel/ Source Accessed July 14, 2023])
Assistant Professor Malcolm Keating’s research focuses on Indian philosophy, primarily Mīmāṃsā and Nyāya, with a secondary focus on their Buddhist interlocutors. He is concerned with philosophy of language and related topics such as epistemology and argumentation. His work inquires into questions such as how hearers interpret non-literal speech acts, what the boundary is between what is said and what is meant, how and whether we can know that we know, and what the role of pragmatics is in argumentation. He seeks to cross cultural and disciplinary boundaries by engaging across Indian and modern analytic Anglophone philosophy and by enlarging the scope of attention within Indian philosophy to include texts characterised as part of the “aesthetic” or Alaṃkāra tradition. ([https://www.yale-nus.edu.sg/about/faculty/malcolm-keating/ Source Accessed Oct 27, 2021]) +
Malcolm Smith has been a student of the Great Perfection teachings since 1992. His main Dzogchen teachers are Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, the late Kunzang Dechen Lingpa, and the late H.H. Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche. He is a veteran of a traditional three-year solitary Tibetan Buddhist retreat, a published translator of Tibetan Buddhist texts, and was awarded the Āchārya degree by the Sakya Institute in 2004. He graduated in 2009 from Shang Shung Institute’s School of Tibetan Medicine. He has worked on translations for renowned lamas since 1992, including His Holiness Sakya Trizin, Kunzang Dechen Lingpa, Khenpo Migmar Tseten, Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche, and many others. ([http://www.zangthal.com/about Zangthal Editions - Source Accessed July 8, 2020]) +
Mandra [or Mandrasena] (曼陀羅仙, 5th–6th centuries) was a Tripiṭaka master from Funan (扶南), a pre-Angkor Indianized kingdom located around the Mekong delta. In 503, the second year of the Tianjian (天監) years during the Southern Liang Dynasty (502–57), Mandra arrived in Jiankang (建康), present-day Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. With the support of Emperor Wu (梁武帝), he helped Saṅghapāla (僧伽婆羅, 460–524), who was also from Funan, translate Sanskrit texts into Chinese. In 506, Mandra translated the Sūtra of Mahā-Prajña-Pāramitā Pronounced by Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva (T08n0232). Nothing more is known about him. ([http://www.sutrasmantras.info/translators.html#mandra Source Accessed Aug 27, 2021]) +
Mandarava was one of the five principal consorts of Guru Rinpoche, she was an emanation of Dhatvishvari and a princess of Zahor. After leaving the palace out of disgust for samsara, and joining a nunnery, she met Guru Rinpoche who gave her teachings. When the king found out, he cast her into a pit of thorns and tried to burn Guru Rinpoche alive. But through his magical powers, Guru Rinpoche transformed the pyre into a lake. When the king had repented his actions and granted them pardon, Mandarava accompanied Guru Rinpoche to the Maratika cave, where through their accomplishment of long-life practice, they saw the Buddha Amitabha face to face and attained the level of a vidyadhara with power over life. (Source: [https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Mandarava Rigpa Wiki]) +
Manfred Taube (born March 11, 1928 in Leipzig ) is a German Tibetologist and Mongolist. From 1949 to 1953 he studied Indology , Tibetology and Mongolian Studies at the University of Leipzig. After receiving his doctorate (1957) and habilitation (1965), he was appointed lecturer in Tibetan and Mongolian philology in 1966. From 1992 he was professor for Tibetan and Mongolian philology at the University of Leipzig. He is married to the ethnologist and folklorist Erika Taube. The Tibetologists Olaf Czaja and Jan Seifert and the orientalist Jakob Taube are students of Manfred Taube. ([https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Taube Source Accessed Feb 12, 2021]) +
Manoel Reverendo Vidal Neto was founder and chief advisor to the newly formed Siddhartha's Intent Brasil as well as long time team member of Khyentse Foundation. Manoel translated Khyentse Rinpoche's live teachings as well as his books into Portuguese. ([http://www.siddharthasintent.org/about-us-2/news/2017/manoel-vidal-founder-and-chief-advisor-to-si-brasil-passes-away/ Adapted from Source Dec 17, 2021]) +
Manu Bazzano is a psychotherapist/supervisor in private practice and an internationally recognized author, lecturer, and facilitator. He is an associate tutor at Cambridge University. Among his books: ''Buddha is Dead'' (2006); ''Spectre of the Stranger'' (2012); ''After Mindfulness'' (2014); ''Therapy and the Counter-tradition'' (2016); ''Zen and Therapy'' (2017); ''Re-visioning Person-centred Therapy'' (2018); ''Nietzsche and Psychotherapy'' (2019). He is a regular contributor to several academic journals and magazines. ([https://books.google.com/books/about/Re_Visioning_Existential_Therapy.html?id=i1aFzQEACAAJ&source=kp_author_description Source Accessed Jan 7, 2021]) +
From Academia.edu:
I am a scholar of Buddhism with a particular regional focus on Tibet and the Himalayas (Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan). I am an Assistant Professor of Religion at New College of Florida, where I teach courses on Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhism in Bhutan, Buddhist Contemplative Systems, Hinduism, and Asian Religions in general.
I am currently working on a research project that explores the changes in the monastic curriculum that have taken place in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan over the last few decades. This project is a collaboration with Prof. Dorji Gyeltshen, of the Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law. For our project, we are visiting monastic institutions all throughout Bhutan (monasteries and nunneries), both Drukpa Kagyu (such as Tango University) and Nyingma (such as Tamzhing Lhündrup Monastery), in order to explore the changing monastic educational landscape in the country. We are also studying this issue in the larger context of the curricular changes that have occurred all throughout the Buddhist world in the 20th century (including Tibet, China, and Taiwan). The first research trip for this project took place during the summer of 2018.
I am also working on another book project under the title A Light in the Darkness: Meditation and the Construction of Tibetan Buddhism, that explores the diversity of Buddhist contemplative practices popular across Asia around the turn of the first millennia (10th century) through the life and works of the Tibetan scholar Nupchen Sangyé Yeshé. His biography presents a complex and fascinating figure (pious, but also willing to resort to violence if necessary in order to protect Buddhism) who traveled tirelessly across the continent (Nepal, India, Gilgit) in search of Buddhist teachings.
Finally, I have also worked on a research project, with the working title From Suffering to Happiness: Buddhism and its transformations in the West that explores the evolution on the perception and interpretation of Buddhism in the West (from suffering to happiness) beginning with German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer’s pessimistic presentation of the tradition in his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, to the radically different presentation of the tradition in the last two decades in works such as Dalai Lama’s 1998 book The Art of Happiness and Thich Nhat Hanh’s 2009 Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices. Has Buddhism changed? Or is the West reinterpreting the Buddhist tradition to suit a different existential outlook on human nature? What is the role of some Buddhist figures in this transformation? Are figures like the Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh simply applying the old Buddhist practice of Skillful Means (Skt. upāya) in their explanation of Buddhism to a Western audience, or are they dramatically changing the nature of the Buddhist doctrine as its being introduced in the West? My project explores these questions while questioning our definitions a Buddhism in particular, and religion in general.
I am also interested in the intersection of religion and popular culture and write about it in a blog.
I completed my undergraduate studies at the University Pompey Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona, Spain and my graduate work at the University of Virginia. I also have extensive experience studying in Asia. Between 1999 and 2001, I studied Tibetan and Chinese as well as Buddhism and Tibetan literature at Northwest Minorities University in Lanzhou (Gansu Province), and at Tibet University, in Lhasa (Tibetan Autonomous Region). In 2013, I studied and did field research for my dissertation at Minzu University of China. Between 2003 and 2009 I also worked as director and lecturer of the SIT Study Abroad Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Program, based in Kathmandu, Nepal, which allowed me to experience and study the rich diversity of the religious traditions across the Himalayas, as I lived, worked, and traveled in Northern India (Dharamsala), Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet itself.
Supervisors: Kurtis Schaeffer, David Germano, Jacob Dalton, Paul Groner, and John Shepherd
Marc Agate holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech, Atlanta (GA) and graduated from the École des Mines de Nantes in Computer Sciences. After working for a web services company for five years in Atlanta, he returned to France and joined the Dashang Rimay Community where he learned Tibetan and started to develop several multilingual lexicographic projects.
With his wife, he published a practical guide on Tibetan Kunye Massage. He also translated several sutras from Tibetan to French, as well as the ''Uttaratantra'' and its commentary by Asanga, and books 2, 3 and 4 of the ''Treasury of Knowledge'' by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye. Marc has joined BDRC to offer his expertise, and help preserve and spread Buddhist teachings around the world. ([https://www.tbrc.org/#!footer/community/people Source Accessed Oct 4, 2019]) +
Marc-Henri Deroche is associate professor at Kyōto University (GSAIS, Shishu-Kan), Japan, where he teaches Buddhist studies and cross-cultural philosophy. His doctoral dissertation (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, 2011) and a series of articles have investigated the life, works, and legacy of Tibetan author Prajñāraśmi (Tertön Sherab Öser, 1518-84) in the successive revivals of the Nyingma school and the nineteenth-century ecumenical (''rimé'') movement. He is also the coeditor of ''Revisiting Tibetan Religion and Philosophy'' (AMI, 2012). Recent research has focused on Dzokchen, including "The ''Dzogs chen'' Doctrine of the Three Gnoses" (with Akinori Yasuda, RET, No. 33, 2015) and a current project on its specific philosophy of vigilance. Having traveled extensively in Tibet and the Himalayas, and having lived in Kyōto since 2008, his work centers on the philosophical and transcultural significance of the Buddhist paradigm of the development of wisdom according to "listening, reflection, and meditation." (Source: ''A Gathering of Brilliant Moons'', 327–28) +
