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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]) +
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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) +
Marcelle Lalou (1890–1967) was a 20th-century French Tibetologist. Her major contribution to Tibetology was the cataloging of the entire Pelliot collection of Old Tibetan manuscripts from Dunhuang at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. In addition to her cataloging work, she wrote articles on various aspects of Old Tibet, and she published a Tibetan textbook. Some of her most notable students include Rolf A. Stein and J. W. de Jong.
Lalou was born August 23, 1890, at Meudon-Bellevue between Paris and Versailles. She was interested in art from an early age, and she painted and drew for pleasure her whole life. Her studies began in Art History, and many of her early publications are devoted to Art-historical themes.
Lalou volunteered as a nurse in the first world war. She made her start in Buddhist Studies following the war, studying Sanskrit with Sylvain Lévi and Tibetan with Jacques Bacot. She finished her doctorate in 1927 at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, where she later taught from 1938 to 1963. She was the secretary and later manager for the Bibliographie Bouddhique, and she was the chief editor of Journal Asiatique from 1950 to 1966. For her work, Lalou was dubbed a Knight of the Légion d'honneur. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelle_Lalou Source Accessed Aug 24, 2023]) +
Marcia Binder Schmidt has been an editor and publisher of books on Vajrayana Buddhism for over fifteen years. With her husband, author and translator Erik Pema Kungsang, she founded and currently runs Rangjung Yeshe Publications, an independent publisher of Buddhist texts in English. ([https://www.shambhala.com/authors/o-t/marcia-schmidt.html Source Accessed May 7, 2020]) +
Founding Director – Jung Center’s Mind Body Spirit Institute<br>
Adjunct Faculty – Integrative Medicine Program Department of Palliative, Rehabilitation & Integrative Medicine MD Anderson Cancer Center<br>
Adjunct Faculty – McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics McGovern Medical School, UT Health<br>
Instructor – Rice University Glasscock School of Continuing Studies, aster of Liberal Studies program<br>
Instructor – University of Maryland, Baltimore, Masters in Integrative Medicine
Dr. Chaoul is the Huffington Foundation Endowed Director of the Mind Body Spirit Institute at the Jung Center of Houston, bringing a new approach for helping healthcare professionals flourish by reducing stress and burnout, and improving health, resilience and nourish the human spirit.
He holds a PhD in Tibetan religions from Rice University, and has studied in the Tibetan tradition since 1989, and for almost 30 years with Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak and Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, completing the 7-year training at Ligmincha Institute in 2000, and also training in Triten Norbutse monastery in Nepal and Menri monastery in India.
Alejandro is a Senior Teacher of The 3 Doors, an international organization founded by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche with the goal of transforming lives through meditation, and since 1995, he has been teaching meditation classes and Tibetan Yoga (Tsa Lung & Trul Khor) workshops nationally and internationally under the auspices of Ligmincha International.
In 1999 he began teaching these techniques at the Integrative Medicine Program of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX, where he holds an adjunct faculty position and for the last twenty years has conducted research on the effect of these practices in people with cancer and their caregivers. He is also an adjunct faculty member at The University of Texas’ McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, where he teaches medical students in the areas of spirituality, complementary and integrative medicine, and end-of-life care. In addition he is an Instructor at Rice University’s Glasscock School of Continuing Studies Master of Liberal Studies program and an at The University of Maryland, Baltimore, Masters in Integrative Medicine.
In addition, he is an advisor to The Rothko Chapel and past board member of The Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance at Rice University, and founding member of Compassionate Houston. His research and publications focus on mind-body practices in integrative care, examining how these practices can reduce chronic stress, anxiety and sleep disorders and improve quality of life. He is the author of ''Chod Practice in the Bon Tradition'' (SnowLion, 2009), ''Tibetan Yoga for Health and Wellbeing'' (Hay House, 2018), and ''Tibetan Yoga: Magical Movements of Body, Breath & Mind'' (Wisdom Publications, 2021). He has published in the area of religion and medicine, medical anthropology and the interface of spirituality and healing. Dr. Chaoul has been recognized as a Fellow at the Mind & Life Institute. ([https://alechaoul.com/home/about-ale/ Source Accessed Nov 27, 2023])
The Casa Tíbet México project is intrinsically linked to the figure of Marco Antonio Karam. In love with Tibetan culture and civilization from a very early age, he is considered one of the most important specialists and disseminators of Tibetan culture and spirituality in the Spanish-speaking world.
After extensive academic training in Tibet, Nepal and the USA, during which he established relationships with some of the most prominent Tibetologists and Lamas of the various traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, in 1988, at the suggestion of His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama of Tibet and the Tibet Office in New York, founded the Casa del Tibet de México as part of an international project aimed at promoting and defending the Tibetan cause and culture. At the invitation of Casa Tíbet México and the Metropolitan University, the Dalai Lama visited our country for the first time in July 1989 to inaugurate Casa Tíbet México and participate in an international forum of global priorities. ([https://casatibet.org.mx/2016/08/16/marco-antonio-karam/ Source Accessed Apr 6, 2021]) +
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Pallis See Wikipedia Entry for Marco Pallis] +
Marcus Perman is the Executive Director of Tsadra Foundation, where he has worked for 16 years. He graduated from St. Lawrence University with honors in Psychology and Philosophy and graduated from Naropa University with an MA in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism focused on Tibetan and Sanskrit languages. From 2007-2008 Marcus studied at Tibet University in Lhasa, Tibet and Rumtek, Sikkim, India. His early interests lay primarily in philosophical interpretations of Tibetan Buddhism, but his current work focuses on online educational resources and digital resources for translators and scholars. With Tsadra Foundation, Marcus developed the Translation & Transmission Conference series and the Lotsawa Workshops and regularly hosts online events and other workshops. Other interests include comparative philosophy, writing, Vladimir Nabokov, and rock climbing.
===Published Works===
*Tricycle Magazine Review of ''Contemplating Reality: A Practitioner's Guide to the View in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism'' by Andy Karr. Tricycle Summer 2007. <br> http://www.tricycle.com/reviews/balancing-act
*"Appreciating all Sentient Beings." in Heart Advice. Dharamsala, India: Altruism Press, 2008.
*Mind Only Tenet System. Translation of ''sems tsam pa'i grub mtha''' by Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen. Seattle: Nitartha Institute Publications, 2009.
===Unpublished Works (completed)===
M.A. Thesis: “Tshad Ma Literature: Towards a History of Tibetan Buddhist Epistemology” <br>
B.S. Honors project: “Neurofeedback: The effect of training attentional abilities in female college students” Advisor: Dr. Artur Poczwardowski. +
Margarita Loinaz is a community teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland and a visiting teacher at Spirit Rock. She began teaching in 1997 and co-organized the first People of Color Retreat at Spirit Rock in 1999. A student of both the Theravada and Tibetan traditions, her teaching integrates Dzogchen practice with social justice and environmental awareness. ([https://www.lionsroar.com/author/margarita-loinaz/ Source Accessed April 25, 2024]) +
Maria Heim is Professor of Religion at Amherst College. She holds a PhD in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from Harvard University and a BA in Philosophy and Religion from Reed College. She works on Sanskrit and Pali texts. Her most recent two books are on Buddhaghosa, including ''Voice of the Buddha'' (Oxford 2018) and ''Forerunner of All Things'' (Oxford 2014). She has also more recently published ''Buddhist Ethics'' (Cambridge University Press, 2020). A recent interview with her about ''Voice of the Buddha'' can be found here (https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/buddhaghosa-immeasurable-words/). She is currently working on emotions in Classical India. ([https://amherst.academia.edu/MariaHeim Adapted from Source Apr 15, 2021]) +
Marianne Soeters is affiliated with Jewel Heart Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the late Gelek Rimpoche. She is the editor of several works by Gelek Rimpoche. +
Marie Friquegnon was born in 1943, grew up in Brooklyn and attended the local Catholic school. She went to high school at the Convent of the Sacred heart, 91st Street, Manhattan. During this time she studied theology and scholastic philosophy. She then attended Barnard College where she majored in philosophy. She also took courses at Columbia University. The teachers who influenced her in philosophy were Sidney Morgenbesser, Richard Taylor, Arthur Danto, David Sidorsky, Joh Herman Randall, Mary Mothersill and Jean Potter; in religion, Jacob Taubes and Anton Zigmund-Cerbu. She took her masters and doctorate at New York University. Finishing in 1974, she studied Hegel and Marx with Sidney Hook. Her thesis advisor was a Marxist philosopher, Chauncy Downes. But the most important philosophical influence on her at N.Y.U. was the analytic philosopher Raziel Abelson. Following his suggestion she wrote a masters thesis defending the possibility of free will and a doctoral thesis defending the meaningfulness of religious belief.
She worked from 1965 to 1967 as a caseworker with the Department of Welfare. From 1967 to 1968 she taught part-time at NYC Community College, Long Island University, Brooklyn College and N.Y.U. In 1969 she started to teach at William Paterson. She continues to teach there now as a Professor of Philosophy.
In 1981 Marie Friquegnon began to develop what had been a longstanding interest in Buddhist philosophy. She returned to Columbia University to audit a course in Sanskrit and to take a course in Tibetan. She continues to study at the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center and she is involved in some translation projects there. She is also interested in philosophy of childhood, and has given lectures and published on children's rights and the nature of childhood. She lives in Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan. ([https://www.wpunj.edu/cohss/departments/philosophy/faculty/dr-marie-friquegnon Adapted from Source Apr 14, 2021]) +
Marie-Stella Boussemart is a Gelugpa nun and a member of the Ganden Ling Congregation, founded by the Venerable Dagpo Rinpoche, with whom she has studied since 1973 and for whom she has served as a French interpreter since 1979. Holder of a doctorate in Tibetan (Inalco), she has translated numerous works. She was president of the Buddhist Union of France from May 2012 to March 2015. ([https://bouddhanews.fr/journaliste/ms-boussemart/ Source Accessed Apr 30, 2021]) +
Marilyn Rita Silverstone (9 March 1929 – 28 September 1999) was an English photojournalist and ordained Buddhist nun.
<h5>Youth:</h5>
The eldest daughter of Murray and Dorothy Silverstone was born in London. Her father, the son of Polish immigrants to America, rose to become managing director, and president, international, respectively, of United Artists and 20th-Century Fox, working with Charlie Chaplin and other early film stars in London. The family returned to America just before the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe.
Silverstone grew up in Scarsdale, New York. After graduating from Wellesley College, she became an associate editor for Art News, Industrial Design and Interiors in the early 1950s. She moved to Italy to make documentary art films.
<h5>Photojournalist:</h5>
Silverstone became a working photojournalist in 1955, traveling and capturing the range of images that her vision led her to find in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
In 1956, she travelled to India on assignment to photograph Ravi Shankar. She returned to the subcontinent in 1959; what was intended to be a short trip became the beginning of a fascination with India which lasted for the rest of her life.[5] Her photographs of the arrival in India of the Dalai Lama, who was escaping from the Chinese invasion of Tibet, made the lead in Life.
In that period, she met and fell in love with the journalist Frank Moraes. Moraes was then editor of The Indian Express. The couple lived together in New Delhi until 1973, socializing with politicians, journalists and intellectuals, and diplomats. A number of Moraes' editorials had earned the ire of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and the situation deteriorated to the point that a retreat to London became the best course.
Over the years, Silverstone's reputation as a photographer grew. In 1967, she joined Magnum Photos,[6] in which she was only one of five women members.[4] Silverstone's work for Magnum included photographing subjects ranging from Albert Schweitzer to the coronation of the Shah of Iran.
At the time of Silverstone's death, preparation of an exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery featuring her work and that of other Magnum photographers was nearing completion. The University of St Andrews hosted a seminar in conjunction with this exhibition, and as Silverstone had just recently died, the seminar became an opportunity for her peers to celebrate her life and career.
<h5>Buddhist nun:</h5>
Silverstone's conversion to Buddhist nun was said to have begun when she was an teenager suffering from the mumps. She later explained that during this conventional childhood illness, she read Secret Tibet by Fosco Maraini and she said the book provided a key she long carried in her subconscious.
In the late 1960s, Silverstone had worked on a photography assignment about a Tibetan Buddhist lama in Sikkim named Khanpo Rinpoche and, when the lama came to London for medical treatment in the 1970s, Rinpoche stayed with the couple. At this point, Silverstone decided to learn Tibetan in order to study Buddhism with him. After Moraes's death in 1974, Silverstone decided to join the entourage of another celebrated lama, Khentse Rinpoche, who left London for a remote monastery in Nepal.
In 1977, she took vows as a Buddhist nun. Her Buddhist name was Bhikshuni Ngawang Chödrön,[9] or Ani Marilyn to her close friends. In her new life in Kathmandu, she researched the vanishing customs of Rajasthan and the Himalayan kingdoms.
In 1999, Ngawang Chödrön returned to the United States for cancer treatment and she learned that she was terminally ill. She was clear that she wanted to die in Nepal, her home for the past 25 years. However, no airline would carry a passenger in her fragile condition. She resolved the impasse by persuading a doctor on vacation to accompany her on the return to Kathmandu. The journey was fraught with difficulties. She was barely conscious during the trip and a stopover was necessary in Vienna. She died in 1999 in a Buddhist monastery near Katmandu where she had worked to establish and maintain. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Silverstone Source Accessed July 25, 2023])
Marion L. Matics, who holds a Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of religion from Columbia University, has been visiting professor at Columbia University and at Brooklyn College. He is a lay member of Labsum Shedrub Ling, the Lamaist Buddhist Monastery of America; a member of The Buddhist Society (London); The American Oriental Society; and The American Academy of Religion. (Source: back cover of ''Entering the Path of Enlightenment'') +
Mark Blows was a member of the Australian College of Clinical Psychologists and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. +
Mark M. Rowe is associate professor of religious studies at McMaster University. He is the author of ''Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism''. ([https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/bookseries/contemporary-buddhism/ Source Accessed Nov 29, 2023]) +
