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Matsumoto Shirõ is Professor in the Faculty of Buddhism at Komazawa University. His publications (in Japanese) include ''Pratītyasamutpāda and Emptiness'' (Daizõ Shuppan, 1989), ''The Path to Buddhism'' (Tõkyõ Shoseki, 1993), and ''Critical Studies on Zen Thought'' (Daizõ Shuppan, 1994). Along with Hakamaya Noriaki, he is associated with what has come to be known as "Critical Buddhism." +
Matthew T. Kapstein specializes in the history of Buddhist philosophy in India and Tibet, as well as in the cultural history of Tibetan Buddhism more generally. He regularly teaches Contemporary Theories in the Study of Religion in the History of Religions program, and Introduction to the Philosophies of India in Philosophy of Religions. His seminars in recent years have focused on particular topics in the history of Buddhist thought, such as Buddha Nature, idealism, and epistemology (''pramāṇa''), or on broad themes in the study of religion including the problem of evil, death, and the imagination. Kapstein has published over a dozen books and numerous articles, among the most recent of which are a general introduction to Tibetan cultural history, ''The Tibetans'' (Oxford 2006), an edited volume on Sino-Tibetan religious relations, ''Buddhism Between Tibet and China'' (Boston 2009), and a translation of an eleventh-century philosophical allegory in the acclaimed Clay Sanskrit Series, ''The Rise of Wisdom Moon'' (New York 2009). With Kurtis Schaeffer (University of Virginia) and Gray Tuttle (Columbia), he has completed ''Sources of Tibetan Traditions'', published in the Columbia University Press Sources of Asian Traditions series in 2013. Kapstein is additionally Professor Emeritus of Tibetan Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. In 2018 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. ([https://divinity.uchicago.edu/directory/matthew-kapstein Source Accessed Sep 17, 2019]) +
Matthew MacKenzie specializes in Buddhist and Indian philosophy, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics. His research takes a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary approach to questions of consciousness, selfhood, and embodiment. He has published in numerous journals, including Philosophy East & West, Asian Philosophy, Journal of Consciousness Studies, and Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. He has also contributed book chapters to The Oxford Handbook of Virtue and The Bloomsbury Handbook of Indian Metaphysics and Epistemology, among other books in cross-cultural philosophy of mind. ([https://www.libarts.colostate.edu/people/mmackenz/ Source Accessed July 29, 2022]) +
Matthew Stephensen is a Buddhist scholar and translator specializing in Tibetan texts. He has studied under several renowned teachers, including Mingyur Rinpoche, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, and Karma Thinley Rinpoche.
As a member of the Dharmachakra Translation Committee, Stephensen has contributed to making classical Buddhist texts accessible to English-speaking audiences. His published work includes a translation of Maitreya's ''Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes'', featuring commentaries by Mipham and Khenpo Shenga, released by Snow Lion Publications in 2006.
Stephensen has also completed translations of works by the 19th-century master Paltrul Rinpoche, including ''A Brilliant Sun: The Stages of Practice for the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra'' (co-translated with Catherine Dalton and Ryan Damron) and ''Refuge and Bodhicitta: Explaining a Supplication to the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha''. His translation work focuses on texts central to Mahāyāna Buddhist practice and philosophy, particularly those related to the bodhisattva path. +
2024 Publication Forthcoming with Khenpo Kunga Sherab: [https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Amazing-Treasury-of-the-Sakya-Lineage/Ameshab-Ngakwang-Kunga-Sonam/Amazing-Treasury-of-the-Sakya-Lineage/9781614299196 The Amazing Treasury of the Sakya Lineage: Volume 1]
Matthew King is Professor of Buddhist Studies and Director of Asian Studies at the University of California, Riverside. His research examines the social history of knowledge in Buddhist scholastic networks extending across the Tibeto-Mongolian frontiers of the late Qing empire and its revolutionary ruins. Much of his published work has focused on encounters between Buddhist scholasticism, science, humanism, and state socialism in the 19th and early 20th centuries. His work is also broadly engaged with methodological revision in the study of religion and Buddhist Studies, and in revisionist theoretical projects associated with the critical Asian humanities.
His first book Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire (Columbia University Press, 2019), was awarded the American Academy of Religion Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual Studies book award, the Central Eurasian Studies Society's 2020 Best Book in History and Humanities, and the International Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize (Specialist Publication). Ocean of Milk illuminates previously unknown religious and intellectual legacies of the Qing long after its political ending. Here, post-imperial “counter-modern” Buddhist thought emerges as a foil for the hegemony of the national-subject and “the modern” in scholarship about early twentieth century Asia.
([https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/mking Source: UC Riverside Accessed July 9, 2024]) +
Born in France in 1946, son of philosopher Jean-François Revel and artist Yahne Le
Toumelin, Matthieu Ricard is a Ph.D. in cell genetics turned Buddhist monk who has studied
Buddhism in the Himalayas for the last 50 years under respected masters such as Kangyur
Rinpoche and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. He is a humanitarian, an author, a photographer,
and a speaker at various international events.
His books in English include ''The Monk and the Philosopher''; ''The Quantum and the Lotus'';
''Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill''; ''Why Meditate?''; ''Altruism:
The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World'', ''A Plea for the Animals'',
''Enlightened Vagabond'', ''Beyond the Self: A conversation between Neuroscience and
Buddhism'', ''In Search of Wisdom'', ''Freedom for All and Our Animal Neighbours''.
As a translator from Tibetan, in English, his works include,
:Dilgo Khyentse, ''The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel'', Shambhala Publications.
:Dilgo Khyentse, ''The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones'', Shambhala Publication.
:Dilgo Khyentse, ''The Excellent Path to Enlightenment'', Snow Lion Publications.
:Dilgo Khyentse, ''The Hundred Verses of Advice'', Shambhala Publications.
:Dilgo Khyentse, ''The Heart of Compassion'', Shambhala Publications.
:Rabjam Rinpoche, ''The Great Medicine that Vanquishes Ego Clinging'', Shambhala Publications.
:''Shabkar, Autobiography of a Tibetan Yogin'', SUNY Press, reprinted Snow Lion Publications.
:''On the Path to Enlightenment: Heart Advice from the Great Tibetan Masters''. Shambhala Publications, 2013.
:''The Enlightened Vagabond, The life and teachings of Patrul Rinpoche'', Shambhala Publications.
As a photographer, he has published a number of albums in French, including, in English ''Journey to Enlightenment (Aperture)'', ''Tibet: An Inner Journey'' (Thames and Hudson), ''Motionless Journey: From a Hermitage in the Himalayas'' (Thames and Hudson), ''Bhutan: Land of Serenity''. Henri Cartier Bresson wrote about his photographic work: "Matthieu's camera and his spiritual life are one. From there, spring these images, fleeting yet eternal."
As a scientist and Buddhist monk, under the umbrella of the Mind and Life Institute, he has been an active participant in the scientific research on the effects of meditation on the brain and has co-authored a number of scientific publications.
He presently lives at Shechen monastery in Nepal and devotes all the proceedings of his books and activities to humanitarian projects in India, Nepal and Tibet, through Karuna- Shechen, the organization he founded twenty-one years ago (www.karuna-shechen.org), which benefit over 400,000 people every year. (Source: Matthieu Ricard, personal communication, Oct. 12, 2021.)
www.matthieuricard.com
Dr. Mattia Salvini obtained a BA and MA Sanskrit from RKM Vivekānanda College Chennai, India, and a PhD in Buddhist Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (London). He was also part of two research projects on Vāstuśāstra, in teams headed by Prof. Adam Hardy (Cardiff University).
His main research interests are: Buddhist philosophy as expressed in Sanskrit, and especially Madhyamaka; the relationship between philosophy and vyākaraṇa; the relationship between Madhyamaka, Yogācāra, and non-Mahāyāna Abhidharma; Buddhist Sūtras in Sanskrit and Tibetan; Vāstuśāstra; Buddhist kāvya.
During his stay in India and Nepal, Mattia had the opportunity to study with Prof. Rāṁśaṅkar Tripāṭhī, and has learnt from several Tibetan Buddhist masters, especially Ayang Rinpoche, Lama Gelong Tsultrim Gyaltsen, Lama Rinchen Phuntsok, and others.
Mattia has taught in Nepal (Rangjung Yeshe Institute), Thailand (Mahidol University), and, as visiting professor, Taiwan (Hua Fan University) and Germany (Hamburg University, as a Numata Visiting Professor), and has offered occasionally lectures and reading sessions in UK (Oxford University), Malaysia (Than Hsiang, Brickfields Mahāvihāra, MyBA), Japan (Kyoto University), India (Ashoka University, Delhi University) and mainland China. ([http://ibc.ac.th/en/Mattia-Salvini Source Accessed Sep 8, 2021]) +
Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. My interests include subjects such as Tibetan traditional sciences, Buddhism and history of Tibet. ([https://lmu-munich.academia.edu/PetraMaurer Source:Academia.edu]) +
Maurice Walshe was born in London in 1911 and was an active Buddhist from 1951 until the end of his life in 1998. He served as the Vice-President of the Buddhist Society and Chair of the English Sangha Trust. A scholar of Pali and German, his other works include ''Buddhism for Today'' and translations of the sermons of Meister Eckhart. (Source: [https://wisdomexperience.org/content-author/maurice-walshe/ Wisdom Publications]) +
Max Gebhard Lebrecht Walleser (born June 18, 1874 in Mannheim ; † April 15, 1954 in Wiesloch) was a German Indologist. He was a professor at the Institute for Buddhist Studies (today: Institute for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies ) in Heidelberg, of which he is also the founder. From 1891 to 1896 he studied modern philology and philosophy in Heidelberg, Freiburg and Geneva. With his 1904 book, ''The Philosophical Basis of the Older Buddhism'' he became known. He suffered from mental disorders and, according to the diagnosis, died of cardiovascular failure with schizophrenia and cerebral sclerosis. ([https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Walleser Source Accessed Sep 7, 2021]) +
Maximino Miyar Teja is an academic and translator who specializes in Buddhist texts and teachings. He has an active presence on Academia.edu, a platform for academics to share research papers where he has published numerous translations and works related to Buddhist philosophy and teachings.
His scholarly work includes translations of several important Buddhist texts into Spanish, such as:
*Kamalaśīla's ''Los Estados Graduales de Meditación'' (''The Gradual States of Meditation'')
*Gendun Jamyang's ''El Lam Rim del Linaje del Sur'' (''The Lam Rim of the Southern Lineage'')
*Dudjom Rinpoche's ''El Gran Camino del Medio'' (''The Great Middle Way'')
*Maitreya's ''El Sublime Continuo del Mahayana'' (''The Sublime Continuum of Mahāyāna'')
*Various Buddhist sūtras including ''Sūtra del Poderoso Giro de la Rueda del Dharma'' and ''Sūtra del Rugido del León''.
Miyar Teja is focused on making classical Buddhist philosophical and meditation texts accessible to Spanish-speaking audiences through translation work, covering various schools and traditions of Buddhism including Tibetan Buddhist teachings. +
Mazu Daoyi (709–788) (Chinese: 馬祖道一; pinyin: Mǎzŭ Dàoyī; Wade–Giles: Ma-tsu Tao-yi, Japanese: Baso Dōitsu) was an influential abbot of Chan Buddhism during the Tang dynasty. The earliest recorded use of the term "Chan school" is from his ''Extensive Records''. Master Ma's teaching style of "strange words and extraordinary actions" became paradigmatic Zen lore.
His family name was Ma – Mazu meaning ''Ancestor Ma'' or ''Master Ma''. He was born in 709 northwest of Chengdu in Sichuan. During his years as master, Mazu lived in Jiangxi, from which he took the name "Jiangxi Daoyi".
In the ''Transmission of the Lamp'', compiled in 1004, Mazu is described as follows:
:His appearance was remarkable. He strode along like a bull and glared about him like a tiger. If he stretched out his tongue, it reached up over his nose; on the soles of his feet were imprinted two circular marks.
According to the ''Transmission of the Lamp'', Mazu was a student of Nanyue Huairang (677-744) at Mount Heng in Hunan. A story in the entry on Nanyue Huairang in the ''Transmission of the Lamp'' is regarded as Mazu's enlightenment-account, though the text does not claim it as such. An earlier and more primitive version of this story appears in the ''Anthology of the Patriarchal Hall'' which was transcribed in 952:
:Reverend Ma was sitting in a spot, and Reverend Rang took a tile and sat on the rock facing him, rubbing it. Master Ma asked, "What are you doing?" Master [Huairang] said, "I'm rubbing the tile to make it a mirror." Master Ma said, "How can you make a mirror by rubbing a tile?" Master [Huairang] said, "If I can't make a mirror by rubbing a tile, how can you achieve buddhahood by sitting in meditation?"
This story echoes the ''Vimalakirti Sutra'' and the ''Platform Sutra'' in downgrading purificative and gradualist practices instead of direct insight into the Buddha-nature. . . .
Though regarded as an unconventional teacher, Mazu's teachings emphasise Buddha-nature:
:[L]et each of you see into his own mind. ... However eloquently I may talk about all kinds of things as innumerable as the sands of the Ganges, the Mind shows no increase... . You may talk ever so much about it, and it is still your Mind; you may not at all talk about it, and it is just the same your own Mind. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazu_Daoyi Source Accessed July 15, 2021])
Indian pandita ca. 8th century responsible for translating numerous texts into Tibetan, including the ''Dharmasaṃgītisūtra'' and many others. His student was Ye shes sde. +
Mañjuśrīkīrti wrote a commentary on the ''Samādhirājasūtra'' entitled ''Kīrtimālā''.
According to Christoph Cüppers, "This text has been preserved only in its Tibetan translation. The edition is based on the Tanjur block prints of Derge, Cone, Narthang and Peking, among which, as a rule, the readings of Cone agree with those of Derge and the readings of Narthang with those of Peking. . . .
"In the Tanjur four other texts besides the commentary to the [''Samādhirājasūtra''] SR are ascribed to one 'Jam-dpal-grags-pa (Mañjuśrīkīrti), of which three are commentaries to Tantric works and one is a text on grammar (TTP nos.: 3314, 3316, 3357 and 5778). [Whether the author of these works is identical with the author of the ''Kīrtimālā'' is unclear.]
"Mañjuśrīkīrti's philosophical standpoint in the ''Kīrtimālā'' is . . . not a purely ''śūnyavāda'' one; rather, one is also confronted in the explications with ideas of the Yogacāra school." (Cüppers, introductory remarks to appendix A of ''The IXth Chapter of the Samādhirājasūtra'', 110) +
Eighth- to ninth-century Tibetan translator also known by his Tibetan name, Gajam Gocha (dba ’jam dpal go cha). +
Dissertation: [[From Bodhgayā to Lhasa to Beijing: The Life and Times of Śāriputra (c.1335-1426), Last Abbot of Bodhgayā]], by Arthur McKeown. Harvard University. 2010. 570 pp. Primary Advisor: Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp.<br>REVIEW: http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2362 +
Chim Jampé Yang (Tib. མཆིམས་འཇམ་པའི་དབྱངས་, Wyl. ''mchims 'jam pa'i dbyangs'') (13th century) — author of the most famous Tibetan commentary on Vasubandhu's ''Abhidharmakosha'', ''The Ornament of Abhidharma'', often known simply as the 'Chim Dzö' or 'Chim Chen'. Here large (chen) is referring to the size of his commentary. Some traditions identify the author of this text with Chim Namkha Drak.
His teacher was Chim Lozang Drakpa, who is known as The Omniscient Chim, and who is the author of the 'Chim chung', the smaller commentary. (Source: [https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Chim_Jamp%C3%A9_Yang Rigpa Wiki]) +
Meghan Barwick received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) at Thomas Jefferson University in 2020. She received her BA in Journalism with a minor in Studio Art from Lehigh University in 2015. She also participated in a program sponsored by the School for International Training (SIT) in 2014. While in this program, she lived with a host family in New Delhi, India, for over two months, studying Indian arts, Hindi, and Madhubani painting with an artist in the city. She attended lectures on music, painting, architecture, and the religion and politics of India. In addition she executed a research project on Shantideva, the eighth-century Buddhist scholar, entitled "Shantideva’s Bodhicaryavatara: An Internal Pilgrimage to Universal Peace and Compassion." ([https://www.linkedin.com/in/meghanbarwick/ Adapted from Source Jan 12, 2021]) +
Mei Hsiao received her PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Calgary in 2008. She is an Assistant Professor at China Medical University Center for General Education in Taiwan. She specializes in Mahāyāna Buddhism and Chinese Philosophy. +
Ven. Dr Yung Dong (Mei-feng Lin) earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Religious Studies from University of the West. Her dissertation is titled "The Origin of Bodhicitta and Its Development in Chinese Buddhism." Her committee included Lewis R. Lancaster, Ananda W. P. Guruge, and Thich An-Hue.
She has served as the director in Buddhist temples throughout Australia, Thailand, and the United States, and has lectured in Auckland University, Melbourne University, and MIT. ([https://www.fgschungtian.org.au/event-details-registration/the-life-portrait-of-venerable-master-hsing-yun Source Accessed Mar 18, 2025]) +
