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Michel Hulin is professor emeritus at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, where he held the chair of philosophy from 1981 to 1998. Within the framework of Indian philosophy, he is more particularly a specialist in Advaita Vedanta. ([https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Hulin Source Accessed Feb 18, 2021]) +
In 1966 Michele received a Masters degree in Russian Area Studies, and in 1970, an MPhil in Comparative Literature, both from Yale University. After founding and practicing at Jemez Bodhi Mandala Zen Center in New Mexico from 1974 to 1977, she moved to Kyoto, Japan where she studied at Otani University with Nagao Gadjin and Nishitani Keiji in the years from 1977 to 1979.
After working as an editor for many years, which included developing the Buddhist series at SUNY Press, she moved to Nepal in 1987 to study Buddhist philosophy and the Tibetan language. Over the years, she has edited many volumes on Buddhism and translated texts from Tibetan while teaching and acting as an oral translator. She is the author of ''Music in the Sky: The Life, Art, and Teaching of the Seventeenth Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje'' and translator of the root text and general editor of ''A Song for the King: Saraha's Mahamudra Meditation''.
Michele's interest in TBRC is multiple. Not connected with a university and often living in places where access to texts is difficult, she has turned to TBRC for copies of texts not available otherwise. She would like to see the number of texts within reach on the internet expanded and also especially values the database developed by Gene Smith.
As a translator, she wants to see a database of translations, both finished and in progress, as a key tool for those inside and outside academia. With TBRC's texts and database, access to the field of Tibetan studies is opened out to meet the needs of lamas from all traditions, scholar practitioners, new students, and researchers from all over the world. ([https://www.bdrc.io/member/michele-martin/ Source Accessed June 29, 2023]) +
Michelle L. Dexter is one of the editors of the book ''Santideva and Bodhicaryavatara'' along with Prof. C. Upender Rao and Chodrung-ma Kunga Chodron. This book is focused on the Buddhist text ''Bodhicaryavatara'' by the 8th-century Indian Buddhist philosopher Shantideva. Beyond this specific publication, there is limited information available about Michelle L. Dexter's other work in Buddhist studies or editing. +
Mieko Kajihara is an Associate Professor of Sanskrit in the Department of Indian Languages and Literature at the University of Tokyo. +
Mihajlo Pažanin - Born in 1968 in Rijeka. He first encountered Buddhist teachings within the framework of the Mushindokai organization of Croatia in 1985, of which he became an active member.
After completing his studies at the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb in 1995, he went to Asia and visited Taiwan, Okinawa and India, researching the roots of Buddhist tantric teachings focused on the Buddha Mahavairochana.
During his visit to India, he met Tibetan teachers who introduced him to the tradition of Sarvavid Vairochana, one of the original lineages of Indian tantric Buddhism that has been preserved to this day within the Sakya tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
Upon his return to Croatia in 1996, he participated in organizing the arrival of the first Tibetan lama to Croatia, Ayang Rinpoche. In the same year, together with Dragutin Šmalcelja, he founded Bodhiratna, the first Society in this region to begin studying the theory and practice of Tibetan Buddhism in an organized manner.
After visiting Nepal in 2001, with the support and patronage of Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche, he founded the Buddhist society "Shechen", which he leads to this day.
To date, Mihajlo has translated about 20 books dedicated to the study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism, is the author of the book ''Hidden Messages of Tibetan Buddhism'', and is a frequent guest lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy in Rijeka and in many other associations and societies that want to learn more about the theory and practice of Tibetan Buddhism. ([https://library.foi.hr/autori/autor.php?B=1&A=0000007886&H=skolstvo&E=E0023KAT-%C5%A0KOLSTVO&V= Source Accessed Aug 15, 2025]) +
Mike Dickman is a long-time practitioner of Buddhism and has translated many texts of the Nyingma and 'Drigung Ka'gyü schools of Tibetan Buddhism as well as Saying of Old Cheng, published by Cool Grove Press. He lives in Paris, France. ([https://www.coolgrove.com/book_module/cheng_module.html Source Accessed Oct 17, 2025]) +
Mike Gilmore is best known for his editorial work on Commentary on the ''Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva'', a key text in Tibetan Buddhism. This book, translated by Acharya Nyima Tsering and edited by Vyvyan Cayley and Mike Gilmore, was published by the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala in 1995. The text is a practical guide to the Bodhisattva path, offering insights into compassion, wisdom, and ethical living, making it a significant contribution to Buddhist literature. +
PhD at University of Virginia under Kurtis Schaeffer +
Tribhuvan University, Nepal, Humanities, Adjunct +
Member of the Padma Translation Committee under the direction of Chagdud Tulku. +
Director of Academic and Public Programs for Maitripa College, Portland, Oregon: programs@maitripa.org. Contact for Conference information. Art Specialist with PhD from Emory University. Connections with Red Gate Gallery, Beijing. +
Min Bahadur Shakya was a scholar of Newar and Tibetan Buddhism. Among his major publications are ''A Short History of Buddhism in Nepal'' (1984), ''A Introduction to Buddhist Monasteries of Kathmandu Valley'' (1986), and ''The Life and Contribution of the Nepalese Princess Bhrikuti Devi to Tibetan History'' (2002).
He was elected Vice President of World Fellowship of Buddhist Youth WFBY for the years 1984-1988. Mr. Shakya was nominated by Venerable Master Hsing Yun Fokuang Shan, Taiwan as Research Associate in Fokuang Shan Chinese Buddhist Research Academy for the years 1983-1990.
In 1990, he was granted a SAARC Fellowship (Buddhist Studies) by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thimpu, Bhutan. He worked as the Chief Editor of ''Buddhist Himalaya'', a bi-annual journal dealing with Buddhism in the Himalayan regions. He has also contributed more a dozen research papers in reputed foreign journals.
Mr. Min Bahadur Shakya was a founding director of Nagarjuna Institute of Buddhist Studies (NIBS) Pvt. Ltd. ([https://www.buddhistelibrary.org/library/profile.php?aapath=130 Adapted from Source Oct 18, 2024]) +
Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche aka Tsering Paldrön (Tib. ཚེ་རིང་དཔལ་སྒྲོན་, Wyl. tshe ring dpal sgron) (b.1967) is the daughter of Kyabjé Minling Trichen Rinpoche and one of the most renowned Tibetan teachers currently teaching in the West.
She was recognized at the age of two by His Holiness the 16th Karmapa as the reincarnation of the great dakini of Tsurphu, Khandro Ugyen Tsomo, one of the most renowned female masters of her time. The present Khandro Rinpoche holds the lineages of both the Nyingma and Kagyü traditions.
Khandro Rinpoche has received teachings and transmissions from some of the most accomplished masters of the 20th century, including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Minling Trichen, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Trulshik Rinpoche, Tenga Rinpoche, Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche and Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche.
[Khandro] Rinpoche maintains a rigorous schedule, teaching from both the Kagyü and Nyingma traditions in the USA including Hawaii, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Germany, France, the Czech Republic and Greece. She has established and heads the Samten Tse Retreat Center in Mussoori, India, which is home to 30 nuns and also provides a place of study and retreat for monastics and western lay practitioners. [Khandro] Rinpoche is also resident teacher at the Lotus Garden Retreat Center in Virginia, USA, which she established to provide retreat practice, the study of important Buddhist texts, and visiting teachers from all lineages. [Khandro] Rinpoche is also actively involved with the Mindroling Monastery in Dehra Dun, India.
She also heads a variety of charitable projects that supply health care and Buddhist education for monastics and lay practitioners who work side by side in a variety of challenging settings—including a leprosy project. ([https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Mindrolling_Jets%C3%BCn_Khandro_Rinpoche Source Accessed Oct 14, 2020]) +
Venerable Ming Zhen Shakya (formerly Chuan Yuan Shakya) was ordained in the Peoples Republic of China at Nan Hua Si, the Monastery of Hui Neng (Eno), the Sixth Patriarch of Chan Buddhism, and was the first American to be ordained in Mainland China in more than a quarter century of Communist rule. She was founder of the Nan Hua Zen Buddhist Society and served on the Board of Directors of the Zen Buddhist Order of Hsu Yun. +
Ming-Wood Liu received his PhD in Buddhist Studies under UCLA’s inaugural professor of Chinese Buddhism, Kenneth Ch’en. Liu is the author of ''Madhyamaka Thought in China'' (Sinica Leidensia, 30), and many research articles in Chinese Buddhism, including "Fan Chen's ‘Treatise on the Destructibility of the Spirit’ and its Buddhist Critics" (''Philosophy East and West''), "The Lotus Sûtra and Garland Sûtra According to the Tien-t'ai and Hua-yen Schools in Chinese Buddhism" (T'oung Pao), and "Madhyamika and Yogacara Interpretations of the Buddhist-nature Concept in Chinese Buddhism" (''Philosophy East and West''). He was a lecturer in Chinese Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. ([https://www.international.ucla.edu/buddhist/person/1031 Source Accessed Jan 14, 2019]) +
He was born in Mindroling Monastery in the Earth Monkey year. His father was Pema Wangchen or Gyurme Kunga Tendzin, and his mother was Chimé Deden Drolma, the daughter of the eighth throneholder, Gyurme Yishyin Wangyal. He therefore shared the same father as the tenth throneholder, Gyurme Döndrup Wangyal, Penam Rinpoche, and Khenchen Ngawang Khyentse Norbu. He had the same mother as Penam Rinpoche, Jetsün Tsewang Lhamo (d. 1995) and Mayum Dechen Wangmo.
He studied from a young age with many different teachers from Kham and Central Tibet. At the age of 21, he received full ordination from Khenchen Ngawang Norbu. He became the regent during the minority of Minling Trichen Rinpoche. After the tragedies of the cultural revolution he worked hard to revive the Mindroling tradition and to repair the monastery and give teachings and transmissions.
He passed away in Lhasa in 1980 (or 1979 according to some sources). (Source: [https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Minling_Chung_Rinpoche Rigpa Wiki]) +
Minoru ("Min") Kiyota was born on October 12, 1923 in Seattle, Washington and grew up in San Francisco, California and Hiratsuka, Japan, where he lived from 1934 to 1938.
While merely a high-school student, he was interned as an American-born but Japan-educated offspring of Japanese parents (''kibei'') in relocation centers in Tanforan, Topaz, and Tule Lake in 1942 during World War II. In his autobiographical account, ''Beyond Loyalty: The Story of a Kibei'' (1997), and in a chapter in his edited volume, ''The Case of Japanese Americans During World War II: Suppression of Civil Liberty'' (2004), he described his experiences during this difficult period of his life.
After his release from Tule Lake Segregation Center in 1946, he accepted a scholarship to the College of the Ozarks in Arkansas and later transferred to the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his B.A. in East Asian Languages and History in 1949. Min attended the San Francisco Theological Seminary from 1949 to 1950 and worked as a civilian employee of the U.S. Air Force Intelligence Service in Japan and
Korea from 1950 to 1953 during the Korean War. He continued to stay in East Asia, attending Tokyo University in Tokyo, Japan from 1953 to 1962, where received his M.A. in 1958 and completed his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies in 1963.
In 1962 Min joined the Department of Indian Studies (later renamed the Department of South Asian Studies and currently designated as the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia - LCA) of the
University of Wisconsin-Madison as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor with a joint appointment with the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature in 1968. In 1978 he rose to the rank of Professor.
Min's research interests were wide-ranging but his main area of teaching and scholarship was Mahāyāna Buddhism in East Asia. He emphasized textual research, requiring rigorous training in Sanskrit, Chinese and
Japanese. In 1989 Min also started teaching Kendō (a Japanese martial art, which descended from traditional swordsmanship) as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Kinesiology. His "Kendo: An Integration of Martial and Liberal Arts," cross-listed with the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature and the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia, was the first and only course of its kind taught in a university setting in the USA. Min used his Kendō class to teach Zen Buddhism as the philosophical foundation of Kendō. He stressed the importance of Kendō as a way to overcome fear, to develop one-pointed concentration (for better study habits), to grow personally, and to understand different cultural perspectives on life.
During the course of his employment at UW-Madison, Min published twelve books, numerous articles and book chapters, and supervised thirty-two Ph.D. students, a great number of whom found positions at colleges
and major universities in the United States, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam.
Among his books on Buddhism, ''Shingon Buddhism: Theory and Practice'' (1978) is a pioneering study of esoteric Buddhism in Japan and remains an important reference work on the subject. Min is best known for his edited volume ''Mahāyāna Buddhist Meditation'', published in 1978 and reprinted in 1991.
Min also published on Kendō, most importantly his comprehensive work ''Kendo: Its Philosophy, History and Means to Personal Growth'' (1995), republished as ''The Shambhala Guide to Kendo'' (2002). ([https://federated.kb.wisc.edu/images/group222/shared/2014-02-03FacultySenate/2463mr.pdf Source Accessed Jan 14, 2020])
Namdrol Miranda Adams holds an MA in Education with a focus on Educational Leadership and Policy from Portland State University, and a BA in English Literature from New York University. Since 1998 she has dedicated her life to the study and practice of the Tibetan language and the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, seven of those as a Buddhist nun. She studied the traditional texts and their commentaries at Deer Park Monastery in Wisconsin from 1998–2003 and her editing and translation work includes ''Practicing the Path'', the ''Rubin Foundation's Treasury of Lives'', ''Karmapa 900'', and the ''Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive's Kopan Lam Rim Courses''. She has been the assistant of Yangsi Rinpoche since 1999 and is one of the founders of Maitripa College, where she is Dean of Education. (Source: [https://wisdomexperience.org/product/practicing-path/ Wisdom Publications]) +
Miranda Shaw is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Richmond. Shaw's first book, ''Passionate Enlightenment'', won both the 1994 James Henry Breasted Prize of the American Historical Association and the 1994 Tricycle Prize for Excellence in Buddhist Scholarship. Years of research have
resulted in the recent ''Buddhist Goddesses of India'' and the forthcoming ''Buddhist Goddesses of Tibet and Nepal'', both from Princeton University Press. (Source: ''As Long as Space Endures'', 478) +
Dr Miri Albahari is a Philosophy Lecturer at the University of Western Australia and is the author of ''Analytical Buddhism: The Two-Tiered Illusion of Self''. The book was converted from a Ph.D thesis that was supervised by John A. Baker at the University of Calgary. Miri teaches comparative philosophy and is building a novel consciousness-based metaphysical system for what Aldous Huxley referred to as ‘the Perennial Philosophy’. Albahari’s ideas on this theme have been published in journals such as ''Philosophers’ Imprint'' and ''Journal of Consciousness Studies'' and in ''The Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism''. She is married to David Godman, a leading author on the renowned South Indian sage Ramana Maharshi whose teachings exemplify the Perennial Philosophy. ([https://www.scrippscollege.edu/hi/2021-spring/featuring-miri-albahari Source Accessed Feb 10, 2023]) +
