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Dr. Miroj Shakya is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of the West in Rosemead, California, USA. His research interests include the Sanskrit language, literature, Pali language, the Buddhist canon, Indian Mahayana Buddhism, Newar Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, and Hinduism. He is the Project Coordinator of the Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Project (www.dsbcproject.org) and the Rare Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscript Preservation Project at the University of the West. Additionally, he holds the position of Director at the Nagarjuna Institute of Buddhist Studies in Lalitpur, Nepal. Dr. Shakya is also a founding member of the Great Compassion Fund, Los Angeles, which provides funds for food and financial support to impoverished people in Nepal (greatcompassionfund.org). Furthermore, he served as the Convener of the Sanskrit Language Working Group for the Union Catalog of Buddhist Texts, sponsored by the International Association of Buddhist Universities (IABU) in Bangkok, Thailand. Dr. Shakya has contributed to academic publications, including his role as the editor of “Catalog of Digitized Rare Sanskrit Buddhist Manuscript Vol. 1 (2010)” and “Vol. 2 (2019),” as well as co-editor of the book titled “Sacred Art of Nepal” (2013). He received the Straniak Foundation Grant through the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, for the Spring semester 2008. That year, he also spent a semester as a Visiting Scholar at ECAI, International Area Studies, at the University of California, Berkeley. ([https://southasia.wisc.edu/miroj-shakya/ Source Accessed Oct 18, 2024]) +
Mitsuya Dake is a Professor at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan. His research themes include Shinran thought, engaged Buddhism, and interfaith dialogue. He has taught courses in Japanese religion and thought and the comparative study of Buddhist culture. He is a member of several academic associations, including The Academy of Japanese Religions, The Association of Indology and Buddhology, and The International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies. ([https://www.ryukoku.ac.jp/english2/prog/graduate/world/professors/dake.html Source Accessed October 17, 2019]) +
Moksākaragupta was a famous ''pramāṇa'' master from Jagaddala Monastery and author of the ''Tarkabhāsā''. +
Monica Strinu finished her diploma thesis on depictions of deities from the founding phase of Tabo in the context of cultural history at the University of Vienna in 2013. Since 2007 she has worked as an archive assistant and graphic designer at the Western Himalaya Archive Vienna, part of the national research network "The Cultural History of the Western Himalaya from the 8th Century" and the "Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Documentation of Inner and South Asian Cultural History" at the Institute for Art History at the University of Vienna. Her research interests include Western Himalayan art from the 10th to 13th centuries and digital art history. ([https://brill.com/display/book/9789004307438/B9789004307438_001.xml Source Accessed Aug 1, 2023]) +
Sir Monier Monier-Williams (12 November 1819 – 11 April 1899) was a British scholar who was the second Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University, England. He studied, documented and taught Asian languages, especially Sanskrit, Persian and Hindustani. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monier_Monier-Williams Source Accessed Aug 15, 2023]) +
Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach is Professor of Philosophy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, founding co-editor of the ''Journal of World Philosophies'' and is the journal’s current editor-in-chief. +
Moriz Winternitz (Horn, December 23, 1863 – Prague, January 9, 1937) was a scholar from Austria who began his Indology contributions working with Max Müller at the Oxford University. An eminent Sanskrit scholar, he worked as a professor in Prague in the German part of Karl-Ferdinands-Universität after 1902, for nearly thirty years. His ''Geschichte der indischen Literatur'' over 1908–1922 period was a major and comprehensive literary history of Sanskrit texts. The contributions on a wide range of Sanskrit texts by Winternitz have been an influential resource for modern era studies on Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriz_Winternitz Source Accessed Feb 16, 2021]) +
Morten Ostensen is the Digital Curator for the Research Department of Tsadra Foundation where he works to create digital editions of major Tibetan literary collections, as well other online resources developed by the research team and their collaborators. He was a frequent resident of Nepal from the mid 1990's until 2015 where he has studied Buddhism as an undergrad, a graduate student, and a doctoral candidate, as well as in more traditional settings. He now lives in upstate New York with his wife and daughter. +
Gilford College Departments and Positions:
International Studies, Coordinator, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Religious Studies, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Phone: School Extension 316.2357
emortens@guilford.edu +
Dr. Prof. Motohiro Yoritomi, Head of the Department of Buddhism and Chairman of Shuchin University, Kyoto, Japan, wass the author of Historical Development of Pancatathagatas and Kukai's Shingon Buddhism in Japanese and the editor of Iconographic Dictionary of Tantric Buddhism in India and Japan. ([https://www.exoticindiaart.com/book/details/buddhism-in-india-and-abroad-integrating-influence-in-vedic-and-post-vedic-perspective-IDF407/ Source Accessed Jan 28, 2021]) +
Mu Soeng, a former Zen monk and teacher, is the scholar-in-residence at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. He is the author of many books on Buddhism, including Trust in Mind and The Diamond Sutra. He lives in Barre, Massachusetts. (Source: [https://wisdomexperience.org/product/diamond-sutra/ Wisdom Publications]) +
Mujū lchien. (無住一円) (1227-1312). A Japanese monk during the Kamakura period; also known as Mujū Dōgyō. He was born into a warrior family and became a monk at the age of eighteen. Mujū studied the doctrines of various sects, including the Hossōshū, Shingonshū, Tendaishū, and Jōdoshū, and received Zen training from the Rinzaishū monk Enni Ben'en (1202-1280). In 1262, Mujū built Chōboji (Matriarchal Longevity Monastery) in Owari (present-day Nagoya, a port city in the center of the main Japanese island of Honshū), where he spent the rest of his life. Although affiliated with the Rinzaishū, Mujū took an ecumenical approach to Buddhism, arguing that all the different teachings of Buddhism were skillful means of conveying the religion's ultimate goal; he even denounced Nichiren (1222-1382) for his contemporary's exclusivist attitude toward his own eponymous sect. Mujū was also famous for his collections of Japanese folklore, such as the ''Shasekishū'' ("Sand and Pebbles Collection"), written between 1279 and 1283; his ''Tsuma kagami'' ("Mirror for Wives") of 1300; and his 1305 ''Zōdanshū'' ("Collection of Random Conversations"). In particular, in the ''Shasekishū'', Mujū introduced the idea of the "unity of spirits and buddhas" (shinbutsu shūgō) , describing the Japanese indigenous gods, or Kami, as various manifestations of the Buddha. (Source: "Mujū lchien." In ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'', 552. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.) +
Born in 1902 Professor Amulyadhan Mukherji graduated with a first class in English from Presidency College. Calcutta, and took a first class in his M. A. from Calcutta University. In 1930 he was awarded Premchand Roychand studentship and later the Mouat Medal for his pioneering scientific study of Bengali prosody. Professor Mukherji was awarded the Sarojini Basu Gold Medal for 1968 by the Calcutta University for his outstanding contributions to the study of Bengali language and literature. A Professor of English language and literature for more than thirty years, he was on the faculties of the Universities of Calcutta and Jadavpur and is a member of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta. He was selected a senior Research Fellow by the University Grants Commission for 1965-68. Author of more than a dozen research papers of high merit in English on Bengali and Sanskrit prosody and on various topics of English and Bengali literature, Professor Mukherji's important works in Bengali include Bangla Chhander Mulsutra, Kaviguru, Adhunik Sahitya Jijnasa and Rabindranather Manasi.
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His major English works- 'Sanskrit prosody: Its Evolution', (1976, 2nd Edn 2000)' 'Studies in Rabindranath's Prosody and Bengali-Prose- Verse' (1999). Source: ([https://www.exoticindiaart.com/book/details/sanskrit-prosody-its-evolution-NAK593/ exotic india]) +
A student of the First Gyatrul, Dongak Tenzin; the Third Karma Kuchen; and Dongak Chökyi Nyima. +
Munidatta was a Buddhist scholar (circa 8th–10th century CE) who wrote the Sanskrit commentary known as ''Caryāgītikoṣavṛtti'' for the Caryāgīti by Atiśa. Munidatta's commentary was later translated by Kirticandra and Grags pa rgyal mtshan. +
Myokei Caine-Barrett, Shonin, stands as a beacon of pioneering spirit, being the first American woman and the first of African Japanese descent to attain full ordination as a Nichiren priest. She holds the esteemed position of bishop for the Nichiren Shu Buddhist Order of North America, the first woman and westerner to do so. Her guidance emanates from Houston, where she leads as the principal teacher of Myoken-ji Temple. She is among the few westerners, specifically one of three, to undertake and complete the rigorous Aragyo [ascetic practice] at Saijo Inari in Okayama, Japan.
Passionate about bringing Buddhism beyond temple walls, Myokei Shonin actively supports three prison sanghas within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice system. Her interfaith endeavors have seen her as a Fellow with Interfaith America, championing dialogue between Buddhists and Muslims in incarceration. Her roles extend to being a board member of Lion’s Roar Magazine and Dharma Relief 2: Healing Racial Trauma.
She's actively engaged in programs such as Healing Warrior Hearts, Texas for Heroes, The Gathering, and the International Western Dharma Teachers Gathering. Beyond these, her contributions span across various socio-religious platforms, underlining her commitment to spreading compassionate teachings. As a writer, her voice echoes through publications in Lion’s Roar and Tricycle magazines, and she has made notable contributions to The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women. ([https://www.sfzc.org/teachers/myokei-caine-barrett Source Accessed April 25, 2024]) +
Märt Läänemets (born July 14, 1962 in Avinurme) is an Estonian orientalist. His main research interests are Mahāyāna Buddhism and the history of Chinese thought. He has published translations from Chinese, Sanskrit, and English. He has written opinion pieces on contemporary Chinese politics.
He was an associate professor (2016–2020) and head of the Oriental Studies Centre at the University of Tartu, and the president of the Estonian Academic Oriental Society. He teaches Mandarin Chinese and Sanskrit at the University of Tartu and has given lecture courses on Eastern topics. One of the authors of the Lexicon of the History of Eastern Thought (together with Linnart Mäll and Teet Toome).
In 2009, he defended his doctoral thesis "Gandavyūha-sūtra as a Historical Source" at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Tartu. Together with Gao Jingyi, he compiled the first Chinese language textbook specifically designed for Estonian learners (Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2015). ([https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A4rt_L%C3%A4%C3%A4nemets Adapted from Source Jan 7, 2025]) +
Möndrup Sherab was a Tibetan translator who lived in the 12th century. He is known for translating the ''Biographies of the 84 Mahasiddhas'' from Sanskrit into Tibetan. This text, originally recorded by the Indian scholar Abhayadatta Sri, contains stories of 84 great Buddhist masters who achieved enlightenment in a single lifetime.
The translated work by Möndrup Sherab is beautifully illustrated and explores the personalities of the 84 Mahasiddhas, as well as the miraculous events that occurred in their lives. +
Muchen Sempa Chenpo Konchok Gyeltsen was a Sakya master who was born in the Mu valley of U. Late in his long life he became the second abbot of Ngor Monastery, which was founded by his teacher Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo. Konchok Gyeltsen founded Linga Dewachen Monastery in 1437 and Musu Yama Monastery in 1459, and was important in the transmission of the Sakya Lamdre tradition. +
After graduating from Humboldt University Berlin and following (post-)doctoral research in Munich, Zurich and Kyoto, I am currently a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at Hildesheim University (Germany), which specializes in Asian and World philosophy.
My research focuses on the philosophy of language and culture, particularly based on the works of Ernst Cassirer and Wilhelm von Humboldt. My interests also encompass regional philosophies including pre-modern Buddhist and modern Japanese philosophy. I have published widely in various languages and translated seminal philosophical works from Japanese into German and English.
Throughout my career, I have been engaged in cross-cultural and interdisciplinary research activities inside and outside of academia. I am the founding member of the research network »Morphology as Scientific Paradigm« (funded by the German Research Council, DFG) and have co-curated (as »Konzeptbegleiter«) the new permanent exhibit »Play of culture/s« (»Spiel der Kultur/en«) at Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum in Sankt Gallen, Switzerland. ([http://ralfmueller.eu Source Accessed May 14, 2020]) +
