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After meeting Suzuki Roshi in 1970, Rinso Ed Sattizahn lived at Tassajara from 1973 to 1977. He spent the next five years at City Center, serving as Zen Center's Vice President and President. From 1983 to 2000 Ed held various executive positions in the microcomputer software industry and developed familiarity with how the world works. In 2003, he served as Shuso (Head Student) at Green Gulch Farm, and in the same year co-founded Vimala Sangha in Mill Valley with Lew Richmond. Vimala Sangha is named after Vimalakirti, the famous householder disciple of the Buddha, and is dedicated to the practice of householder Zen in the tradition of Suzuki Roshi. Ed received Lay Entrustment in 2005, was ordained as a Zen priest in 2010, and received Dharma Transmission in 2012, all from Lew Richmond. Ed previously served on the Zen Center Board for six years (2006-2011) and as board chair for three years (2009-2011). In March 2014, Ed became Abiding Abbot at City Center, and in March 2019 stepped into the role of Central Abbot. He remains the guiding teacher at Vimala Sangha Mill Valley. ([https://www.sfzc.org/teachers/rinso-ed-sattizahn Source Accessed August 13, 2020]) +
Rob Linrothe is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Northwestern University. Through his field work, he has become a specialist in the Buddhist Art of the Himalayas. He has concentrated on the pre-modern mural painting of Ladakh and Zangskar (Indian Himalayas) and the contemporary revival of
monastic painting in Amdo (China, Northeastern cultural Tibet). From 2002–2004, Prof. Linrothe served as the inaugural curator of Himalayan Art at the Rubin Museum of Art [RMA] which opened to the public in October of 2004. The catalog of the exhibition he curated (opening in January 2015 at Northwestern University’s Block Museum which will travel to the RMA) entitled ''Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and Its Legacies'', with contributions by Christian Luczanits and Mellissa R. Kerin. Ilford: Wisdom
Books, 2015. ([https://brill.com/display/book/9789004307438/B9789004307438_001.xml Source Accessed Aug 1, 2023]) +
Robert Alexander Neil (born in Glengairn, Ballater, Aberdeenshire 26.12.1852 — died Cambridge 19.6.1901) was a British (Scottish) Indologist in Cambridge. [He was the] son of Robert N., a minister, and Mary Reid. [He was] educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and from 1866 (!) at Aberdeen University. [He] graduated [with an] M.A. in Classics from Aberdeen in 1870. After a brief period of medical studies [he] continued his classical studies at Cambridge from 1872. From 1876 until [his] death [he was (?)] Fellow of Pembroke College and Classical Lecturer, [and] in 1900-01 [he was] also Senior Tutor. At Cambridge [he} soon became interested in classical and Buddhist Sanskrit and studied it [and also Pāli] under Cowell from c. 1886. In 1883-1901 [he was] University Lecturer in Sanskrit, and in 1886-89 & 1892-1901 I.C.S. teacher of Sanskrit. LL.D. 1891 Aberdeen.
Neil was a conscientious and beloved teacher who put most of his time to teaching. In addition to Indology, he was also interested in Celtic languages, architecture, women's education and Scots history and literature. ([https://whowaswho-indology.info/4352/neil-robert-alexander/ Adapted from Source Sep 20, 2021]) +
Robert Zeuschner teaches Philosophy at Pasadena City College. He has taught in Departments of Philosophy at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Occidental College, and the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Southern California. He has also taught in the Department of Religion at the University of California at Riverside. He received his Ph.D. in Asian and Comparative Philosophy from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and taught philosophy courses at several Hawaiian institutions. He has published translations of Chinese Buddhist texts and numerous articles in philosophical journals. Dr. Zeuschner is the author of a descriptive bibliography of the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs and is assistant editor for the Burroughs Bulletin, the quarterly journal of the Edgar Rice Burroughs literary society. He has appeared on the A&E Biography series. Dr. Zeuschner has many interests. He has been a rare book collector since he was ll years old, and collects art, including Chinse calligraphy and sumi-e painting. He studies Japanaese Zen gardens in Kyoto, and please classical guitar and acoustic blues guitar styles. ([https://books.google.com/books/about/Classical_Ethics_East_and_West.html?id=coMzAAAACAAJ&source=kp_author_description Source Accessed June 14, 2023]) +
Robert Baker Dairyu Chotan Aitken Rōshi (June 19, 1917 – August 5, 2010) was a Zen teacher in the Harada-Yasutani lineage. He co-founded the Honolulu Diamond Sangha in 1959 together with his wife, Anne Hopkins Aitken. Aitken received Dharma transmission from Koun Yamada in 1985 but decided to live as a layperson. He was a socialist advocating social justice for homosexuals, women and Native Hawaiians throughout his life, and was one of the original founders of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baker_Aitken Source Accessed Feb 10, 2023]) +
Robert Beer has studied and practiced Tibetan thangka painting for thirty years, including five years of study with master artists Jampa of Dharamsala and Khamtrül Rinpoche of Tashijong. Beer is one of the first Westerners to become actively involved in this art form. Over the last two decades he has concentrated on an extensive series of iconographical drawings depicting the major deities, lineage holders, and symbols that occur in the spectrum of Tibetan art. (Source: [https://www.shambhala.com/the-encyclopedia-of-tibetan-symbols-and-motifs.html Shanbhala Publications]) +
Robert Bluck teaches world religions as an Associate Lecturer at the Open University. He has been a practising Buddhist for over thirty years, and has conducted doctoral research into the teachings, practice and development of different forms of Buddhism in Britain. (Source: [https://www.routledge.com/British-Buddhism-Teachings-Practice-and-Development/Bluck/p/book/9780415483087 Routledge]) +
Robert E. Buswell Jr., Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies in the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, is the Irving and Jean Stone Chair in Humanities at UCLA, and the founding director of the university’s Center for Buddhist Studies and Center for Korean Studies. From 2009-2011, he served concurrently as founding director of the Dongguk Institute for Buddhist Studies Research (Pulgyo Haksurwon) at Dongguk University in Seoul, Korea.<br> He is widely considered to be the premier Western scholar on Korean Buddhism and one of the top specialists on the East Asian Zen tradition. Buswell also served as editor-in-chief of the two-volume Encyclopedia of Buddhism (Macmillan Reference, 2004), and coeditor (with Donald S. Lopez, Jr.) of the [now published] one-million word [Princeton] Dictionary of Buddhism. In 2009, Buswell was awarded the Manhae Prize from the Chogye Order in recognition of his pioneering contributions to Korean Buddhist Studies in the West. Buswell was elected president of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) for 2008-2009, the first time a Koreanist or Buddhologist has ever held the position, and served as past-president and past-past-president in subsequent years. ([https://www.alc.ucla.edu/person/robert-e-buswell/ Source Accessed Nov 25 2019]) +
Dr. Robert Carter, was recognized for his dedication to teaching and students with a Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1987. He is now a Professor Emeritus at Trent.
In his role as Professor in the Philosophy Department at Trent, Dr. Carter developed East Asian philosophy courses and served as the first Master of Otonabee College. He also directed the interdisciplinary M.A. program. In 2003 he was awarded the Japan Foundation, a prestigious research grant awarded to only 10 scholars from across North America. He has written or co-authored at least 10 books and more than 70 articles and reviews, and has spent time in Japan studying the Japanese Great Arts and ethics. ([https://www.trentu.ca/teaching/robert-carter Source Accessed Apr 18, 2023]) +
Robert E. Morrell, taught Japanese literature and Buddhism at Washington University in St. Louis for 34 years . . .
Born Jan. 19, 1930, in Johnstown, Pa., Morrell earned a bachelor’s degree in music from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh in 1952. He served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War and, for a time, considered the priesthood. But in 1954 he traveled to Japan, married Sachiko, and soon thereafter entered the University of Chicago philosophy program, earning a master’s degree in 1959.
Morrell continued his studies at Stanford, completing a doctorate in Japanese language and literature in 1968. At Washington University, he joined the faculty of Arts & Sciences in 1965; was appointed associate professor in 1972; and full professor in 1987. He was named emeritus professor in 1999.
An authority on Buddhist thought in classical Japanese literature, Morrell was author of “Early Kamakura Buddhism: A Minority Report” (1987), which focused on smaller and frequently overlooked Buddhist sects of the Kamakura period; and “Sand and Pebbles: The Tales of Muju Ichien, A Voice for Pluralism in Kamakura Buddhism” (1985), the first complete English rendering of Muju’s “Shasekishu” parables.
In 2006, he and Sachiko Morrell — who worked in the university’s East Asian Library for 30 years — co-authored ''Zen Sanctuary of Purple Robes: Japan’s Tōkeiji Convent Since 1285''. The book traces the history of Tōkeiji, the famous Rinzai Zen convent, from its founding, through the Edo and Meiji periods, to the present day.
Robert Morrell also co-authored, with Earl Miner and Hiroko Odagiri, ''The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature'' (1985); and, with J. Thomas Rimer, the ''Guide to Japanese Poetry'' (1975/84). He wrote numerous journal articles and book chapters, contributing to the classroom staple ''Sources of Japanese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600'' (2001), as well as ''Religions of Japan in Practice''(1999) and ''Great thinkers of the Eastern World'' (1995), among others. ([https://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/Morrell.html Adapted from Source Aug 9, 2023])
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Robert H. Gassmann is Professor emeritus of Sinology at Zurich University (Switzerland). He presided the Swiss Asia Society and was chief-editor of the quarterly ''Asiatische Studien/Etudes Asiatiques''. His fields of interest were language, history, and thought of Early China. ([https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/32218?contents=editorial-content Source Accessed July 6, 2023]) +
Bob received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington at Seattle.
His regional area of focus at that time was Inner Mongolia. Bob and Bea [his wife] conducted fieldwork in Darjeeling District in
West Bengal, where they gathered information from Tibetan refugees and developed a life-long sympathy for Tibet. Bob
taught for three years in the University of Washington at Seattle before joining the Anthropology Department in the
University of Wisconsin in 1959. At that time, Wisconsin's Department of Indian Studies was still taking shape. A
faculty committee interested in India had succeeded in gaining approval for the Department, but the scope of the fledgling
Department was far from clear. During 1960-61 interested faculty, including Bob Miller, held a Weekend Retreat where
they discussed basic curriculum, faculty to be recruited, and new courses to be introduced for the Department of Indian
Studies. . . .
Bob's publications include numerous articles in encyclopedias and journals. His books and monographs include ''A Regional Handbook on the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region'', edited by Helmut Wilhelm (New Haven, 1956), to which he contributed three chapters and co-authored four others; ''Monasteries and Culture Change in Inner Mongolia'' (Weisbaden, 1959, Gottinger Asiatische Forschungen, Band Il), and ''Religious Ferment in Asia'' (Lawrence, 1974) that he edited and to which he contributed editorial comments. In the 1970s Bob's interests began to focus on the cultural anthropology of siliconage technological change. His articles appeared in new journals such as ''Futurics'' and ''AnthroTech'', and in 1983 he edited and contributed to ''Robotics: Future Factories, Future Workers'' (''Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences'', Vol. 470). . . . ([https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1485&context=himalaya Source Accessed Sep 13, 2021]) +
Robert Kritzer is professor emeritus, Kyoto Notre Dame University. he received his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests, mainly in Indian Buddhism, include Abhidharma, early Yogācāra, and Buddhist theories of rebirth. His most recent book is ''Garbhāvakrāntisūtra: The Sūtra on Entry into the Womb'' (The International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 2014). ([https://notredame.academia.edu/RobertKritzer Adapted from Source Apr 29, 2022]) +
Robert Gimello is a historian of Buddhism with special interests also in the Theology of Religions and in Comparative Mysticism.
In the field of Buddhist Studies he concentrates especially on Buddhism in East Asia (China, Korea, & Japan), most particularly on the Buddhism of medieval and early modern China. The traditions of Buddhist thought and practice on which he especially focuses are Huáyán/Hwaŏm/Kegon 華嚴 (The “Flower-Ornament” Tradition), Chán 禪 (Zen), and Mijiao/Milgyo/Mikkyō 密教 (Esoteric/Tantric Buddhism), in the study of which he is particularly concerned with the relationships between Buddhist thought or doctrine and Buddhist contemplative and liturgical practice.
In the area of Theology of Religions, against the background of contemporary debates about the theological implications of religious pluralism, and in critical response to major trends in the ongoing Buddhist-Christian dialogue, he is concerned chiefly with the question of what Catholic Christian theology can, should, or must make of Buddhism.
In the field of the study of mysticism, he joins regularly in the debates, chiefly among philosophers of religion, about the differences and similarities among various mystical traditions and about the relationship between mystical experience and the practices and beliefs that comprise religious traditions. ([https://theology.nd.edu/people/robert-m-gimello/ Source Accessed June 12, 2019]) +
Robert Mayer joined the Oriental Institute in 2002, where he holds the posts of University Research Lecturer and Research Officer. He completed his BA (Hons) at Bristol, and his PhD at Leiden. His first job was Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Wales, followed by a Visiting Chair in Tibetology at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 1999 to 2001, and after a year in the Anthropology Department at Kent, he came to Oxford in October 2002. He has also twice been a Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College. He is a specialist in the rNying ma school of Tibetan Buddhism, and has published a number of books, monographs and articles, over twenty of them since 2006 for the current REF period, and mostly together with his wife and co-worker, Dr Cathy Cantwell. One of his goals is to clarify the early rNying ma period by studying the Dunhuang texts in context. Another goal is to improve the standards of philology and critical editing within Tibetan Studies. A third goal is to preserve, protect and describe the few surviving witnesses of the once much more plentiful ‘Ancient Tantra Collection’, or rNying ma’i rgyud ‘bum. A researcher by vocation, he and his wife Dr Cathy Cantwell have designed and directed several large research projects, mainly funded by the AHRC. However, he also occasionally teaches and takes graduate students, particularly if their interests overlap with his. Source: [https://ocbs.org/robert-mayer/ Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies] +
Lozang Zopa (Robert Miller) received a B.A. in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1998). After learning Tibetan in India, he worked for several years as an interpreter, translator, and monastic administrator. His research interests include the use of narrative in Vinaya literature, translation in imperial-era Tibet, and the history of Buddhism in northwest India. ([https://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/people/students-cbs Adapted from Source Sep 23, 2021])
Robert Miller began working as an interpreter in 2000 under the guidance of Gyume Khensur Rinpoche, Geshe Tashi Tsering at Chenrezig Institute in Australia. In 2007, Garje Khamtrul Rinpoche appointed him Director of Education at Lhundrub Chime Gatsal Ling, a Nyingma monastery near Dharamsala. Since resigning his position in 2015, Robert has begun a PhD with the Group in Buddhist Studies at the University of California-Berkeley. His most recent translations, done under the auspices of 84000, include several chapters from the Vinayavastu, a massive work on monastic community life found in the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya. ([https://conference.tsadra.org/session/approaches-to-transmission-in-the-west-a-discussion-with-contemporary-shedra-students/ Source Accessed Sep 23, 2021]) +
Robert Goldman is the William and Catherine Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Sanskrit and India Studies. He completed his doctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania in 1971 and has taught and held fellowships and several academic institutions around the world, including the University of Rochester, Oxford University, Jadavpur University and Jawaharlal Nehru University. His areas of scholarly interest include Sanskrit literature and literary theory, Indian Epic Studies, and psychoanalytically oriented cultural studies. He has published widely in these areas, authoring several books and dozens of scholarly articles. He is perhaps best known for his work as the Director, General Editor, and a principal translator of a massive and fully annotated Princeton University Press translation of the critical edition of the ''Valmiki Ramayana'', perhaps the single most widely copied and massively influential text on the religions, literatures, societies politics and general cultures of the entire region of South and Southeast Asia from antiquity to the modern world. His work has been recognized by several awards, fellowships and prizes including election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1966), Citation and Award for Distinguished Teaching at the University of California at Berkeley (1974), Honorary Fellowship at Calcutta Sanskrit College (1992), Honorary Degree of "Vidyāsāgara" ("Ocean of Learning") by the Mandākinī Saṃskṛta Vidvat Pariṣad, New Delhi (1997), President’s Certificate of Honour for Sanskrit (International) (2013), Excellence in Teaching Award presented by the Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association (2016), the World Sanskrit Award 2017 presented by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, (2017) and the A.K. Ramanujan Translation Prize by the Association of Asian Studies (with Sally Sutherland Goldman) (2020). ([https://sseas.berkeley.edu/people/robert-p-goldman/ Source Accessed Feb 7, 2023]) +
Robert Sharf is D. H. Chen Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a B.A. in Religious Studies (1979) and an M.A. in Chinese Studies (1981) from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Michigan (1990). His graduate work included study in Japan; he was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Research into the Humanities (Jinbun Kagaku Kenkyūjo) at Kyoto University, and also conducted fieldwork at Kōfukuji in Nara (1985-87).
Before joining the Berkeley faculty he taught in the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University (1989-95) and in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan (1995-2003). He works primarily in the area of medieval Chinese Buddhism (especially Chan), but he also dabbles in Japanese Buddhism, Buddhist art, ritual studies, and methodological issues in the study of religion. He is author of Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism: A Reading of the Treasure Store Treatise (2002), co-editor of Living Images: Japanese Buddhist Icons in Context (2001), and is currently working on a book tentatively titled "Thinking about Not Thinking: Buddhist Struggles with Mindlessness, Insentience, and Nirvana."
In addition to his appointment in East Asian Languages and Cultures, he is Chair of the Center for Buddhist Studies at UCB. He also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, the Journal for the Study of Chinese Religions, the Journal of Religion in Japan, and the Kuroda Institute Series published in conjunction with University of Hawai'i Press. ([http://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/sharf/ Source Accessed Jun 11, 2019]) +
Robert Thurman is a recognized worldwide authority on mind science and spirituality, Asian history, philosophy, Tibetan Buddhism, and H. H. the Dalai Lama, Robert Thurman is an advocate of the relevance of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist sciences, arts, and practices in our daily lives. He is a leading voice for the value of reason, wisdom, peace and compassion. He was named one of Time magazine's 25 most influential Americans and has been profiled by The New York Times and People Magazine. He recently has been awarded the Padma Shri Award, the President of India’s fourth highest civilian honor for achievement in enriching Indian education and literature. An author and Jey Tsong Khapa Professor Emeritus of Indo-Tibetan Buddhology at Columbia University, Thurman lectures internationally at universities, companies, conferences and think-tanks. His many books include ''Inner Revolution'', a ground-breaking history of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism and a call for an enlightened ethics and politics; ''The Central Philosophy of Tibet'', on Buddhist science; ''Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet'', on Buddhist art; ''Essential Tibetan Buddhism'', an anthology of key works of Tibetan authors; ''Infinite Life'', a yogic commentary on Shantideva’s Bodhisattva Career; and ''The Tibetan Book of the Dead'', a study of the Tibetan science and art of dying and navigating the rebirth process; ''Why the Dalai Lama Matters'', a win-win plan to solve China’s Tibet catastrophe; ''Man of Peace'', a 300 page fully-illustrated graphic novel of the XIV Dalai Lama’s life and the true story of the invasion of Tibet; ''The Brilliantly Illuminating Lamp'', a study and translation of Tsong Khapa’s masterwork on the most advanced yogas for mastering the process of conscious evolution; and his latest, forthcoming, ''The Esoteric Community Tantra'' with its ''Illuminating Lamp Commentary'', an introduction with translations to the unexcelled yoga tantras; and ''Buddha Bliss'', a study of the eightfold path as an evolutionary core curriculum. At the request of H.H. the Dalai Lama, Thurman co-founded Tibet House US in 1987 with Tenzin Namgyal Tethong and Philip Glass, a nonprofit dedicated to the preservation and renaissance of Tibetan civilization. It maintains a lively museum and cultural center in New York city, affiliates with Tibet Houses in New Delhi and other national capitals around the world. In 2002 he founded Menla Retreat & Dewa Healing Spa in the Catskill Mountains to advance the practical wisdom and healing arts of Tibetan medicine traditions. Working with the American Institute of Buddhist Studies, an international network of universities, and Indian Buddhist partners, he is currently engaged in establishing the Dharmachakra Buddhist Classics Translation Center in Andhra Pradesh, to complete the multi-generational task of translating from the Tibetan Tengyur the 5000+ originally Sanskrit works from India’s long lost "Library of Alexandria," the Ratnodadhi Library of Nālandā University, into English and other modern Indian and world languages, creating a necessary database for the 21st century collaboration of the Indian and Tibetan Inner Sciences (''adhyātmavidyā'') with modern, "outer," materialist sciences. Inspired by H. H. the Dalai Lama, Thurman's public presentations take a stand on Buddhism's open ground and thence transport audiences into an expanded vision of the world—the sweep of history, the subtleties of the inner science of the psyche, or the depths of the life of the heart. They help clear away shrouds of confusion and tend to evoke the cheerfulness of an enriched present, with the realistic hope for a peaceful future. (Source: [https://menla.org/teachers/robert-a-f-thurman/ Menla.org])
