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Stephen R. Bokenkamp specializes in the study of medieval Chinese Daoism, with a special emphasis on its literatures and its relations with Buddhism. He is author of "Early Daoist Scriptures and Ancestors and Anxiety" as well as more than 35 articles and book chapters on Daoism and literature. Among his awards are the Guggenheim Award for the Translation of a medieval Daoist text and a National Endowment for the Humanities Translation grants. In addition to his position at Arizona State, he has taught at Indiana University, Stanford University, and short courses for graduate students at Princeton and Fudan Universities. He was also part of the National 985 project at the Institute of Religious Studies, Sichuan University from 2006-2013.
柏夷（加州大學伯克萊分校博士，1986年）教授，專長于中國六朝隋唐道教史，特別關注中古道教文獻和佛道關係。在其漫長的學術生涯中，他出版了《早期道教經典》和《祖先與焦慮》兩部專著以及超過三十五篇學術論文。他的研究貢獻為其贏得了許多榮譽和獎項，比如古根海姆獎、美國國家人文基金會基金等等。除了在亞利桑那州立大學任教之外，他此前曾任教于印第安納大學、斯坦福大學，並在普林斯頓大學、復旦大學為研究生開設短期密集討論班。他也是2006-2013年四川大學國家九八五項目工程特聘海外專家。([https://search.asu.edu/profile/1078874 Source Accessed June 20, 2023]) +
Stephan V. Beyer, Ph.D., J.D., is a well-known writer and speaker on shamanism and spirituality. He is also a community builder, peacemaker, and carrier of council. He has been trained and certified in many areas of circle processes, mediation, and nonviolence and has offered peacemaking workshops to a wide variety of audiences, from therapists to theologians, and at Montessori, charter, alternative, and public schools. He has served as a Lecturer in the Department of Criminal Justice at Chicago State University, teaching undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in restorative justice and in the theory and practice of nonviolent resistance. He lives in Chicago. ([https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Stephan-V-Beyer/1382842937 Source Accessed May 11, 2021]) +
Stephanie Wroth Jamison (born July 17, 1948) is an American linguist, currently at University of California, Los Angeles and an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She did her doctoral work at Yale University as a student of Stanley Insler, and is trained as a historical linguist and Indo-Europeanist. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_W._Jamison Source Acessed Mar 11, 2021]) +
Stephen Batchelor is a contemporary Buddhist teacher and writer, best known for his secular or agnostic approach to Buddhism. Stephen considers Buddhism to be a constantly evolving culture of awakening rather than a religious system based on immutable dogmas and beliefs. In particular, he regards the doctrines of karma and rebirth to be features of ancient Indian civilisation and not intrinsic to what the Buddha taught. Buddhism has survived for the past 2,500 years because of its capacity to reinvent itself in accord with the needs of the different Asian societies with which it has creatively interacted throughout its history. As Buddhism encounters modernity, it enters a vital new phase of its development. Through his writings, translations and teaching, Stephen engages in a critical exploration of Buddhism's role in the modern world, which has earned him both condemnation as a heretic and praise as a reformer. ([https://www.stephenbatchelor.org/index.php/en/stephen Source Accessed Jan 12, 2021]) +
Dr. Stephen Berkwitz is an expert in religious studies with a special focus on South Asian religions. Since 2001, Berkwitz has published dozens of publications relating to Buddhism and South Asian culture. His books include Routledge Handbook of Theravada Buddhism, co-ed. w/ Ashley Thompson (Routledge, 2022) and Buddhist Poetry and Colonialism: Alagiyavanna and the Portuguese in Sri Lanka (Oxford University Press, 2013).
He is the department head of religious studies at Missouri State University. He serves as series editor for the Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism series, as well as on the editorial board of the journals "Religion," "Journal of Global Buddhism" and "Buddhist Studies Review." Berkwitz has received several fellowships to conduct research in Sri Lanka, Germany and Portugal, and he holds several professional memberships relating to Asian Studies and Buddhism. +
Stephen F. Teiser is D. T. Suzuki Professor in Buddhist Studies and Professor of Religion in the Department of Religion at Princeton University. His work traces the interaction between cultures using textual, artistic, and material remains from the Silk Road, specializing in Buddhism and Chinese religions. His forthcoming monograph from Sanlian Publishers, based on the 2014 Guanghua Lectures in the Humanities at Fudan University, is entitled 儀禮與佛教研究 (Ritual and the Study of Buddhism). He also serves as Director of Princeton’s interdepartmental Program in East Asian Studies, and in 2014 he received the Graduate Mentoring Award in the Humanities from Princeton University’s McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning,
Teiser’s previous work appeared in three monographs: ''Reinventing the Wheel: Paintings of Rebirth in Medieval Buddhist Temples'' (2006), awarded the Prix Stanislas Julien by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Institut de France; ''"The Scripture on the Ten Kings" and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval Chinese Buddhism'' (1994), awarded the Joseph Levenson Book Prize (pre-twentieth century) in Chinese Studies by the AAS; and ''The Ghost Festival in Medieval China'' (1988), awarded the prize in History of Religions by the ACLS. He has also edited several books, including ''Readings of the Platform Sūtra'' (2012) and ''Readings of the Lotus Sūtra'' (2009).
He is currently Co-Principal Investigator on “Dunhuang Art and Manuscripts,” a four-year project of conferences and publications on Buddhist art and manuscripts of the Silk Road, with primary funding from the Henry Luce Foundation, and he serves on the Steering Committee of “From the Ground Up: East Asian Religions through Multi-media Sources and Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” a SSHRC/Canada partnership grant based at University of British Columbia. From 2005 to 2008 he was Director of the Tibet Site Seminar, an interdisciplinary project for teaching Ph.D. students in the fields of Art History and Buddhist Studies. Prior to that he was a member of the research project on “Merit, Opulence, and the Buddhist Network of Wealth,” sponsored by Northwestern University and the Dunhuang Research Academy in 1999-2001; and a member of the research group on Buddhist texts, Centre de Recherche sur les Manuscrits, Inscriptions, et Documents Iconographiques de Chine, sponsored by CNRS, Paris, 1996-2005.
Stephen F. Teiser studied for his A.B. at Oberlin College (Ohio) and received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University. He has held teaching appointments at Middlebury College and University of Southern California, and has been visiting professor at École pratique des Hautes Études (Paris), Heidelberger Akadamie der Wissenschaften, and Capital Normal University 首都師範大學 (Beijing). He has received fellowships and grants from American Council of Learned Societies, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation, Henry Luce Foundation, Andrew Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Silkroad Foundation, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and Social Science Research Council.
Stephen Gethin studied veterinary medicine at Cambridge University, where he was also awarded a choral exhibition. After a number of years in professional practice, he spent much of the 1980s undertaking two three-year retreats in France, where he now lives and, as a founding member of the Padmakara Translation Group, continues to translate. He was a Tsadra Foundation Translation Fellow from 2005 to 2024. His published translations include:
#''[https://www.shambhala.com/nagarjuna-s-letter-to-a-friend-2951.html Nagarjuna’s Letter to a Friend]'', Shambhala 2005.
#''[https://www.shambhala.com/zurchungpa-s-testament-9781559394925.html Zurchungpa’s Testament]'', by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. Shambhala, 2006.
#''[https://www.shambhala.com/a-garland-of-views-3420.html A Garland of Views: A Guide to View, Meditation, and Result in the Nine Vehicles]''. Jamgön Mipham’s commentary on Padmasambhava’s ''Garland of Views'', Shambhala, 2015.
#Dudjom Rinpoche’s ''[https://www.shambhala.com/a-torch-lighting-the-way-to-freedom-3665.html A Torch Lighting the Way to Freedom: Complete Instructions on the Preliminary Practices].'' Shambhala, 2016.
#''[https://www.shambhala.com/a-feast-of-the-nectar-of-the-supreme-vehicle.html A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle]'' (The ''Mahāyāna-sūtrālaṃkāra'' with commentary by Mipham), Shambhala, 2018.
#''[https://www.shambhala.com/a-chariot-to-freedom-15692.html A Chariot to Freedom: Guidance From the Great Masters on the Vajrayāna Preliminary Practices]''. A detailed preliminary practice commentary by Shechen Gyaltsap. Shambhala, 2021.
#''[https://www.shambhala.com/mahasiddha-practice-9781611808933.html Mahasiddha Practice: From Mitrayogin and Other Masters]''. Volume 15 of Jamgön Kongtrul’s ''Treasury of Precious Instructions''. Shambhala, 2021.
#''[https://www.shambhala.com/awakening-wisdom-9781645471639.html Awakening Wisdom: Heart Advice on the Fundamental Practices of Vajrayana Buddhism]'' by Pema Wangyal. Shambhala, 2023.
#''[https://www.shambhala.com/the-natural-openness-and-freedom-of-the-mind.html The Natural Openness and Freedom of the Mind]''. Khangsar Tenpai'i Wangchuk's Collected Works. Shambhala, 2024.
#''The Cloudless Sky''. Khangsar Tenpai'i Wangchuk's Collected Works.
#''The Aspiration to the Excellent Way''. Khangsar Tenpai'i Wangchuk's Collected Works.
He also collaborated on a number of translations, including
*[[A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night]] by the Dalai Lama. Shambhala, 1993.
*[[Wisdom: Two Buddhist Commentaries]] by Khenchen Kunzang Pelden and Minyak Kunzang Sönam. Editions Padmakara, 1993.
*[[The Words of My Perfect Teacher]] by Patrul Rinpoche. HarperCollins, 1994.
*[[A Guide to The Words of My Perfect Teacher]] by Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang. Shambhala, 2004.
He is currently working on finishing several translations in the series of Khangsar Tenpai'i Wangchuk's Collected Works, which is forthcoming from Shambhala Publications. (Source: Tsadra Foundation)
Stephen Harris is a Lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy, at the University of Leiden, Netherlands. His research focuses on Indian philosophical texts, in particular Buddhist moral philosophy, and their conceptual relationship to issues investigated in contemporary philosophy. Current interests include moral demandingness in the writing of the 8th century Indian Buddhist philosopher Śāntideva, and cross-cultural study of well-being.
Other interests include comparative virtue theory, the role of suffering in ethical theory and the relation between personal identity and ethics. His research is also influenced by phenomenology, as well as ancient philosophy, including Chinese and Greek thought.
He teaches courses on comparative and Asian philosophy, as well as ethics and the history of philosophy, at the Institute for Philosophy in Leiden, as well as Leiden University College and the International B.A. program, both located in The Hague.
Dr. Harris received his PhD from the philosophy department at the University of New Mexico in the U.S. Before coming to Leiden University, he was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. He has articles published or forthcoming by the journals Contemporary Pragmatism, The Journal of Buddhist Ethics, Philosophy East and West, Asian Philosophy and Sophia. ([https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/stephen-harris/publications#tab-3 Adapted from Source Jan 13, 2021]) +
Dr. Stephen Hodge completed his undergraduate studies at SOAS, University of London (1969–72) and his post-graduate studies at Tōhoku Universty (1972–81), focussing on the formation of early tantric Buddhism and early Yogācāra. He was ordained as a Shingon monk at Mt. Koya in 1974. Since returning to the UK, apart from some teaching work, Hodge has mainly engaged in translation work and also independent research into the textual formation of early Mahāyāna, especially focusing on the ''Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra'' and related texts. He is currently working on a translation of the Tibetan and two Chinese versions of the ''Nirvāṇasūtra'', to be accompanied by an exhaustive textual analysis demonstrating the compositional methods and stratification of this text and the relationship between the three versions. Hodge has recently embarked upon a parallel study of the development and texts of early 1st century CE Messianic Judaism and the Hebreo-Aramaic basis of the Gospels, as well as investigating possible ideological influences in Southern India.
His publications include: ''An Introduction to Classical Tibetan'' (1990), ''The Illustrated Tibetan Book of the Dead'' (1998), ''The Dead Sea Scrolls'' (2001), ''The Mahā-Vairocana Tantra with Commentary by Buddhaguhya'' (2001), ''The Daodejing'' (2002), the following sections of the ''Yogācāra-bhūmi-ṣāstra'': ''Vyakhyā-saṃgrahaṇī'', ''Paryāya-saṃgrahaṇī'', ''Vastu-saṃgrahaṇī'', ''Śrāvaka-bhūmi'' (forthcoming with BDK). Hodge is also currently publishing a series of interim study papers on the ''Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra'': Paper I “The Textual Transmisssion of the ''Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra''," Paper II "Who Compiled the ''Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra'', Where & When?” (forthcoming), Paper III "The Development of the Conceptual Terminology of the ''Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra''" (forthcoming. ([https://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/en/personen/hodge.html Source Accessed October 16, 2019]) +
Stephen Jenkins, Professor of Religion at Humboldt State University, received his doctorate from Harvard. His research is focused on Buddhist ethics and the origins of Indian pure lands. Most recently, he has done a series of talks arguing for the importance of heavenly attainment in early Indian Buddhist soteriology and the significance of the devalokas as precedents for the pure lands. ([https://stephenjenkins.academia.edu/ Source Accessed Feb 10, 2021]) +
S. Mark Heim is the Samuel Abbot Professor of Christian Theology at Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School. He is a graduate of Amherst College, Andover Newton Theological School and the Boston College—Andover Newton Theological School joint doctoral program in systematic theology. He has written extensively on issues of religious pluralism, atonement, and Christian ecumenism. His books include ''Salvations: Truth and Difference in Theology''; ''The Depth of the Riches: A Trinitarian Theology of Religious Ends''; ''Saved from Sacrifice: A Theology of the Cross''; and, most recently, ''Crucified Wisdom: Christ and the Bodhisattva in Theological Reflection'' (2018). He has also edited several volumes, including ''Faith to Creed: Ecumenical Perspectives on the Affirmation of the Apostolic Faith in the Fourth Century'' and ''Grounds for Understanding: Ecumenical Resources for Responses to Religious Pluralism''. He has received a Henry Luce III Fellowship in Theology (2009-2010) and a Pew Evangelical Scholars’ Research Fellowship (1997-98). He is a member of the American Theological Society. He served as co-chair of the comparative theology group in the American Academy of Religion. His teaching in the area of science and religion has received several national awards, including a Templeton Foundation award in 1998 for one of the twelve outstanding courses in this area. He was recently the primary investigator on a grant from the American Academy for the Advancement of Science devoted to integrating science into the theological curriculum. Along with a colleague from the Yale Medical School, Dr. Benjamin Doolittle, he teaches an interdisciplinary course on theology and medicine. An ordained American Baptist minister, he has represented his denomination on the Faith and Order Commissions of the National Council and World Council of Churches. He has served on numerous ecumenical commissions and study groups, including the Christian—Muslim relations committee of the National Council of Churches. His teaching and research interests include comparative theology, theologies of religious pluralism, science and theology, Christology and atonement and ecumenical ecclesiology. ([https://divinity.yale.edu/faculty-and-research/yds-faculty/stephen-mark-heim Source Accessed Jan 5, 2022])
Venerable Steve Carlier was born in the UK and has been studying Buddhism since the late 1970s, when he first met Lama Yeshe, the founder of the FPMT, and most of his other main teachers. He has been an ordained monk since 1979. Under Khensur Jampa Tegchok’s direction, Steve studied at Nalanda Monastery in France from 1982 to 1993, and followed this with eleven years of Geshe studies at Sera Je Monastery in Southern India. Steve has been translating for Khensur Jampa Tegchok since 1989. He has been teaching in the West for many years, sharing his rare experience of living and studying as a Westerner within the traditional Tibetan philosophical system. (Source: ''The Kindness of Others'', 2006) +
Steven Collins (1951-2018) was Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities in the University of Chicago’s Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and in the Divinity School’s History of Religions program. A world-renowned scholar of the Pali Buddhist traditions of south and southeast Asia, he contributed greatly to the University of Chicago’s unusual strength in Buddhist studies. ([https://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/articles/memory-steven-collins Source Accessed Jan 17, 2020]) +
Dr. Steven Heine is Professor of Religious Studies and History as well as Director of Asian Studies at Florida International University. He specializes in East Asian and comparative religions, Japanese Buddhism and intellectual history, Buddhist studies, and religion and social sciences. Dr. Heine earned his B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania and M.A. and Ph.D. at Temple University. Before coming to FIU in 1997, he taught at Pennsylvania State University and directed the East Asian Studies center there. Professor Heine teaches a variety of courses including Modern Asia and Methods in Asian Studies at graduate and undergraduate levels as well as Japanese culture and religion, Zen Buddhism, Ghosts, spirits and folk religions, religions of the Silk Road, and other aspects of Asian society.
Dr. Heine was a Fulbright Senior Researcher in Japan and twice won National Endowment for Humanities Fellowships plus funding from the American Academy of Religion and Association for Asian Studies in addition to the US Department of Education, the Japan Foundation and Freeman Foundation. He has conducted research on Zen Buddhism in relation to medieval and modern society primarily at Komazawa University in Tokyo. Heine has lectured there institutions in addition to Brown, Cambridge, Columbia, Emory, Florida, Free University, Harvard, Hawaii, Iowa, London, North Carolina, McGill, Ohio State, Oslo, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Stanford, UCLA, Yale, Zurich and many other conferences and institutions. He was chair of the national Japanese Religions Group and the Sacred Space in Asia Group, and he is editor of Japan Studies Review and a former book review editor for Japan for Philosophy East and West published by the University of Hawaii Press.
Dr. Heine’s research specialty is medieval East Asian religious studies, especially the transition of Zen Buddhism from China to Japan. In addition to 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and outstanding edited volumes, he has published thirty-five books, both monographs and edited volumes. Over a dozen of his books have been reviewed or noted in such publications as CHOICE, Chronical of Higher Education, Booklist, Library Journal, or Times Literary Supplement, in addition to multiple reviews in various academic journals or professional outlets.
The most recent books include ''From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen: A Remarkable Century of Transmission and Transformation'' (Oxford); ''Zen and Material Culture'' (Oxford); ''Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record: Sharpening the Sword at the Dragon's Gate'' (Oxford); ''Zen Koans'' (Hawaii); ''Like Cats and Dogs: Contesting the Mu Kōan in Zen Buddhism'' (Oxford); ''Dōgen and Sōtō Zen: New Perspectives'' (Oxford); ''Dōgen: Textual and Historical Studies'' (Oxford); and ''Sacred High City, Sacred Low City: A Tale of Sacred Sites in Two Tokyo Neighborhoods'' (Oxford). Three books are forthcoming in 2020: ''Readings of Dōgen’s Treasury of the True Dharma Eye'' (Columbia); ''Flowers Blooming on a Withered Tree: Giun's Verse Comments on Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō'' (Oxford); ''Creating the World of Chan/ Sǒn /Zen: Chinese Chan Buddhism and its Spread throughout East Asia''.
Other books include ''Zen Skin, Zen Marrow: Will the Real Zen Buddhism Please Stand Up?'' (Oxford); ''Did Dōgen Go to China? What He Wrote and When He Wrote It'' (Oxford); ''Opening a Mountain: Kōans of Zen Masters'' (Oxford); ''Shifting Shape, Shaping Text: Philosophy and Folklore in the Fox Kōan'' (Hawaii); ''The Zen Poetry of Dōgen: Verses From the Mountain of Eternal Peace'' (Tuttle); ''Dōgen and the Kōan Tradition: A Tale of Two Shōbōgenzō Texts'' (SUNY); ''Existential and Ontological Dimensions of Time in Heidegger and Dōgen'' (SUNY); ''The Zen Canon: Studies of Classic Zen Texts'' (Oxford). His book ''White Collar Zen: Using Zen Principles to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Your Career Goals'' (Oxford) was reviewed by the Harvard Business School, USA Today, and the Washington Post. For more detailed information on his books, please see [https://asian.fiu.edu/about/director/books/ here]. ([https://asian.fiu.edu/about/director/ Source Accessed Jan 17, 2020])
Steven M. Emmanuel is Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Wesleyan College, USA. He is the author of ''Kierkegaard and the Logic of Revelation'' (1996) and editor of two previous volumes with Blackwell: ''The Guide to the Modern Philosophers: From Descartes to Nietzsche'' (2001) and ''Modern Philosophy: An Anthology'' (2002). In 2008, he produced and directed an award-winning documentary film entitled ''Making Peace with Viet Nam''. ([https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118324004 Source Accessed May 17, 2021]) +
Steven Laycock is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toledo. He is co-editor of ''Essays for a Phenomenological Theology''. An active member of the Buddhist Society for Compassionate Wisdom, he has, for many years, been engaged in Buddhist meditative practice. +
MICHELLE OLSCARD STEWART is a PhD student in Geography at the University
of Colorado at Boulder. Her research focuses broadly on the politics of natural
resource management, with a specific focus on the political ecology of Tibetan
harvesting of yartsa gunbu (Cordyceps sinensis) in NW Yunnan, China. +
Sthiramati. (T. Bio gros brtan pa; C. Anhui; J. An’e/Anne; K. Anhye 安慧) (475-555). Indian Buddhist philosopher associated particularly with Yogācāra school. His dates are uncertain (leading one scholar to posit three figures with this name), but he is generally placed in the sixth century, although he is said to have been a disciple of both Vasubandhu and Guņamati. Sthiramati seems to have been primarily based in Valabhī, but may have also studied at Nālandā. He wrote a number of important commentaries on such Yogācāra works as the ''Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra'' and ''Madhyāntavibhāga'' of Maitreyanātha and Vasubandhu's Triṃśikā. (Source: "Sthiramati." In ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'', 859. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.) +
Michel Strickmann studied in Leiden and Paris (1962-1972) and carried out fieldwork in Kyoto from 1972 to 1978. Since 1978 he has lived in Berkeley. He has published Le Taoïsme de Mao-chan; chronique d’une révélation and is editor of Tantric and Taoist Studies in Honour ofR. A. Stein, to be
completed in four volumes. Forthcoming works are Chinesische Zaubermedizin; therapeutische Rituale im mittelalterlichen China; Mantras et mandarins: le bouddhisme tantrique en Chine; and an edited volume, Classical Asian Rituals and the Theory ofRitual. From 1983 to 1985 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study) in Berlin.
Source: [[Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha]] +
The Study Group on Buddhist Sanskrit Literature, Institute for Comprehensive Studies of Buddhism, Taisho University. +
