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Sushama Devi is a notable scholar in the field of Buddhist studies, particularly recognized for her contributions to the translation and critical editing of important Buddhist texts. One of her significant works is the ''Samantabhadracaryā-praṇidhānarāja'', published in 1958 as part of the Śata-piṭaka series. This text is a critical edition that includes translations from Sanskrit into Tibetan and Chinese, showcasing her expertise in multiple languages and her dedication to preserving Buddhist literature.
In addition to her work on the ''Samantabhadracaryā-praṇidhānarāja'', Devi has engaged with various aspects of Buddhist literature and its transmission across cultures. Her research often explores the historical and doctrinal contexts of Buddhist texts, contributing to a deeper understanding of their significance within Mahayana traditions. Devi's scholarship emphasizes the importance of these texts in understanding the broader landscape of South Asian religious traditions, particularly in their esoteric dimensions. +
Dharmakirti (Skt. Suvarṇadvīpa Dharmakīrti; Tib. ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་, Chökyi Drakpa, Wyl. chos kyi grags pa) or Dharmapala (Wyl. chos skyong) of Suvarnadvipa (b. 10th century) was the most important of Atisha's teachers. In Tibetan he is known simply as Serlingpa (Tib. གསེར་གླིང་པ་, Wyl. gser gling pa), literally 'the master from Suvarnadvipa'. Atisha is said to have stayed with him for twelve years receiving teachings on Lojong. ([https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Dharmakirti_of_Suvarnadvipa Source Accessed Jun 21, 2022]) +
Susanne Mrozik is a gender specialist in Buddhist studies. Currently, she is researching the contemporary Buddhist nuns' movement with a particular focus on Sri Lanka. Mrozik is the author of ''Virtuous Bodies: The Physical Dimensions of Morality in Buddhist Ethics'' (Oxford University Press, 2007). She is also the co-author of ''Women Practicing Buddhism: American Experiences'' (Wisdom Publications, 2007).
Mrozik teaches courses on women in Buddhism, Buddhist ethics, Buddhist literature, Buddhism in America, and a comparative religion course on body images and practices in religious traditions. Most of her courses are cross-listed in Asian Studies and/or Gender Studies. She also is the Mount Holyoke faculty advisor for the Five College Buddhist Certificate Program.
Mrozik has contributed scholarly articles to a range of publications, including ''Religion Compass'', the ''Journal of Buddhist Ethics'', and the ''Journal of Religious Ethics''. She is the recipient of numerous teaching and academic awards, including the Derek Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from Harvard University; an American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies Fellowship for ethnographic research in Sri Lanka; a Fulbright grant for Sanskrit research in India; and a Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Completion Fellowship. ([https://www.mtholyoke.edu/people/susanne-mrozik Source Accessed Feb 8, 2021]) +
Swami Dvārikādāsa Śāstrī was a prominent scholar, editor, and translator, particularly known for his work in the fields of Indian philosophy, Buddhism, and Hinduism.
He edited and published several important texts, including the "Abhidharmakośa & Bhāṣya of Ācārya Vasubandhu", the "Ślokavārttika of Śrī Kumārila Bhaṭṭa" with the commentary "Nyāyaratnākara" by Śrī Pārthasārathi Miśra", and the "Dipavamsa".
His publications were often associated with reputable institutions and publishing houses, such as Bauddha Bharati in Varanasi.
Swami Dvārikādāsa Śāstrī's work spanned multiple traditions, including Buddhism and various schools of Hindu philosophy like Nyāya and Mīmāṃsā.
He was active from at least the 1960s to the 1980s, with several of his editions and translations being published during this period.
His contributions have been significant in making ancient and complex philosophical texts accessible to a wider audience. +
Swami Hariharananda Aranya (1869–1947) was a yogi, author, and founder of Kapil Math in Madhupur, India, which is the only monastery in the world that actively teaches and practices Samkhya philosophy. His book, ''Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali with Bhasvati'', is considered to be one of the most authentic and authoritative classical Sanskrit commentaries on the Yoga Sutras. Hariharananda is also considered by some as one of the most important thinkers of early twentieth-century Bengal.
Hariharananda came from a wealthy Bengali family and after his scholastic education renounced wealth, position, and comfort in search of truth in his early life. The first part of his monastic life was spent in the Barabar Caves in Bihar, hollowed out of single granite boulders bearing the inscriptions of Emperor Ashoka and very far removed from human habitation. He then spent some years at Tribeni, in Bengal, at a small hermitage on the bank of the Ganges and several years at Haridwar, Rishikesh, and Kurseong.
His last years were spent at Madhupur in Bihar, where according to tradition, Hariharananda entered an artificial cave at Kapil Math on 14 May 1926 and remained there in study and meditation for last twenty-one years of his life. The only means of contact between him and his disciples was through a window opening. While living as a hermit, Hariharananda wrote numerous philosophical treatises. Some of Hariharananda's interpretations of Patañjali's Yoga system had elements in common with Buddhist mindfulness meditation. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Hariharananda_Aranya Source Accessed May 1, 2023]) +
Paul L. Swanson is a Permanent Research Fellow at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, and Professor in the Faculty of Arts & Letters of Nanzan University, in Nagoya, Japan. He is editor of the ''Japanese Journal of Religious Studies'' and has published on Tiantai/Tendai Buddhism and other aspects of East Asian Buddhism and religion. ([https://www.society-buddhist-christian-studies.org/paul-swanson Source Accessed June 13, 2019])
[https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/files/2012/11/Swanson-CV-ALL-2012.pdf Click here for full CV and Publications list] +
Sybil Thornton's research focuses on three interrelated areas of Japanese narrative: medieval Buddhist propaganda, late-medieval epic, and the period film. In addition to several articles and book chapters, she is the author of ''Charisma and Community Formation in Medieval Japan: The Case of the Yugyo-ha (1300-1700)'' and of the 2007 Japanese Period Film: ''A Critical Analysis''. She is now working on a translation and study of the c. 1400 Meitokuki, the second of a proposed series of five late-medieval Japanese epics and an article on the fabricated earthquake report as a type scene in the Japanese epic. ([https://search.asu.edu/profile/53371 Source Accessed June 2, 2023]) +
French Orientalist who wrote on Eastern religion, literature, and history and is particularly noted for his dictionary of Buddhism.
Appointed a lecturer at the school of higher studies in Paris (1886), he taught Sanskrit at the Sorbonne (1889–94) and wrote his doctoral dissertation, ''Le Théâtre indien'' (1890; "The Indian Theatre"), which became a standard treatise on the subject. After his appointment as professor at the Collège de France (1894–1935), he toured India and Japan (1897 and 1898) and published ''La Doctrine du sacrifice dans les Brâhmanas'' (1898; "The Doctrine of Sacrifice in the Brāhmaṇas"). Another book resulting from these travels was ''Le Népal: Étude historique d’un royaume hindou'', 3 vol. (1905–08; "Nepal: Historical Study of a Hindu Kingdom"). In ''L’Inde et le monde'' (1926; "India and the World"), he discussed India's role among nations.
Subsequent travels to East Asia (1921–23) generated his major work, ''Hôbôgirin. Dictionnaire du Bouddhisme d’après les sources chinoises et japonaises'' (1929; "Hōbōgirin. Dictionary of Buddhism Based on Chinese and Japanese Sources"), produced in collaboration with the Japanese Buddhist scholar Takakusu Junjirō.
Lévi also worked with the French linguist Antoine Meillet on pioneer studies of the Tocharian languages spoken in Chinese Turkistan in the 1st millennium AD. He determined the dates of texts in Tocharian B and published ''Fragments de textes koutchéens'' . . . (1933; "Fragments of Texts from Kucha"). ([https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sylvain-Levi Source Accessed Jan 29, 2020]) +
Sylvie Carteron is a translator of scholarly works into French. She has translated a number of books on the subjects of Buddhism and psychology and Tibetan Buddhism in particular. Her translations include ''Esprit Zen, Esprit Neuf'' by Shunryu Suzuki, ''Le Bouddhisme Tantrique du Tibet'', by John Blofeld, ''Transformation et guérison: Le Sutra des Quatre Établissements de l'attention'' by Thich Nhat Hanh, ''La médecine tibétaine bouddhique et sa psychiatrie'' by Terry Clifford, and ''Le Bouddha du Dolpo'' by Cyrus Stearns. +
This is a principal student of Chekawa and the author of ''A Commentary on the "Seven-Point Mind Training"'' (''Blo sbyong don bdun ma'i 'grel pa''), found in the ''Blo sbyong brgya rtsa'', ''Mind Training: The Great Collection'', compiled by Shönu Gyalchok and Könchok Gyaltsen. +
*Sāgaramegha/Samudramegha (c. eighth century CE): Authored an extensive commentary on the ''Bodhisattvabhūmi'', titled the ''Yogācārabhūmaubodhisattvabhūmivyākhyā'' (D 4047). This work is a crucial resource for clarifying difficult passages in the root text.
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Sūryagupta, also known as Ravigupta, was a Kashmiri adept that cured himself of leprosy and achieved realization through a series of pure vision encounters with Tārā. In the Tibetan tradition he is mostly known for his iconographic tradition for the ''Praises to the Twenty-One Tārās''. +
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T. Griffith Foulk trained in Zen monasteries in Japan. He is active in Buddhist studies, with research interests in philosophical, literary, social, and historical aspects of East Asian Buddhism, especially the Ch’an/Zen tradition. He is co-editor in chief of the Soto Zen Text Project (Tokyo). He is a member of the American Academy of Religion Buddhism Section steering committee (1987–1994, 2003–) and a board member for the Kuroda Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Human Values. ([https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/faculty/foulk-t.-griffith.html Source Accessed Jun 11, 2019]) +
Tadeusz Skorupski is Senior Lecturer in Buddhist Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He received his Ph.D. in Indo-Tibetan Studies from the University of London in 1978. His publications include ''The Sarvadurgatipariśodhana'' and ''The Cultural Heritage of Ladakh''. +
Taehyǒn. [alt. T ’aehyǒn] (C. Daxian/Taixian; J. Daiken/Taigen XS/XS) (d.u.; fl. c. mid-eighth Century). In Korean, "Great/Grand Sagacity"; Silla-dynasty monk during the reign of king Kyǒngdǒk (r. 742-765) and reputed founder of the Yuga (Yogācāra) tradition in Korea; also known as Ch’ǒnggu Samun ("Green Hill [viz., Korea] śramaṇa" ) and often referred to as Yuga cho, "Patriarch of Yogācāra," due to his mastery of that school's complex doctrine. As one of the three most productive scholars of the Silla Buddhist tradition, Taehyǒn is matched in his output only by Wǒnhyo (617-686) and Kyǒnghǔng (fl. c. eighth century). Although renowned for his mastery of Yogācāra doctrine, his fifty-two works, in over one hundred rolls, cover a broad range of Buddhist doctrinal material, including Yogācāra, Madhyamaka, Hwaǒm (C. Huayan zong), and bodhisattva-precept texts. It is presumed that Taehyǒn was a disciple of Wǒnch’cūk's (613-696) student Tojǔng (d.u.), and that his scholastic positions were therefore close to those of the Ximing school, a lineage of Faxiang zong thought that derived from Wǒnch’ūk; their connection remains, however, a matter of debate. Taehyǒn’s ''Sǒng yusik non hakki'' ("Study Notes to the Cheng weishi lun [*''Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi-śāstra'']") (six rolls), the only complete Korean commentary on the ''Cheng weishi lun'' that is still extant, is particularly important because of its copious citation of the works of contemporary Yogācāra exegetes, such as Kuiji (632-682) and Wǒnch’ǔk. Taehyǒn appears to have been influenced by the preeminent Silla scholiast Wǒnhyo, since Taehyǒn accepts in his ''Taesǔng kisin non naeǔi yak tamgi'' ("Brief Investigation of the Inner Meaning of the Dasheng qixin lun") Wǒnhyo's ecumenical (Hwajaeng) perspective on the "Awakening of Faith According to the Mahāyāna." Although Taehyǒn never traveled abroad, his works circulated throughout East Asia and were commented upon by both Chinese and Japanese exegetes. His ''Pǒmmang kyǒng kojǒkki'' ("Record of Old Traces of the Fanwang jing" ), for example, was widely consulted in Japan and more than twenty commentaries on Taehyǒn’s text were composed by Japanese monks, including Eison (1201-1290) and Gyōnen (1240-1321). Unfortunately, only five of Taehyǒn's works are extant; in addition to the above three texts, these are his ''Yaksa ponwǒn kyǒng kojǒkki'' ("Record of Old Traces of the Bhaiṣajyagurusūtra" ) and ''Pǒmmang kyǒng posalgyebon chongyo'' ("Doctrinal Essentials of the Bodhisattva's Code of Morality from the ‘Sūtra of Brahmā's Net'"). (Source: "Taehyǒn." In ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'', 886–87. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
Taiko Yamasaki . . . is abbot of Jokoin Temple in Kobe, Japan, and Dean of the Department of Esoteric Instruction at Shuchi-in University in Kyoto, Japan. He is one of the worlds recognized experts in Ajikan and other forms of Meditation. ([http://www.shingon.org/sbii/books/ShingonJEB.html Adapted from Source Nov 20, 2023]) +
Taishū Tagami is a notable scholar in Buddhist studies, particularly focusing on Zen Buddhism. He has authored several books and publications on Buddhism and Zen thought. Some of his works include:
*''Essay on Buddhism'' (12 chapters), published by NHK-shuppan in 1999.
*''The World of Buddhism'', published by Sanshu-sha in 1999.
*''Dictionary of Zen Thought'', co-authored with Shūdō Ishii.
*''Bodaishin no kenkyu'' (Study of the Bodhi Mind).
*''Butsuda no iitakatta koto'' (What Buddha Wanted to Say).
*''Dogen no kokoro'' (The Heart of Dogen).
*''Dogen no shukyo'' (Dogen's Religion).
*''Zengo sansaku'' (Walking Through Zen Words).
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Takahashi Hirano is a scholar known for his work on Buddhist texts, particularly in relation to the ''Bodhicaryāvatāra,'' a significant work in Mahayana Buddhism authored by Śāntideva. His notable contribution includes the compilation of "An Index to the Bodhicaryāvatāra Pañjikā, Chapter IX," which focuses on the commentary associated with this influential text. Hirano's work is part of a broader academic effort to make Buddhist literature more accessible and to facilitate the study of its philosophical and ethical teachings. +
Jim Kodera is committed to the academic study of religion from the historical and comparative perspective, with a focus on Asia, broadly including both East Asia and South Asia. More specifically, he offers courses on Buddhism from its origin in India through its development in Tibet, China, Korea, Japan and the West and is also interested in the inner relationship between a contemplative life and social and political responsibility, involving a variety of religious and cultural traditions.
At Wellesley, he helped develop Japanese Studies as part of East Asian Studies Program and Asian American Studies as part of American Studies.
Earlier research focused on individuals and issues in East Asian Buddhism, especially in the Ch’an/Zen tradition. Kodera has written on the place and the role of Christianity in East Asia, including the Jesuits in the 16th century and Uchimura Kanzo. More recently, his research has focused on the plight of “Untouchables” in India (Dalits) and Japan (Burakumin). He is in an early stage of research on Nagasaki from Francis Xavier, who arrived in Nagasaki in 1549, and Takashi Nagai, affected by radiation after the atomic bomb and yet turned Nagasaki into the “City of Prayer” as it remains today, in contrast to Hiroshima. ([http://rippleffectne.com/speaker/t-james-kodera/ Source Accessed May 7, 2020]) +
Takayasu Suzuki is member of the Faculty of International Culture at Yamaguchi Prefectural University in Japan. His areas of specialization include Chinese philosophy, Indian philosophy and Buddhist Studies. His areas of interest include the history of thought on Nyorai's Externality and Internality; the relationship and empathy between self and others (others/world); and modern and independent understandings of Buddhism. ([https://www.yamaguchi-pu.ac.jp/ic/ic/teachers-new/suzuki/?c=page&q=Takayasu Source Accessed June 22, 2020]) +
