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Vicky Alvarez Bromley is an artist and illustrator based in the UK and Spain. She is inspired by her own inner world, connection with nature, glimpses of innocence and simplicity, human vulnerability and the mystical.
She loves to paint and draw expressive characters that reflect our feelings and emotions and also likes to add a touch of humour to her artwork! ([https://vickyalvarez.com/about-1 Adapted from Source Jan 19, 2022]) +
Victor Forte is Professor of Religious Studies at Albright College and the general editor for the ''Journal of Buddhist Ethics''. +
Victor Henry Mair (born March 25, 1943) is an American sinologist. He is a professor of Chinese at the University of Pennsylvania. Among other accomplishments, Mair has edited the standard ''Columbia History of Chinese Literature'' and the ''Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature''. Mair is the series editor of the Cambria Sinophone World Series (Cambria Press), and his book coauthored with Miriam Robbins Dexter (published by Cambria Press), ''Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia'', won the Sarasvati Award for the Best Nonfiction Book in Women and Mythology. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_H._Mair Source Accessed June 20, 2023]) +
Victoria Huckenpahler is a notable Buddhist translator and author who has made significant contributions to the field of Tibetan Buddhism. She is best known for her work on''The Great Kagyu Masters: The Golden Lineage Treasury'', published in 1990 and republished in 2006. This important volume tells the extraordinary tales of the greatest teachers of the Kagyu lineage, one of the most widely followed schools of Tibetan Buddhism in the United States.
Huckenpahler has also worked on other Buddhist texts, including ''Holy Biographies of the Great Founders of the Glorious Sakya Order'' in 2000. Her expertise extends to various branches of Tibetan Buddhism, including the Drikung Kagyu, Drukpa Kagyu, Karma Kagyu, and Shangpa Kagyu traditions.
In addition to her work in Buddhist literature, Huckenpahler has authored books on other subjects. She wrote ''Ballerina: A biography of Violette Verdy'', published in 1978, which details the life of the renowned French ballerina. (Biography generated by Perplexity Jan 30, 2025) +
Victoria R. M. Scott has an M.A. in Buddhist Studies from Yale University. She has freelance edited since 1984, with an emphasis on the history, religion, art, and literature of Tibet, China, Japan, and Korea; she also edits for scholars whose work delves into the history of Europe, Africa, and other parts of the world.
A longtime student of Her Eminence Jetsun Kusho and His Holiness the 41st Sakya Trizin, Victoria has edited all the Sapan Fund’s books to date (see Publications). She has also edited volumes published by the Library of Tibetan Classics, Dechen Ling Press, and Awakening Vajra Publications, as well as by Brill, Harvard, Stanford, and other academic presses. She edited ''Hermit of Go Cliffs'' (Wisdom, 2000), by Cyrus Stearns, and assisted with the publication of ''A Saint in Seattle: The Life of the Tibetan Mystic Dezhung Rinpoche'' (Wisdom, 2003), by David P. Jackson. ([https://www.sapanfund.org/pages/about.php Source Accessed Aug 8, 2023]) +
Vidhusekhar Bhattacharya was born in a traditional Sanskrit Pandit family at Harischandrapur village in MaIda district in 1878. In 1905, with the approval of Rabindranath, Bhupendranath Sanyal invited Vidhusekhar to join the asrama. His primary duty was to teach Sanskrit to Rathindranath and Santosh Majumdar, but he also taught the little boys of the school. Rabindranath was impressed with his knowledge in Sanskrit and encouraged him to learn Pali for a fruitful understanding of the Buddhist period. In 1919 when the regular teaching and higher studies programme was launched, Vidhusekhar took charge of the studies in Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit. Later he became Principal of Vidya Bhavana college of higher studies and research. When Visva-Bharati was founded, Vidhusekhar selected the Vedic verse which was to become the motto: ''Yatra visvam bhavatyekaniam''. From 1936 to 1942, he was Professor of Sanskrit at Calcutta University and held the Asutosh Chair. In 1936 he was given the title Mahamahopadhyaya by the government. In 1957 Visva-Bharati conferred on him ''Desikottama'' in recognition of his contribution to Indological studies. ([http://www.visvabharati.ac.in/VidhusekharBhattacharyaSastri.html Source Accessed Jan 20, 2021]) +
Vidyakarasimha worked on more than 20 Kangyur and Tengyur translations with various Tibetan translators. Among them are Yeshe De and Mañjusrīvaram, Kawa Paltsek and Khon Lui Wangpo. ([https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Lha_Rinpoche Source Accessed Aug 5, 2021]) +
Vidyākaraśānti was an important Indian Buddhist scholar who lived around the late 10th to early 11th century CE. He was a prominent figure at Vikramaśilā, one of the major Buddhist monasteries and centers of learning in ancient India (located in present-day Bihar).
Some key aspects of Vidyākaraśānti's work and significance:
*He was a respected logician and epistemologist in the tradition of Buddhist philosophy.
*He wrote several influential philosophical works, including ''Tarkasopāna'' (''Steps of Logic'') and commentaries on Buddhist logical texts.
*Vidyākaraśānti was known for his contributions to ''pramāṇa'' (valid means of knowledge) theory in Buddhist logic.
*He was part of the later period of Indian Buddhist philosophy, working to synthesize and refine earlier traditions.
*He taught during a time when Buddhism was already beginning to decline in India but still maintained strong intellectual traditions at centers like Vikramaśilā.
His works primarily survive through Tibetan translations rather than Sanskrit originals, which has been the case for many Buddhist philosophical texts from this period. (Generated by Claude.ai April 3, 2025) +
Vimalakīrti is the central figure in the [[Vimalakīrtinirdeśa]], one of the most beloved Mahāyāna sutras, and is presented as a lay practitioner and wealthy patron of Gautama Buddha (6th to 5th century BCE). The caves in Dunhuang have multiple depictions of Vimalakīrti in dialogue with Manjushri. Other than the Vimalakīrti Sutra mentioning the city of Vaisali as where the Licchavi Vimalakīrti was residing, there is very little historical information known about him. +
Vinita Tseng is a Buddhist nun. From 2004 to 2009 she worked at the Austrian Academy of Sciences on the project which has culminated in the publication ''A Unique Collection of Twenty Sutras in a Sanskrit Manuscript from the Potala'' - vol. I, 1+2. ([https://austriaca.at/6906-2?frames=yes Adapted from Source July 9, 2021]) +
Virginia Blum is the resident translator at Drong Ngur Jangchubling Buddhist Center, and has been translating and interpreting the Dharma since 2006 assisting Buddhist teachers around the world. Virginia is fluent in both Tibetan and Spanish and has been engaged in Buddhist meditation and study since 1999. She has studied Tibetan language in a number of immersive programs, including a two-year translation training program at Songsten Library in Dehradun, India, the Tibetan Summer Intensive Training at Rangjung Yeshe in Kathmandu, Nepal, as well as the Tibetan Language Intensive Training Course at the University of Virginia. She regularly participates in extended meditation retreats of both Tibetan and Theravada Buddhist traditions and is currently participating in The Community Dharma Leader Training Program at Spirit Rock Insight Meditation Center. ([https://dnjus.org/resident-translator/ Source Accessed June 24, 2021]) +
Vishnu Sridharan is a graduate student at the University of Southern California in the School of Philosophy. His primary dissertation advisor is John Hawthorne. He also works with Jake Nebel, Gary Watson, Jon Quong, and Greg Keating.
His dissertation addresses two families of questions: one at the intersection of epistemology and ethics and one at the intersection of epistemology and the law. His research at the intersection of epistemology and ethics focuses on the relationship between risk and compensation. His research at the intersection of epistemology and the law focuses on the proper functioning of juries. ([https://vishnusridharan.com/academic-philosopher/ Adapted from Source May 17, 2021]) +
Victor A. van Bijlert is Lecturer in the Department of Beliefs and Practices, Faculty of Religion and Theology, at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. ([https://books.google.com/books?id=HlP3zgEACAAJ&source=gbs_book_other_versions_r&cad=2 Source Accessed Feb 27, 2023]) +
Vivian Paganuzzi studied philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Wales, Cardiff, and applied English linguistics at Birmingham University. Until his retirement in early 2012 he was senior lecturer in academic writing at the University of Eastern Finland. Vivian worked as author’s editor with researchers for 25 years. ([https://chodungkarmo.org/the-group/ Source Accessed Aug 27, 2021]) +
An Indian preceptor. +
Vladimir Korobov, Ph.D. is a lecturer of Tibetan and Buddhist studies at the Centre of Oriental Studies, Vilnius University. He currently works at the Department of Logic and History of Philosophy, Vilnius University. Vladimir does research in Logic, Epistemology and Pragmatics. ([https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vladimir-Korobov Source Accessed Jan 16, 2025]) +
Kevin Vose is a professor of religious studies at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He received his PhD in Buddhist studies from the University of Virginia. His research examines the interplay of late-Indian and early-Tibetan Madhyamaka and the formation of Tibetan scholasticism.
Professor Vose's current research concerns a thirty-volume collection of recently discovered Tibetan manuscripts from the Kadampa (bka' gdams pa) order. These manuscripts were recovered from one of the few monastic libraries to survive the Cultural Revolution in Tibet. Within this collection, he's examining several eleventh- and twelfth-century texts pertaining to the formation of Tibetan Madhyamaka ("Middle Way") philosophy.
His first monograph was ''Resurrecting Candrakirti: Disputes in the Tibetan Creation of Prasangika''. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2008. ([http://www.wm.edu/as/religiousstudies/faculty/vose_k.php Source Accessed March 25, 2020]) +
Vyvyan Cayley is an author and editor known for her work on Tibetan and Buddhist subjects. She authored ''Children of Tibet: An Oral History of the First Tibetans to Grow Up in Exile'', published in 1994 by Pearlfisher in Balmain. This book features a foreword by H.H. the Dalai Lama.
In addition to her own writing, Cayley has contributed to editing important Buddhist texts. She edited ''The Life of the Mahasiddha Tilopa'', a biography of the 11th-century Indian Buddhist master Tilopa, which was translated by Fabrizio Torricelli and Sangye T. Naga. This work is believed to have been originally composed by the Tibetan yogi Marpa Lotsawa. +
Vācaspati Miśra was an extremely versatile and influential Indian philosopher in the tenth century CE . As a follower of Advaita Vedānta, he wrote commentaries on the fundamental works of the two great masters of this tradition, Śaṅkarā and Maṇḍana Miśra. He also contributed to most of the orthodox (or Brahmanical) philosophical schools of Hinduism: he wrote on Mīmāṃsā and grammatical theory (in particular, on the holistic ''sphoṭa'' theory of meaning), and his commentaries on Nyāya, Sāṃkhya, and Yoga are all considered authoritative in these traditions. One of the two subschools of Śaṅkara's Advaita tradition follows and is named after Vācaspati's ''Bhāmatī'' ("Bright"), itself a commentary on Śaṅkara's ''Brahmasūtrabhāṣya'' ("Commentary on the aphorisms on ''brahman''"). ([https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119009924.eopr0400 Source Accessed Jan 22, 2024]) +
Vagishvarakirti was one of the six gate keeper panditas of the university of Vikramashila. He was the guardian of the southern gate when Shantipa was guarding the eastern gate and Prajñakaramati the northern gate, at the time Drokmi Lotsawa and Taklo Shyönnu Lodrö were sent there. (Source: [https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Vagishvarakirti Rigpa Wiki]) +
