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Hartmut Sagolla is Program Co-Director at Jewel Heart in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He organizes courses, classes, and study curriculum, creates study materials, transcribes and edits teachings from Tibetan master Gelek Rimpoche, and
helps organize Jewel Heart events around the US. In addition, he leads and guides meditation retreats, give talks, and leads classes. ([https://www.linkedin.com/in/hartmut-sagolla-5949101b/?locale=de_DE Adapted from Source May 5, 2021]) +
Born in Kuma, Japan, in 1965, Harunaga Isaacson studied philosophy and Indology at the University of Groningen (MA 1990), and was awarded a PhD in Sanskrit by the University of Leiden (1995).
After holding teaching positions at Hamburg University and the University of Pennsylvania, he was appointed Professor of Classical Indology in the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Hamburg University, in April 2006.
His main research areas are: tantric traditions in pre-13th century South Asia, especially Vajrayāna Buddhism; classical Sanskrit poetry; classical Indian philosophy; and Purāṇic literature.
He received major honours, including in 2015 the Ratnākara Grant of the Khyentse Foundation (a newly initiated grant aimed at supporting the academic development of Buddhist Studies in Thailand); in 2011 elected ordentliches Mitglied (full member) of the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg; in 2010 elected member of the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente (IsIAO), Rome, Italy.
Prof. Isaacson is a member of the Board of Advisors of the International PhD Programme in Buddhist Studies, Mahidol University; member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism; Chief Editor, together with Dramdul and Helmut Krasser, of Sanskrit Texts from the Tibetan Autonomous Region; external consultant of the AHRC funded project “The intellectual and religious traditions of South Asia as seen through the Sanskrit manuscript collections of the University Library, Cambridge”, 2011–2014; member of the Vorstand (Board of Directors) of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures = Sonderforschungsbereich 950, Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa, July 2011–June 2015; Chief Editor, together with Prof. Michael Friedrich and Prof. Jörg Quenzer, of the Encyclopedia of Manuscript Cultures in Asia and Africa (forthcoming from de Gruyter); Editor, together with Prof. Michael Friedrich and Prof. Jörg Quenzer, of Studies in Manuscript Cultures (published by de Gruyter; first volume released in 2011, three volumes released to date); Co-Editor, with Prof. Francesco Sferra, of Manuscripta Buddhica, a new subseries of the Serie Orientale Roma (first volume appeared in 2009); Editor of the Publications of the Nepal Research Centre; Director of the Nepal Research Centre, 2006–2014; General Director of the Nepalese-German Manuscript Cataloguing Project (longterm project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), 2006–2014; Contributor to the Tāntrikābhidhānakośa, ‘A Hindu Tantric Dictionary’, a project of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Wien); Member of the Editorial Board of the Groningen Oriental Studies; Member of the Advisory Board of Indo-Iranian Journal; Reader for Princeton University Press, the Journal of the American Oriental Society, the Journal of Indian Philosophy, the Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies/Indogaku Bukkyōgaku Kenkyū, the Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, and others; President of the Oriental Club of Philadelphia, 2003‒2004. ([https://www.tantric-studies.uni-hamburg.de/en/people/isaacson.html Source Accessed July 11, 2023])
Heather Williams, M.Ed (she/her) is a fifth generation settler to Canada whose ancestors were English, Irish and Jewish. Heather is grateful to now live on unceded Coast Salish territories of the Kwantlen and Qayqayt Nations. As a queer identified, anti-racist feminist Heather applies an intersectional and trauma-informed approach to her work. As a life-long learner Heather approaches equity, diversity, decolonization and inclusion with a carefully cultivated sense of cultural humility. Heather has published articles and reports on intercultural learning, and equity and inclusion curriculum design. Heather earned her Masters of Education in Equity Studies and is currently pursuing her PhD in Philosophy of Education. Heather’s greatest teachers are her children who inspire her to make the world a better place. +
Hee-Sung Keel is professor emeritus of comparative religion and Buddhist studies at Sogagng University in Seoul, Korea. He is the author of ''Chinul: The Founder of teh Korean Sǒn Tradition'', Berkeley Buddhist Studies Series 6 (Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 1984) and ''Understanding Shinran: A Dialogical Approach'', Nanzan Studies in Asian Religions 6 (Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press, 1995), as well as numerous works in Korean and English on Buddhism and interreligious studies. (Source: Robert E. Buswell Jr., "About the Contributors," in ''Currents and Countercurrents: Korean Influences on East Asian Buddhist Traditions'', University of Hawai'i Press, 2005, 277) +
Dr. Heesoon Bai is an educational philosopher and a psychotherapist with a deepening interest in holistic-contemplative education. Following Raimon Panikkar’s (1918-2010) lead, she understands philosophy’s task for today’s troubled world to be “to know, to love, and to heal.” She brings this three-fold task of philosophy into he teaching and research.
Her research calls for the reanimation of our selves within all spheres of human beingness in the service of living ethically and in beauty. Through contemplative inquiry and practices, she offers ways to experiment with replenishing, nourishing, and animating our being.
View Dr. Bai's Collected Works https://summit.sfu.ca/collection/30113.
([https://www.sfu.ca/education/faculty-profiles/hbai.html Adapted from Source Feb 5, 2025]) +
Dr. Heidi Kasevich designs and delivers programs nationwide that focus on guiding school and workplace communities to foster inclusive cultures where people of all temperaments thrive. A specialist in educating quiet and women leaders, she is passionate about helping students and adults alike to use self-awareness to optimize their ability to lead in today’s world. Kasevich, known for her effervescent presentation style, is a frequent speaker at educational conferences and associations, and her Quiet Revolution work has been featured on NPR and in numerous publications, including ''Huffington Post'', ''New York Magazine'', and ''Harvard Magazine''. A member of the DEAK Group, she is the author of the ''Guide to Giving'', a highly-acclaimed K-12 philanthropy curriculum, and ''Closing the Gap'', an influential girls’ leadership curriculum. Her proficiency is grounded in over 20 years of experience as educator and history department chair at schools in New York City, including Nightingale-Bamford, Dalton, Berkeley Carroll, NYU and Cooper Union. Kasevich has served as Director of ''Académie de Paris'', an Oxbridge Academic Program, and is Program Director at the Hotchkiss Student Leadership Institute. A gcLi Alumna Scholar, she received her BA from Haverford and PhD from New York University. (https://summerspark2018.sched.com/speaker/heidi_kasevich.1xwj2eyl Source Accessed Apr 20, 2023]) +
Heidi I. Köppl has translated for Tibetan lamas in Kathmandu for many years and has a degree in Tibetology from the University of Copenhagen. Heidi translated at the Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery in Nepal for more than a decade and has been a faculty member at the Kathmandu University Centre for Buddhist Studies. Heidi has a degree in Tibetology from the University of Copenhagen, and has translated works such as ''Illuminating the Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva'' and ''Establishing Appearances as Divine''. (Source: [https://wisdomexperience.org/content-author/heidi-i-koppl/ Wisdom Experience]) +
Heidi Nevin studied Tibetan language at Manjushri Center for Tibetan Culture (1996-8); apprenticed to Kyabje Chatral Rinpoche (1996-2003); served Lama Tharchin by helping to translate the mkha’ ‘gro thugs thig (Vol. Ma of Dudjom Rinpoche’s Collected Works) and other texts (2006-present). She translated the autobiography of Khenpo Ngakchung (Wondrous Dance of Illusion, Shambhala, 2013, restricted text) and volume one of Dungse Trinley Norbu Rinpoche’s three-volume Collected Works (Shambhala 2022, as Ruby Rosary). She is currently translating volume 20 of the Complete Nyingma Tradition (mdo rgyud mdzod), among other things. Heidi lives in Corvallis, Oregon, USA. +
Jörg Heimbel studied Tibetology and Social Anthropology at the University of Göttingen and the University of Hamburg, where he received his Magister Artium in 2007 with a thesis on the life and works of the Fifth gDong thog sPrul sku bsTan pa’i rgyal mtshan (1933–2015). He received his PhD in Tibetology from the same university in 2014 with as doctoral thesis on the life and times of Ngor chen Kun dga’ bzang po (1382–1456), a revised version of which he published in 2017. During his doctoral research, he joint the Tibetan Language Program at Tibet University (TU), Lhasa, China, and was a research fellow at the Lumbini International Research Institute (LIRI), Lumbini, Nepal.
Since 2014 he is working at the University of Hamburg as a research associate and lecturer (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) for Classical and Colloquial Tibetan.
His field of interest lies in the religious and cultural history of Tibet and its related biographical and historiographical literature with a special emphasis on the Sa skya school of Tibetan Buddhism. Furthermore, he pursues research in Tibetan Buddhist art and Colloquial Tibetan. For his new research projects, he investigates a tantric collection of old Tibetan manuscripts from Ngor Monastery [Link: NTT) and works on a typology of lama portraits of Ngor abbots commissioned as statues or thangka paintings (e.g., paintings to be shown on death anniversaries known as dus thang). ([https://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/en/personen/heimbel.html University of Hamburg Source Accessed August 4, 2020]) +
Heinz Bechert (born June 26, 1932 in Munich , † June 14, 2005 in Göttingen) was a German Indologist and Buddhologist.
From 1965 to 2000, Bechert held the professorship in Indology at the University of Göttingen. In 1971, on his initiative, the former "Indological Seminar" was renamed "Seminar for Indology and Buddhist Studies."
Bechert's main research areas were Indology and Buddhism, with a focus on Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia and Nepal. In addition, he dealt with Buddhist Sanskrit tradition in Central Asia as well as the political and social significance of the Buddhist religious community up to the present day.
His language skills included Sanskrit, Middle Indian languages (Pali, several Prakrits), Tibetan, Sinhala and Burmese.
He published numerous scientific papers and works. Together with Ernst Waldschmidt, he was the editor of the ''Sanskrit dictionary of Buddhist texts from the Turfan finds''. ([https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Bechert Source Accessed Sep 9 2021]) +
Lopön Helen Berliner has been a student of Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche since 1994. From 1970-87, she was a student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition; and has been fortunate to receive teachings and empowerments from masters of the four great lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. Earlier training in wisdom traditions, East and West, provided the foundation for her path. Ever grateful for the celebration of dharma in the western world, she has worked as editor and/or indexer of books by authors including Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, Ane Pema Chödren, and others. Lopön Helen has degrees in fine arts and psychology, a master’s in Buddhist Studies specializing in environmental psychology, and is the author of ''Enlightened by Design''. As a teacher of Buddhism and contemplative disciplines for over forty years, she delights in sharing the magic, challenges, and ubiquitous potential of the path of practice. ([https://mindroloselling.org/programs-classes/lopons/ Source Accessed Jan 7, 2021]) +
Professor Helen Hardacre began the study of Japanese religions as an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University, and she earned her doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1980, studying with Professor Joseph Kitagawa. Her research on religion focuses on the manner in which traditional doctrines and rituals are transformed and adapted in contemporary life. Concentrating on Japanese religious history of the modern period, she has done extended field study of contemporary Shinto, Buddhist religious organizations and the religious life of Japan's Korean minority. She has also researched State Shinto and contemporary ritualizations of abortion. From 1980 to 1989, Professor Hardacre taught at Princeton University's Department of Religion, and from 1990 she taught two years in the School of Modern Asian Studies, Griffith University (Australia). She came to Harvard in 1992. Her publications include ''The Religion of Japan's Korean Minority'' (Berkeley, 1984), ''Lay Buddhism in Contemporary Japan: Reiyukai Kyodan'' (Princeton, 1984), ''Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan'' (Princeton, 1986), ''Shinto and the State, 1868-1988'' (Princeton, 1989), ''Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan'' (Berkeley, 1997), which won the Arisawa Hiromichi Prize, and ''Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Japan: A Study of the Southern Kanto Region, Using Late Edo and Early Meiji Gazetteers'' (Michigan, 2002). Her current research centers on the issue of constitutional revision and its effect on religious groups. Hardacre was awarded a J.S. Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003, elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014, and awarded the Order of the Rising Sun 3rd Class Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon from the Government of Japan in 2018. Hardacre's most recent monograph is ''Shinto: A History'' (Oxford, 2016), a comprehensive study of Shinto from ancient Japan to the present. ([https://ealc.fas.harvard.edu/people/helen-hardacre Source Accessed July 10, 2023]) +
Helena Blankleder holds a degree in Modern Languages. She completed two three-year retreats at Chanteloube, France (1980-1985 and 1986-1989). She is a professional translator and a member of the Padmakara Translation Group, Dordogne, France. Helena has been a Tsadra Foundation Fellow since 2001. +
Amy Heller is affiliated with CNRS, Paris (Tibetan studies unit 7133). She has traveled many times to Tibet, Nepal and along the Silk Road. Her trip to Tibet in 1995 as a part of team for evaluating restoration of monasteries of Gra thang and Zha lu and its subsequent research resulted in her book Tibetan Art (1999) published in English, French, Italian and Spanish. She has been curator for two exhibitions of Tibetan art (Yale University Art Gallery, and Beinecke Library, Yale). Her forthcoming book Hidden Treasures of the Himalaya: Tibetan manuscripts, paintings and sculptures of Dolpo is a study of the cultural history of Dolpo, Nepal, presenting a collection of 650 volumes of 12th-16th century illuminated Tibetan manuscripts conserved in an ancient Dolpo temple. +
Helmut Eimer, Ph.D. (1974) in Indology, Tibetan and Oriental Art History, University of Bonn, is a senior researcher (emeritus) at that same university. He has published extensively on, e.g. the life of Atisha (Dipankarashrijnana), Kanjur transmission, collections of Tibetan manuscripts and blockprints. His most recent work is ''The Early Mustang Kanjur Catalogue'' (dkar chag) (Vienna, 1999). ([https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Many_Canons_of_Tibetan_Buddhism.html?id=jubNIsX6P50C Source Accessed Feb 22, 2021]) +
Helmut Hoffmann (August 24, 1912 – October 8, 1992) was a German Tibetologist. From 1931 he studied ancient languages and Sanskrit in Freiburg im Breisgau and from 1932 in Berlin. After graduating as PhD in Berlin in 1939 he became a professor in Munich (1948–1968) and in Bloomington (Indiana) (1969–1980). [https://badw.de/fileadmin/nachrufe/Hoffmann%20Helmut.pdf See Obituary] +
Krasser was born on April 27, 1956 in Lustenau, Vorarlberg (Austria). He studied Indian Buddhism, Tibetology and Indology at Vienna University, completed his PhD in 1989 with an edition and translation of Dharmottara's ''Laghuprāmāṇyaparīkṣā'' (published in two volumes in 1991), and received the ''venia legendi'' ("habilitation") at Vienna University in 2002 with an edition of Śaṅkaranandana's ''Īśvarāpākaraṇasaṅkṣepa'' together with a study on the development of the Buddhist dispute with the Naiyāyikas about the existence of a creator god (published in two volumes in 2002).
A university assistant from 1983 to 1986, and lecturer since 1994 at the Institute of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies of Vienna University, he had been research fellow since 1988 at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and director of this institute since 2007. At Kyoto University he was a visiting research fellow (from 1991 to 1993 and in 2003) and visiting professor (2006), and in 2010 he was elected corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Since 2004 Krasser had directed research projects of the Austrian Science Funds as well as co-organized four congresses and several workshops and panels in Austria, Japan and China. He was co-editor of five substantial collective volumes, since 2006 he co-edited the ''Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde'' and since 2011 the ''Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies'' as well as the series Sanskrit Texts from the Tibetan Autonomous Region. ([https://iabsinfo.net/2014/04/dr-helmut-krasser/ Source Accessed Oct 9, 2025]) +
Helmut Tauscher is a retired research scholar. He was affiliated with the Institute for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies in the Department of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at Vienna University. He is a life-member of the Drepung Loseling Library Society in Mundgod, Karnataka, India and since 1991 has been engaged in a research project entitled "Western Tibetan Manuscripts, 11-14 c." He is the author of numerous articles and book-length works on Madhyamaka, including ''Die Lehre von den Zwei Wirklichkeiten in Tsoń kha pas Madhyamaka-Werken'' (1995) and an edition of Phya pa chos kyi seng ge's ''dBu ma shar gsum gyi stong thun'' (1999). ([https://books.google.com/books?id=tIw1BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA398&lpg=PA398&dq=Helmut+Tauscher+He+is+a+life-member+of+the+Drepung+Loseling+Library+Society+in+Mundgod,+Karnataka,+India&source=bl&ots=M2WVZOYOIe&sig=ACfU3U2hZYk8YIUH416oCkmz58TTSX3EFg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiP_aqhlN_qAhVIQ80KHYpDALoQ6AEwAHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Helmut%20Tauscher%20He%20is%20a%20life-member%20of%20the%20Drepung%20Loseling%20Library%20Society%20in%20Mundgod%2C%20Karnataka%2C%20India&f=false Adapted from Author's Biography in ''The Svātantrika-Prāsaṇgika Distinction'', Wisdom Publications 2003, 398]) +
Heng Sure (恆實法師, Pinyin: Héng Shí, birth name Christopher R. Clowery; born October 31, 1949) is an American Chan Buddhist monk. He is a senior disciple of Hsuan Hua, and is currently the director of the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery, a branch monastery of the Dharma Realm Buddhist Association. He is probably best known for a pilgrimage he made for two years and six months from 1977–1979. Called a three steps, one bow pilgrimage, Heng Sure and his companion Heng Chau (Martin Verhoeven), bowed from South Pasadena to Ukiah, California, a distance of 800 miles, seeking world peace.[2][3]
Born in Toledo, Ohio, he attended DeVilbiss High School, Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, and the University of California at Berkeley from 1971–1976. During his time at the university, Heng Sure was active in theatre. At an early age, Heng Sure learned Chinese from studying the language in high school and by means of his sister, who worked at the U.S. Information Agency. After receiving his masters in Oriental languages, he met his teacher, Hsuan Hua, who would later ordain him in 1976 at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, as "Heng Sure" a Dharma name which means "Constantly Real." Heng Sure earned an MA degree in Oriental Languages from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1976 and a PhD in Religion from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, in 2003.
Heng Sure currently gives lectures in Berkeley to the public and through webcasts. Heng Sure also gives lectures in many parts of the world on various subjects, such as the sutras and veganism. He is also an accomplished musician and guitarist.
In 2008, Heng Sure published his first music CD "Paramita: American Buddhist Folk Songs".
In October 2018, he participated in the Fifth World Buddhist Forum held in Putian, Fujian Province of China, and at the closing ceremony, read with the patriarchal Zongxing the Declaration of the Fifth World Buddhist Forum. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heng_Sure Source Accessed Sep 13, 2021])
Professor Venerable Heng-Ching Shih earned a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and taught in the Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University. She has worked in Buddhist education at almost all levels in Taiwan throughout the years.
Venerable Heng-Ching helped establish Pumen Buddhist High School and Fakuang Buddhist Graduate Institute. She also founded the Center of Buddhist Studies at National Taiwan University and Taiwan’s first Graduate Students’ Buddhist Forum. She was also active in the early stages of the project to digitize the Chinese tripitaka, known as CBETA (Chinese Buddhist Electronic Texts Association).
Venerable Heng-Ching has retired and now serves as the President of the Bodhi Education Foundation and as Consultant to the Committee of Western Bhiksunis. She is the author of many academic papers and books, including [https://www.amazon.com/Syncretism-Buddhism-Asian-Thought-Culture/dp/0820416819 The Syncretism of Ch’an and Pure Land Buddhism] (English), Buddha Nature (Chinese), and Good Women on the Bodhisattva Path (Chinese).
She continues to work tirelessly in support of fully ordained nuns worldwide.
([https://sravastiabbey.org/guest-teacher/professor-venerable-heng-ching-shih/ Source Accessed March 21, 2019]) +
