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Hugh Edward Richardson CIE OBE FBA (22 December 1905 – 3 December 2000) was an Indian Civil Service officer, British diplomat and Tibetologist. His academic work focused on the history of the Tibetan empire, and in particular on epigraphy. He was among the last Europeans to have known Tibet and its society before the Chinese invasions which began in 1950. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Edward_Richardson Source Accessed Feb, 2024]) +
Dajian Huineng (traditional Chinese: 大鑒惠能; pinyin: Dàjiàn Huìnéng; Wade–Giles: Ta-chien; Japanese: Daikan Enō; Korean: Hyeneung); (February 27, 638 – August 28, 713), also commonly known as the Sixth Patriarch or Sixth Ancestor of Chan (traditional Chinese: 禪宗六祖), is a semi-legendary but central figure in the early history of Chinese Chan Buddhism. According to tradition he was an uneducated layman who suddenly attained awakening upon hearing the ''Diamond Sutra''. Despite his lack of formal training, he demonstrated his understanding to the fifth patriarch, Daman Hongren, who then supposedly chose Huineng as his true successor instead of his publicly known selection of Yuquan Shenxiu.
Twentieth century scholarship revealed that the story of Huineng's Buddhist career was likely invented by the monk Heze Shenhui, who claimed to be one of Huineng's disciples and was highly critical of Shenxiu's teaching.
Huineng is regarded as the founder of the "Sudden Enlightenment" Southern Chan school of Buddhism, which focuses on an immediate and direct attainment of Buddhist enlightenment. ''The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch'' (六祖壇經), which is said to be a record of his teachings, is a highly influential text in the East Asian Buddhist tradition. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huineng Source Accessed July 14, 2021]) +
Huston Cummings Smith (May 31, 1919 – December 30, 2016) was a leading scholar of religious studies in the United States. He was widely regarded as one of the world's most influential figures in religious studies. He authored at least thirteen books on world's religions and philosophy, and his book ''The World's Religions'' (originally titled ''The Religions of Man'') sold over three million copies as of 2017 and remains a popular introduction to comparative religion.
Born and raised in Suzhou, China in a Methodist missionary family, Huston Smith moved back to the United States at the age of 17 and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1945 with a PhD in philosophy. He spent the majority of his academic career as a professor at Washington University in St. Louis (1947-1958), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1958-1973) and Syracuse University (1973-1983). In 1983, he retired from Syracuse and moved to Berkeley, California, where he was a visiting professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Berkeley until his death. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huston_Smith Source Accessed Nov 23, 2020]) +
Hélios Hildt (Drupchen Dorje) studied in Shechen Monastery and currently lives in France, where he occasionally translates for visiting Tibetan teachers. ([https://www.lotsawahouse.org/translators/drupchen-dorje/ Source Accessed Oct 9, 2024]) +
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Dr. Gloria (I-Ling) Chien is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Gonzaga University.
Before coming to Gonzaga in 2017, she taught courses in Buddhism, Eastern Religions, and Religion and Film at Virginia Commonwealth University.
She conducts bibliographic analysis of the Tibetan Buddhist master Tokmé Zangpo's (1295–1369) biographies and Collected Works in order to shed light on the cultural legacy of Tibetan Buddhist ''Lojong'' (mind training) meditation tradition. Her research has taken her to Nepal, India, China, and Tibet. Inspired by her research, she became a certified instructor in the Cognitively-Based Compassion Training® contemplation program developed at Emory University. In the spring of 2018, she taught a CBCT® course entitled “Compassion Meditation and Happiness” to promote emotional well-being in Gonzaga’s students and to enlarge their ethical considerations of others. This course was funded by the Office of the Dean at the College of Arts and Sciences. Her publication based on this course is featured in this GU news article. Dr. Chien’s peer-reviewed articles concern topics such as Tokmé Zangpo’s life and Collected Works, Ignatian pedagogy, teaching Buddhism in higher education, and Chinese religions in film.
To promote scholarly discussion on teaching Buddhism, she established and co-chairs the Buddhist Pedagogy Seminar at the American Academy of Religion (2019–2023). She is the recipient of 2019–20 Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence for Tenure-Track Faculty at GU. Upon request, she became the advisor of the student meditation club in 2021. Information on the club can be found in the Gonzaga Bulletin. To bring her scholarship and specialties to the general public, Dr. Chien has led several contemplation sessions for various groups, such as for the ZoNE Essential Skills Series and the Spokane Public Library. ([https://www.gonzaga.edu/academics/faculty-listing/detail/gloria-i-ling-chien-phd-bed21c41 Source Accessed Feb 25, 2025]) +
Iain Sinclair (PhD, Monash University, 2016) is a lecturer at Nan Tien Institute, Australia, and an Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Queensland School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry. He studies the Hindu-Buddhist culture of South Asia, the Himalayas and the Malay Archipelago. In 2018 and 2019 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre (now THRC) of the ISEAS –
Yusof Ishak Institute. His published research focuses on Buddhist tantra, medieval Asian history, Sanskrit manuscripts, classical art and contemporary religion. Email: i_sinclair @outlook.com. +
Dr. Ian Baker holds a PhD in History and a MPhil in Medical Anthropology from University College London, following earlier graduate work in Buddhist Studies at Columbia University and English Literature at the University of Oxford. He is the author of seven critically acclaimed books on Himalayan and Tibetan cultural history, environment, art, and medicine including, ''Tibetan Yoga: Principles and Practices'', ''The Dalai Lama’s Secret Temple'', ''The Heart of the World'', ''The Tibetan Art of Healing'', and ''Buddhas of the Celestial Gallery'', with introductions by the H.H. the Dalai Lama and Deepak Chopra. He was lead curator for an exhibition at London’s Wellcome Collection entitled "Tibet’s Secret Temple: Body, Mind, and Meditation in Tantric Buddhism". He is well known for his extensive field research in Tibet’s ‘hidden-lands’ (beyul), resulting in National Geographic Society designating him as an ‘Explorer for the Millennium’. He has led international groups in Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan for Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Expeditions and is a board member of the International Society for Bhutan Studies. ([https://events.thus.org/teacher/ian-baker/ Source Accessed July 24, 2023]) +
Ian Charles Harris (born June 17, 1952, died December 23, 2014 ) was an English Orientalist, Sanskrit scholar, and Buddhist. Harris studied at Lancaster University from 1977 to 1982. He earned a master's degree in religious studies at Lancaster University, and then earned a doctorate at Lancaster, with the book ''The Continuity of Madhyamaka and Yogācāra in Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism'' (1991). He then graduated from the University of Cambridge, and then became a teacher of religious studies and then head of department for schools in Bradford and Keighley. In 1987, his time began as a lecturer in religious studies at St. Martin's College Lancaster (later part of the University of Cumbria). ([https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Charles_Harris Source Accessed Dec 4, 2019])
An online obituary can be found [https://buddhism.arts.ubc.ca/2015/01/06/obituary-professor-ian-charles-harris-june-17th-1952-to-december-23rd-2014/ here.] +
Ian Ives grew up in the US and has been a student of Sogyal Rinpoche since he was a teenager. He studied at the Rigpa Shedra East in Pharping, Nepal under the guidance of Khenchen Namdrol from 2007 to 2012, and before that at Rigpa Shedra West, from 2003 to 2006.
He attended the seven-month teaching periods of Rigpa’s 2006–2009 Three Year Retreat, and served as a teaching assistant to Rinpoche from 2007 to 2017; travelling with him extensively from 2012 onward. Since this time, and with the encouragement of Rinpoche, he has been guiding study sessions and teaching on topics connected to the foundational and Mahayana levels.
Ian helps design and guide Rigpa’s international study programme and the programme for Lerab Ling, Rigpa’s retreat centre in southern France. He has a family with two young children and lives near Lerab Ling. ([https://www.rigpa.org/rigpa-teachers Source Accessed June 28, 2023]) +
Ian James Coghlan (Jampa Ignyen) trained as a monk at Jé College, Sera Monastic University, completing his studies in 1995, and holds a Ph.D. in Asian Studies from La Trobe University. He has translated and edited a number of works from Tibetan including ''Principles of Buddhist Tantra'' (with Kirti Tsenshap Rinpoché and Voula Zarpani); ''Hundreds of Deities of Tusita, An Offering Cloud of Nectar'', and ''Stairway to the State of Union'' (with Choden Rinpoché and Voula Zarpani). Currently he is a translator for the Institute of Tibetan Classics and an adjunct research fellow at SOPHIS, Monash University. (Source: [https://wisdomexperience.org/product/ornament-abhidharma/ Wisdom Publications]) +
Ian MacCormack received his PhD in the Study of Religion from Harvard University, with a dissertation on Buddhist cosmology and theology in the early modern Tibetan Buddhist state. His research centers on the cosmopolitan intellectual and social environment of early modern Tibet, especially the role of Buddhist thought and practice. His broader research agenda extends these studies of Buddhism in the early modern Tibetan state, especially with respect to topics such as literature and ritual. He is also researching related topics such as the literary and social dimensions of speechmaking in Tibetan Buddhism.
:History and Ethnography of Religions Faculty, Florida State University.
:(Source: [https://religion.fsu.edu/person/ian-maccormack Florida State University, Accessed December 14, 2024]) +
Ian Villarreal is a mystic, altruist, poet, artist, videographer, historical video archivist, tax accountant and licensed tax preparer. In 1994 he became part of Vimala Video, a small non-profit historical video archive established in 1980 dedicated to documenting the historical transmission of Varjayana Buddhism to the West. As one of a team of two primary videographers, he has captured hundreds of hours of footage of largely Tibetan teachers teaching in various venues in California, Oregon, Montana, and Maryland. In addition to editing and producing for dissemination a number of documentary videos, he is engaged in the task of archiving, cataloging, and preserving the body of rare footage accumulated over the last forty years. He serves on the board of Vimala Video, and works in a volunteer capacity contributing to the support and maintenance of the video archive. He is also a board member of Heartisan Foundation and serves as Secretary/Treasurer. +
Iaremchyshyn Oleksandr received a Master of Arts in Buddhist Studies from International Buddhist College in in Songkhla, Thailand. +
Ibby Caputo is an award-winning journalist based in the United Kingdom. She has reported on U.S. prisoners in Iran for the public radio show ''The World'', on executions in Arkansas for ''Slate'' and on the gender pay gap for NPR and ''Boston Globe Magazine''. Ibby was a 2014 MIT-Knight Science Journalism Fellow. She received the 2019 Reporting Award from New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and the 2019 Radio & Audio Funding Award from The Whickers to investigate racial and ethnic disparities in bone marrow transplantation for the BBC World Service.
Ibby’s journalism, essays and photography have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, Boston Globe Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Cape Cod Times, The Times-Picayune, theAtlantic.com, and elsewhere. She covered health care, transportation, and breaking news as a reporter for WGBH’s Boston Public Radio and WGBH TV. Her work has aired on WNYC and on ''The World'', NPR News, ''Morning Edition'', ''All Things Considered'', ''Weekend Edition'', ''Marketplace'' ''Morning Report'', ''Marketplace Tech'', ''Scene on Radio'', Australia Public Broadcasting’s ''Radiotonic'', and the BBC shows ''The Documentary'', ''Short Cuts'' and ''Boston Calling''. In 2017, she reported on the 91st General Assembly of the Arkansas State Legislature for ANNN, the Arkansas Nonprofit News Network.
Ibby was the Senior Editor of ''Overheard at National Geographic'' for the first three seasons. She has worked as a story editor for ''The World'' and West Virginia Public Broadcasting and for several podcasts including ''The Breakthrough'' from ProPublica; ''Seeking Peace'' from the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security; ''South of Fletcher: Stories from the Bowtie'' from Clockshop, ''Us and Them'', and ''Can We Talk'' from the Jewish Women’s Archive.
Ibby received an award for hard news and was part of the team that won an award for investigative reporting, both from The Associated Press. Her audio documentary, “Crying Dry Tears,” received first place in The Missouri Review’s 2016 Miller Audio Contest. Her documentary on gender discrimination in the workplace, “More Than Paper Cuts,” received a Clarion Award from the Association of Women in Communication. In 2018, Ibby was awarded a fellowship through the Japan Center for International Exchange to report in Tokyo, Kyoto and Hiroshima for ''The World''.
Ibby has taught audio journalism and podcasting at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, MIT, Harvard Law School, SALT, the PRX Podcast Garage, and West Virginia Public Broadcasting. ([https://ibbycaputo.com/ Source Accessed Jan 31, 2025])
Rev. Ichijo Ogawa is the Director of Shinshu Otani-ha Research Institute for Shin Buddhist Studies, Kyoto, Japan, Professor Emeritus, and former President of Otani University, Kyoto, Japan. His main areas of specialization are Chinese, Indian and Buddhist philosophy, and he is the author of numerous articles and books on these topics. +
Igor de Rachewiltz was an Italian historian and philologist specializing in Mongol studies. [He] was born in Rome, the son of Bruno Guido and Antonina Perosio. The de Rachewiltz family was of noble roots. His grandmother was a Tatar from Kazan in central Russia who claimed lineage from the Golden Horde. In 1947, he read Michael Prawdin's book ''Tschingis-Chan und seine Erben'' (Genghis Khan and his Heritage) and became interested in learning the Mongolian language. He graduated with a law degree from a university in Rome and pursued Oriental studies in Naples. In the early 1950s, de Rachewiltz went to Australia on scholarship. He earned his PhD in Chinese history from Australian National University, Canberra in 1961. His dissertation was on Genghis Khan's secretary, 13th-century Chinese scholar Yelü Chucai.
Starting in 1965 he became a fellow at the Department of Far Eastern History, Australian National University (1965–67). He made a research trip to Europe (1966–67). He published a translation of ''The Secret History of the Mongols'' in eleven volumes of ''Papers on Far Eastern History'' (1971–1985). He became a senior Fellow of the Division of Pacific and Asian History at the Australian National University (1967–94), a research-only fellowship. He completed projects by prominent Mongolists Antoine Mostaert and Henri Serruys after their deaths. He was a visiting professor at the University of Rome three times (1996, 1999, 2001). In 2004 he published his translation of the ''Secret History'' with Brill; it was selected by Choice as Outstanding Academic Title (2005) and is now in its second edition. In 2007 he donated his personal library of around 6000 volumes to the Scheut Memorial Library at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Late in his life de Rachewiltz was an emeritus Fellow in the Pacific and Asian History Division of the Australian National University. His research interests included the political and cultural history of China and Mongolia in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, East-West political and cultural contacts, and Sino-Mongolian philology generally. In 2015, de Rachewiltz published an open access version of his previous translation, ''The Secret History of the Mongols: A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century'', that is a full translation but omits the extensive footnotes of his previous translations. Igor de Rachewiltz died on July 30, 2016. He was 87. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_de_Rachewiltz Source Accessed Feb 22, 2021])
Ilia Durovic is a leading independent scholar and former Buddhist Monk who has translated for H.H. Dalai Lama. Ilia is known for his charismatic method of intertwining Buddhist philosophy with current leading scientific thought. +
Matthew Immergut is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Purchase College, SUNY. His primary field is the sociology of religion, with a focus on charismatic authority. He is currently working on a paper examining why, in the face of disconfirming evidence, people continue to believe in charismatic leaders. In addition, he is currently working on a meditation book, a documentary about three-year silent retreat, as well as investigating the effects of meditation in the context of the college classroom.
Source[http://wamc.org/post/dr-matthew-immergut-purchase-college-what-charisma#stream/0] +
Ina Bieler is a translator and assistant at The Garchen Buddhist Institute in Chino Valley, Arizona. She is a member of the Garchen Buddhist Institute Translation Group. +
Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Sr., was Wales Professor of Sanskrit, Emeritus, at Harvard University. source: ([https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674039506&content=bios Harvard University Press]) +
