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Janet Gyatso (BA, MA, PhD, University of California at Berkeley) holds the Hershey Professorship in Buddhist Studies in the Divinity School at Harvard University, 2001–present. She is a specialist in Buddhist studies with concentration on Tibetan and South Asian cultural and intellectual history. Her books include ''Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary''; ''In the Mirror of Memory: Reflections on Mindfulness and Remembrance in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism''; and ''Women of Tibet''. She has recently completed a new book, ''Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet'', which focuses upon alternative early modernities and the conjunctions and disjunctions between religious and scientific epistemologies in Tibetan medicine in the sixteenth–eighteenth centuries. ([https://conference.tsadra.org/past-event/the-2017-tt-conference/ Source Accessed May 5, 2020]) +
A teacher of Rin chen bzang po, the second gangs dkar bla ma, (b.1317 – d.1383). From 1335 onward, he was active at Gsang phu in Central Tibet. ([https://library.bdrc.io/show/bdr:P1827 Source Accessed Feb 8, 2023]) +
Jangchub Tsemo was a translator of Sanskrit grammatical treatises and Tantric commentaries. A student of Pang Lotsāwa, who was his maternal uncle, he taught grammar and Kālacakra to many of the era's prominent lamas, including Tsongkhapa. +
Jann Ronis is a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism and completed his PhD at the University of Virginia in 2009. His dissertation was about the history of Katok Monastery and Buddhist academy in eastern Tibet, located on one of the major trading routes linking Tibet to China. More recently his research has explored contemporary Tibetan literature. After completing his PhD he held postdocs in Paris and UC Berkeley. He taught at the latter for 7 years until becoming the executive director of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center in 2018. (Source: 2018 Lotsawa Workshop Presenter Bio) +
Jared Rhoton (Sonam Tenzin) devoted his adult life to the welfare of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism and its teachers, texts, and students. He was noted for his humility and his great ability as an interpreter and translator. Jared passed away in 1993 at the age of fifty-two. ([https://wisdomexperience.org/content-author/jared-rhoton/ Source Accessed Aug 8, 2023]) +
Jared Lindahl, PhD, is Visiting Assistant Professor in Brown University’s Department of Religious Studies and director of the humanities research track in the Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab. Since 2014, Dr. Lindahl has been directing the data collection, qualitative analysis, and writing papers for the Varieties of Contemplative Experience research project.
Jared holds a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His ongoing research examines contemplative practices in a range of contexts—from classical Greece, India, and Tibet to Buddhist modernism and the mindfulness movement in the United States—and attempts to integrate historical and textual studies of contemplative traditions with phenomenological and neurobiological approaches in order to investigate the relationship between contemplative practices, resultant experiences, and culturally situated appraisals of meaning and value. ([https://insightla.org/teacher/jared-lindahl-2/ Source Accessed Nov 14, 2023]) +
Dr. Jarosław Zapart is an Indologist and buddhologist whose research interests revolve mainly around early literature and philosophy of Mahāyāna Buddhism. He is especially concerned with origins of the tathāgatagarbha concept, its evolution in Indian sources and its earliest history in China. His second field of interest encompasses the Hindi Sant thought & literature as well as the North Indian Bhakti. He is also involved in the study of Indian aesthetics and poetics and the aesthetics of Indian & Western classical music. ([https://jagiellonian.academia.edu/JaroslawZapart Adapted from Source April 16, 2020]) +
Jason A. Carbine's primary area of scholarly expertise is Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia, with a research specialization in Sri Lanka and Myanmar, and also with an emerging comparative focus on Southwest China. He has conducted field research in Myanmar and Sri Lanka, with an emphasis on ritual and practice, and has also traveled (sometimes leading study abroad programs and trips) in various parts of Asia, including Sri Lanka, Myanmar and China. Overall, his teaching and research in the study of Theravāda Buddhism, other forms of Buddhism, and other Asian religions combines historical and ethnographic methodologies, and draws from an interdisciplinary body of research pertaining to the history of religions, textual studies, anthropology, comparative religious ethics, and most recently, environmental studies and ethics. He teaches a range of courses dealing with Asian religions from India to Japan, method and theory in the study of religion, South and Southeast Asian religion and society, globalization, and the environment. ([https://www.whittier.edu/academics/religious/Carbine#:~:text=Jason%20A.,comparative%20focus%20on%20Southwest%20China. Source Accessed Nov 20 2023]) +
Jason Sanche is an editor and translator associated with the Dharmasāgara Translation Group, which operates under the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha.
He has been involved with the Dharmasāgara Translation Group since June 2014, contributing as an editor and translator to various Buddhist texts. He has worked on translations such as ''The Nectar of Speech'' (Toh 197) and ''Questions on Selflessness'' (Toh 173), among other texts. These translations are based on Tibetan sources, including the Degé Kangyur and other comparative editions.
Jason Sanche collaborates with other scholars and translators, including Raktrul Ngawang Kunga Rinpoche, Rebecca Hufen, Shanshan Jia, and Arne Schelling, and receives support from experts like Prof. Harunaga Isaacson of the University of Hamburg. +
Dr. Jason M. Wirth is professor of philosophy at Seattle University and works and teaches in the areas of Continental Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Environmental Philosophy. His recent books include Nietzsche and Other Buddhas: Philosophy after Comparative Philosophy (Indiana 2019), Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth: Reading Gary Snyder and Dōgen in an Age of Ecological Crisis (SUNY 2017), a monograph on Milan Kundera (Commiserating with Devastated Things, Fordham 2015), Schelling’s Practice of the Wild (SUNY 2015), and the co-edited volume (with Bret Davis and Brian Schroeder), Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School (Indiana 2011).
He is the associate editor and book review editor of the journal, Comparative and Continental Philosophy. He is currently completing a manuscript on the cinema of Terrence Malick as well as a work of ecological philosophy called Turtle Island Anarchy. He was ordained in 2010 in Japan as a priest in the Soto Zen lineage and is the founder and co-director of the Seattle University EcoSangha (www.ecosangha.net). ([https://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/about/directory/profile/jason-wirth.html Source Accessed May 28, 2023]) +
Javier Tinajero Rodríguez was born in Mexico City. He started writing when he was 17 years old when a friend gave him ''Altazor'', a little book of poetry by the Chilean writer Vicente Huidobro.
He published his first collection of poems in 2014 titled ''Párpados y pájaros'' and presented it at La casa del Poeta "Ramón López Velarde" and at UNAM in San Antonio, Texas.
At the beginning of 2015, he wrote some poems with Julio Medellín and Eduardo Medina to be read aloud. The result is in a small book entitled: ''Poemas para encontrar el tiempo en una tarde de viernes''. This work triggered a change in his writing and a year later led to the publication of a collection of poems on transience: ''El tiempo rueda''.
Now he is writing an essay on the correlation between identity and poetic work, in addition to other experimental projects such as the intervention of books (''Blackout poetry'') and a journal of ''haikús'' (''Haikusimios''). ([https://nuberrante.com.mx/biografia/ Adapted from Source Apr 6, 2021]) +
Also known as Ngawang Samten, Lama Jay Goldberg is a translator of “The Beautiful Ornament of the Three Visions”, “Mo, Tibetan Divination System”, “The Sage’s Intent”, “The Sutra of Recollecting the Three Jewels” (with commentary by Khenpo Appey) and many translations of sadhanas and rituals. He is a long-time Dharma practitioner who lived in India for 17 years, including 14 years as a monk in Rajpur as a disciple of His Holiness Sakya Trizin. H.E. Jetsun Kushok says of Jay Goldberg: “He is a longtime student of His Holiness Sakya Trizin and has been my personal translator. He is an excellent Sakyapa now practicing in daily life.” Lama Jay Goldberg is the practice director at Sakya Dechen Ling, HE Jetsun Kushok Chimey Luding’s center in the Bay area.
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Jay Hirabayashi was born in Seattle, Washington in 1947, but grew up in Beirut, Lebanon, Cairo, Egypt, and Edmonton, Alberta. He has a B.A. degree from the University of Alberta and a M.A. degree from the UBC in Buddhist philosophy. In 1978, Hirabayashi began a career as a dance artist. After performing with several prominent Vancouver dance companies, Hirabayashi and his wife, Barbara Bourget, founded Kokoro Dance in 1986. Taking its name from the Japanese word kokoro – meaning heart, soul and spirit – and inspired by the Japanese avant garde dance form known as butoh, Kokoro Dance has presented over one thousand performances across Canada, in the United States, Europe, Argentina, and Cuba.
Hirabayashi and Bourget also started the annual Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF) in 2000. The VIDF has presented over 280 Canadian and international dance companies to a total audience of 80,548 people. The VIDF is an inclusive festival, but with a focus on culturally diverse contemporary dance artists.
Hirabayashi has choreographed over 90 dance works, has taught butoh classes regularly since 1995, and continues to perform, choreograph, and teach while also administrating both Kokoro Dance and the VIDF. He is the son of Gordon K. Hirabayashi who posthumously received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2012 for openly defying the forced relocation and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. ([https://japanesecanadianartists.com/artist/jay-hirabayashi/ Source Accessed July 24, 2023]) +
Jay L. Garfield chairs the Philosophy department and directs Smith’s logic and Buddhist studies programs and the Five College Tibetan Studies in India program. He is also visiting professor of Buddhist philosophy at Harvard Divinity School, professor of philosophy at Melbourne University and adjunct professor of philosophy at the Central University of Tibetan Studies.
Garfield’s research addresses topics in the foundations of cognitive science and the philosophy of mind; the history of Indian philosophy during the colonial period; topics in ethics, epistemology and the philosophy of logic; methodology in cross-cultural interpretation; and topics in Buddhist philosophy, particularly Indo-Tibetan Madhyamaka and Yogācāra.
Garfield’s most recent books are ''Getting Over Ourselves: How to be a Person Without a Self'' (2022), ''Knowing Illusion: Bringing a Tibetan Debate into Contemporary Discourse'' (with the Yakherds 2021, Buddhist Ethics: A Philosophical Exploration (2021), ̛What Can’t Be Said: Paradox and Contradiction in East Asian Thought (with Yasuo Deguchi, Graham Priest, and Robert Sharf 2021), The Concealed Influence of Custom: Hume’s Treatise From the Inside Out (OUP 2019), ''Minds Without Fear: Philosophy in the Indian Renaissance'' (with Nalini Bhushan, 2017), ''Dignāga’s Investigation of the Percept: A Philosophical Legacy in India and Tibet'' (with Douglas Duckworth, David Eckel, John Powers, Yeshes Thabkhas and Sonam Thakchöe, 2016) ''Engaging Buddhism: Why it Matters to Philosophy'' (2015), ''Moonpaths: Ethics and Emptiness'' (with the Cowherds, 2015) and (edited, with Jan Westerhoff), ''Madhyamaka and Yogācāra: Allies or Rivals?'' (2015). ([https://jaygarfield.org/cv/ Source Accessed on January 19, 2024])
:Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy
:Department of Philosophy Smith College Northampton, MA 01063 USA +
Jayeeta Sharma is an associate professor of history at the University of Toronto. She is the author of ''Empire’s Garden: Assam and the Making of India'' (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011). She is on the editorial board of ''Global Food History'' and the editorial collective of Radical History Review, and is editor of the ''Empires in Perspective'' book series at Routledge. She is the founder of the collaborative Eastern Himalayan Research Network, whose activities include the Project Sherpa digital archive and a Digital Darjeeling portal. ([https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/index.php/transcultural/article/view/23539 Source Accessed Mar 8, 2023]) +
A Gelukpa scholar from Chentsa Mani temple in Qinghai. He wrote a commentary on the ''Ultimate Continuum'' following Gyaltsap Je's interpretation. +
Jean Baker was born to a poor family in the Bronx (Backman, 1998). She suffered from polio from the age of eleven months (Backman, 1988). She had to wear braces until the age of seven and had two operations before twelve years old (Backman, 1988).Growing up during the Great Depression had a great impact on her view of women (Backman, 1988). Most of the families in the neighborhood had working women in them; these families were looked down upon (Backman, 1988). It was during her twice weekly visits to the area hospital brought her in contact with two working women who gave her a positive view of women, a view that would stay with her for the rest of her life. The women were two twin sisters who worked as nurses (Backman, 1988). They were able to convince Miller's mother to allow her to attend a special women's school, the Hunter College High School (Backman, 1988). The school was an hour away by subway, but because of the two nurses' insisting, she was allowed to attend the school , thus starting her on her career (Backman, 1988). Were it not for these two women, women's psychology may be quite different today. [http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/jbmiller.html Source] +
Jean C. Cooper was born in China where she spent much of her childhood. Informed by the perspective of the Perennial Philosophy, she wrote and lectured extensively on the subjects of philosophy, comparative religion, and symbolism. She was the author of lucid introductory works on Chinese religion such as Taoism, the Way of the Mystic (1972), Yin and Yang (1981), and Chinese Alchemy (1984). In addition, she wrote several works in the field of symbolism, including Fairy Tales : Allegories of the Inner Life (1983), Symbolism, the Universal Language (1986), Symbolic and Mythological Animals (1992), and the broad ranging classic in its field, An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols (1978).
[http://www.worldwisdom.com/public/authors/JC-Cooper.aspx Source] +
Jean Filliozat became a medical doctor in 1930, and was awarded a diploma from the École pratique des hautes études in 1934. In 1935 he was awarded a diploma by the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales. He was director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études from 1941 to 1978. He established the Institut Français d'Indologie at Pondicherry in 1955 and was at the same time director of the École Française d'Extrême Orient from 1956 until 1977. He became a member of the Academie in 1966 and vice president of the Societe Asiatique in 1974. He was a member of the Legion d'honneur. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Filliozat Source Accesed Feb 22, 2021]) +
Jean Przyluski (17 August 1885 – 28 October 1944) was a French linguist and scholar of religion and Buddhism of Polish descent. His interests ranged widely through the structure of the Vietnamese language, the development of Buddhist myths and legends, as well as Indo-European folk traditions such as the werewolf cult. In addition, he thought out general theories about the development of religion, which he presented in his magnum opus ''L'Evolution humaine'' (1942). ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Przyluski Source Accessed Aug 24, 2023]) +
