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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]) +
Jean-Pierre Guillaume Pauthier (born in Mamirolle on October 4, 1801 and died in Paris on March 11, 1873) was an orientalist and French poet.
[A] renowned scholar, he published numerous studies and writings on the East (China, India), on the Ionian Islands, and carried out numerous translations, including [works written by] Marco Polo and Confucius. He also translated the ''Essay on the Philosophy of the Hindus'' by Henry Thomas Colebrooke. ([https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Pauthier Adapted from Source Aug 25, 2021]) +
Jed Forman received his undergrad in philosophy from Tufts University with a special certificate for additional studies in Ethics, Law, and Society. After college, he had a successful seven-year career as a computer programmer and street dancer, performing and teaching in New York, LA, and internationally.
Jed received his M.S. with distinction in Kinesiology and Dance from California State University Northridge in 2014. He thereafter returned to his interest in Buddhist philosophy, entering the doctoral program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Completing his research in India under Fulbright and American Institute of Indian Studies grants, he graduated in 2021. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, he was hired as the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Assistant Professor in Buddhist Studies at Simpson College in Indianola, IA.
He is co-author of Knowing Illusion with the Yakherds on the epistemology of Taktsang Lotsāwa. Jed also recently completed his monograph, Out of Sight, Into Mind, which explores yogic perception and its intellectual development from India to Tibet, as well as its connections to Western philosophy. It will be published by Columbia University Press. His research interests include Buddhist epistemology, the cognitive science approach to religion, and phenomenology. {https://simpson.academia.edu/JedForman Source: Simpson Academia, Accessed January 9, 2025]} +
Jeff Watt, one of the leading scholars of Himalayan art, acquired his prodigious knowledge of Buddhist, Bon and Hindu iconography from a longtime study of Buddhism and Tantra. As a teenager, he studied with Dezhung Rinpoche (Seattle, Wash.) and Sakya Trizin (Dehradun, India), dropping out of school at seventeen to take monastic vows from the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa. For the next eleven years, Watt trained intensively in India, Canada and the U.S., with teachers such as Dudjom Rinpoche, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Kalu Rinpoche, and Sakya Jetsun Chimey. In 1985 he gave back his monastic ordinations but continued to study and to translate sacred Tibetan and Sanskrit texts, along with completing numerous traditional retreats over years of periodic isolated practice, much of it in the rugged mountains of British Columbia, Canada.
He is the Director and Chief Curator of Himalayan Art Resources (HAR), a website and 'virtual museum' featuring upwards of 100,000 images with detailed descriptions, making it the most comprehensive resource for Himalayan 'style' art and iconography in the world. He has worked on HAR since April 1998 at which time there were 625 images in total (Tibetan paintings only). Source: ([https://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=1769 Himalayan Art Resources]) +
Jeff Wilson is an ordained minister in the Hongwanji-ha tradition of Shin Buddhism and a professor of religious studies and East Asian studies at Renison University College, University of Waterloo, Ontario. He has published pioneering research on the history of same-sex wedding ceremonies in North America and is the author of ''Buddhism of the Heart'' and ''Mindful America''. ([https://www.lionsroar.com/the-path-of-gratitude/ Source Accessed Nov 12, 2019]) +
Jeffery D. Long is Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Elizabethtown College, where he has taught since receiving his Ph.D. in the philosophy of religions from the University of Chicago Divinity School in the year 2000. Long is the author of three books–''A Vision for Hinduism'' (2007), ''Jainism: An Introduction'' (2009), and ''The Historical Dictionary of Hinduism'' (2011). He is currently working on a two-volume introduction to Indian philosophy, including a textbook and a reader of primary sources. His other publications include over four dozen articles and reviews in various edited volumes and scholarly journals, including ''Prabuddha Bharata'', the ''Journal of Vaishnava Studies'', the ''Journal of Religion'', and the ''Journal of the American Academy of Religion''. He has taught in the International Summer School for Jain Studies in New Delhi, India, lectured at the Siddhachalam Jain Tirth, in Blairstown, New Jersey, and in April 2013, he delivered the inaugural Virchand Gandhi Lecture in Jain Studies at the Claremont School of Theology. Most recently, he spoke at the International Conference on Science and Jain Philosophy, held at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, India. ([https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-94-024-0852-2 Source Accessed Jan 16, 2025]) +
Jeffery Paine is a writer recognized for his work in bringing Eastern culture and spirituality to popular audiences in the West. "Jeffery Paine is an unusual voice in American letters," observed Indian novelist and Underscretary General of the United Nations Shashi Tharoor, "one steeped in the wisdom of the East and yet infused with a knowing and witty sensibility that is profoundly Western." Paine's books, such as Father India and Re-enchantment, have been named by publications ranging from Publishers Weekly to Spirituality & Health as "Best Book of the Year." His writing falls in the category of creative or literary nonfiction, which unites original scholarship with the dramatic narrative and character development associated with a novel.
Paine was born midcentury in Houston and grew up in Goose Creek and Baytown, Texas. He studied history at Rice University and received his PhD in crosscultural intellectual history from Princeton University. When he began writing he supported himself by managing hotels in America and Europe, including the oldest hotel in Amsterdam, and afterwards by working in advertising and public relations. He was later the editor-in-chief of Universal Reference Publishers and literary editor of the magazine the Wilson Quarterly.
He has received fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the American Institute of Indian Studies, and from the Templeton Foundation[9] to study Tibetan medicine at Cambridge University. During the 1990s he was regularly a visiting fellow at the East–West Center in Honolulu and subsequently had residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. Paine has been a guest professor at Princeton University, San Francisco State University, the New School for Social Research, the Volksuniversiteit Amsterdam, and the University of Minnesota. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffery_Paine Source Accessed Feb 6, 2023]) +
Jeffrey D. Schoening is a Tibetan language teacher. He received his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Washington in 1991. His major publication is ''The Sālistamba Sūtra and Its Indian Commentaries''. His current research focuses on Buddhist sūtras and their commentaries and on the Sa skya school of Tibetan Buddhism. +
Jeffrey L. Broughton is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of California, Long Beach. Professor Broughton's specialty is Buddhist Studies (early Ch'an texts). He has a B.A. from Columbia College in English Literature and Oriental Studies and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Classical Chinese from Columbia's Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. +
Jeffrey Samuels is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Western Kentucky University, where he teaches courses on Asian Religions, Theravada Buddhism, Pali, Sanskrit, etc. He received his PhD in 2002 at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several books, articles and reviews. His research interests centre on the intersection of religion and culture in contemporary Sri Lanka and Malaysia. +
Dr. Manlowe has worked as an educator, author, life-clarity coach, couples and family therapist, and group facilitator in many venues since 1988. Before acquiring her clinical degree in Couples and Family Therapy, she received a Bachelor’s in Psychology, a Master’s in Divinity, and a Doctorate in Psychology and Religion with an emphasis on culture and wellness. The first half of her adult life was spent on the East Coast researching, teaching, and writing books. In the second half, she's been devoted to her family and growing as a therapist while living in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, her original home. ([https://emboldenu.com/about/ Adapted from Source May 29, 2023]) +
