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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]) +
Jennifer Shippee is an editor and Buddhist teacher associated with Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. She served as the editor for the book ''Diligence: The Joyful Endeavor of the Buddhist Path'', written by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. Jennifer has been actively involved in promoting and discussing this book, participating in readings and video discussions with Rinpoche about its key themes. (Generated by Perplexity Feb 7, 2025) +
Jenny Bondurant is a Buddhist teacher who leads workshops and retreats for people from all walks of life and traditions. She has practiced meditation for over thirty years and began teaching under the direction of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, with whom she studied until his death. Her teacher is now Anam Thubten, who has ordained her as a teacher in his lineage. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. ([https://www.inquiringmind.com/article/3101_33_bondurant_3-beautiful-loser-shantideva-and-the-way-of-the-bodhisavttva/ Source Accessed Jan 5, 2022]) +
Jens W. Borgland is a historian of religion, philologist and Sanskrit critic, with a broad interest in Indian religion, philosophy and language. His scientific activity mainly deals with illuminating the history of Indian religion - with a special focus on Indian Buddhism - through philological studies of sources in Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan and Chinese. He is particularly interested in Buddhist monastic rules (vinaya) and Sanskrit manuscripts of texts belonging to the Mūlasarvāstivāda school. ([https://katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N17-743 Source Accessed Sep 10, 2021]) +
Jens Braarvig’s main subject is the history, literature and languages of Buddhism.
Among his publications on Buddhism are “The Akṣayamatinirdesasūtra and The Tradition of Imperishability in Buddhist Thought,” the main topic of which is the morality of Mahāyāna Buddhism, and ”Buddhist Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection,” containing a rather recent find of manuscript fragments from Bamiyan, Afghanistan.
He also works with other Indian religious and philosophical traditions, as well as Greek and Mesopotamian religion in a comparative perspective and in a general setting of global and macrohistoric cultural study. His studies are based on comparative and philological methods, and he works with a number of classical and archaic languages from the Mediterranean areas, from early Middle Eastern cultures, as well as classical languages of South, Central and East Asia.
He is also developing methodologies for making philological reasearch relevant for cultural studies, and he has thus created an analytical internet tool – as now available on the internet as Bibliotheca Polyglotta – for understanding the role of linguae francae and multilingualsm in the global diffusion of knowledge.
He is also active as an editor and organizer of popular science. ([https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/people/aca/study-of-religion/tenured/braarvig/ Source Accessed Aug 30, 2021]) +
Jens Wilkens is Turkologist, Indologist and Buddhologist. A specialist for the research on Old Uyghur Buddhist texts. ([https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503567761-1 Source Accessed Aug 1, 2023]) +
Jens-Uwe Hartmann is Professor of Indology at the University of Munich. After studying in Munich and Göttingen he held the post of Professor of Tibetology at Humboldt University in Berlin before returning to Munich in 1999. In 2001 he became a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2007.
He has held visiting appointments at the Collège de France in Paris (2001 and 2004), the Centre for Advanced Study of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences in Oslo (2001–2002), the International College for Advanced Buddhist Studies in Tokyo (2002), the Soka University in Tokyo (2003), the UC Berkeley (2010) and the University of Stanford (2017).
His research centres on the recovery and reconstruction of Indian Buddhist literature on the basis of Indic manuscripts as well as translations into Chinese and Tibetan with a focus on canonical texts and works of poetry. His various authored and coedited works include an edition of the Varṇārhavarṇastotra of Mātṛceṭa (1987), a study of the Dīrghāgama of the Sarvāstivādins (1992), the series Buddhist Manuscripts devoted to the publication of ancient Indic manuscripts from Afghanistan (2000, 2002, 2006, 2016), and From Birch Bark to Digital Data: Recent Advances in Buddhist Manuscript Research (2014). ([https://ceres.rub.de/en/people/juhartmann/ Source Accessed Nov 19, 2021]) +
Before starting his PhD at UW Madison in 2017 under John Dunne, Jeremy spent nine years studying at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in Dharamsala, India. Before that, he completed a masters of theological studies at Harvard Divinity school. He says: "After spending nine years in a Tibetan monastic college in India, I came to UW-Madison to focus on analytic philosophy. Moving between these frameworks forced me to rethink which aspects of Buddhist philosophy required what sort of arguments. These questions eventually led to my dissertation research on Buddhist soteriological concepts. Recently, there has been considerable interest in presenting a scientifically credible “Buddhism 2.0”—an idea which hinges on naturalizing nirvāṇa into a psychological state. The question of whether this makes sense is the entry point for my analysis of Buddhist arguments about nirvāṇa, from Vasubandhu and Candrakīrti to Sakya reflections on the unity of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa." (Jeremy Manheim. Personal Communication. February 3, 2023.) +
Born and educated in England, Jeremy Russell’s interest in Buddhism was initially sparked during his first visit to Dharamsala in the early 1970s. He subsequently studied at the Library of Tibetan Works & Archives for several years. He has lived in Dharamsala with his family since 1981, dividing his time between working as an editor for several offices of the Tibetan government-in-exile and leading trekking groups into the nearby mountains. He is editor of ''Chö-Yang, the Journal of Tibetan Culture''. ([https://teachingsfromtibet.com/2018/08/08/conclusion-and-books-consulted/ Source Accessed Mar 24, 2025]) +
Jerry has been a nembutsu follower for some twenty-five years or so, closely connected with the San Francisco Buddhist Temple most of that time. The late Rev. Ken Yamaguchi took him on as his unofficial assistant many years ago and opened the door to many wonderful experiences that the average lay follower would not have. He has, for most of that time, and continues now, to be an active lay speaker, mostly in the small Shinsu temple in Marin County, across the Golden Gate Bridge - from time to time, he speaks at other temples. ([http://www.nembutsu.info/poets/ Source Accessed Mar 21, 2023]) +
Jes Peter Asmussen (2 November 1928 – 5 August 2002), was a Danish Iranologist.
Asmussen was born and raised in Aabenraa. He studied theology and the Greenlandic language at the University of Copenhagen and earned his candidatus theologiæ degree in 1954. He then studied Iranistics in Cambridge, London, Hamburg, and Tehran, and earned his doctorate in 1965 at the University of Copenhagen. He was associated with the university throughout his academic career, becoming associate professor in 1966 and full professor in 1967, succeeding professor Kaj Barr. He retired in 1998.
Asmussen's research focused on the religions of Iran. He was mostly interested in Manicheism, but also wrote about Zoroastrianism, Islam and Christianity in ancient Iran, as well as the Judeo-Persian language and literature. He is counted among the central figures of the Danish Orientalist scholarship.
He was elected member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 1973 and corresponding member of Saxon Academy of Sciences in 1982. He was appointed a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1976 and received an honorary doctorate from Lund University in 1986.
Asmussen died in 2002 and is interred at the Cemetery of Holmen in Copenhagen. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes_Peter_Asmussen Source Accessed Sep 14, 2021]) +
