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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]) +
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo is a bhikṣuṇī in the Drukpa Lineage of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. She is an author, teacher and founder of the Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery in Himachal Pradesh, India.
Diane Perry grew up in London's East End. At the age of 18 however, she read a book on Buddhism and realised that this might fill a long-sensed void in her life...
In 1963, at the age of 20, she went to India and met her root guru, His Eminence the 8th Khamtrul Rinpoche of the Drukpa Kagyu lineage.
In 1976 she secluded herself in a remote cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas, where she stayed for 12 years between the ages of 33 and 45. In this mountain hideaway she faced unimaginable cold, wild animals, floods, snow and rockfalls, grew her own food and slept in a traditional wooden meditation box, three feet square - she never lay down. In 1988 she emerged from the cave with a determination to build a convent in northern India to revive the Togdenma lineage, a long-forgotten female spiritual elite. (Source: ''Cave in the Snow'', Bloomsbury, 1999.)
In 2001 construction began at the Padhiarkar site for the [https://tenzinpalmo.com Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery]. H.E. Khamtrul Rinpoche gave the nunnery the name ''Dongyu Gatsal Ling'', which translates as “Garden of the Authentic Lineage”.
In February 2008 Tenzin Palmo was given the rare title of Jetsunma, which means Venerable Master, by His Holiness the 12th Gyalwang Drukpa, Head of the Drukpa Kagyu lineage in recognition of her spiritual achievements as a nun and her efforts in promoting the status of female practitioners in Tibetan Buddhism.
Tenzin Palmo spends most of the year at Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery and occasionally tours to give teachings and raise funds for the ongoing needs of the DGL nuns and Nunnery.
In addition to her role as Founding Director of Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery, Jetsunma is a former President of Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women, Founding Director of the Alliance of Non Himalayan Nuns, Honorary Advisor to the International Network of Engaged Buddhists, co-president of the International Buddhist Confederation [IBC], and Founding Member of the Committee for Bhiksuni Ordination.
To find out more about Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo’s life, read Vicki Mackenzie’s biography Cave in the Snow published by Bloomsbury, and see the ‘Cave in the Snow’ DVD directed by Liz Thompson and narrated by Rachel Ward. ([https://tenzinpalmo.com/jetsunma-tenzin-palmo/ Source: TenzinPalmo.com])
*Books:
**1999. ''Cave in the Snow: A Western Woman's Quest for Enlightenment'', Bloomsbury.
**2002. ''Reflections on a Mountain Lake'', Shambhala Publications.
**2011. ''Into the Heart of Life'', Snow Lion Publications.
Jitāri. [alt. Jetāri] (T. Dgra las rnam rgyal) (fl. c. 940-980). Sanskrit proper name of the author of the ''Hetutattopadeśa'' and a number of short works on pramāṇa in the tradition that follows Dharmakīrti; later Tibetan doxographers . . . characterize him as interpreting Dharmakīrti's works from a
Madhyamaka perspective, leading them to include him in a Yogācāra-Svātantrika-Madhyamaka school following the false aspect (''alīkākara'') position. A Jitāri also appears in the list of the eighty-four mahāsiddhas as a tantric adept; he is also listed as a teacher of Atiśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna. (Source: "Jitāri." In ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'', 393. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.) +
Jhado Rinpoche is one of the most highly esteemed lamas in the Geluk lineage today. In addition to his excellent education in the Geluk monastic college system, over the years Rinpoche has also received many oral transmissions and empowerments from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and his two main tutors, as well as from many great teachers from other traditions. Renowned for his keen intelligence and dynamic teaching style, Jhado Rinpoche is also highly acclaimed for his ability to engage Western students in ways that are interesting and personally relevant. In addition to these qualities, Rinpoche is also well known and loved for his gentle demeanor and his kindness. ([https://maitripa.org/jhado-rinpoche/ Source Accessed Dec 2, 2023]) +
Jih-ch'eng 日稱 (1017–1078 A.D.) was a translator who worked with Dharmarakṣa on the Chinese translations of the ''Saddharmasmṛtyupasthānasūtra'', Śāntideva's ''Śikṣāsamuccaya'', as well as the ''Pitāputrasamāgamanasūtra''. +
Jikido Takasaki, D. Litt. (1926-2013), was a specialist in Indian Buddhism, especially the philosophy of Mahayana Buddhism. After graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1950, he studied at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute at Poona, making a special study of the Ratnagotravibhaga, for which he received a Ph.D. degree in 1959 from the University of Poona. He began his teaching career in 1957 at Komazawa University, Tokyo, and after a period of teaching at Osaka University he eventually gained a professorship at the University of Tokyo in 1977, from where he retired in 1987. ([https://www.amazon.com/Study-Ratnagotravibhaga-Uttaratantra-Treatise-Tathagatagarbha/dp/8120836421 Source Accessed Oct 24, 2019]) +
A student of Khenchen Pema Tsewang Gyatso. A teacher of The Fifth Druktrül, Pema Tutop Dorje; The Fourth Tertön Wangchen Gyepai Dorje; Jikme Yeshe Nyingpo, and so forth. +
Jim holds an MA in Tibetan Studies from the University of Hamburg (with minors in Classical Indology and Ethnology) and a PhD from the University of the West of England (taught at Bath Spa University). Next to various postdoctoral research projects at the University of Hamburg, he has taught at the University of Copenhagen and as Acting Professor for Tibetan Studies in Bonn. Jim has been engaged in various interdisciplinary teaching projects and acted as interpreter for Tibetan. His research focuses on Tibetan literary genres, religious history of the Tibetan plateau and Buddhist meditative traditions. Recent publications include ''Tibetan Literary Genres, Texts, and Text Types'' (2015) and the monograph ''The Eighth Karmapa's Life and His Interpretation of the Great Seal'' (2017). ([https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/jim-rheingans.html Source Accessed September 9, 2021])
He recently completed a monograph about ''The Life and Works of Karma 'phrin las pa'' (1456–1539). +
Dr. Jim Valby has been a student of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu since 1982. He earned M.A. and Ph.D degrees in Far Eastern Studies under Dr. Herbert V. Guenther of the University of Saskatchewan in 1973 & 1983 focussing on the texts of Shrisingha and Vimalamitra. Now he is preparing English translations of some early rgyud lungs of Dzogchen Semde, Longde and Upadesha. ([https://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/Jim_Valby Source]) +
Jin Y. Park is Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Founding Director of Asian Studies Program at American University. Park's research areas include East Asian Buddhism (especially Zen and Huayan Buddhism), postmodernism, deconstruction, Buddhist ethics, Buddhist philosophy of religion, Buddhist-postmodern comparative philosophy, and modern East Asian philosophy. Park’s research in Buddhism focuses on the Zen and Huayan schools of East Asian Buddhism on language, violence, and ethics. In her comparative study, Park reads Zen and Huayan Buddhism together with postmodern thought in Continental philosophy, with a special focus on Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction. Park’s research on modern East Asian philosophy examines the dawn of philosophy in East Asia and the East-West encounter in this context. In her monograph ''Buddhism and Postmodernity: Zen, Huayan, and the Possibility of Buddhist-Postmodern Ethics'' (2008), Park discusses Buddhism and continental philosophy on the topics of, among others, self, language, and violence. In this book, Park offers the "ethics of tension" as a potential ethical paradigm drawn from Buddhism and postmodern philosophy. ''Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun'' (2014), is a translation of a book published in Korean in 1960 by Kim Iryŏp (1896-1971), a writer, first-generation Korean feminist, Buddhist nun, and philosopher. In this book, Kim Iryŏp offers a creative interpretation of Buddhist philosophy and practice. In ''Women and Buddhist Philosophy: Engaging Zen Master Kim Iryop'' (2017), Park proposes a new mode of philosophizing based on the discussion of Kim Iryŏp’s life and philosophy. Park is also the editor of volumes: ''Buddhisms and Deconstructions'' (2006), ''Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism'' (co-edited, 2009), ''Comparative Political Theory and Cross-Cultural Philosophy'' (2009), and ''Makers of Modern Korean Buddhism'' (2010). ([https://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/jypark.cfm Source Accessed May 18, 2020]) +
Jingjue. (J. Jōkaku; K. Chǒnggak 淨覺) (683-c. 760). Chinese author of the ''Lengqie shizi ji'' ("Records of the Masters and Disciples of the Laṅkāvatārasūtra" ); an early lineage record of the Chan zong, presented from the standpoint of the so-called Northern school (Bei zong). (Source: "Jingjue." In ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'', 389. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.) +
