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Joerg Tuske is Professor of Philosophy at Salisbury University in Maryland. Originally from Hamburg, Tuske completed his undergraduate studies and MA in Philosophy at King’s College London, before studying Sanskrit at the University of Pune in India. Afterwards he took his MPhil and PhD at Cambridge. His main research interests are in Classical Indian Philosophy and in Philosophy of Mind. He edited ''Indian Epistemology and Metaphysics'', which was published by Bloomsbury in 2017. ([https://philosophynow.org/issues/132/Joerg_Tuske Source Accessed May 18, 2021]) +
Jogamuni Bajrācārya was a Nepalese scholar and translator. He was involved in Buddhist studies and contributed to the field of Sanskrit and Nepali literature. Bajrācārya published a work titled ''Asta Sahasrika'', which includes a chapter where Lord Buddha addresses Subhuti. He was also associated with the translation or interpretation of Buddhist texts, particularly those related to the ''Bodhicaryāvatāra'', an important Mahayana Buddhist text.
Bajrācārya's notable works include:
*''Bodhi-parināmanā: manushyapisam āsikāyāyemāhgu'', published in Kathmandu in 1981.
*''Asta Sahasrika'', which contains discussions on Buddhist philosophy. +
Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern (6 April 1833 – 4 July 1917) was a Dutch linguist and Orientalist. In the literature, he is usually referred to as H. Kern or Hendrik Kern; a few other scholars bear the same surname. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Hendrik_Caspar_Kern Source Accessed Aug 11, 2021]) +
Johannes Nobel (25 June 1887 – 22 October 1960) was a German Indologist and Buddhist scholar.
[He] was born on 25 June 1887 in Forst (Lausitz). He studied Indo-European languages, Arabic, Turkish and Sanskrit at the University of Greifswald from 1907, then from 1908 at the Friedrich Wilhelms University Berlin. In 1911 he completed his PhD thesis on the history of the Alamkãraśāstra, and decided to work as a librarian. In 1915 he passed the library examinations and found employment at the Old Royal Library in Berlin. In the First World War, Nobel joined the Landsturm and was temporarily employed by the Supreme Army Command as chief interpreter for Turkish.
In March 1920, Nobel joined the Preußische Staatsbibliothek as a librarian and in the same year, he successfully defended his habilitation thesis, a work on Indian poetics. He received his teaching qualification in Indian philology at the University of Berlin in 1921. At the same time, he learned Chinese, Tibetan and Japanese and devoted himself to the research in Buddhist Studies.
In 1927, Nobel was appointed extraordinary professor in Berlin. On 1 April 1928 he accepted a professorship for indology at the University of Marburg, which he held until his retirement in 1955. He did not try to ingratiate himself with national socialism, although he had, in November 1933, been one of the signers of the confession of professors at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler and the national socialist state. His successor on the Marburg chair was Wilhelm Rau; Claus Vogel is one of Nobel's Marburg pupils.
Nobel's extensive studies and critical editions of Suvaraprabhāsasūtra (Golden Light Sutra), one of the most important Mahāyāna-Sūtras, appeared between 1937 and 1958. In 1925, Nobel published the translation of the Amaruśataka by Friedrich Rückert.
Nobel's study book, his personal files and some unpublished manuscripts, including a corrected German version of his habilitation thesis, were discovered in his former institute in 2008. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Nobel Source Accessed Jan 19, 2022])
Johannes Rahder (December 27, 1898 – March 3, 1988), Dutch Orientalist, professor of Japanese at the University of Leiden (1931–1946) and Yale University (1947–1965).
Rahder was born in Lubuk Begalung, the Dutch East Indies, now a subdistrict of Padang, where his father was governor of the west coast of Sumatra. The fact that he requested as a birthday present a library when he was five years old suggests that he was a precocious child.
He earned his doctorate at the University of Utrecht for an edition of the text of Daśabhûmikasûtra (1926). Because of his interest in Buddhism and linguistics, he not only studied Sanskrit and Pali, but also Chinese, Japanese and many other languages. After working for several years on the Buddhist Dictionary Hôbôgirin (published by the Maison Franco-Japonaise in Tokyo), he was appointed Professor of Sanskrit, Avestan, Old Persian and principles of Indo-Germanic linguistics at the University of Utrecht (1930).
In 1933, during one of his many visits to the Far East, Rahder shared a trip on the Trans-Siberian Railway with poet Langston Hughes who characterized Rahder as "a famous authority on obscure Oriental languages," who, having lost his luggage, "had nothing with him but paper and pencils, not even a change of clothing for the trip across the Soviet Union." ("I Wonder as I Wander," Langston Hughes, Hill and Wang Publishers, pages 233-234, 1956 )
Barely a year later, he exchanged the chair for that in Japanese language and literature at Leiden University. In 1946 he resigned from his post at Leiden, and joined the faculty at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where he had been a visiting professor during 1937–1938. The following year he went to Yale University, where he was Professor of Japanese from 1947 until his retirement in 1965. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Rahder Source Accessed Aug 27, 2021]) +
John Abramson is retired and lives in the Lake District in Cumbria, England. He obtained an MSc in Transpersonal Psychology and Consciousness Studies in 2011 when Les Lancaster and Mike Daniels ran this course at Liverpool John Moores University. He is currently studying for a distance learning Buddhist Studies MA at the University of South Wales. ([http://www.integralworld.net/abramson2.html Source Accessed Apr 9, 2021]) +
John B. Carman in Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Religion Emeritus at Harvard Divinity School. +
John Blofeld was a British writer, public speaker, and Buddhist practitioner. After years of traveling through Asia and experiencing the spiritual culture of China and the Taoist eremites, he became a pupil of the Buddhist master Hsu Yun. Books he has written or translated include ''Beyond the Gods'', ''Secret and Sublime'', ''The Tantric Mysticism of Tibet'', and a translation of the ''I Ching''. He died in 1987. ([https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/236850/john-blofeld/ Source Accessed Jan 12, 2022]) +
John C. Huntington dedicated the past 45 years to the study of Buddhist art in all of its forms. His primary interests are the communication values of the various art forms, how the arts set the environment of attainment for the practitioner, and the practice methodologies that involve art as part of rituals and the like. He has taught at the Ohio State University since fall of 1970 and during his time there has helped build a flourishing program in Asian art history.
John Huntington is also both the principal photographer for and the Co-founding Director (with Susan L. Huntington) of the Huntington Photographic Archive of Buddhist and Asian Art at the Ohio State University. The archive has made available nearly two hundred thousand photographs and other resources to scholars and the interested public of Buddhist art from many areas of Asia. ([https://huntingtonarchive.org/about.php Source: Huntington Archive])
A List of Publications can be found here: https://huntingtonarchive.org/resources/JCHPublications.php +
Is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia and the Founder of the Contemplative Sciences Center (uvacontemplation.org), of which he is currently the Coordinating Director of Yoga Programs. He is a longtime practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism and has been practicing Ashtanga Yoga for over twenty years, seventeen of which were under the direct guidance of Shri K. Pattabhi Jois. In 2003 he was honored to become one the few Certified teachers of Ashtanga Yoga worldwide. He lives with his wife and three children in Charlottesville, VA. ([https://menla.org/teachers/john-campbell/ Source Accessed July 6, 2023]) +
John Canti is a Buddhist practitioner, translator, physician and the current Editorial Director of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. John first had contact with Buddhist teachers while studying medicine at Cambridge University in England, and started to practice under their guidance. In 1972, he met Dudjom Rinpoche, who became one of his three principal teachers. The others were Kangyur Rinpoche and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, both of whom he met soon afterwards.
In 1980 John undertook 2 consecutive three-year retreats retreats in the Dordogne, France, practicing under the guidance of Dudjom Rinpoche, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Pema Wangyal Rinpoche, and Nyoshul Khenpo. Inspired by their teachers and with the aim of making some of the major works of Tibetan Buddhism available to Western readers, John and some of his fellow retreatants formed the Padmakara Translation Group, of which he is now president. He also had the honor of serving Dudjom Rinpoche as physician during his final years, and subsequently coordinated the medical care of other lamas and practitioners in India, Nepal, and Europe, as well as that of three-year retreatants in the Dordogne.
Still based in the Dordogne, he has continued his translation work with Padmakara, and for many years was also a Tsadra Foundation Fellow. In 2009, John was appointed Editorial Chair of the 84000 project by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche. ([https://84000.co/public-talk-sunday-dec-15th-berlin/ Source Accessed Jan 15, 2020]) +
John Hurrell Crook (27 November 1930 – 15 July 2011) was a British ethologist who filled a pivotal role in British primatology.
As Reader in Ethology (animal behaviour) in the Psychology Department of University of Bristol, he led a research group studying social and reproductive behaviour in birds and primates throughout the 1970s–80s, turning to the socio-psychological anthropology of Himalayan peoples in the 1990s. In his later years he was the Teacher of the Western Chan Fellowship. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Crook_(ethologist) Source Accessed Nov 29, 2023]) +
John Deweese served as an editor for ''Drops of Nectar'', Andreas Kretschmar's translation of Khenpo Kunpal’s commentary on the ''Bodhicaryāvatāra''. He was also an editor for Rje btsun grags pa rgyal mtshan's ''Parting from the Four Attachments''. +
John Dunne was educated at Amherst College and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. from the Committee on the Study of Religion. Before joining the Emory community, he served on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and he previously conducted research at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland and Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (India). His work focuses on Buddhist philosophy and contemplative practice, and he is a co-director of Emory's Collaborative for Contemplative Studies as well as the Encyclopedia of Contemplative Practices. His current research focuses especially on the concept of "mindfulness" in both theoretical and practical contexts. +
John Clifford Holt joined the Bowdoin faculty in 1978. He taught courses about Asian religious traditions, especially Hinduism and Buddhism, as well as courses on theoretical approaches to the study of religion. In 1982, he organized and founded the Inter-collegiate Sri Lanka Education (ISLE) Program for a consortium of private liberal arts colleges, and in 1986 he became the first chair of Bowdoin's Asian Studies Program. ([https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/jholt/index.html Source Accessed Nov 29, 2023]) +
John Holder is a professor of Philosophy at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin. His primary area of research is comparative philosophy, in particular, the comparison of early Buddhism and John Dewey's pragmatism. He is currently working on a naturalistic conception of religious experience that draws on key elements in both of these philosophical traditions.
His publications include a Hackett textbook ''Early Buddhist Discourses'' that contains translations of and introductions to 20 discourses from the Pali Canon (the earliest Buddhist scriptures).
He is an active member of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy and the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy [(https://www.snc.edu/academics/faculty/john.holder.html Adapted from Source May 18, 2021]) +
John Jorgensen is a senior research associate in the Chinese Studies Research Centre at La Trobe University. A specialist in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Buddhism, he taught at Griffith University in Queensland and was a researcher at The Australian National University before taking up his current role at La Trobe University. ([http://buddhanature.tsadra.org/index.php/Books/Treatise_on_Awakening_Mah%C4%81y%C4%81na_Faith Source Accessed Jan 6, 2020]) +
Father John Kerr Locke was one of the world’s foremost scholars of Newar Buddhism. +
John Kieschnick is The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Professor of Buddhist Studies. Professor Kieschnick specializes in Chinese Buddhism, with particular emphasis on its cultural history. He is the author of the ''Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval China'' and ''The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture''. He is currently working on a book on Buddhist interpretations of the past in China, and a primer for reading Buddhist texts in Chinese. John is co-director of the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford.
Ph.D., Stanford University (1996); B.A., University of California at Berkeley (1986). ([https://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/people/john-kieschnick Source Accessed June 18, 2020])
[https://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj5946/f/kieschnick_2020_c.v._long_0.pdf CV] +
John Makeham specializes in the intellectual history of Chinese philosophy. He has a particular interest in Confucian thought throughout Chinese history and, in more recent years, in the influence of Sinitic Buddhist thought on pre-modern and modern Confucian philosophy. Educated at ANU, He has held academic positions at Victoria University of Wellington, University of Adelaide, National Taiwan University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and ANU. ([https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/display/jmakeham Source Accessed Jan 6, 2020]) +
