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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]) +
John Makransky is a professor of Buddhism and Comparative Theology at Boston College and a Tibetan Buddhist meditation teacher. John has practiced meditations of compassion and wisdom from Tibetan traditions for over thirty years and has developed new ways of bringing them into the worlds of social service and social justice by making them newly accessible to people of all backgrounds and faiths. He has also helped Western Buddhists deepen their contemplative experience of awareness and loving compassion. ([http://www.johnmakransky.org/ Source Accessed Nov 10, 2022]) +
Professor Newman is a historian of religions who specializes in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. His research focuses on the Vajrayana Buddhist Kalacakra tantra (“Wheel of Time system of mysticism”) tradition. He is also interested in Buddhist interactions with other religions, and methodological issues in the cross-cultural study of religions. +
Dr. John Powers is a faculty member in the Australian National University's Centre for Asian Societies and Histories. He is a specialist in Asian religions with a specific focus on Buddhism, India, and Tibet. His latest publication is ''History As Propaganda: Tibetan Exiles versus the People's Republic of China''. Amongst his publications are ''An Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism'' (Snow Lion Publications, 1995); (with J. Hopkins) ''Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Dictionary'' (Charlottesville, VA, 1990); ''The Yogacara School of Buddhism: a Bibliography'' (Metuchen, NJ, 1991); and (with J. Fieser) ''Scriptures of the World's Religions'' (1997). He is a member of the American Academy of Religion; the American Philosophical Association; the Association of Asian Studies; the International Association for Ladakh Studies; the International Association of Tibetan Studies; the Asian Studies Association of Australia; and the International Association of Buddhist Studies. ([http://www.snowlionpub.com/pages/powers.html Source Accessed Jun 7, 2019]) +
John R. McRae was a renowned expert on Chinese Chan who also possessed an extensive knowledge of the field of Buddhism in general. After getting a PhD at Yale University, he taught at Cornell and Indiana Universities before moving to Japan and teaching part-time at Komazawa University. As a specialist in East Asian Buddhism, he was especially interested in ideologies of spiritual cultivation and how they interact with their intellectual and cultural environments. His seminal work on Chinese Chan was ''The Northern School and the Formation of Early Chan Buddhism'', (University of Hawai`i Press, 1986). This was later followed by ''Seeing through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism'', (University of California Press, 2003). He spent much of his career studying the life of the important Chan figure Shenhui (684–758), and was expecting to complete a manuscript on the topic before his untimely passing in October of 2011. John also completed a number of translations of Chinese Buddhist scriptural texts for the Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai's English translation series and served as Chair of the Publication Committee for the series until his passing.
For the DDB, John provided explanations for a number of terms derived from his research in Chinese Chan texts. ([http://www.buddhism-dict.net/credits/mcrae.html Source Accessed Nov. 27, 2019]) +
John S. Strong is an American academic, who is the Charles A. Dana Professor Emeritus at Bates College in the Department of Religious Studies. Strong specializes in Buddhist studies and with emphasis on the Buddha's biography, relics, and the legends and cults of South Asia. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._Strong Source Accessed June 24, 2021])
John Strong came to Bates in 1978, and holds a Ph.D. in History of Religions from the University of Chicago, an M.A. from Hartford Seminary Foundation, and a B.A. from Oberlin College. He retired from teaching in 2017.
His research program is in the area of Buddhist Studies, with a special focus on Buddhist legendary and cultic traditions in India and South Asia. He has received fellowships for his work from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Peradeniya, the University of Chicago, and Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford Universities. He is the author of numerous articles and of ''The Legend of King Asoka'' (Princeton, 1983), ''The Legend and Cult of Upagupta'' (Princeton, 1992), ''The Experience of Buddhism'' (Wadsworth, 1995), ''The Buddha: A Beginner's Guide'' (OneWorld Publications, 2001), ''Relics of the Buddha'' (Princeton, 2004), and ''Buddhisms: An Introduction'' (OneWorld, 2015). ([https://www.bates.edu/religion/faculty/strong-john-s/ Source Accessed June 24, 2021]) +
John Stevens is a Zen priest and was a professor of Buddhist Studies and Aikido instructor at Tohoku Fukushi University in Sendai, Japan, where he lived for thirty-five years. He is the author or translator of over forty books on Zen artists and their poetry, painting, and calligraphy, as well as on Aikido, swordsmanship, and other Japanese martial arts traditions. He lives in Honolulu, Hawaii. (Source: [https://www.shambhala.com/authors/o-t/john-stevens.html Shambhala Publications]) +
John Vincent Bellezza is an archaeologist and cultural historian specializing in the pre-Buddhist heritage of Tibet and the Western Himalaya. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Tibet Center, University of Virginia, and the University of Bern, Switzerland, and has lived in high Asia for three decades. Since 1994, Bellezza has comprehensively surveyed ancient monuments and rock art on the uppermost reaches of the Tibetan plateau. He has also extensively studied archaic rituals, myths and narratives in Bon and Old Tibetan literature. In addition to nine books, Bellezza has written numerous academic and popular articles on topics pertaining to early Tibet. He is the first non-Tibetan to have explored both the geographic and ritual sources of each of the four great rivers that emerge from the Mount Kailas region. He also visited most major islands and headlands in the great lakes of Upper Tibet. Bellezza has also traveled widely on foot in the Western Himalayan regions of India and Pakistan. ([http://www.tibetarchaeology.com/about-the-author/ Source Accessed Feb 24, 2023]) +
John Visvader, received his B.A. in Philosophy from the City College of New York, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Minnesota. John taught Humanities at the University of Minnesota, taught Philosophy at the University of Colorado where he won several teaching awards, taught Daoism at the Naropa Institute, and Psychology at Husson University.
John has been at the College of the Atlantic since 1986 where he teaches a large variety of courses in the areas of the philosophies of Science and Technology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Nature, Chinese Philosophy and Poetry, Intellectual History, Comparative Mysticism, and special courses in the philosophies of Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Derrida.
John also informally teaches several forms of Tai Ji, at the College of the Atlantic. ([https://network.expertisefinder.com/experts/john-visvader Source Accessed June 14, 2023]) +
John Whitney Pettit has been a student of many Tibetan and other Buddhist teachers, especially the first Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. He holds advanced degrees in religion and Buddhist Studies from Harvard and Columbia University, and is the author of ''Mipham’s Beacon of Certainty'' (Wisdom, 1999). Since 2005, he has researched and translated Tibetan commentaries on the topic of Buddha-nature, which are the subject of a forthcoming volume to be published by the Institute of Tibetan Classics. ([http://www.ewamchoden.org/?p=3702 Source Accessed Aug 5, 2020]) +
John Ding is a Professor in the Philosophy Dept. at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He teaches courses in Comparative Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, and Asian philosophy. He is currently the Editor-in-chief of the ''Journal of East-West Thought'' and the Secretary-General of the International Association for East-West Studies (IAES). +
