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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). +
Jon Wetlesen (born 15 June 1940 ) is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Oslo. Wetlesen has especially worked with ethics, including animal welfare. [Jon received his PhD] in 1976 with the dissertation "The Sage and the Way: Spinoza 's Ethics of Freedom." He has written teaching compendiums for philosophy students (''Practical Argumentation: An Introduction to Ethics and Lectures on the History of Ethics'') and several books, including ''Self-Knowledge and Liberation: A Buddhist Perspective'' (1983, 2000), ''Ethical Thinking'' (1996) and ''Biocentric Moral Status: The Moral Status of Beings Who Are Not Persons; A Casuistic Argument'' (2005). He has translated and written an introduction to Master Eckhart's ''Becoming Who You Are'' in the series Thorleif Dahl's Cultural Library 2000, republished in the series World's Holy Scriptures 2008. ([https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Wetlesen Source Accessed Jan 28, 2021]) +
Jonardon Ganeri is Global Network Professor, Faculty of Arts and Science, New York University, Visiting Professor of Philosophy at King's College London, and Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. His research interests are in consciousness, self, attention, the epistemology of inquiry, the idea of philosophy as a practice and its relationship with literary form, case-based reasoning, multiple-category ontologies, non-classical logics, realism in the theory of meaning, the history of ideas in early modern South Asia, the polycentricity of modernity, cosmopolitanism, and cross-cultural hermeneutics, intellectual affinities between India, Greece, and China, and early Buddhist philosophy of mind. His books include ''Attention, Not Self'' (Oxford University Press, 2017); ''The Self: Naturalism, Consciousness, and the First-Person Stance'' (Oxford University Press, 2012); ''The Lost Age of Reason: Philosophy in Early Modern India 1450–1700'' (Oxford University Press, 2011); ''The Concealed Art of the Soul'' (Oxford University Press, 2007); and ''Philosophy in Classical India: The Proper Work of Reason'' (Routledge, 2001). He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and laureate of the Infosys Prize in the Humanities 2015. He has been named by Open Magazine one of India's "50 Open Minds" in 2016. (Source: ''The Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy'', xi) +
Jonathan Barnes, FBA (born 26 December 1942 in Wenlock, Shropshire) is an English scholar of Aristotelian and ancient philosophy.
<h2>Education and career</h2>
He was educated at the City of London School[1] and Balliol College, Oxford University.[1]
He taught for 25 years at Oxford University before moving to the University of Geneva. He was a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, 1968–78;[1] a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, 1978–94, and has been Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College since 1994.[1]
He was Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Oxford University, 1989–94.[1]
He was Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Geneva 1994–2002.[1]
He taught at the University of Paris-Sorbonne in France, and took his éméritat in 2006.
He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1987.[1]
He is an expert on ancient Greek philosophy, and has edited the two-volume collection of Aristotle's works as well as a number of commentaries on Aristotle, the pre-Socratics and other areas of Greek thought.
He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999.[2]
He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2012.[3]
<h2>Family</h2>
He married in 1965 and has two daughters.[2]
He is the brother of the novelist Julian Barnes, and he and his family feature in the latter's memoir Nothing to be Frightened Of (2008).
<h2>Philosophical views</h2>
Barnes holds that our modern notion of the scientific method is "thoroughly Aristotelian." He emphasizes the point in order to refute empiricists Francis Bacon and John Locke, who thought they were breaking with the Aristotelian tradition. He claims that the "outrageous" charges against Aristotle were brought by men who did not read Aristotle's own works with sufficient attention and who criticized him for the faults of his successors.[4]
<h2>Writings</h2>
''The Complete Works of Aristotle'', 2 vols, 1984; reprinted with corrections, 1995 (General Editor)<br>
''Posterior Analytics'' (translation and commentary on Aristotle), (1975) (revised edition, 1994)<br>
''The Ontological Argument'' (1972)<br>
''Presocratic Philosophers'' 2 Vols., 1979; 1 vol. revised edition, 1982<br>
''Aristotle'' (1982)<br>
''The Modes of Scepticism'' (1985), with Julia Annas<br>
''Early Greek Philosophy'' (1987)<br>
''The Toils of Scepticism'' (1990)<br>
''The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle'' (1995)<br>
''Logic and the Imperial Stoa'' (1997)<br>
Barnes, Jonathan (2000). ''Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction''. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-285408-7.<br>
''Porphyry: introduction'' (2003)<br>
''Truth, etc.'' (2007)<br>
''Coffee with Aristotle'' (2008)<br>
''Methods and Metaphysics: Essays in Ancient Philosophy I'' (2011)<br>
''Logical Matters: Essays in Ancient Philosophy II'' (2012)<br>
''Proof, Knowledge, and Scepticism: Essays in Ancient Philosophy III'' (2014)<br>
''Mantissa: Essays in Ancient Philosophy IV'' (2015) ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Barnes Source Accessed Feb 2, 2023])
Jonathan Best received his PhD from Harvard University in 1976; unusual for its time it was a joint degree from the Department of Fine Arts and the Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations. Subsequently he has taught East Asian art history at the University of Virginia and Wesleyan University, but his research and publications—all focused on early Korea—have addressed religious history, diplomatic and political history, as well as art history. His current research project is an investigation of the manifold chronological problems in the earliest chronicles of Korea and Japan, the ''Samguk sagi'' and the ''Nihon shoki''. Having retired from teaching at Wesleyan in July 2014, he is now happily focused on this intriguing and multidimensional historiographic puzzle. In part preparatory to the four-volume study projected as the culmination of this research program, he published ''A History of the Early Korean Kingdom of Paekche—together with an annotated translation of the Paekche Annals of the Samguk sagi'' (Harvard University East Asia Center, 2006). In addition to enjoying all the rights and privileges attendant to being an emeritus professor at Wesleyan, he is currently an Associate in Research at Yale, a member of the Steering Committee for the Early Korea Project at Harvard (now the Cambridge Institute for the Study of Korea or CISK), and a Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. ([https://ceas.yale.edu/people/jonathan-best Source Accessed Sept 10, 2020]) +
Jonathan C. Gold is Assistant Professor and Behrman Faculty Fellow in the Department of Religion at Princeton University, which he joined in 2008. His research focuses on Indian and Tibetan Buddhist approaches to interpretation, translation, learning and knowledge. He is the author of ''The Dharma’s Gatekeepers: Sakya Paṇḍita on Buddhist Scholarship in Tibet'' (State University of New York Press, 2007) and ''Paving the Great Way: Vasubandhu’s Unifying Buddhist Philosophy'' (Columbia University Press, 2014). He is founder of the Princeton University Buddhist Ethics Reading Group and co-chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Comparative Philosophy. +
Jonathan Landaw spent six years living in northern India studying Tibetan Buddhism and is the editor and author of a number of Buddhist books. He has led meditation courses at Buddhist centers for over twenty-five years and is a popular teacher at dharma centers around the world.
Jonathan Landaw, author of ''Buddhism for Dummies'', was born in New Jersey in 1944. From 1972 to 1977 Jon worked as an English editor for the Translation Bureau of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives producing numerous texts under the guidance of Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey. As a student of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche since 1973, Jon has edited numerous works for Wisdom Publications, including ''Wisdom Energy'' and ''Introduction to Tantra''. He is also the author of ''Prince Siddhartha'', a biography of Buddha for children, and ''Images of Enlightenment'', published by Snow Lion in 1993. As an instructor of Buddhist meditation, he has taught in numerous Dharma centers throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Capitola, California, with his wife and three children. +
Jonathan Samuels (Sherab Gyatso) received his Geluk education as a monk at monasteries in India, beginning at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in Dharamsala, and gained the title of geshe at Drepung Loseling Monastery. He also holds a DPhil in Oriental studies from Oxford University. He was the principal teacher for the Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Program in Dharamsala, served as interpreter for his teacher Gen Lobsang Gyatso, translated several of his books, including Bodhicitta: Cultivating the Compassionate Mind of Enlightenment, and wrote the Tibetan language guide Colloquial Tibetan: The Complete Course for Beginners. He currently works as an academic and has held posts at Oxford University and Heidelberg University. He presently works for the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. (Source: Wisdom Publications) +
Silk (1960-) studied East Asian Studies at the Oberlin College in Ohio and subsequently Buddhist Studies at the University of Michigan. At the latter university he obtained his PhD in 1994 with the thesis: ''The Origins and Early History of the Mahāratnakūţa Tradition of Mahāyāna Buddhism, With a Study of the Ratnarāśisūtra and Related Materials''.
During his studies, Silk spent several years in Japan. After his PhD, he became Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Grinnell College in Iowa and in 1995 at the Department of Comparative Religion of the Western Michigan University. From 1998 until 2002 he taught in the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University, and from 2002 in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Since 2007 he has been Professor in the study of Buddhism at Leiden. In 2010 he was awarded a VICI grant from the NWO (Dutch National Science Foundation) for project: “Buddhism and Social Justice.” In 2016 he was elected as a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen [KNAW]).
Currently, Silk is Professor of Buddhist Studies at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. He specializes in Buddhism in its Asian contexts, primarily from a historical point of view. He has a special interest in Buddhist scriptures.
Research:
Silk’s scientific orientation on Buddhism is very broad, in time as well as geographically: his interest covers the oldest primary sources and the rise of Buddhist communities all over Asia, but he is equally interested in the spread of Buddhism throughout Asia. Silk reads Sanskrit, Pāli, , Classic Tibetan, Classic Chinese, and Japanese.
Recent publications:
2016 - ''Materials Toward the Study of Vasubandhu’s Viṁśikā (I): Sanskrit and Tibetan Critical Editions of the Verses and Autocommentary; An English Translation and Annotations''. Harvard Oriental Series 81 (Cambridge MA: Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University).
2015 - ''Buddhist Cosmic Unity: An Edition, Translation and Study of the Anūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśaparivarta''. Hamburg Buddhist Studies 4 (Hamburg: Hamburg University Press). Indian Buddhist Monasticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
2015 - ''Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Volume I: Literature and Languages''. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section Two, India, 29/1. Leiden: Brill. (editor)
2013 - ''Buddhism in China: Collected Papers of Erik Zürcher''. Sinica Leidensia 112 (Leiden: Brill). (co-editor) ([https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/jonathan-silk/publications#tab-2 Source Accessed Aug 5, 2020])
Jonathan Walters is Professor of Religion and George Hudson Ball Chair in the Humanities at Whitman College, in Walla Walla, Washington. +
Joona Repo is currently the FPMT Translation Coordinator. He manages, edits, and reviews translations for Education Services and also coordinates the development of our translation policy. Joona has translated many sadhanas, prayers, and practice texts for FPMT such as the Six-Session Guru Yoga, the Sixty-Four Offerings, the Practices of Arya Sitatapatra, and various works on Vajrayogini, including the self-initiation ritual Quick Path to Khechara.
Joona has a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and has held postdoctoral teaching and research positions with a focus on Tibetan art and/or religious history at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Heidelberg University, and the University of Helsinki, and has completed a visiting lectureship at Rangjung Yeshe Institute. His published research includes studies of Gelug history, particularly on Phabongkha Dechen Nyingpo, and work on Tibetan Buddhist painting and architecture.
([https://fpmt.org/education/translation/ Source: FPMT]) +
