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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]) +
Joseph Edkins (19 December 1823 – 23 April 1905) was a British Protestant missionary who spent 57 years in China, 30 of them in Beijing. As a Sinologue, he specialised in Chinese religions. He was also a linguist, a translator, and a philologist. Writing prolifically, he penned many books about the Chinese language and the Chinese religions especially Buddhism. In his ''China's Place in Philology'' (1871), he tries to show that the languages of Europe and Asia have a common origin by comparing the Chinese and Indo-European vocabulary. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Edkins Source Accessed Apr 22, 2022]) +
Joseph Goldstein has been leading insight and lovingkindness meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. He is a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where he is one of the organization’s guiding teachers. In 1989, together with several other teachers and students of insight meditation, he helped establish the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.
Joseph first became interested in Buddhism as a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand in 1965. Since 1967 he has studied and practiced different forms of Buddhist meditation under eminent teachers from India, Burma and Tibet. He is the author of ''Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening'', ''A Heart Full of Peace'', ''One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism'', ''Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom'', ''The Experience of Insight'', and co-author of ''Seeking the Heart of Wisdom'' and ''Insight Meditation: A Correspondence Course''. (Source: [https://www.dharma.org/teacher/joseph-goldstein/ Insight Meditation Society]) +
Joseph Kimmel is serving as Instructor in Graeca during the 2020–21 academic year. He recently earned a Teaching Certificate from Harvard University’s Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and has been awarded multiple Certificates of Distinction in Teaching from the Bok Center for his work as a teaching fellow. He has served in this capacity (and as head teaching fellow) in a variety of courses both at Harvard Divinity School and Harvard College, and also has worked as a visiting lecturer at a college in Nepal. His dissertation in progress focuses on ancient Mediterranean perceptions and uses of proper names as tools of power, especially as presented in early Christian texts and amulets. ([https://hds.harvard.edu/people/joseph-kimmel Source Accessed Apr 1, 2021]) +
Joseph (Joe) Loizzo, MD, PhD, is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and Columbia-trained Buddhist scholar with over forty years’ experience studying the beneficial effects of contemplative practices on healing, learning and development. He is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in Integrative Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he researches and teaches contemplative self-healing and optimal health. He has taught the philosophy of science and religion, the scientific study of contemplative states, and the Indo-Tibetan mind and health sciences at Columbia University, where he is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Columbia Center for Buddhist Studies. ([https://nalandainstitute.org/staff/loizzo-joe/ Source Accessed Nov 21, 2023]) +
Joe McClellan became a student of Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche in 1996. He earned a BA in History from the University of Washington, and then studied Tibetan language and philosophy in Nepal for two years. Joe then received MA, MPhil, and PhD degrees in Columbia University’s Department of Religion, where he focused on comparative philosophy. Subsequently, he taught Western and Asian philosophies and religions, as well as gender studies, at several colleges in the U.S. Since 2017, he has taught at colleges in Bangladesh, Myanmar, and most recently in Bhutan. He is a contributor to [https://treasuryoflives.org/bo/search/by_author/Joseph-McClellan Treasury of Lives], [https://www.lotsawahouse.org/translators/joseph-mcclellan/ Lotsawa House], and the Khyentse Vision Project. ([https://www.khyentsevision.org/team/joe-mcclellan/ Source Accessed January 19, 2024]) +
Joseph Stephen O’Leary is an Irish Roman Catholic theologian. Born in Cork, 1949, he studied literature and theology at Maynooth College (BA 1969; DD 1976). He also studied at the Gregorian University, Rome (1972-3) and in Paris (1977–79). Ordained for the Diocese of Cork and Ross in 1973, he was a chaplain at University College Cork (1980–81). He taught theology at the University of Notre Dame (1981–82) and Duquesne University (1982–83) before moving to Japan in August, 1983. He worked as a researcher at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Nanzan University, Nagoya (1985–86), where he later held the Roche Chair for Interreligious Research (2015–16). He taught in the Faculty of Letters at Sophia University, Tokyo, from 1988 to 2015.
Other assignments include teaching philosophy and theology in the Philippines in 1986–87, the Lady Donnellan Lecturership at Trinity College Dublin, in the spring of 1991, the Chaire Étienne Gilson at the Institut Catholique de Paris, March, 2011, and visiting fellowships at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1997 and the Humboldt Universität, Berlin (with the Romano Guardini Stiftung) in 2012.
Joseph O’Leary is editorial assistant to The Japan Mission Journal, which often publishes articles of interreligious interest, and is a regular participant in the Tokyo Buddhist Discussion Group. He frequently attends academic conferences, including the quadrennial Origenianum and Gregory of Nyssa conferences, the Oxford Patristic Conference, the biennial Enrico Castelli conference in philosophy of religion (University of Rome La Sapienza), the International James Joyce Symposium, the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, the International Association for Buddhist Studies, and many conferences held at Cerisy-la-Salle in Normandy.
With Richard Kearney and William Desmond, O'Leary was named one of "three Irish Philosophers plying their trade abroad" in Irish Times (2003). ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_S._O%27Leary Source Accessed Apr 14, 2021])
Joseph Walser is Associate Professor of Religion at Tufts University, Medford MA. He works on Mahayana Buddhism and has published two books: Nagarjuna in Context: Mahayana Buddhism and Early Indian Culture (Columbia University Press, 2005) and more recently Genealogies of Mahayana Buddhism: Emptiness, Power and the Question of Origin (Routledge, 2018). ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKXy_saMqZU Source: Center for Buddhist Studies: Accessed January 3, 2021])
His PhD came from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL in 1997 with a dissertation titled: Logic, Scripture, and Allusion: The Recontextualization of Canon in the Early Madhyamika Thought of Nagarjuna +
Joseph Waxman is a writing and editing professional from Vershire, Vermont. He performs medical and scientific writing, writing on Buddhist teachings, and writes fiction. He is currently an editor for [https://www.mangalashribhuti.org/ Mangala Shri Bhuti], the Dharma organization of Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. He has served as editor for ''Training in Tenderness'' and ''The Intelligent Heart'', both by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, published by Shambhala in 2018 and 2016. He was the Editor-in-chief of ''Crucial Point'', a journal of Tibetan Buddhist teachings by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche and other teachers in the Longchen Nyingtik lineage. And he was co-editor of ''Like a Diamond'', Dzigar Kongtrul's book-length overview of the Tibetan Buddhist path, published by Palri Editions in 2008. ([https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-waxman-4060932a/ Adapted from Source Apr 5, 2021]) +
Joshua is a doctoral candidate in Buddhist Studies at Northwestern University. His dissertation research considers the gendered dimensions of tantric ritual, narrative, and ideology in Tibetan Vajrayāna Buddhism, with particular interest in the role of masculinity in tantric Buddhist subject formation. His dissertation focuses on the life and writings of Do Khyentsé Yeshé Dorjé, the deer-hunting, alcohol-drinking, gun-wielding tantric master from the Golok region of eastern Tibet. He holds an M.A. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder, an M.Div. in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism from Naropa University, and a B.A. in Religious Studies from Georgetown. He is advised by Sarah Jacoby.
Joshua currently serves as the Graduate Coordinator for the Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series at Northwestern. ([https://religious-studies.northwestern.edu/people/graduate-students/joshua-shelton.html Source Accessed Oct. 31, 2023]) +
As Editor-in-Chief of the Lamrim Chenmo Translation Committee, Cutler spent 12 years overseeing a team of a dozen scholars in editing and translating ''The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment'', the early 15th-century work by Tsong-kha-pa. Along with his wife, Diana, Cutler serves as co-director of the Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center (TBLC) in Washington, N.J. +
