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William J. Giddings has a specific interest in the application of critical theory and narratological methods in improving the understanding of the origins and development of early Buddhist mythology. He holds a PhD in theology and religious studies from King’s College London. ([https://www-jstor-org.du.idm.oclc.org/stable/10.7312/salg17994 Source Accessed Sep 13, 2021]) +
Rolf W. Giebel was born in Hawera, New Zealand, in 1954. He came to Japan in 1972 and took a B.A. in Japanese at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 1977 and an M.A. in Indian Philosophy at the University of Tokyo in 1980. After spending three years on the editorial staff of a publishing company in Tokyo, he returned to the University of Tokyo in 1984 and at present continues his studies while working as a translator. Other of his translations include ''Tibetan Buddhist Art'' (Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1984), ''An Introduction to the Buddhist Canon'' (Tokyo: Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, 1984), ''The Alps'' (Tokyo: Gyosei, 1986), and a Japanese translation of ''The Theory and Practice of the Mandala'' by the late Giuseppe Tucci (Tokyo: Hirakawa Shuppansha, 1984). ([https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/files/2018/06/Takasaki-Jikido_An-Introduction-to-Buddhism.pdf Source Accessed July 2, 2020]) +
Mike Gilmore is best known for his editorial work on Commentary on the ''Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva'', a key text in Tibetan Buddhism. This book, translated by Acharya Nyima Tsering and edited by Vyvyan Cayley and Mike Gilmore, was published by the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala in 1995. The text is a practical guide to the Bodhisattva path, offering insights into compassion, wisdom, and ethical living, making it a significant contribution to Buddhist literature. +
A student of Jamgön Kongtrul, Patrul Rinpoche, Mipam Gyatso, etc. A teacher of Mewa Khenchen Sönam Gönpo. +
Lo Lotsāwa was a Tibetan translator who was born sometime in the latter part of twelfth century. He traveled to Nepal and India and received extensive teachings from many Indian masters. The translations of a number of Vajrayāna works are attributed to him. (Thupten Jinpa, ''Mind Training: The Great Collection'', 612n406) +
Count Raniero Gnoli (20 January 1930 – 5 May 2025) was an Italian orientalist, indologist and historian of religion. Pupil of Giuseppe Tucci and Mario Praz, Raniero Gnoli was a Professor of Indology at the University of Rome La Sapienza 1964 to 2000, as well as dean of the "School of Oriental Studies" in the same university. A famous Sanskritist, his scope of research covered the theologies and religious philosophies of India, especially those related to Tantric Shaivism (i.e., Kashmir Shaivism), medieval schools of Buddhist logic, and doctrines mentioned in Kālacakratantra.
Gnoli was also the first to translate many texts belonging to the Indian religious traditions from Sanskrit into Western languages, contributing decisively to a more precise definition of the relevant terminology. He remained the only one in the world to have translated the voluminous work Tantrāloka written in the 10th century by Indian philosopher Abhinavagupta.
An expert also in Greek and Roman culture, he compiled Marmora Romana, a thorough "study of the decorative stones used by the ancients, that is, of marbles which, in the classical meaning of the word, include all decorative stones susceptible to polishing."
The full list of works by Raniero Gnoli was published in a collection of studies in his honor: Le Parole e i Marmi (The words and the marbles - ed. by Raffaele Torella ). Rome, IsIAO, 2001, pp. XVII-XX. These include:
* Marmora Romana. Rome, Elephant Editions, 1988
* Thirteen poems. Rome, Elephant Editions, 1981
* La Rivelazione del Buddha (The Revelation of the Buddha - ed. by Raniero Gnoli, transl. by Claudio Cicuzza and Francesco Sferra) 2 vols. - I Testi Antichi (The Ancient Texts), 2001. Il Grande Veicolo (The Great Vehicle), 2004. Milan, Meridiani Mondadori.
* Memory of Giuseppe Tucci, Rome, IsIAO, 1985.
* The aesthetic experience according to Functional Abhinavagupta. Rome, IsIAO, 1956.
* Nepalese inscriptions in gupta characters. Rome, IsIAO, 1956.
'''Translations'''
* Abhinavagupta, Abhinavagupta. Light of scripture, Turin, typographical Union-Turin-based publishing, 1972.
* Abhinavagupta, Abhinavagupta's comment to Paratrimsika, (Parātrimśikātattvavivarana), Rome, IsIAO, 1985.
* Dharmakirti, The Pramanavarttikam of Dharmakirti. The First Chapter with Autocommentary (Pramānavārttikasvavrtti), Rome, IsIAO, 1960.
* Gabriele Faerno, Fables choices. Rome, Elephant Editions, 1970.
* Nāgārjuna, Le Stanze del Cammino di Mezzo (The Stanza of the Middle Way, Mūlamadhyamakakārikā), introduction, translation and notes, Turin, Basic Books, 1979.
* Udbhata, Udbhata's commentary on the Kavyalankara Bhamaha of Rome, IsIAO, 1962.
([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raniero_Gnoli Source Accessed May 7, 2025])
Despite the variations in the titles preceding the personal name, dPal-dbyangs, it seems certain that they all refer to one personage who belongs to the clan gNyan/bsNyan and who apparently was a renowned master learned in Mahāyoga tantras and rDzogs chen doctrines . . .
. . . However, nothing is known about his life. According to Tāranātha, he lived in Kha-ra sgo-bstun, a district in gTsang where Tāranātha himself was born and gNyan is said to have founded a temple called g.Yung-drung-gi lha-khang in 'Dam-chen.
. . . gNyan dPal-dbyangs, in later sources is considered to be a disciple of Lo-tsā-ba gNyags Jñanakumāra ''alias'' Jo-bo Zhang-drung and one of the teachers of gNubs Sangs-rgyas ye-shes, the author of the ''SM'' [''Bsam gtan mig sgron''] . . .
(Samten Karmay, ''The Great Perfection (rDzogs chen): A Philosophical and Meditative Teaching of Tibetan Buddhism'', Brill's Tibetan Studies Library 11 [Leiden: Brill, 2007], 67–69. +
Dwight Goddard was a Christian missionary to China when he first came in contact with Buddhism. In 1928, he spent a year living at a Zen monastery in Japan. In 1934, he founded "The Followers of Buddha, an American Brotherhood," with the goal of applying the traditional monastic structure of Buddhism more strictly than Senzaki and Sokei-an. The group was largely unsuccessful: no Americans were recruited to join as monks and attempts failed to attract a Chinese Chan (Zen) master to come to the United States. However, Goddard's efforts as an author and publisher bore considerable fruit. In 1930, he began publishing ZEN: A Buddhist Magazine. In 1932, he collaborated with D. T. Suzuki on a translation of the ''Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra''. That same year, he published the first edition of ''A Buddhist Bible'', an anthology of Buddhist scriptures focusing on those used in Chinese and Japanese Zen. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_the_United_States#Dwight_Goddard Source Accessed Dec 3, 2019])
For an interesting article on Goddard's life, see Robert Aitken's article [https://tricycle.org/magazine/still-speaking/ "Still Speaking"] in the Spring 1994 issue of ''Tricycle: The Buddhist Review''. +
Zuisei is a writer and lay Zen teacher based in Playa del Carmen in the south of Mexico. Zuisei lived and trained full time at Zen Mountain Monastery from 1995 to 2018, and was a monk for fourteen of those years. In 2018 she received ''shiho'' or dharma transmission (empowerment to teach) from Geoffrey Shugen Arnold Roshi, and after a short stint in New York City, moved back to Mexico, where she is originally from, and began teaching virtually.
She has served as the Teachings Editor at the Buddhist journal ''Tricycle'', and her dharma writing has been featured there as well as in ''Lion's Roar'', ''Buddhadharma'', and ''Parabola''. Her books include ''Still Running: The Art of Meditation in Motion'' and the children's book ''Weather Any Storm''.
As Ocean Mind Sangha's Guiding Teacher, Zuisei continues to welcome students for group and private teaching. ([https://www.oceanmindsangha.org/zuisei-goddard Source Accessed April 25, 2024]) +
Dr. V. V. Gokhale was a professor of Buddhist studies in India. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Heidelberg and taught at Fergusson College from 1932 to 1959. He was appointed Reader in the Department of Buddhist studies at the University of Delhi and then later became Professor and Head of the department.
Dr. Gokhale maintained an interest in the ''Pratītyasamutpāda-sūtra'' and Madhyamaka philosophy throughout his career. Among his numerous articles, he wrote several on Bhāvaviveka's ''Tarkajvālā'' commentary on Nāgārjuna's ''Madhyamakaśāstra'', and he published the ''Abhidharmakoṣa-kārikās'' of Vasubandhu. (Source: ''Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute'' 74, no. 1/4 (1993), 349–51) +
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. +
Daniel Goleman (born March 7, 1946) is an American psychologist, author, and science journalist. For twelve years, he wrote for The New York Times, reporting on the brain and behavioral sciences. His 1995 book ''Emotional Intelligence'' was on The New York Times Best Seller list for a year and a half, a bestseller in many countries, and is in print worldwide in 40 languages. Apart from his books on emotional intelligence, Goleman has written books on topics including self-deception, creativity, transparency, meditation, social and emotional learning, ecoliteracy and the ecological crisis, and the Dalai Lama's vision for the future. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Goleman Source Accessed June 2, 2026]) +
Richard Gombrich is the Emeritus Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University and a member of the Oriental Institute and Balliol College. He is the Founder and Director of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies as well as the General Editor of the Clay Sanskrit Library. ([https://www.ox.ac.uk/research/research-in-conversation/how-live-happy-life/professor-richard-gombrich Source Accessed Jan 27, 2022]) +
Gomo Tulku (1922-1985), an accomplished Buddhist master, was born in Tibet. In his last year he taught widely in Europe where he inspired many devoted students. ([https://wisdomexperience.org/content-author/gomo-tulku/ Source Accessed Mar 12, 2025]) +
Gongdezhi was a translator who lived in the 5th century. He translated the ''Anantamukhasādhakadhāraṇī'' 無量門破魔陀羅尼經 (''Wúliàng mén pò mó tuóluóní jīng''), T1014, 19: https://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT2012/T1014.html. +
Khenpo Tsering Gonpo (mkhan po tshe ring mgon po, b. ca. 1970) graduated from Larung Gar Philosophical College as a disciple of Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok. He currently resides at Dzagyal Trama Lung hermitages in Upper Dzachukha. (Source: Enlightened Vagabond) +
The present Gonsar Tulku Rinpoche was born in 1949 in Shigatse, Tibet, into an ancient royal family of the lineage of Tibetan kings. His father was the governor of Tsang Province in western Tibet. At the age of three, Gonsar Tulku Rinpoche was recognized as the fifth incarnation of Gonsar Tulku Rinpoche and confirmed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. ([https://www.dig-heidelberg.de/events/religions-and-peace-a-buddhist-monks-view-on-india-by-gonsar-rinpoche/ Source Accessed Mar 13, 2025]). +
Charles Goodman is Professor in the Philosophy Department and the Department of Asian and Asian-American Studies at Binghamton University. His first book was ''Consequences of Compassion: An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics'' (2009). As a member of the Cowherds collaboration, he is also a co-author of ''Moonpaths: Ethics and Emptiness'' (2016). Recently he published the first complete translation of the ''Śikṣā-samuccaya'' in over ninety years, entitled [https://research.tsadra.org/index.php/The_Training_Anthology_of_%C5%9A%C4%81ntideva ''The Training Anthology of Śāntideva''] (2016).
Charles holds a BA in Physics from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on the works of Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophers, including Śāntideva, Bhāvaviveka, Nāgārjuna, Dharmakīrti, and Vasubandhu. His work emphasizes aspects of Buddhist thought that can offer valuable insights for the philosophy of today. Charles has also published several articles on applied ethics and political philosophy in the Western tradition. His writings on Buddhist philosophy have explored a range of topics, including ethical theory, conceptions of well-being, free will, and personal identity. ([https://www.binghamton.edu/aaas/faculty/profile.html?id=cgoodman Source Accessed Mar 29, 2021]) +
[Isidro Gordi] was born in Mollet del Vallés (Barcelona) in 1954. A pacifist from a very young age, he was one of the first conscientious objectors in Spain, which is why he suffered exile from 1973 to 1977. During this time he traveled throughout Europe, landing for a long period of time in Greece, whose culture and customs captivated him and aroused his “appetite for the East”. He returned to Spain thanks to the pardon granted after Franco's death.
Nostalgic for the Greek islands, in 1979, he settled in Menorca where his first encounter with a Tibetan Master, Lama Orgyen, an expert in Buddhist rituals, took place with whom he took refuge. From those days he became a student of Tibetan Buddhism, a tireless seeker of the teaching that will already be an integral part of his life. Together with his wife, Marta Moll, became one of the pioneers of Buddhism in Spain, deploying its dissemination work through Ediciones Amara , a publishing house specializing in Buddhist philosophy.
In Menorca, in 1980, he created the Dharma Institute under the guidance of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, a resident of England and abbot at the time of the Manjushri Institute. His wish was to establish a study center where the Buddhist Dharma could be made known with rigor and seriousness. Determined to have the best means to do so, Isidro invites Venerable Geshe Tamding Gyatso as Master resident in Menorca(1927-2002) exiled at that time in India. After a long legal process, Geshe Tamding Gyatso arrived on the island in 1987. That endearing old man would not only become the Master of the Heart of Isidro and Marta, but also almost a grandfather to his children Shanti and Amara who practically saw him daily. During twelve very intense years Isidro received the nectar of the Dharma from the mouth of Geshe Tamding Gyatso , who was one of the most learned Geshes of the famous Ganden monastery. ([https://escuelalaicadebudismoymeditacion.es/index.php/quienes-somos/isidro-gordi Source Accessed Mar 19, 2021])
Sam Gordon is a freelance translator working from French and Spanish. He is originally from Aberdeenshire but is currently living in London. +
