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Hélios Hildt (Drupchen Dorje) studied in Shechen Monastery and currently lives in France, where he occasionally translates for visiting Tibetan teachers. ([https://www.lotsawahouse.org/translators/drupchen-dorje/ Source Accessed Oct 9, 2024]) +
Timothy Hinkle spent three years studying at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute and has traveled twice to the eastern Tibetan region of Golok. He has served as an oral interpreter for Katog Choling USA, and is now studying somatic psychology in Oakland, California. He works with Light of Berotsana and 84000 under the auspices of the Dharmachakra Translation Committee. ([https://www.lotsawahouse.org/translators/timothy-hinkle/ Source Accessed June 2, 2021]) +
Jay Hirabayashi was born in Seattle, Washington in 1947, but grew up in Beirut, Lebanon, Cairo, Egypt, and Edmonton, Alberta. He has a B.A. degree from the University of Alberta and a M.A. degree from the UBC in Buddhist philosophy. In 1978, Hirabayashi began a career as a dance artist. After performing with several prominent Vancouver dance companies, Hirabayashi and his wife, Barbara Bourget, founded Kokoro Dance in 1986. Taking its name from the Japanese word kokoro – meaning heart, soul and spirit – and inspired by the Japanese avant garde dance form known as butoh, Kokoro Dance has presented over one thousand performances across Canada, in the United States, Europe, Argentina, and Cuba.
Hirabayashi and Bourget also started the annual Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF) in 2000. The VIDF has presented over 280 Canadian and international dance companies to a total audience of 80,548 people. The VIDF is an inclusive festival, but with a focus on culturally diverse contemporary dance artists.
Hirabayashi has choreographed over 90 dance works, has taught butoh classes regularly since 1995, and continues to perform, choreograph, and teach while also administrating both Kokoro Dance and the VIDF. He is the son of Gordon K. Hirabayashi who posthumously received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2012 for openly defying the forced relocation and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. ([https://japanesecanadianartists.com/artist/jay-hirabayashi/ Source Accessed July 24, 2023]) +
Takahashi Hirano is a scholar known for his work on Buddhist texts, particularly in relation to the ''Bodhicaryāvatāra,'' a significant work in Mahayana Buddhism authored by Śāntideva. His notable contribution includes the compilation of "An Index to the Bodhicaryāvatāra Pañjikā, Chapter IX," which focuses on the commentary associated with this influential text. Hirano's work is part of a broader academic effort to make Buddhist literature more accessible and to facilitate the study of its philosophical and ethical teachings. +
Andrea Ho is an editor affiliated with IBPS Argentina (Asociación Budista IBPS Argentina Fo Guang Shan), Buenos Aires. +
Chien-hsing Ho 何建興 is an Associate Professor in the Graduate Institute of Religious Studies at Nanhua University, Taiwan. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Delhi, India in 1999. He specializes in Indian and Chinese Madhyamaka, Buddhist epistemology, and the Buddhist philosophy of language, with additional research interests in Chan Buddhism, Daoist philosophy, Indian philosophy, and comparative philosophy. He has published articles in such international refereed journals as ''Philosophy East and West''; ''Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy''; ''Asian Philosophy''; the ''Journal of Chinese Philosophy''; and the ''Journal of Indian Philosophy''. He is currently planning a book in English on Chinese Madhyamaka. (Source: ''A Distant Mirror'', about the authors, 530) +
Augustus Frederic Rudolf Hoernlé (1841–1918), also referred to as Rudolf Hoernle or A. F. Rudolf Hoernle, was an Indologist and philologist. He is famous for his studies on the Bower Manuscript (1891), Weber Manuscript (1893) and other discoveries in northwestern China and Central Asia particularly in collaboration with Aurel Stein. Born in India to a Protestant missionary family from Germany, he completed his education in Switzerland, and studied Sanskrit in the United Kingdom. He returned to India, taught at leading universities there, and in the early 1890s published a series of seminal papers on ancient manuscripts, writing scripts, and cultural exchange between India, China, and Central Asia. His collection after 1895 became a victim of forgery by Islam Akhun and colleagues in Central Asia, a forgery revealed to him in 1899. He retired and settled in Oxford in 1899. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Hoernl%C3%A9 Source Accessed December 5, 2019]) +
Libby Hogg was a student at Rangjung Yeshe Institute from 2012–2016. She has edited a number translated texts as a part of the Samye Translation Group which can be viewed on Lotsawa House here: https://www.lotsawahouse.org/search?lang=en&q=Hogg. +
Following an education in France and America, Katia Holmes gained an M.A. in political science at SciencePo in Paris and went on to gain an M.Sc. in economics at the University of Paris. Her research at this time took her to India. Following a year of lecturing at Vincennes University in Paris, in 1970 she stayed for much of a sabbatical year in Kagyu Samye Ling Tibetan Centre in Scotland, which she had visited in 1969. Based in Samye Ling and France, she has dedicated her life since then to the study and preservation of Tibetan wisdom. In 1987 she gained a pre-doctoral DEA diploma in Religious Anthropology of Asia and Africa at the EPHE, Paris. Since 1993, she has concentrated on Tibetan Medicine and has worked in close conjunction with Khenpo Troru Tsenam Rinpoche . . . Katia is the main translator and interpreter for the Tara-Rokpa College of Tibetan Medicine where she is working on a translation of the famous Fourfold Tantra . . . ([http://kagyu.org.za/harare/visiting-teachers/ken-and-katia-holmes-october-23-november-2-2013/ Source Accessed Jul 22, 2020]) +
Ken is currently Director of Studies at Kagyu Samye Ling. His life is spent teaching in Samye Dzongs in various countries, writing and translating dharma works, and he also occasionally interprets for visiting Tibetan lamas. He has also lectured in elementology and astro-science for the Tara-Rokpa College of Tibetan Medicine. He was a founder member of the Scottish Inter-Faith Council and has worked with the British Cabinet Office and the European Community on training programmes. He represented Buddhism at the seminal 2002 meetings in Brussels to discuss religious representation in the new European constitution. ([https://www.samyeling.org/buddhism-and-meditation/teaching-archive-2/dharmacharya-ken-holmes/ Source Accessed Jul 22, 2020]) +
Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Occidental College. She is the author of ''The Social Life of Tibetan Biography: Textuality, Community, and Authority in the Lineage of Tokden Shakya Shri'' (Lexington, 2014), which explores the trans-Himalayan lineage of Tokden Sakya Sri that spanned communities in eastern Tibet, western China, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal, Ladakh, and beyond. Her current research focuses on Buddhism, book culture, language, and community formation across the Himalayas. (Source: ''A Gathering of Brilliant Moons'', 329) +
Erik Hoogcarspel (1946) studied contemporary continental philosophy in Groningen, founded a Buddhist meditation center and studied Asian philosophies and religions. He taught Hinduism at Radboud University in Nijmegen.
During his work as a teacher and teacher he wrote textbooks for his students and columns. Among other things, he translated Nāgārjuna's ''Principles of the Philosophy of the Middle'' from Sanskrit and edited the anthology ''The Great Way to Light'', a selection from the literature of Mahayana Buddhism, and wrote ''The Buddha Phenomenon'' . . . . He practices meditation and Taijiquan. ([https://wijsheidsweb.nl/auteurs/erik-hoogcarspel/ Adapted from Source Mar 23, 2021]) +
Jeffrey Hopkins (1940-2024) was Professor Emeritus of Tibetan Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia where he taught Tibetan Buddhist Studies and Tibetan language for thirty-two years from 1973, retiring in 2005. He received a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1963, trained for five years at the Lamaist Buddhist Monastery of America in Freewood Acres, New Jersey, USA (now the Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center in Washington, New Jersey), and received a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin in 1973.<br> For ten years, from 1979 to 1989, Hopkins served as His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s chief interpreter into English on lecture tours. At the University of Virginia, he founded the largest academic program in Tibetan and Buddhist studies in the West, and served as Director of the Center for South Asian Studies for twelve years. He has published forty-eight books, some of which have been translated into a total of twenty-two languages. He published the first translation of the foundational text of the Jo-nang school of Tibetan Buddhism in ''Mountain Doctrine: Tibet’s Fundamental Treatise on Other-Emptiness and the Buddha-Matrix''. He has translated and edited sixteen books from oral teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the last four being ''How to See Yourself as You Really Are''; ''Becoming Enlightened''; ''How to Be Compassionate''; and ''The Heart of Meditation: Discovering Innermost Awareness''.<br> He is the President and Founder of the UMA Institute for Tibetan Studies. ([https://uma-tibet.org/author-hopkins.html Source: Updated on July 2, 2024, original content from UMA accessed July 22, 2020])
His own reflections on his life and career can be found here: https://networks.h-net.org/node/6060/pages/3914200/hopkins-jeffrey
Curriculum Vitae available for download [https://uma-tibet.org/bod/cv/hopkins_cv.pdf here] +
Hortön Namkha Pel (1373-1447) - a disciple of Tsongkhapa and the author of ''Mind Training Like the Rays of the Sun''.
Nam kha Pel was a direct disciple of Lama Tsongkhapa, who lived in Tibet around the 15th century. Little is known about him except that he appears to have been the scribe for many of Tsongkhapa's literary works and was praised by Je Rinpoche for his intelligence and faith. ([https://thubtenchodron.org/commentaries/nam-kha-pels-mind-training-like-rays-of-the-sun/ Source Accessed Mar 27, 2025]) +
Isaline Blew Horner (30 March 1896 – 25 April 1981), usually cited as I. B. Horner, was an English Indologist, a leading scholar of Pali literature and late president of the Pali Text Society (1959–1981). On 30 March 1896 Horner was born in Walthamstow in Essex, England. Horner was a first cousin once removed of the British Theravada monk Ajahn Amaro. In 1917, at the University of Cambridge's women's college Newnham College, Horner was awarded the title of a B.A. in moral sciences. After her undergraduate studies, Horner remained at Newnham College, becoming in 1918 an assistant librarian and then, in 1920, acting librarian. In 1921, Horner traveled to Ceylon (Sri Lanka), India and Burma where she was first introduced to Buddhism, its literature and related languages. In 1923, Horner returned to England where she accepted a Fellowship at Newnham College and became its librarian. In 1928, she became the first Sarah Smithson Research Fellow in Pali Studies. In 1930, she published her first book, ''Women Under Primitive Buddhism''. In 1933, she edited her first volume of Pali text, the third volume of the ''Papancasudani'' (Majjhima Nikaya commentary). In 1934, Horner was awarded the title of an M.A. from Cambridge. From 1939 to 1949, she served on Cambridge's Governing Body. From 1926 to 1959, Horner lived and traveled with her companion "Elsie," Dr. Eliza Marian Butler (1885–1959). ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaline_Blew_Horner Source Accessed Apr 22, 2020]) +
Simon began studying the Dharma in India in 1996. In 2000 he joined the Dharma and Tibetan language classes at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives and then lived for three years in Drepung Loseling monastery in South India improving his Tibetan and learning the basics of debate. In 2007 he enrolled as a full-time student at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in McLeod Ganj and completed the 16-year Rime Geshe degree of study. His interests lie in how to study in a nonsectarian manner and the larger project of transmission of Buddhism to the west. He has been working at Tsadra Foundation since 2023. +
Zara Houshmand is an Iranian American writer, editor, and literary translator whose work crosses boundaries and cultural divides. She lives in the mountains of California. +
Mei Hsiao received her PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Calgary in 2008. She is an Assistant Professor at China Medical University Center for General Education in Taiwan. She specializes in Mahāyāna Buddhism and Chinese Philosophy. +
Hsuan Hua (Chinese: 宣化; pinyin: Xuānhuà; lit. 'proclaim and transform'; April 16, 1918 – June 7, 1995), also known as An Tzu, Tu Lun and Master Hua by his Western disciples, was a Chinese monk of Chan Buddhism and a contributing figure in bringing Chinese Buddhism to the United States in the late 20th century.
Hsuan Hua founded several institutions in the US. The Dharma Realm Buddhist Association[1] (DRBA) is a Buddhist organization with chapters in North America, Australia and Asia. The City of Ten Thousand Buddhas (CTTB) in Ukiah, California, is one of the first Chan Buddhist monasteries in America. Venerable Master Hsuan Hua founded Dharma Realm Buddhist University at CTTB. The Buddhist Text Translation Society works on the phonetics and translation of Buddhist scriptures from Chinese into English, Vietnamese, Spanish, and many other languages. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsuan_Hua Source Accessed June 3, 2021]) +
Victoria Huckenpahler is a notable Buddhist translator and author who has made significant contributions to the field of Tibetan Buddhism. She is best known for her work on''The Great Kagyu Masters: The Golden Lineage Treasury'', published in 1990 and republished in 2006. This important volume tells the extraordinary tales of the greatest teachers of the Kagyu lineage, one of the most widely followed schools of Tibetan Buddhism in the United States.
Huckenpahler has also worked on other Buddhist texts, including ''Holy Biographies of the Great Founders of the Glorious Sakya Order'' in 2000. Her expertise extends to various branches of Tibetan Buddhism, including the Drikung Kagyu, Drukpa Kagyu, Karma Kagyu, and Shangpa Kagyu traditions.
In addition to her work in Buddhist literature, Huckenpahler has authored books on other subjects. She wrote ''Ballerina: A biography of Violette Verdy'', published in 1978, which details the life of the renowned French ballerina. (Biography generated by Perplexity Jan 30, 2025) +
