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Rebecca Hufen has been involved with Buddhism since her childhood and with yoga for over 15 years. She studied Tibetology, classical Indology and comparative religions sciences at the University of Hamburg as well as at the College for Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarah, India. After completing her studies with the Magister Artium she taught for four years as a Tibetan lecturer at the University of Hamburg. She also taught several Tibetan Intensive Courses at the Institut Tibétain Yeuntenling in Belgium and supported the team of the "Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship" at workshops in India and Bhutan. She is a translator in the international 84,000 project and, after a three-year apprenticeship, became a certified and state-approved yoga teacher (AYA). ([https://en.aryatara.net/teacher Source Accessed June 10, 2021]) +
Eric Huntington is currently a fellow at the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University and previously held a postdoctoral fellow in the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of Creating the Universe: Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism (University of Washington, 2018), which exposes the complex cosmological thinking behind many different examples of Buddhist literature, ritual, art, and architecture. His current research investigates new approaches to Buddhist visual and material cultures. He has also published articles on the role of illustrations in ritual manuscripts and visual, spatial, and temporal understandings of tantric mandalas. Prior to joining Stanford, he served as a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Princeton University and received his PhD from the University of Chicago. (Source: [https://erichuntington.org/ Personal Website]) +
Leon Hurvitz (1923-1992) was professor in the Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia. He spent time as a translator and interpreter and later studied in Japan during the occupation, specializing in early Chinese Buddhism. (Source: [http://cup.columbia.edu/book/scripture-of-the-lotus-blossom-of-the-fine-dharma/9780231148955 Columbia University Press]) +
Kenneth Hutton is Academic Collaborations Manager/Philosophy Subject Specialist at University of Glasgow. +
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Masamichi Ichigo is a Buddhist scholar who edited and translated the ''Madhyamakālaṃkāra'' of Śāntarakṣita with his own commentary (''Vṛtti'') and with the subcommentary (''Pañjikā'') of Kamalaśīla, published by Buneido in Kyoto in 1985 in 2 volumes. +
Hokei Idzumi was a scholar and editor known for his work on Buddhist texts, particularly in the Mahayana tradition.
Hokei Idzumi collaborated with the renowned Buddhist scholar D.T. Suzuki on several projects. One notable work is the critical edition of ''The Gandavyuha Sutra'', which they edited together and published through the Sanskrit Buddhist Texts Publishing Society.
Idzumi was involved in the editing and translation of several important Buddhist texts. For example, he revised and edited ''The Suvarṇaprabhāsa sūtra'' (''The Golden Light Sutra''), a project initially started by Bunyiu Nanjio and completed under the auspices of the Keimeikwai.
He also contributed to the translation and editing of ''The Hymn of the Life and Vows of Samantabhadra'', specifically working on the ''Bhadracaripraṇidhāna'' section.
Idzumi's work has been published through various organizations, including the Eastern Buddhist society and the Society for the Publication of Sacred Books of the World. +
Shotaro Iida was a Japanese scholar of Buddhist studies specializing in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. He held a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and served as Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
Iida's scholarship is particularly noted for his pioneering research on the Madhyamaka philosopher Bhāviveka (Bhavya), then a little-studied figure, conducted in part among Tibetan refugee communities in India; this work culminated in his study ''Reason and Emptiness: A Study in Logic and Mysticism''. His other major publications include ''Ocean of Eloquence'' (1993) and the essay collection ''Facets of Buddhism'' (1993), which gathers roughly twenty years of his scholarship and reflects his trajectory from a specialist in classical Indian and Tibetan Buddhist philosophy toward broader comparative religious studies—encompassing subjects such as the "sudden versus gradual" enlightenment debate (including work on the thirteenth-century Sakya master 'Phags pa), Buddhist themes in Japanese Noh theater and in Yukio Mishima's fiction, the modern Soka Gakkai movement, and points of convergence between Buddhist and Sufi thought. Through both his translations and essays, Iida played a role in bringing Japanese-language Buddhological scholarship to English-speaking audiences. +
Hisao Inagaki (1929–2021) was born in 1929 in Kobe. He was Professor Emeritus of the Ryukoku University in Kyoto (Japan). He received his PhD from the University of London and taught Buddhism at the university. He returned to Japan to become a professor at the Ryukoku University.
In addition he served as a visiting professor at the University of California (Berkeley), the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Aside from teaching, Inagaki also held offices for the International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies and has written numerous books.
He was the recipient of the 43rd Bukkyo Dendo Distinguished Service Award. The honour is presented to personalities who have made important contributions to the promotion of Buddhism. ([https://www.stonebridge.com/authors/hisao-inagaki Source Accessed Dec 19, 2024]) +
Bob Isaacson is the president and cofounder of [https://www.dharmavoicesforanimals.org/ Dharma Voices for Animals], an international Buddhist animal advocacy and rights organization. +
Born in Kuma, Japan, in 1965, Harunaga Isaacson studied philosophy and Indology at the University of Groningen (MA 1990), and was awarded a PhD in Sanskrit by the University of Leiden (1995).
After holding teaching positions at Hamburg University and the University of Pennsylvania, he was appointed Professor of Classical Indology in the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Hamburg University, in April 2006.
His main research areas are: tantric traditions in pre-13th century South Asia, especially Vajrayāna Buddhism; classical Sanskrit poetry; classical Indian philosophy; and Purāṇic literature.
He received major honours, including in 2015 the Ratnākara Grant of the Khyentse Foundation (a newly initiated grant aimed at supporting the academic development of Buddhist Studies in Thailand); in 2011 elected ordentliches Mitglied (full member) of the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg; in 2010 elected member of the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente (IsIAO), Rome, Italy.
Prof. Isaacson is a member of the Board of Advisors of the International PhD Programme in Buddhist Studies, Mahidol University; member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism; Chief Editor, together with Dramdul and Helmut Krasser, of Sanskrit Texts from the Tibetan Autonomous Region; external consultant of the AHRC funded project “The intellectual and religious traditions of South Asia as seen through the Sanskrit manuscript collections of the University Library, Cambridge”, 2011–2014; member of the Vorstand (Board of Directors) of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures = Sonderforschungsbereich 950, Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa, July 2011–June 2015; Chief Editor, together with Prof. Michael Friedrich and Prof. Jörg Quenzer, of the Encyclopedia of Manuscript Cultures in Asia and Africa (forthcoming from de Gruyter); Editor, together with Prof. Michael Friedrich and Prof. Jörg Quenzer, of Studies in Manuscript Cultures (published by de Gruyter; first volume released in 2011, three volumes released to date); Co-Editor, with Prof. Francesco Sferra, of Manuscripta Buddhica, a new subseries of the Serie Orientale Roma (first volume appeared in 2009); Editor of the Publications of the Nepal Research Centre; Director of the Nepal Research Centre, 2006–2014; General Director of the Nepalese-German Manuscript Cataloguing Project (longterm project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), 2006–2014; Contributor to the Tāntrikābhidhānakośa, ‘A Hindu Tantric Dictionary’, a project of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Wien); Member of the Editorial Board of the Groningen Oriental Studies; Member of the Advisory Board of Indo-Iranian Journal; Reader for Princeton University Press, the Journal of the American Oriental Society, the Journal of Indian Philosophy, the Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies/Indogaku Bukkyōgaku Kenkyū, the Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, and others; President of the Oriental Club of Philadelphia, 2003‒2004. ([https://www.tantric-studies.uni-hamburg.de/en/people/isaacson.html Source Accessed July 11, 2023])
Kyosen Ito works at the Buddhist Research Institute, Taisho University. +
Asao Iwamatsu (岩松浅夫) is a Japanese scholar of Indian Buddhism and Buddhist studies, holding a master's degree in literature. He is a professor in the Department of Human Sciences, Faculty of Letters, at Soka University. His research centers on the philology of Sanskrit and Gāndhārī Buddhist manuscripts, including work on Kharoṣṭhī inscriptions, sūtra transmission history, and the metrical and textual analysis of fragmentary Buddhist verse texts—notably the ''Sarvadharmāpravṛttinirdeśasūtra. His scholarship has also touched on questions of Chinese Buddhist canonical attribution, including arguments concerning the authorship of translations traditionally credited to Faxian, and has been cited and engaged with by other specialists in the field. +
Nobumi Iyanaga [彌永信美] is an independent scholar based in Tokyo. He was a collaborator of the Hōbōgirin 法寶義林, French dictionary of Buddhist terms based on Chinese and Japanese sources. His area of interest is in the mythology of Buddhist deities. He has published articles on Daijizaiten (Maheśvara), Daikokuten (Mahākāla) and Dakiniten (ḍākinī) (in French), and in 2002, the book entitled 大黒天変相 - 仏経神話学 I [Variations on the theme of Mahākāla - Buddhist Mythology, I], and another book 觀音変容譚 - 仏経神話学 II [Metamorphisis of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara - Buddhist Mythology, II]. He has contributed entries to the DDB related to deities and the texts that deal with deities. [12/16/2002] ([http://www.buddhism-dict.net/credits/iyanaga.html Source Accessed Sep 1, 2021]) +
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Anthony Abraham Jack (Ph.D., Harvard University, 2016) is a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and an assistant professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He holds the Shutzer Assistant Professorship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
His research documents the overlooked diversity among lower-income undergraduates: the ''Doubly Disadvantaged'' — those who enter college from local, typically distressed public high schools — and ''Privileged Poor'' — those who do so from boarding, day, and preparatory high schools. His scholarship appears in the ''Common Reader'', ''Du Bois Review'', ''Sociological Forum'', and ''Sociology of Education'' and has earned awards from the American Educational Studies Association, American Sociological Association, Association for the Study of Higher Education, Eastern Sociological Society, and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Jack held fellowships from the Ford Foundation and the National Science Foundation and was a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow. The National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan named him an Emerging Diversity Scholar. In May 2020, Muhlenberg College will award him an honorary doctorate for his work in transforming higher education.
The ''New York Times'', ''Boston Globe'', ''The Atlantic'', ''The New Yorker'', ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'', ''The Huffington Post'', ''The Nation'', ''American Conservative Magazine'', ''The National Review'', ''Commentary Magazine'', ''The Washington Post'', ''Financial Times'', ''Times Higher Education'', ''Vice'', ''Vox'', and ''NPR'' have featured his research and writing as well as biographical profiles of his experiences as a first-generation college student. ''The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students'' is his first book. ([https://www.gse.harvard.edu/faculty/anthony-jack Source Accessed Mar 22, 2021]) +
David P. Jackson made many important contributions to the field of Tibetan studies and Tibetan art before he passed away in 2025. He received his doctorate in 1985 from the University of Washington and studied and translated for many years in Seattle for the polymath Tibetan scholar Dezhung Rinpoche. Until 2007, he was a professor of Tibetan Studies at Hamburg University in Germany, and after that was a curator for the Rubin Museum of Art, New York. He is the author of numerous articles and books on Tibetan art, literature, and history, including ''A Saint in Seattle'' (2003), ''Tibetan Thangka Painting'' (1984), ''The Mollas of Mustang (1984)'', ''A History of Tibetan Painting'' (1996), ''Enlightenment by a Single Means'' (1994), and the “Masterworks of Tibetan Painting” series (2009–2016), written for the Rubin Museum. He also translated ''A Concise History of the Glorious Sakyapa School'' (2022). +
Roger Jackson is John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion, Emeritus, at Carleton College. He also has taught at the University of Michigan, Fairfield University, McGill University, and Maitripa College. He has a BA from Wesleyan University and an MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin, where he studied under Geshe Lhundub Sopa. His books include ''Is Enlightenment Possible?'' (1993), ''Tibetan Literature'' (with José Cabezón, 1996), ''Buddhist Theology'' (with John Makransky, 1999), ''Tantric Treasures'' (2004), ''The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems'' (with Geshe Sopa et al., 2009), and ''Mahāmudrā and the Bka’ brgyud Tradition'' (with Matthew Kapstein, 2011). He is a past editor of the ''Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies'', and currently co-edits the ''Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies''. He recently completed a major study and anthology centered on Mahāmudrā theory and practice in the Geluk tradition: [https://wisdomexperience.org/product/mind-seeing-mind/ ''Mind Seeing Mind'']. ([http://conference-wp.tsadra.org/past-event/the-2017-tt-conference/ Source Accessed Dec 6, 2019])
Roger Jackson's [https://apps.carleton.edu/profiles/assets/rjackson_cv.pdf CV]
Roger Jackson, John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion, Emeritus, recently published an article-length memoir of his career as a scholar of Buddhism, “[https://networks.h-net.org/node/6060/pages/6031574/jackson-roger-r Playing Both Ends Against the Middle: Buddhadharma, Buddhist Studies, and Me],” on the Buddhist studies website H-Buddhism. +
Lal Jadusingh is an independent scholar and translator who completed the translation of the three Bhavanakramas of Kamalashila. The Bhavanakramas are important Buddhist texts on meditation written by the 8th-century Indian master Kamalashila. Jadusingh's translation of these works represents the culmination of a task he began over 40 years ago. (Generated by Perplexity Feb 11, 2025) +
Jagaddalanivāsin (Tib. Dza gat+ta tA lar gnas pa) was a twelfth-century Indian Buddhist paṇḍita, credited as the author of the ''Bhagavatyāmnāyānusāriṇīnāmavyākhyā'' (Tib. ''Bcom ldan 'das ma'i man ngag gi rjes su 'brang ba zhes bya ba'i rnam par bshad pa''), a detailed commentary on the ''Aṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitāsūtra'', translated into Tibetan by the paṇḍita Alaṅkadeva together with the translator Tengpa Lotsāwa Tsultrim Jungne, and preserved in the Derge Tengyur (D3811). His name—literally "the one dwelling at Jagaddala"—identifies him as a resident scholar of Jagaddala Mahāvihāra, a major Buddhist monastery and center of learning in Varendra (present-day north Bengal, Bangladesh). Jagaddala was founded toward the end of the Pāla dynasty, most likely by King Rāmapāla (c. 1077–1120), and was counted among the "five great monasteries" (pañca mahāvihāra) of Pāla-era Buddhist India, alongside Vikramaśīla, Nālandā, Somapura, and Odantapurī. (Source: [http://purl.bdrc.io/resource/P1KG3464 BDRC]) +
Padmanabh Shrivarma Jaini (October 23, 1923 - May 25, 2021) was an Indian born scholar of Jainism and Buddhism, living in Berkeley, California, United States. He was from a Digambar Jain family; however he was equally familiar with both the Digambara and Svetambara forms of Jainism. He has taught at the Banaras Hindu University, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and at the University of California at Berkeley, from which he retired in 1994. Jaini was the author of several books and papers. His best known work is ''The Jaina Path of Purification'' (1979). Some of his major articles have been published under these titles: "The Collected Papers on Jaina Studies" (2000) and "Collected Papers on Buddhist Studies" (2001). He died on 25 May 2021 at Berkeley at age 97. +
Craig Jamieson is Keeper of Sanskrit Manuscripts at the University of Cambridge. Before Cambridge he taught Buddhism in the Study of Religion Department at the University of Leicester. His best-known works are ''Perfection of Wisdom'', which has a preface by the Dalai Lama, and ''Nagarjuna's Verses''. A facsimile edition of the Lotus Sutra made available in print two Cambridge palm leaf manuscripts from around one thousand years ago, Add. 1682 and Add. 1683. A major exhibition took place in 2014 entitled Buddha's Word: The Life of Books in Tibet and Beyond. A short video of the Perfection of Wisdom manuscript came out in 2017. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Jamieson Adapted from Source Mar 10, 2021]) +
