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Dr. Lozang Jamspal received an Acharya degree in Sanskrit, Hindi, and Buddhist and Indian philosophy at Sanskrit University, Benares. At the university, he served as a librarian and Tibetan language instructor, and helped to establish the Central Institute of Tibetan Studies where he later worked as lecturer. He also worked as a lecturer of Sanskrit and classical Tibetan language at the University of Delhi. After moving to the U.S. in 1974, he taught at the Bslab gsum bshad grub gling in New Jersey. In 1991, he earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University, where he taught classical Tibetan. Currently he is a regular professor at the International Buddhist College. ([http://ibc.ac.th/en/community/prof-dr-lozang-jamspal Source Accessed April 30, 2020]) +
Yūn-hua Jan was Professor of Religion in the Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton. He received a Canada Council Fellowship (1973-74) and has lectured in Chinese Studies at Visva-Bharati University, India. He has been a visiting researcher at the Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo (1974). He was the author of ''A Chronicle of Buddhism in China 581-906 A.D.'' (1967) and ''The Autobiography of Ch'i Pai-shih''. He has contributed many articles written in Chinese and English to various journals. He received his Ph.D. from the Visva-Bharati University, India. (Source: Adapted from [https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/content/search?search_in%5B%5D=all&SearchText=the+bodhisattva+doctrine+in+buddhism ''The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhism''], Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1981) +
Joanna Janiszewska-Rain is a freelance translator, interpreter, and editor living in the Krakow metropolitan area. ([https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanna-janiszewska-rain-5478a9101/?originalSubdomain=pl Source Accessed Mar 18, 2021]) +
Janārdana (Tib. mkhan po dza na rdA na, Khenpo Janārdana; also rendered Janardhana, Jārandana), known in Tibetan translation as Ye shes byin, was an Indian paṇḍita who flourished between 950 and 1050 CE. He is recorded as a teacher of the renowned translator Lo chen Rinchen Zangpo (958–1055), one of the most prolific and influential figures of the later diffusion (''phyi dar'') of Buddhism in Tibet, placing Janārdana among the Indian paṇḍitas active during the period of Rinchen Zangpo's studies. +
Katie Javanaud is a visiting lecturer and researcher at the Department of Religion [Princeton], affiliated with the University Centre for Human Values. Katie’s research focuses on cross-cultural philosophy and religion and her areas of specialism include Buddhism and Jainism. She recently completed her D.Phil at the University of Oxford where, for her doctoral dissertation, she addressed the free will problem using Madhyamaka Buddhist conceptual resources. Katie is also interested in areas of applied ethics, especially in environmental ethics and animal rights. Her publications appear in ''The Journal of Buddhist Ethics'', ''The Journal of Indian Philosophy'', ''The Journal of Animal Ethics'' and ''Aeon'' magazine. ([https://religion.princeton.edu/people/faculty/lecturers/katie-javanaud/ Source Accessed Apr 14, 2021]) +
Jayānanda (Tib. རྒྱལ་བ་ཀུན་དགའ, gyalwa kün ga, Wyl. rgyal ba kun dga') was the author of an important commentary on the ''Introduction to the Middle Way'' (''Madhyamakāvatāra'') by Candrakīrti called the ''Madhyamakāvatāraṭīkā''.
The Tibetan literature has not preserved very much about Jayānanda. He appears to have publicly debated with Phya-pa Chos-kyi seng-ge (1109–1169) on ''madhyamaka'' subjects at Gsang-phu ne'u-thog Monastery, of which the latter was abbot for eighteen years, most likely from 1152 to 1169, which resulted in a public defeat for him by that unique thinker who was one of Tibet's few, but foremost opponents of the ''*prāsaṇgika-madyamaka''. The great Gser-mdog Paṇ-chen Śākya-mchog ldan (1428–1507) writes that he thereafter left Tibet for Mount Wutai. In this connection, it is rather curious that he also writes . . . that Jayānanda had composed the ''Madhayamakāvatāravṛtti'' in Tibet. This work was not very much studied in later times, akthough a notable exception seems to have been Tsong-kha-pa, who cites it severally in some of his major writings, and then usually in a highly critical vein, particularly in connection with its "Tibetan followers." His influence in Tibet was nonetheless not inconsiderable. Among his many disciples, we should count Rma-bya Brtson-'grus seng-ge (?–1185) who, in fact, wrote a commentary on the ''Tarkamudgarakārikā''. So far, it seems that only his exegesis of the ''Mūlamadhyamakakārikā'' has been preserved by way of a late nineteenth century Sde-dge blockprint. (Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp, "Jayānanda. A Twelfth Century Guoshi from Kashmir Among the Tangut." ''Central Asiatic Journal'' 37, no. 3/4 (1993): 188–97) +
Stephen Jenkins, Professor of Religion at Humboldt State University, received his doctorate from Harvard. His research is focused on Buddhist ethics and the origins of Indian pure lands. Most recently, he has done a series of talks arguing for the importance of heavenly attainment in early Indian Buddhist soteriology and the significance of the devalokas as precedents for the pure lands. ([https://stephenjenkins.academia.edu/ Source Accessed Feb 10, 2021]) +
Jitāri. [alt. Jetāri] (T. Dgra las rnam rgyal) (fl. c. 940-980). Sanskrit proper name of the author of the ''Hetutattopadeśa'' and a number of short works on pramāṇa in the tradition that follows Dharmakīrti; later Tibetan doxographers . . . characterize him as interpreting Dharmakīrti's works from a
Madhyamaka perspective, leading them to include him in a Yogācāra-Svātantrika-Madhyamaka school following the false aspect (''alīkākara'') position. A Jitāri also appears in the list of the eighty-four mahāsiddhas as a tantric adept; he is also listed as a teacher of Atiśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna. (Source: "Jitāri." In ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'', 393. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.) +
Lalan Kumar Jha published a critical study of the ''Vimuttimagga'' through Vidyanidhi Prakashan, Delhi in 2008, described as a critical study of the Buddhist canonical text including the complete text in Pali. He is listed as a contributor to the ''Buddhist Studies'' journal of the Department of Buddhist Studies at Delhi University. +
Venerable Jigme met Venerable Chodron in 1998 at Cloud Mountain Retreat Center. She took refuge in 1999 and attended Dharma Friendship Foundation in Seattle, where Ven. Chodron was the resident teacher. She moved to the Abbey in 2008 and took śrāmaṇerikā and śikṣamāṇā vows with Venerable Chodron as her preceptor in March 2009. In 2011, along with Ven. Chonyi, she received bhikshuni ordination at Fo Guang Shan in Taiwan.
Before moving to Sravasti Abbey, Venerable Jigme worked as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner in private practice in Seattle. In her career as a nurse, she worked in hospitals, clinics and educational settings.
At the Abbey, Ven. Jigme manages the prison outreach program and support the health of the community. In addition, she is a photographer, technical consultant, thanks donors, and creates flyers and other graphics. ([https://sravastiabbey.org/community-member/ven-thubten-jigme/ Source Accessed May 17, 2023]) +
Jih-ch'eng 日稱 (1017–1078 A.D.) was a translator who worked with Dharmarakṣa on the Chinese translations of the ''Saddharmasmṛtyupasthānasūtra'', Śāntideva's ''Śikṣāsamuccaya'', as well as the ''Pitāputrasamāgamanasūtra''. +
Jinaputra (Tib. Slob dpon Rgyal ba'i sras) was an Indian Buddhist scholar and student of Dharmapāla. Four works are attributed to him in the Tengyur: a subcommentary on the bodhisattva precepts (''Bodhisattvaśīlaparivartatīkā''), two commentaries on Asaṅga's ''Abhidharmasamuccaya'' (''Abhidharmasamuccayabhāṣya'' and ''Abhidharmasamuccayavyākhyā''), and a commentary on a praise of the Three Jewels (''Triratnastotravṛitti''). +
Lobsang Jinpa is the Gaden Phodrang Senior Secretary. +
Thupten Jinpa Langri (b. 1958) is a former Tibetan monk and a Geshe Lharampa with B.A. in philosophy and a Ph.D. in religious studies, both from Cambridge University. Since 1985, he has been the principal English translator to H.H. the Dalai Lama and has translated and edited numerous books by the Dalai Lama, including the New York Times Bestsellers ''Ethics for the New Millennium'' and ''The Art of Happiness''. Jinpa’s own publications include works in Tibetan, English translations as well as books, the latest being ''Tsongkhapa: A Buddha in the Land of Snows'' and ''Illuminating the Intent'', a translation of Je Tsongkhapa's commentary on ''Entering the Middle Way''. Jinpa is the general series editor of the 32-volume ''Bod kyi tsug lag gces btus'' series, whose translations are published in English as [https://tibetanclassics.org/ The Library of Tibetan Classics]. His current projects include the editing of classical Indian Buddhist texts from Tengyur for a special anthology known as Rgya gzhung gnad che bdam bsgrigs (Selected Indian Buddhist treaties). He is the main author of CCT (Compassion Cultivation Training), an eight-week formal program developed at Stanford University, and co-founder and president of the Compassion Institute. He is the Chair of Mind and Life Institute, founder of the Institute of Tibetan Classics, and an adjunct professor at the School of Religious Studies at McGill University. Jinpa lives in Montreal and is married with two daughters. (Source: Thupten Jinpa) +
Yanneke Josephus Jitta is a EICC Meta-Coach & Faculty Member at Beyond EI (Emotional Intelligence)
Yanneke feels deeply inspired by the fact that by training our minds, we can align our actions with our desired results. Moreover, in accordance with the most recent scientific findings, she believes that we need to embrace kindness and empathy if we want to arrive at any true development. Yanneke’s Buddhist studies and practice have strengthened her emotional self-awareness, which is the very foundation of emotional intelligence. She enjoys guiding her emotional intelligence coaches towards activating their own EI, and welcomes anyone to join her on this EI journey. +
Jitāri. [alt. Jetāri] (T. Dgra las rnam rgyal) (fl. c. 940-980). Sanskrit proper name of the author of the ''Hetutattopadeśa'' and a number of short works on pramāṇa in the tradition that follows Dharmakīrti; later Tibetan doxographers (see siddhānta) characterize him as interpreting Dharmakīrti's works from a
Madhyamaka perspective, leading them to include him in a Yogācāra - Svātantrika - Madhyamaka school following the false aspect (alīkākara) position. A Jitāri also appears in the list of the eighty-four mahāsiddhas as a tantric adept; he is also listed as a teacher of Atiśa Dīpamkaraśrījñāna. (Source: "Jitāri." In ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'', 393. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.) +
Anna Wolcott Johnson received her PhD in Buddhist Studies from the University of Michigan. Her dissertation research was on 12th-15th century Tibetan texts on the Geluk sect’s position on three-vow theory (''sdom gsum''). She is currently an editor for Shambhala Publications. +
Dennis Johnson has an academic background in Tibetan and Buddhist Studies and has worked as a librarian, translator, editor and interpreter. He has also pursued additional training in various mindfulness-based, psychosocial and psychotherapeutic interventions. His main interest lies in forms of transdisciplinary and transcultural research and practice, and their potential to provide a new paradigm for individual, social and cultural transformation based on traditional knowledge as well as modern science. ([https://transpersonal-training.com/dennis-johnson/ Source Accessed Mar 9, 2023]) +
Chris Jones completed doctoral research at the University of Oxford (St Peter’s College) in 2015, with a thesis that explored the language of selfhood (ātman) in relation to teachings about buddha-nature in Indian Buddhist literature. The thesis was awarded the Khyentse Foundation Award for outstanding doctoral research produced in Europe, and was the foundation for his first monograph – The Buddhist Self: On Tathāgatagarbha and Ātman. Jones spent three further years researching and teaching at Oxford as a Postdoctoral Fellow of the British Academy, followed by a UK Arts and Humanities Research Project connected to the University of Cambridge, associated also with the University of Edinburgh. After a professorship in Vienna, Chris is Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies, based in the Faculty of Divinity at Selwyn College, Cambridge from September 2026. His continuing research concerns predominantly Mahāyāna Buddhist thought as preserved across Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan literature, as well as the boundaries and interactions between Buddhism and other religious traditions in India and elsewhere. (Personal Communication, September 2021]) +
Venerable Elvin W. Jones is a prominent Buddhist translator and scholar affiliated with the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism. He worked closely with Geshe Lhundub Sopa, a pioneering figure in bringing Buddhist teachings to the Western world, serving as his assistant and collaborator in Madison, Wisconsin.
Jones is known for his significant contributions to Buddhist scholarship and translation. He co-authored the ''Primer of Literary Tibetan'' with Geshe Sopa, establishing himself as an important figure in Tibetan language education for Western students. His translation work includes major Buddhist philosophical texts, most notably the collaborative translation of Kamalasīla's ''Stages of Meditation'', undertaken with Geshe Lhundub Sopa and John Newman.
In addition to his translation endeavors, Venerable Jones served as an author and editor of ''Mahayana Buddhist Meditation: Theory and Practice'', compiled with Minoru Kiyota, a scholarly work that explores Buddhist meditation practices and theory for Western audiences.
Through his affiliation with Geshe Sopa and his work at Deer Park Buddhist Center in Oregon, Wisconsin, Venerable Elvin W. Jones has played an important role in making Tibetan Buddhist teachings, texts, and practices accessible to Western practitioners and scholars. +
