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Khangsar Tenpa’i Wangchuk (1938–2014), aka Tulku Tenpo, was a monk and tertön of the Nyingma school. A revered master of his own tradition, he was also learned in the rigorous Geluk scholastic curriculum. While imprisoned for twelve years during the Cultural Revolution, he continued his dedicated practice alongside other great masters. He studied with Palyul Choktrul Jampal Gyepe Dorje, Akyong Tokden Rinpoche Lodrö Gyatso, and others. In his later years, he focused on teaching, writing, and restoring the monasteries of Khangsar Taklung and Payak in the region of Golok (mgo log), Tibet. His collected writings include commentaries on ''The Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva'' ([[gyal sras lag len so bdun ma]]), ''Rigdzin Düpa'' ([[rig 'dzin 'dus pa]]), ''Tsik Sum Né Dek'' ([[tshig gsum gnad brdegs]]), Longchenpa's ''Neluk Dzö'' ([[gnas lugs mdzod]]) and ''Chöying Dzö'' ([[chos dbyings mdzod]]), and Shabkar's ''Flight of the Garuda'' ([[mkha' lding gshog rlabs]]). ([https://www.shambhala.com/authors/u-z/khangsar-tenpa-i-wangchuk.html Source Accessed Feb. .4, 2022]) +
Venerable Jamyang Khedrup is a Canadian Buddhist monk who serves as the resident Tibetan-English interpreter at Lama Yeshe Ling Centre in Ontario, Canada, where he has been interpreting for Geshe Sonam since 2011. He frequently goes by the name Venerable Khedrup. +
Khenpo Shonri (Shonu Dondrup, gzhon nu don grub, 1938-2015) of Juniong Monastery was a disciple of Khenpo Thubga (Khenpo Thubten Chophel) and a custodian of many of Lama Mipham Rinpoche's and Patrul Rinpoche's relics. (Source: Enlightened Vagabond) +
Peter Khoroche is an independent scholar and translator as well as the author of monographs on the British artists Ivon Hitchens and Ben Nicholson. He lives in Suffolk. ([https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/K/P/au5361472.html Source Accessed Aug 24, 2026]) +
Dr. Sarla Khosla is an emminent scholar of Buddhism. Her works ''History of Buddhism in Kashmir'', ''Gupta Civilization'', ''Asvaghosa and His Times'', ''The Historical Evolution of the Buddha Legend'', and a number of research articles including "Buddhism in Ladakh" and "World's debt to Buddhist World" have won her acclaim in the Buddhist World. (Source: ''Lalitavistara and the Evolution of Buddha Legend'', back cover) +
Khenpo Lodrö Zangpo (Tib. མཁན་པོ་བློ་གྲོས་བཟང་པོ་, Wyl. mkhan po blo gros bzang po) (1924-1986) was one of Sogyal Rinpoche's tutors. He was from Tritso (khri tsho) Monastery in Derge, the same monastery as Khenpo Rinchen and Khenpo Lhoga. He studied with Khenpo Dragyab Lodrö together with Khenpo Appey. After coming into exile, he lived at Ngor Monastery in Gangtok, Sikkim. He was also a teacher of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche. He passed away in Bodhgaya in the Fire Tiger year (1986) at the end of the sixteenth calendrical cycle. (Source: [http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Khenpo_Lodr%C3%B6_Zangpo Rigpa Wiki]) +
Bsod nams rgya mtsho was a bka' brgyud master, scholar, and translator. He was born into the lineage of ngan lam rgyal ba mchog dbyangs as the son of rig 'dzin bsod nams 'od zer and the lady dpal ldan 'dzom. He received his first vows from brag nag pa mgon rgyal ba and the name bsod nams rgya mtsho'i sde. He received his rab byung vows from dwags po bkra shis rnam rgyal and received the byams chos sde lnga, dbu rigs tshogs drug, dbu ma la 'jug pa, spyod 'jug, dbu ma bzhi brgya pa, and the mngon pa gong 'og from dpal 'byor rgya mtsho. Bsod nams rgya mtsho studied the art of translation with 'gos lo tsA ba. He met and received teachings from Vanaratna and asked many questions regarding the Kalacakra. He received teachings on the practice of the phyag chen and nA ro chos drug from the zhwa dmar. He traveled to Nepal with paN chen rin po che, [and] presumably Vanaratna. He received visions of shA wa ri pa at shAnta pu ri and mar pa at gro bo lung. His chief practice was the Kalacakra. ([http://purl.bdrc.io/resource/P208 Adapted from Source June 9, 2026]) +
Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen was a teacher of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, especially for the ''Bodhicharyavatara'', for which he held Patrul Rinpoche’s lineage, having received it from one of the great khenpos at Dzogchen monastery.... (Keep reading at [https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Khunu_Lama_Tenzin_Gyaltsen Rigpa Wiki].)
Further details in [https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/mandala/archives/mandala-for-2015/july/the_great_kindness_of_khunu_lama_rinpoche.pdf the story of Khunu Lama as told by Baling Lama]. +
Dilgo Khyentse Tashi Peljor was one of the most prominent Nyingma lamas of the twentieth century, widely known also in the West. The mind reincarnation of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, his seat was Shechen Monastery, which he reestablished in Boudhanath, Nepal, in 1980. After fleeing the Communist takeover of Tibet, Dilgo Khyentse settled in Bhutan. A prolific author and treasure-revealer, his compositions are collected in twenty-five volumes. Although he received novice vows at age ten, he never fully ordained, living the life of a householder with wife and children. ([http://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Dilgo-Khyentse-Tashi-Peljor/P625 Source: Treasury of Lives]) +
The present Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, Thubten Chökyi Gyamtso, was born in 1961 in eastern Bhutan. He was recognized as a tulku by H.H. Sakya Trizin, and received empowerments and teachings from many of the greatest masters of Tibetan Buddhism, including H.H. the 16th Karmapa; H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche and Lama Sonam Zangpo (his paternal and maternal grandfathers); Chatral Rinpoche; Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche, Khenpo Appey, and many others. His root guru was Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, who began training Rinpoche from the age of 7.
While still a teenager, Rinpoche built a small retreat center in Ghezing, Sikkim and soon began traveling and teaching around the world. In the 1980s, he began the restoration of Dzongsar Monastery in Derge, the responsibility of which he had inherited from his previous incarnation, Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö. He established Dzongsar Institute in Bir, India, (now DKCLI in Chauntra), which has grown to be one of the most respected institutions for advanced dialectical study. He also oversees two monasteries in Bhutan and has established dharma centres in Australia, Europe, North America, and Asia. He has written several books and made award-winning films. Rinpoche continuously travels all over the world, practicing and teaching the Dharma. (Source: [https://khyentsefoundation.org/about-dzongsar-jamyang-khyentse-rinpoche/ Khyentse Foundation.org]) +
Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche (Tib. འཇིགས་མེད་མཁྱེན་བརྩེ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།) (b.1963) is the third son of the late Kangyur Rinpoche and one of the directors of Songtsen. He was recognized by Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche, and H.H. the 16th Karmapa as the incarnation of Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö. Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche spent his childhood in Darjeeling and later passed much of his time with Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche in India, Nepal, and Bhutan, receiving many precious teachings.
In 1980, Rinpoche came to Europe with his mother and the rest of his family. Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche frequently gives teachings in France and in various other countries, in both French and English. He also oversees Padmakara's projects and supervises the translation of texts from Tibetan into Western languages. (Source: [https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Jigme_Khyentse_Rinpoche Rigpa Shedra]) +
Young-ho Kim was an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Inha University in Korea. He is the author of ''Tao-Sheng's Commentary on the Lotus Sūtra: A Study and Translation'' (SUNY Press, 1990). This work was originally presented as a doctoral thesis at McMaster University in Ontario in 1985, under the supervision of [[Yün-hua Jan]]. +
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]) +
Kiyotaka Kimura is Professor Emeritus of Buddhist Studies at Tokyo University and the former President of Tsurumi University. He is Chairman of Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai (BDK - Society for the Promotion of Buddhism). +
Professor Richard King studied philosophy and religious studies at the University of Hull before completing a PhD on Hindu and Buddhist philosophy at the University of Lancaster. He has worked in a number of different universities including Stirling, Derby, Vanderbilt (Nashville, USA), Glasgow and has been at the University of Kent since 2013.
Richard describes himself as a philosopher and a historian of ideas by inclination with an interest in classical South Asian thought and postcolonial theory. His work explores the intersection between what we call philosophy and mysticism/spirituality and the ways in which European colonialism has influenced (and continues to influence) modern interpretations of classical Indian traditions.
Richard's research explores interdisciplinary issues in the intersection between Religious Studies, Philosophy, the comparative study of mysticism/spirituality and the study of Asia. He works on theory and method questions in the study of religion (see Religion/Theory/Critique, Columbia University Press, 2017) and, in particular, has written about the impact of coloniality/modernity on the representation of Hindu and Buddhist traditions in the West.
He is one of a number of key writers who have called into question the usefulness of the category of religion as a cross-cultural variable, especially with regard to the history of South Asian traditions. He is also known for his writings on colonialism and the modern formation of the category of Hinduism. More specifically, Richard is a specialist of classical Indian (Hindu Brahmanical and Buddhist) thought, with specific interests in early Indian Mahayana Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta.
Richard has a particular interest in postcolonial theory and the challenges involved in seeking to globalise and expand philosophy beyond its western horizons. (see Orientalism and Religion, Routledge; and Indian Philosophy, 2000). He is also interested in the impact that neoliberal capitalism has played in the emergence of new forms of eastern-inspired spirituality in the contemporary period (see Selling Spirituality, Carrette and King, Routledge, 2005).
From 2007 to 2009 Richard served on the advisory committee to the Guggenheim Museum in New York for 'The Third Mind. a major exhibition exploring Asian philosophical influences on modern American art and also as co-chair of the Cultural History for the Study of Religion group for the American Academy of Religion.
From 2017-2020 he is co-investigator for a Leverhulme Trust funded research project which seeks to map mindfulness training provision in the UK (Twitter: @MapMindful)
Richard's current research work explores apophatic (that is, negative or ‘unsaying’) discourse in classical Buddhist, Vedantic and Christian literature and the ways in which these trends have been largely excluded from the history of philosophy and framed by the category of mysticism. He is also working on the rise of 'mindfulness” in the 21st-century, exploring how an ancient Buddhist meditative practice became a modern secular therapy now widely adopted in healthcare, business and military contexts. ([https://www.kent.ac.uk/european-culture-languages/people/1663/www.kent.ac.uk/european-culture-languages/people/1663/king-richard Source Accessed Dec 9, 2019])
[https://www.kent.ac.uk/european-culture-languages/people/1663/www.kent.ac.uk/european-culture-languages/people/1663/king-richard#publications Publications]
King, a Quaker and Buddhist, is Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Religion at James Madison University and Affiliated Faculty, Professor of Buddhist Studies, Department of Theology, Georgetown University. She is the author, co-editor or translator of numerous works on Buddhism, Engaged Buddhism, Buddhist-Christian dialogue, interfaith dialogue, and the cross-cultural philosophy of religion. ([https://esr.earlham.edu/node/962 Source Accessed July 24, 2020]) +
Minoru ("Min") Kiyota was born on October 12, 1923 in Seattle, Washington and grew up in San Francisco, California and Hiratsuka, Japan, where he lived from 1934 to 1938.
While merely a high-school student, he was interned as an American-born but Japan-educated offspring of Japanese parents (''kibei'') in relocation centers in Tanforan, Topaz, and Tule Lake in 1942 during World War II. In his autobiographical account, ''Beyond Loyalty: The Story of a Kibei'' (1997), and in a chapter in his edited volume, ''The Case of Japanese Americans During World War II: Suppression of Civil Liberty'' (2004), he described his experiences during this difficult period of his life.
After his release from Tule Lake Segregation Center in 1946, he accepted a scholarship to the College of the Ozarks in Arkansas and later transferred to the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his B.A. in East Asian Languages and History in 1949. Min attended the San Francisco Theological Seminary from 1949 to 1950 and worked as a civilian employee of the U.S. Air Force Intelligence Service in Japan and
Korea from 1950 to 1953 during the Korean War. He continued to stay in East Asia, attending Tokyo University in Tokyo, Japan from 1953 to 1962, where received his M.A. in 1958 and completed his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies in 1963.
In 1962 Min joined the Department of Indian Studies (later renamed the Department of South Asian Studies and currently designated as the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia - LCA) of the
University of Wisconsin-Madison as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor with a joint appointment with the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature in 1968. In 1978 he rose to the rank of Professor.
Min's research interests were wide-ranging but his main area of teaching and scholarship was Mahāyāna Buddhism in East Asia. He emphasized textual research, requiring rigorous training in Sanskrit, Chinese and
Japanese. In 1989 Min also started teaching Kendō (a Japanese martial art, which descended from traditional swordsmanship) as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Kinesiology. His "Kendo: An Integration of Martial and Liberal Arts," cross-listed with the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature and the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia, was the first and only course of its kind taught in a university setting in the USA. Min used his Kendō class to teach Zen Buddhism as the philosophical foundation of Kendō. He stressed the importance of Kendō as a way to overcome fear, to develop one-pointed concentration (for better study habits), to grow personally, and to understand different cultural perspectives on life.
During the course of his employment at UW-Madison, Min published twelve books, numerous articles and book chapters, and supervised thirty-two Ph.D. students, a great number of whom found positions at colleges
and major universities in the United States, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam.
Among his books on Buddhism, ''Shingon Buddhism: Theory and Practice'' (1978) is a pioneering study of esoteric Buddhism in Japan and remains an important reference work on the subject. Min is best known for his edited volume ''Mahāyāna Buddhist Meditation'', published in 1978 and reprinted in 1991.
Min also published on Kendō, most importantly his comprehensive work ''Kendo: Its Philosophy, History and Means to Personal Growth'' (1995), republished as ''The Shambhala Guide to Kendo'' (2002). ([https://federated.kb.wisc.edu/images/group222/shared/2014-02-03FacultySenate/2463mr.pdf Source Accessed Jan 14, 2020])
Margarita Kleibel is a scholar of Indian Buddhist philosophy and Sanskrit philology trained at the University of Vienna, where she completed her Diplomarbeit (Mag. phil.) in 2010 under the supervision of Klaus-Dieter Mathes. Her thesis presented a German translation of Prajñākaramati's ninth-century Sanskrit commentary on the ''Bodhicaryāvatāra'', the ''Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā'', focusing on verses 8.1–39 of Śāntideva's root text, accompanied by a critical edition drawing on Sanskrit manuscripts and Tibetan Tengyur sources. Her philological training included manuscript studies under Karin Preisendanz. She conducted her research within the University of Vienna's program in Indian Studies and Buddhist philosophy, in collaboration with scholars including Anne MacDonald and Bruno Lainé. +
Anne Carolyn Klein (Rigzin Drolma), Professor and Former Chair of Religious Studies, Rice University, and Founding Director of Dawn Mountain. (www.dawnmountain.org). Her six books include ''Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse: A Story of Transmission''; ''Meeting the Great Bliss Queen'', ''Knowledge & Liberation, and Paths to the Middle'' as well as ''Unbounded Wholeness'' with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. She has also been a consulting scholar in several Mind and Life programs. Her central thematic interest is the interaction between head and heart as illustrated across a spectrum of Buddhist descriptions of the many varieties of human consciousness. ([https://www.colorado.edu/event/lotsawa/presenters/anne-klein Source Accessed July 24, 2020]) +
Also known as Klong chen pa (Longchenpa). An esteemed master and scholar of the Rnying ma sect of Tibetan Buddhism known especially for his promulgation of rdzogs chen. Klong chen pa is believed to be the direct reincarnation of Padma las 'brel rtsal, who revealed the ''Rdzogs chen snying thig'', and also of Padma gsal, who first received those teachings from the Indian master Padmasambhava. Born in the central region of G.yo ru (Yoru), he received ordination at the age of twelve. At nineteen, he entered Gsang phu ne'u thog monastery where he engaged in a wide range of studies, including philosophy, numerous systems of sūtra and tantra, and the traditional Buddhist sciences, including grammar and poetics. Having trained under masters as diverse as the abbots of Gsang phu ne'u thog and the third Karma pa, Rang 'byung rdo rje, he achieved great scholarly mastery of numerous traditions, including the Rnying ma, Sa skya, and Bka' brgyud sects. However, Klong chen pa quickly became disillusioned at the arrogance and pretention of many scholars of his day, and in his mid-twenties gave up the monastery to pursue the life of a wandering ascetic. At twenty-nine, he met the great yogin Kumārarāja at Bsam yas monastery, who accepted him as a disciple and transmitted the three classes of rdzogs chen (rdzogs chen sde gsum), a corpus of materials that would become a fundamental part of Klong chen pa's later writings and teaching career . . . Among the most important and well-known works in Klong chen pa's extensive literary corpus are his redaction of the meditation and ritual manuals of the heart essence (Snying thig), composed mainly in the hermitage of Gangs ri thod dkar. Other important works include his exegesis on the theory and practice of rdzogs chen, such as the Mdzod bdun (“seven treasuries”) and the Ngal gso skor gsum (“Trilogy on Rest”). (Source: “Klong chen rab 'byams.” In ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'', 439. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
