The Treasury of Lives

The Treasury of Lives is a biographical encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalayan region founded in 2007

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About

The Treasury of Lives is a biographical encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalayan region. In development since 2007, it provides accessible and well-researched biographies of notable individuals who are deceased and who were native to the region. Most essays are peer reviewed. Content is enhanced by a dynamic map.

 

The team at the Treasury wishes to acknowledge everyone who has collaborated to help create the site, which was originally known as The Tibetan Lineages Project. Chief among them are Donald Rubin, out of whose mind the idea initially sprung, and Moke Mokotoff, Matthieu Ricard and Vivian Kurz, who originally created the site and engaged the scholars who wrote the earliest essays. We remember the late Gene Smith for his encouragement and suggestions. Many additional people have helped make the Treasury what it is today. We want to recognize Jeff Watt, Jeff  Wallman, Asha Kaufman, Tenzin Dickie, Karma Sonam Gelek, Harry Einhorn, Asa Hardcastle, Weston Happ, and Nathaniel Eames.

 

This resource is in continuous development thanks to foundations, individual donors and NEH grants. If your circumstances allow, please consider a tax-deductible donation to keep The Treasury of Lives online.


Editorial Statement Regarding Misconduct and Abuse

The Treasury of Lives is committed to publishing well-researched, factual biographies, not hagiographies. We believe there is both historical and inspirational value in the narratives of the lives of women and men who studied, practiced, and taught Buddhism. The Treasury of Lives follows commonly accepted standards of objective, factual reporting. We do not serve to promote any single tradition or individual reputation. Should there be allegations of abuse and misconduct against an individual teacher that are part of the public record, we will include those allegations in the biography.

 

The editors at The Treasury of Lives recognize that sexual abuse and misconduct are difficult and painful topics. It is never easy to be confronted with a betrayal of trust and a misuse of authority. This is particularly true when the accused perpetrator of the abuse is considered to be an embodiment of teachings of peace and compassion. We understand that confronting such situations can cause a crisis of faith.

 

In all cases it is important to take allegations of harm seriously. Concealing misconduct and abuse enables the continuation of harm and implies that the harm is permitted. It is also important to acknowledge the effect of abuse and misconduct on the communities in which it occurs. Discussing both allegations and verified misconduct is a means for healing and prevention. 

 

The Treasury of Lives rejects any attempt to use Buddhist doctrine to justify harm; secrecy around particular scriptures or practices, and taking the passions as the path, do not excuse exploitation and injustice, and biographies will not include such language. 

 

View a list of resources for further reading on the topic of misconduct in contemporary Buddhism

Staff

Alexander Gardner is Director and Chief Editor of the Treasury of Lives. Alex completed his PhD in Buddhist Studies at the University of Michigan in 2007. He is the author of The Life of Jamgon Kongtrul the Great (Shambhala, 2019). He can be reached at Alex at treasuryoflives.org. 

Catherine Tsuji is an Editor at the Treasury of Lives. She received an MA in Religious Studies from the University of California Santa Barbara. She can be reached at Catherine at treasuryoflives.org.

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Institutional Partners

Board of Directors

  • Gray Tuttle, Ph.D., Chair (Columbia University, East Asian Languages and Cultures)
  • Annabella Pitkin, Ph.D., Treasurer (Lehigh University)
  • Tenzin Wangyal, Esq., Secretary (Law Offices of Tenzin Wangyal)
  • Benjamin Bogin, Ph.D., Director (Skidmore College)
  • Andrew Quintman, Ph.D., Director (Wesleyan University)
  • Asha Kaufman, Director (Brooklyn Museum)

Editorial Committee Members

The Editorial committee supervises the Treasury's peer review process. Editorial members are also part of the advisory team.

  • Benjamin Bogin (Skidmore College)
  • Jacob Dalton (UC Berkeley)
  • Paul Hackett (Columbia University Institute for Buddhist Studies)
  • Ariana Maki (University of Virginia)
  • Karma Phuntsho (Cultural Documentation and Research, Bhutan)
  • Annabella Pitkin (Lehigh University)
  • Andrew Quintman (Wesleyan University)
  • Michael Sheehy (University of Virginia)
  • Gray Tuttle (Columbia University)
  • Vesna A. Wallace (UC Santa Barbara)
  • Nicole Willock (Old Dominion University)

Advisory Committee Members

The Advisory Committee helps guide the Treasury's development and recommends improvements. They serve as ambassadors to the site, helping to promote its use and encourage participation among colleagues and students.

  • José Cabezón (UC Santa Barbara)
  • Brandon Dotson (Georgetown University)
  • Janet Gyatso (Harvard University)
  • Lauran Hartley (Columbia University Library)
  • Roger Jackson (Carleton College)
  • Sarah Jacoby (Northwestern University)
  • Thupten Jinpa (Institute of Tibetan Classics)
  • Samten Karmay (CNRS, Paris)
  • Klaus Dieter Mathes (University of Hamburg)
  • Elena Pakhutova (Rubin Museum of Art)
  • Jann Ronis (Buddhist Digital Resource Center)
  • Sam van Schaik (British Library)
  • Tsering Wangyal Shawa (Princeton University Library)

已发表作者

The Treasury of Lives is a collaborative project. While all biographies are edited by the team, they are written by scholars from around the world. If you would like to submit a biography, please contact us.

Pasang Yonten Arya

(Menrampa) trained at Men-Tsee-Khang in Dharamsala, where he graduated first of his class in 1977 and served as assistant pharmacist, professor, and college principal until 1989. After lecturing at the Central Institute for Buddhist Studies (Ladakh, 1989-1991), he moved to Europe, where he acted as guest professor in Tibetan medicine for DÄGfa (the German Medical Association for Acupuncture) for more than two decades. He co-founded and directs the New Yuthok Institute (Italy) as well as TME – Tibetan Medicine Education Center (Switzerland), through which he has instructed many students on clinical, yogic, and tantric knowledge and practices that balance the body-mind. His recently published handbook New Light on Tibetan Medicine: Volume I – Foundations (2022) is based on his lifelong teaching experience.

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Qiyuan

is an independent scholar. 

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Anonymous

The author of this biography prefers to remain anonymous. The author's identity is known to the editors of the Treasury of Lives. 

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Jean Luc Achard

is a researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris and editor of the Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines.

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Namdrol Miranda Adams

is the Dean of Education and a founder of Maitripa College. She holds an MA in Education from Portland State University, and a BA in English Literature from New York University. She is currently completing her doctoral work in Education at University of Portland. 

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Elizabeth Angowski

is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Earlham College. She completed her Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies at Harvard University in 2019. Her current research focuses on Buddhist narrative literature, ethics, and the figure of Yeshe Tsogyel.  

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Stéphane Arguillère

is professor of Tibetan language and civilisation at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations (INALCO) in Paris, France, where he is also associate vice-president.

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Nathan Eugene Bates

is a graduate student at Columbia University.

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John Vincent Bellezza

is a senior research fellow at the Tibet Center, University of Virginia. He is an expert in the archaeology and cultural history of Tibet.

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Elisabeth Benard

recently retired from her position as Associate Professor at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington. She continues to research the Sakya Jetsumas.

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Suzanne Bessenger

is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia. She completed a PhD in History of Religions at the University of Virginia in 2010. She is the author of Echoes of Enlightenment: The Life and Legacy of the Tibetan Saint Sonam Peldren (Oxford 2016).

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Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia

is originally from west Sikkim and completed his PhD in Buddhist Studies at Delhi University. He is currently a Robert H. N. Ho Research Fellow in Buddhist Studies and a Visiting Scholar at the University of California Los Angeles.

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Benjamin Bogin

is Assistant Professor in the Asian Studies Program at Skidmore College.

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Martin Boord

earned his PhD at the School of Oriental and African studies at the University of London in 1992. He has published widely on the topic of Vajrakīla.

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Michael Burroughs

is an independent scholar living in Santa Cruz, CA. He is the founder of the Jang Ter Cho Gar, the Northern Treasures Buddhist Society which is the official branch of Dorje Drak in the United States.

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José Cabezón

is Distinguished Research Professor, and Dalai Lama Professor Emeritus at the University of California Santa Barbara. He is also President Emeritus of the American Academy of Religion.

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Varvara Chatzisavva

is a PhD student at the University of South Wales working on contemporary Nyingma communities in Kham.

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Lowell Cook

completed his MA in Translation, Textual Interpretation, and Philology at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute.

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Bryan Cuevas

is the John F. Priest Professor of Religion at Florida State University.

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Jacob Dalton

is Assistant Professor of Tibetan Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Ritiman Das

is a research scholar at the Department of Indo-Tibetan Studies, Visva-Bharati University. He has translated the biography of Seventeen Nālandā Panditas into Bengali.

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Marc Henri Deroche

is associate professor at Kyōto University (GSAIS, Shishu-Kan), Japan, where he teaches Buddhist studies and cross-cultural philosophy. He received his PhD from the University of Paris in 2011.  https://www.gsais.kyoto-u.ac.jp/staff/deroche  

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Hildegard Diemberger

is Senior Associate in Research, Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit at Cambridge University.

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David DiValerio

is Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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Dorje Penjore

is Chief Researcher at The Centre for Bhutan Studies.  

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Brandon Dotson

is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology at Georgetown University.

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Patrick Dowd

is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the culture of Tibetan language within the world of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Douglas Duckworth

(PhD 2005, University of Virginia) is associate professor at Temple University and the director of graduate studies in the Department of Religion. His latest works include Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature (Oxford 2019) and a translation of an overview of the Wisdom Chapter of the Way of the Bodhisattva by Künzang Sönam, entitled The Profound Reality of Interdependence (Oxford 2019).

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Harry Einhorn

works at the Rubin Museum of Art and is a composer and performer whose pieces have been performed in New York and elsewhere.

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ErdeneBaatar Erdene Ochir

is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara

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Franz Xaver Erhard

is a research fellow at Leipzig University, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. in Tibetan Studies with a dissertation on contemporary Tibetan literature. His research interests include secular life writing, modern Tibetan history, and the history of Tibetan print media.

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Marlene Erschbamer

is an independent scholar who holds a PhD in Buddhist Studies from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich. Her research interests include the Barawa Kagyu tradition, Sikkim Studies, Tibetan Buddhism and the role of gender, and the intersection of religion, nature, and culture in the Tibetan Cultural Area.

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Liz Flora

received an MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University in 2013.

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Renée Ford

is a Lecturer at UNC-Wilmington. She completed her Ph.D. at Rice University in 2020.

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Alexander Gardner

is Director and Chief Editor of the Treasury of Lives. He completed his PhD in Buddhist Studies at the University of Michigan in 2007. He is the author of The Life of Jamgon Kongtrul The Great.

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Ron Garry

has a Ph.D. in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and an M.A. in integral psychotherapy.

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Holly Gayley

is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is author of Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet (Columbia University Press, 2016).

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Barbara Gerke

(DPhil, MSc, University of Oxford), has been based at the University of Vienna since 2015 and works across the disciplines of Medical Anthropology and Tibetan Studies, researching medico-religious interfaces in Sowa Rigpa across the Himalayas. Her open-access monograph Taming the Poisonous: Mercury, Toxicity, and Safety in Tibetan Medical Practice (Heidelberg University Publishing, 2021) examines the use of refined mercury in Tibetan medicines and related safety and toxicity debates. Her first monograph Long Lives and Untimely Deaths (Brill, 2012) analyses long-life rituals, as well as vitality and life-span concepts among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills.

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Tom Greensmith

is a MPhil graduate in Tibetan and Himalayan studies from Oxford University. His completed dissertation focused on the “non-sectarian” (ris med) figure of the Fifth Sle lung bZhad pa’i rdo rje (1697-1740) and his journey to Pad+mo bkod in 1729.

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Joel Gruber

is teaching professor at the University of San Diego.

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Gyurme Dorje

was director of Trans Himalaya, with offices in the United Kingdom, Chengdu, and Kham. He earned a Ph.D. in Tibetan Literature at the School for Oriental and Asian Studies in 1987 and a Masters degree in Sanskrit & Oriental Studies at Edinburgh in 1971.

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Chris Hatchell

teaches religious studies at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. His research interests are in Kālacakra, Dzogchen, and the Bon tradition

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He Mufei (Helena)

is a PhD student in Tibetan Literature at Tsinghua University. Her research interests are Tibeto-Sino Buddhism and Buddhist Modernism.

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Jörg Heimbel

has a Ph.D. in Tibetology from Hamburg University, where he is a research associate and lecturer for Classical and Colloquial Tibetan.  

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Daniel Hirshberg

is an Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA. He earned his Ph.D. in Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University in 2012.  

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Amy Holmes Tagchungdarpa

is an associate professor in Religious Studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California.

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Ryan M. Jacobson

co-founded Tib Shelf (tibshelf.org), an open platform that provides access to an expanding collection of translated Tibetan texts spanning various time periods and genres. He holds an MA and MSt in Buddhist studies and Oriental studies and is currently reading for a DPhil at the University of Oxford.

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Sarah Jacoby

is Assistant Professor of Religion at Northwestern University. She earned a PhD in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia in 2007.

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Lkhagvademchig Jadamba

is a Senior Lecturer at the National University of Mongolia. Currently, he is a Visiting Professor at the Center of International Studies, University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE), Portugal.

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Jagar Dorji

is a Member of Parliament, National Council of Bhutan.

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Jamyang Norbu

is a novelist, historian, playwright and polemecist covering Tibetan politics, history and culture.

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Sean Jones

left school in England in the 1960s to travel overland to India and lived in the Himalayan regions for a decade, before returning to London to establish a successful travel business. From 1985 he travelled all over Tibet and in the UK he co-founded a number of Tibet-related organizations. An autodidact, he wrote and published various articles on Tibet, its people and its history, including in Wikipedia.

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Matthew Kapstein

is the Director of Tibetan Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, and also Numata Visiting Professor of the Philosophy of Religions and the History of Religions in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago.

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Karma Rigzin

is a researcher at the Institute of Language and Culture Studies.

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Karma Sonam Gelek

is Tibetan, Sanskrit & Chinese Language Researcher at Himalayan Art Resources

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Khenpo Mriti

is a Tibetan Buddhist scholar, translator, and PhD Candidate at McGill University. He graduated from Vikramashila Buddhist Institute, Pokhara, Nepal after which he served as a research assistant to Acharya Sempa Dorje 2004 to 2013.

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Khenpo Phuntshok Tashi

was the Director of the National Museum of Bhutan.

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Ryosuke Kobayashi

is Associate Professor at Kyushu University. His research interests include the history of Kham and the diplomatic activity of the Tibetan Government in the early 20th century.  

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Mayumi Kodani

is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Yaroslav Komarovski

(Ph.D. University of Virginia, 2007) is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln.  He is author of Tibetan Buddhism and Mystical Experience by Oxford University Press, Visions of Unity: The Golden Pandita Shakya Chokden's New Interpretation of Yogācāra and Madhyamaka by State University of New York Press and Three Texts on Madhyamaka by Shakya Chokden by Library of Tibetan Works and Archives.

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Han Kop

has an MA in Translation from Rangjung Yeshe Institute and is the director of the Longchen Nyingtik Project, which aims to translate the Nyingtik Tsapö in English.

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Stefan Larsson

received his PhD in History of Religions from Stockholm University in 2009 and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley.

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Oriane Lavole

is a PhD candidate in Religious Studies at Stanford University, and a translator and interpreter of Buddhist texts and teachings from Tibetan to English.

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Jakob Leschly

is a translator and practitioner, studying primarily under Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Pema Wanggyal Rinpoche, and Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche. He completed a three year retreat in 1984.

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Derek Maher

is Associate Professor, Religious Studies Program, and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies at East Carolina University.

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Ariana Maki

is Associate Director of the Tibet Center and Bhutan Initiative at the University of Virginia and holds a Ph.D. in Art History with a specialization in Himalayan Art. http://virginia.academia.edu/ArianaMaki

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Arthur Mandelbaum

was a Buddhist practitioner and translator.

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Dan Martin

is a scholar based in Israel. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1991.

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Will May

is an independent Buddhist scholar and translator and the founder of the Buddhist Open Online Translation Lab.

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Joseph McClellan

received a PhD from Columbia University's Department of Religion in 2013. He has taught humanities at colleges in several countries and is now an independent translator and writer based in Asia.

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Carole McGranahan

is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War, and is currently writing a book about the Pangdatsang family.

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Alison Melnick Dyer

is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Bates College. Her current research focuses on the Life of Mingyur Peldron.

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Irmgard Mengele

received her PhD from the University of Hamburg.

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Willa Miller

is Visiting Professor at Harvard Divinity School and Director of Natural Dharma Fellowship, a non-profit Buddhist organization. She completed a PhD in Religion at Harvard University in 2013.

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J. Arya Moallem

is a PhD candidate in History and East Asian Languages at Harvard University. His dissertation research focuses on the life and times of Miwang Polhane Sonam Tobgye, and works to situate his particular mode of lay kingship within Qing, Inner Asian, and Early Modern contexts.

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Elizabeth Monson

is Spiritual Co-Director of Natural Dharma Fellowship and the Managing Teacher at Wonderwell Mountain Refuge

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Jake Nagasawa

is a graduate student in Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Neema Tashi

is a research scholar working as a PhD student on Buddhist philosophy and history at Central Institute of Buddhist Studies, Leh, Ladakh, India.

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Ngawang Dorje

is a Ph.D. candidate in Tibetan and late Imperial Chinese history at Minzu University of China in Beijing. His research focuses on the role of Tibetan Buddhism in Qing Inner Asia during the eighteenth century. He is also interested more broadly in the history and literature of the Kadam tradition. 

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Benjamin Nourse

is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Denver.

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Palden Gyal

is a Ph.D. student in modern Tibetan and late imperial Chinese history at Columbia University. His research focuses on the institutional history of Tibetan communities in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands.

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Adam Pearcey

is the founder of Lotsawa House. He completed his PhD at SOAS, University of London, in 2018 with a thesis on Dzogchen, scholasticism and sectarian identity in early twentieth-century Tibet. Read more at adamspearcey.com.

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Pema Bhum

is a writer and scholar. He is also Director of Latse Contemporary Tibetan Cultural Library.

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Françoise Pommaret

is a cultural anthropologist, Director of Research at the CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research, France) and Associate Professor at the College of Language and Culture (CLCS), Royal University of Bhutan. http://www.crcao.fr/spip.php?article176

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John Powers

is Research Professor in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University. He is the author of fourteen books and more than sixty articles. These include Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism and A Bull of a Man: Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism.  

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Andrew Quintman

is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Wesleyan University. He completed his PhD in Buddhist Studies at the University of Michigan in 2006.

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Mads Garnak Rasmussen

is currently studying Tibetan language and Buddhism in Dharamsala.

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Dhondup T. Rekjong

is a Tibetan scholar and doctoral candidate in religious studies at Northwestern University.

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Joona Repo

is currently a researcher at the Department of World Cultures, University of Helsinki.  

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Matthieu Ricard

is the main coordinator at Karuna-Shechen. A Buddhist monk, he has lived and studied in the Himalayan region for over fity years, and was the full-time attendant of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche for thirteen years.

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Jann Ronis

is Executive Director of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2009.

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Samten Chhosphel

earned his PhD from CIHTS in India where he served as the head of Publication Dept. for 26 years. He has a Master’s degree in Writing and Publishing from Emerson College, Boston. Currently he is an adjunct Assistant Professor at the City University of New York, and Language Associate in Columbia University, NY.  

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Samten Karmay

is Director of Research Emeritus at the National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris.
 

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Sangngak Dorje

 

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Hamid Sardar

Hamid Sardar is a professional photographer as well a a scholar of Tibetan and Mongol languages who received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.

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Joshua Schapiro

is a Ph.D. candidate in Religious Studies at Harvard University.

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Dirk Schmidt

holds an MA in Buddhist Studies and currently lives in Asia studying Tibetan language. He can be reached at cloudedcat.com.

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Greg Seton

is a senior lecturer in the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College.

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Michael Sheehy

is Research Assistant Professor in Tibetan and Buddhist studies, Director of Scholarship at the Contemplative Sciences Center, and affiliated faculty with the Tibet Center at the University of Virginia.   

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Sherab Drime

is an ordained monk and lama of the Karma Kagyu and Shangpa Kagyu traditions of German origin. An interpreter and translator for 30 years, he worked closely for the late Kyabje Tenga Rinpoche of Benchen monastery and now spends most of his time in solitary retreat in Yolmo.

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Gene Smith

(1936-2010), one of the world's greatest scholars of Tibet, was the Founder of the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center.

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Sonam Dorje

is a PHD candidate in Dunhuang Tibetan Manuscripts at North-west Nationalities’ University in Lanzhou.

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Sonam Thakchoe

Senior Philosophy Lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Tasmania. He teaches Asian philosophy, coordinates the Asian Philosophy Program and directs the Tasmanian Buddhist Studies in India Exchange Program.

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Sonam Tsering Ngulphu

Sonam Tsering Ngulphu has a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies/East Asian Religions from Columbia University, New York. He completed his master's degrees from Harvard University and Central University for Tibetan Studies.

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Michelle Sorensen

is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy and Religion Department at Western Carolina University. She completed her PhD in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University in 2013.

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Cyrus Stearns

is a scholar based in Washington State, USA. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1996.

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Julia Stenzel

Director of Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute, Centre for Buddhist Studies of Kathmandu University, Nepal. She received her doctorate from McGill University in Canada. She received her Dharma education at Dhagpo Kundrol Ling, a monastic hermitage in France, under the guidance of the late Tibetan Buddhist master Lama Gendun Rinpoche. Julia is a member of Sakya Pandita Translation Group and Subashita Translation Group.

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Heather Stoddard

is a professor at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, CNRS), Paris.

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Tenzin Fedor Stracke

is a candidate for the Geshe degree at Sera Monastery in India. He was one of the founders and the first director of Sera Je IMI house, a complex especially built for the Western monks studying at the monastery.

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Dominic Sur

is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Utah State University and the translator of Rongzom’s Entering the Way of the Great Vehicle (Shambhala, 2017).

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Jaakko Takkinen

is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara.  

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Tenzin Choephel

was born in Tibet and completed his MPhil in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies at the University of Oxford. He has taught Tibetan language at SOAS, and he studied Buddhist philosophy at Drepung Loseling Monastery in south India.

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Tenzin Dickie

is a writer and translator. Formerly an editor at The Treasury of Lives, she is currently communications coordinator at the Buddhist Digital Resource Center.

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Antonio Terrone

is a specialist of religion and politics in China and East Asia.

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Thinlay Gyatso

is an academic researcher at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. Born in Amdo and educated at Labrang and in India, he has published several translations, including An Undercover Journey Through Tibet, by Ajam (from Tibetan to English) and Bertrand Russel's On Education: Especially in Early Childhood (from English to Tibetan).

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Thinley Dorje Lama

studied at Namkha Khyung Dzong Monastery under Pema Rigtsal Rinpoche and Khenpo Nyima Gyaltsan for over fourteen years. He is from Humla, Nepal.

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Adele Tomlin

is an independent practitioner, scholar and translator with an MA in Philosophy and an MA in Tibetology. Book publications include Aesthetic Experience (2009), Tāranātha's Commentary on the Heart Sūtra (2017) and Chariot that Transports to the Four Kāyas (2019). She is the founder of Dakini Translations and Publications.

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Dominique Townsend

is an assistant professor of religion at Bard College.

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Tsehua

is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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Tsering Namgyal

is a scholar in Xining.

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Tsering Shakya

is Canadian Research Chair in Religion and Contemporary Society in Asia at the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia.

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Erick Tsiknopoulos

is the main translator of the Sugatagarbha Translation Group.

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Catherine Tsuji

received an MA in Religious Studies at University of California Santa Barbara. She is currently an editor at the Treasury of Lives.

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Maria Turek

is a research affiliate at the Robert H. N. Ho Centre for Buddhist Studies, University of Toronto. She received her PhD. in Tibetan studies from Humboldt University in Berlin in 2013  

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Gray Tuttle

is Leila Hadley Luce Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies at Columbia University. He completed his PhD in Inner Asian History at Harvard in 2002.

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Jay Valentine

is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Troy University. His research focuses on the history of the Jangter Treasure Tradition.

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Jan M. A. van der Valk

(PhD, University of Kent) is a scholar-practitioner specializing in Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan medicine). Drawing on a multidisciplinary training in anthropology, ethnobotany, and biology, his interests revolve around Eurasian medicinal plants and other potent substances, traditional pharmaceutical processes, more-than-human ecologies, and knowledge transmission. He mainly conducts ethnographic fieldwork in the Himalayan valleys of Ladakh (India) and Kathmandu (Nepal). Besides working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies (University of Vienna), he has a private Tibetan medical practice in Belgium, while also collaborating with his teacher Gen. Pasang Yonten Arya as the editor in chief of Bedurya Publications.

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Cameron David Warner

is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2008. http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/cameron-david-warner(61b6d8e9-c723-46ba-a52b-31e49e037d0e).html

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Jeff Watt

is one of the world's leading scholars of Himalayan Art. He is the Director and Chief Curator of Himalayan Art Resources (himalayanart.org).

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Simon Wickham-Smith

is a PhD candidate at the University of Washington. He has published several translations of Mongolian and Tibetan literature, including several volumes of Mongolian poety. He has also released many recordings of experimental music.

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Nicole Willock

(Ph.D. Indiana University Bloomington, Tibetan Studies and Religious Studies, 2011) is an assistant professor of Asian Religions at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where she teaches World Religions, Buddhism, and Religions of China and Tibet.

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Ben Wood

is a Ph.D. candidate in Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto.

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Lan Wu

is Assistant Professor of History in Mount Holyoke College. She received her Ph.D. in the History-East Asian Program at Columbia University in 2016. Her research interests include imperial formation in the early modern era and history of Buddhism in East Asia. https://www.mtholyoke.edu/people/lan-wu

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Wu

is an independent researcher. 

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Eveline Yang

Director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program Associate Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute

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Yangchen Dolkar Tsatultsang

is the second daughter of Rinchen and Tseyang Sadutshang. She co-authored her mother's memoir, My Youth in Tibet, which was published by LTWA in 2012. She studied Buddhist philosophy for several years at Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Kathmandu and completed a two-year translation course at the International Buddhist Academy (IBA).  

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Yangdon Dhondup

is a Research Associate in the Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

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Evan Yerburgh

is an independent translator and writer who studied Tibetan at Esukhia among other places.  

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