Gedun Rabsal is a Senior Lecturer within the Department of Central Eurasian Studies. Born and raised in Amdo, he studied at Tibetan monasteries in Tibet and India. Gedun Rabsal worked as a research fellow at Central University for Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, Varanasi and as...
In 2012 Charles G. Lief JD became President of Naropa University in Boulder, the first Buddhist Inspired liberal arts university in the West, retiring as President Emeritus in mid-2025. Chuck has a fifty-year affiliation with Naropa—first as a student from the age of 19 of...
Justin Brody is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Franklin and Marshall College. His primary research area is in various aspects of artificial intelligence, especially in exploring techniques which combine "slow" symbolic reasoning with "fast" connectionist models. He has a longstanding interest in Buddhism and...
Kyle K. Courtney is the Copyright Advisor for Harvard University, working out of the Office for Scholarly Communication. He works closely with Harvard Library to establish a culture of shared understanding of copyright issues among Harvard staff, faculty, and students. His work at Harvard also...
Vesna specializes in Indian Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism and Mongolian Buddhism. Currently, she is working on a critical edition of the first chapter of the Smrtyupasthana Sutra and is studying Buddhism and law in Mongolia. Her recent publications include The Kālacakratantra: The Chapter on Sādhana...
Professor Alexander von Rospatt received his B.A. from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) in 1985, and his M.A. (1988), Ph.D (1993) and Habilitation (2000) at the University of Hamburg. He specializes in the doctrinal history of Indian Buddhism, and in...
Peter Skilling, born 1949, was originally a Canadian. He has been a resident of Thailand for over 50 years and is a Thai citizen under the name Bhadra Rujirathat. He received a PhD with Honors (‘Des Mahasutra tibétains aux manuscrits et inscriptions d’Asie du Sud-Est....
Silk (1960) studied East Asian Studies at Oberlin College in Ohio and subsequently Buddhist Studies at the University of Michigan. At the latter university he obtained his PhD in 1994 with the thesis: The Origins and Early History of the Mahāratnakūţa Tradition of Mahāyāna Buddhism,...
Burkhard Quessel is the Curator of Tibetan Collections for the British Library. His research interests include: (1) History of Tibetan Literature from the 10th to 20th centuries. Buddhist Philosophy in Tibet (particularly Madhyamaka and Pramana), (2) Traditional Tibetan Medicine, and (3) History of printing in...
Professor Hartmann is the Chair of Indology in the Department of Indiology and Iranian Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. His research interests include Buddhist Sanskrit manuscripts from Central Asia and Afghanistan, canonical literature of Buddhism, current developments of Buddhism in Asia, and the...
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