Gedun Rabsal
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…
Charles Lief
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
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…
Sebastian Nehrdich
Sebastian Nehrdich is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Tohoku University. He completed his PhD in Computational Linguistics at the University of Düsseldorf, co-supervised by Oliver Hellwig and Kurt Keutzer. He holds an MA in Buddhist Studies from the University of Hamburg. His work integrates digital…
Lisa Schubert
Treasurer
Lisa Schubert has spent most of her career either directing, developing, or coordinating projects. She recently stepped down as VP, Cathedral Programming & External Relations at the Cathedral of St John the Divine (2008 – 2023) in New York, where she was charged with creating an institutional framework…
Kurtis Schaeffer
Clerk
Kurtis R. Schaeffer is the Frances Myers Ball Professor of Religion and the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He is a student of Buddhist history and culture, with a special interest in the spiritual literature of Tibet and…
James Robson
James Robson is Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. Robson received his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Stanford University in 2002, after spending many years doing research in China, Taiwan, and Japan. He specializes in the history of medieval Chinese Buddhism…
Andrew Quintman
Andrew Quintman is a scholar of Buddhist traditions in Tibet and the Himalaya, and Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Wesleyan University. He writes, teaches, and lectures about Buddhist literature and history, sacred geography and pilgrimage, and visual cultures of the wider Himalaya….
Nikko Odiseos
Nikko Odiseos came from a career in the information management sector of the technology industry, specializing in content management and enterprise search, finishing that phase of his career at Microsoft. He worked closely with a wide range of publishers on their business strategies around digitization…
Nicolas Berger
Client-side Developer
Nicolas Berger holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Nantes, France, where he has spent 4 years both researching at the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Nantes-Atlantique and teaching at the Faculty of Science and Technology. His specialization in the field of Constraint Programming…