Tudeng Nima Rinpoche
Tudeng Nima Rinpoche (Alak Zenkar Rinpoche) was born in 1943 in Pal Lhakhang, Sichuan, China. He has made outstanding contributions to Tibetan culture and education and is renowned as one of the world's leading Tibetan Buddhist scholars. For the past forty years Tudeng Nima Rinpoche…
Michele Martin
In 1966 Michele received a Masters degree in Russian Area Studies and in 1970, an MPhil in Comparative Literature, both from Yale University. After founding and practicing at Jemez Bodhi Mandala Zen Center in New Mexico from 1974 to 1977, she moved to Kyoto, Japan…
Ted Lipman
Ted Lipman's career has spanned over 40 years as an Asianist: in diplomacy, philanthropy, academia and culture. One of a handful of Canadian students in China during the Cultural Revolution, after completing studies at Peking University in 1976, Ted embarked on a 35 year diplomatic…
Donald S. Lopez
Donald S. Lopez (PhD, University of Virginia) is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author, editor, or translator of a number of works, including Prisoners of Shangri-La, The Madman's Middle Way,…
D. Christian Lammerts
Clerk
D. Christian Lammerts is Professor of Buddhist and Southeast Asian Studies at Rutgers University. He received his Ph.D. in Asian Religions from Cornell University in 2010. His research interests include the History of Buddhism in pre- and early modern Burma and Southeast Asia; Buddhist law…
Berthe Jansen
Berthe Jansen is Assistant Professor of Tibetan Studies at Leiden University. She is a scholar of Buddhist Studies, specializing in Tibetan social and religious history. She lived in India for five years and graduated from the Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Programme in Dharmashala in 2005. Thereafter…
Lauran Hartley
President
Lauran Hartley is Director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. She also teaches regularly as Adjunct Assistant Professor for the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and previously taught courses on Tibetan literature and religion…
Kyle K. Courtney
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…
John Canti
John Canti is Editorial Chair and Director of 84000, a global nonprofit organization dedicated to translating all of the Buddha's words into modern languages, and to making them freely available to everyone, everywhere. Throughout his career, John has devoted himself to producing lucid, accurate translations…
Daniel Aitken
Daniel is an experienced marketing professional with over a decade of insights gathered from corporate and consumer marketing executive roles working for multinationals such as Canon, and large financial firms such as Westpac. While pursuing his marketing career, Daniel continued to foster his life long…