
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…

Birgit Kellner
Birgit Kellner studied Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, Japanology, Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Vienna (1987–1994) and completed her PhD in Indian Philosophy at the University of Hiroshima in 1999. She conducted several post-doctoral research projects funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF…

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…

Lama Jabb (མདའ་ཚན་བླ་མ་སྐྱབས༏)
Lama Jabb was born and brought up in the Dhatsen tribe, a nomadic community in Northeastern Tibet. He studied in Tibet, India and the UK and received his D.Phil at the University of Oxford. He is currently a Supernumerary Fellow in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies…

Lauran Hartley
Co-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…

Marcus Bingenheimer
Marcus Bingenheimer is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Temple University. He is a scholar of Buddhist Studies specializing in the history and literature of China and East Asia, often by using digital datasets and computational methods. He obtained an MA (Sinology) and Dr. phil…