Michele Martin
In 1966 Michele received a Masters degree in Russian Area Studies and in 1970, an M Phil 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,…
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….
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…
Kurtis Schaeffer
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…
Tudeng Nima Rinpoche
Tudeng Nima Rinpoche (Alak Zenkar Rinpoche) was born in 1943 in Pal Lhagang, 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…
Tulku Thondup Rinpoche
Tulku Thondup Rinpoche was born in Golok, Eastern Tibet. At the age of four he was recognized as the rebirth of a celebrated scholar and adept of the famed Dodrupchen Monastery in Golok. Tulku Thondup Rinpoche is the author of over a dozen books and…
Derek Kolleeny
Derek met Gene Smith in 1998 and they immediately became close friends and collaborators. Derek assisted Gene in making his vision a reality by creating the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center. Derek served as Founding Board Member and Treasurer from its inception in 1999 until 2014…
Patricia Gruber
In 1982 Patricia earned a Masters Degree in Psychology from Antioch West University in San Francisco, followed by a two-year post master's Certificate in Psychotherapy from the Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley, Ca. She was in the private practice of psychotherapy until 1995 in the Bay…
Richard Lanier
Richard Lanier is president emeritus of the Asian Cultural Council and a founding trustee of the Trust for Mutual Understanding in New York. After receiving his M.A. at New York University, he taught art history at the University of California in Santa Barbara and at…
David Lunsford
David Lunsford is the founder and executive director of the Bodhi Foundation, a private non-profit foundation dedicated to assembling conditions that benefit beings. David received training in computer engineering and advanced technology from the University of Texas at Austin in the early 1980s. He then…