Alumni

Robert Kritzer

Robert Kritzer is Professor at Kyoto Notre Dame University. He specializes in abhidharma and early Yogācāra, and is the author of two books, Rebirth and Causation in the Yogācāra Abhidharma (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 44. Wien: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien, 1999) and Vasubandhu and the Yogācārabhūmi: Yogācāra Elements in the Abhidharmako śabhāṣya (Studia Philologica Buddhica Monograph Series 12. Tokyo: The International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 2005). He has...

Jinwol Y.H. Lee

Dr. Jinwol Y. H. Lee is a Buddhist Monk and Zen Master. He belongs to Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, the major traditional Mahayana Buddhism in Korea, and serves as the President's Special Adivisor for International Affairs. He has been the President of URI Korea Multiple Cooperation Circle and a trustee of the URI Global Council, elected in the Asian Region since 2002. Formerly a professor of Buddhist Studies at the Seoul Graduate School of Buddhism and the Dean of Religious Affairs of Dongguk University in Seoul, Jinwol is now a professor teaching Buddhist meditation and culture...

Nancy Lin

Nancy Lin (M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., UC Berkeley) specializes in Buddhist traditions of Tibet and the Himalaya. Her research focuses on courtly Buddhist culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially the production of poetry, visual objects, and personae. Her current questions largely cluster around the dynamics of worldliness and renunciation, aesthetics and ethos, and wisdom and eloquence. Other interests include rebirth lineages and narratives, Tibetan engagement with Indic Buddhist and literary traditions, and cross-cultural interactions with Inner Asia...

Weiyu Lin

Weiyu received a B.A. in Spanish and French Literature from Trinity University in 2016 and an M.A. in Buddhist Studies from the University of British Columbia in 2021. During these degree programs, Weiyu also spent 2.5 years at various institutions in Spain and France, and more recently, a summer researching and cataloging manuscripts at the National Library of France. In his M.A., he honed his focus on Chinese Buddhist medieval exegesis, particularly Fazang’s commentary on the Avataṃsaka Sūtra. Upon moving to Berkeley,...

James Marks

James Marks received a B.A. in Philosophy from Eugene Lang College The New School in 2009, and an M.T.S in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School in 2012. He is primarily interested in Indian Buddhist philosophy, especially concerning debates over the nature of the self, both within Buddhism and between Buddhist and other Indian philosophical traditions. He completed his dissertation in 2019.

Emphasis: Sanskrit/India

Dissertation: Playfighting: Encountering Aviddhakarna and Bhāvivikta in Śāntarakshita’s Tattvasamgraha and Kamalaśīla’s Pañjikā. 2019

Matthew McMullen

Matthew McMullen completed his Ph.D. in 2016. He is an Assistant Professor of Humanities and Permanent Fellow at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture (http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/(link is external)) at Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan, where he serves as the editor of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies (...

Changhwan Park

Changhwan Park is a Research Professor at the Geumgang Center for Buddhist Studies, Geumgang University, Chungnam, South Korea. He received his B.A in Philosophy and M.A in Oriental Philosophy from Seoul National University. He is interested in the historical formulations of doctrinal concepts and their philosophical implications in Indian Buddhism. He completed his dissertation entitled "The Sautrantika Theory of Seeds (bija) Revisited: With Special Reference to the Ideological Continuity between Vasubandhu's Theory of Seeds and its Srilata/Darstantika Precursors" in 2007 and is...

Sung Bae Park

Emphasis: Korean

Dissertation: Wonhyo's Commentaries on the Awakening of Faith in Mahayana. [electronic resource](link is external). 1979. 274 p.

William Powell

William Powell is Associate Professor of Chinese Religions and Buddhist Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, and the Department of Religious Studies, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was trained in the philological methods of Buddhist studies, which was the basis for his translation and study of the prominent 9th century Chan (Zen) monk, Dongshan. This is to be followed by a study of Dongshan's disciple, Caoshan. His present work focuses on the relationship between Chinese Buddhism, pilgrimage and sacred space, particularly...

Jenlang Shih

Emphasis: Chinese

Dissertation: The Perpetuity of the Dharma: A Study and Translation of Da Aluohan Nantimiduoluo Suoshuo Fazhu Ji[electronic resource](link is external). 2002. 269 p.