Alumni

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

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...

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...

Daniel Stuart received his Ph.D. in 2012, under the supervision of Alexander von Rospatt. His dissertation, entitled A Less Traveled Path: Meditation and Textual Practice in the Saddharmasmṛtyupasthāna(sūtra), deals with the history of Buddhist meditation in Northwest India during the first half of the first millennium CE. Over the years, Daniel has worked extensively on Buddhist sūtra literature and Buddhist manuscripts in various Asian languages and scripts. He works primarily with Sanskrit and Pāli materials, but also works with Indic...