Committee’s Friends

Bhikkhu KL Dhammajoti

Since 2007, the Chökyi Gyatso Translation Committee has enjoyed the friendship and working relationship with Ven. Professor Dhammajoti, Kuala Lumpur, a Buddhist monk, who is the Glorious Sun (Endowed) Professor in Buddhist Studies at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Dhammajoti is one of the world’s leading scholars on Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma. For more details on his academic career and publications, click here.

Professor Dhammajoti has graciously agreed to make some of his articles electronically available on our website. Here is the first, to which others will be added:

• Abhidharma Debate on the Nature of the Objects of Sensory Perception

William S. Waldron

William S. Waldron* professor at Middlebury College (Vermont) has taught at Gampo Abbey. He has provided the following texts of interest:

• Common Ground, Common Cause: Buddhism and Science on the Afflictions of Self-Identity (PDF)

• The Co-arising of Self and Object, World, and Society: Buddhist and Scientific Approaches (PDF)

• Buddhist Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Thinking about “Thoughts without a Thinker” (PDF)

• How Innovative is the Alayavijnana? (PDF) Color version optimized for screen viewing.

• How Innovative is the Alayavijnana? (PDF) Black text version optimized for printing.

* William S. Waldron received his PhD in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin after studying extensively in India, Nepal, and Japan. He teaches South Asian religions and Buddhist philosophy at Middlebury College, Vermont. His research areas include the Yogācāra school of Indian Buddhism, and comparative psychologies and philosophies of mind.