200 BCE ), author of Sanskrit ( Hindu ) and Pali ( Buddhist ) animal fables in verse and prose, sometimes derived from Jataka tales.

Thích Nhất Hạnh (; born October 11, 1926 ) is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist.

On the other hand, the very chamber in the temple where the Genji was written is shown — with the ink-slab which the author used, and a Buddhist Sutra in her handwriting, which, if they do not satisfy the critic, still are sufficient to carry conviction to the minds of ordinary visitors to the temple.

* John Blofeld, Taoist and Buddhist author

Buddhist scholar and author Geshe Kelsang Gyatso has also explained Buddha's teaching on the spiritual imperative to identify anger and overcome it by transforming difficulties:

It has been claimed that Weaverville was an inspiration for the remote paradise of Shangri-la from British author James Hilton's " Lost Horizon ", but this is the result of a misinterpretation of a comment by Hilton in a 1941 interview, in which he said that Weaverville reminded him of Shangri-La .. Junction City ( about 8 miles from Weaverville ) has a Tibetan Buddhist center.

Several theories of authorship have been put forward: one argues that the compiler was Minamoto no Takakuni, author of Uji Dainagon Monogatari, another suggests the Buddhist monk Tobane Sōjō, a third proposes a Buddhist monk living somewhere in the vicinity of Kyoto or Nara during the late Heian period.

* John Blofeld, Taoist and Buddhist author

" The FWBO's attitude to spreading the Dharma is one of heartfelt urgency ," wrote Stephen Batchelor, a prominent British Buddhist author, in a book published in 1994.

A disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, she is an ordained nun, author, and teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage which Trungpa founded.

The Years of Rice and Salt ( 2002 ) is an alternate history novel with major Buddhist and Islamic religious elements written by science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, a thought experiment about a world in which neither Christianity nor the European cultures based on it achieve lasting impact on world history.

Kokei ( also Kogei ; 皇慶: 977 ?- 1049 ), the author of the Enoshima Engi, was an eminent Japanese Buddhist monk.

This manuscript sought to present the " supreme joy " ( sex ) in every form known to the author ; the chapter on homosexuality comes between chapters on sex in Buddhist monasteries and sex between peasants.

* John Myrdhin Reynolds American Buddhist scholar, linguist, author, translator and mystic

Albert Low a Zen master and author of The Origin of Human Nature: A Zen Buddhist Looks at Evolution ( 2008 ) opposes neo-Darwinism and the selfish gene as he claims they are materialistic, he also opposes creationism for being dogmatic, instead he advocates spiritual evolution.

His trip to Bodh-Gaya was inspired by an 1885 visit there by Sir Edwin Arnold, author of The Light of Asia, who soon started advocating for the renovation of the site and its return to Buddhist care.

His grandson, Robert Baker Aitken, was a widely-known Zen Buddhist teacher and author.

He was previously believed to have been the author of the influential Buddhist text Awakening of Mahayana Faith, but modern scholars agree that the text was composed in China.

Kelsang Gyatso is a Buddhist monk, " meditation master, scholar, and author " of 22 books based on the teachings of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Humphreys was a prolific author of books on the Buddhist tradition.

was a Japanese author and Buddhist monk.

* John D. Dunne, American author and professor of Buddhist Studies

Stephen Batchelor is a British author, teacher, and scholar, writing books and articles on Buddhist topics and leading meditation retreats throughout the world.

Contemporary Buddhist teacher Chogyam Trungpa explains that meditation is designed to develop an understanding of dukkha:

The late 20th century Tibetan Buddhist master Chogyam Trungpa incorporated variants of many of the elements above, particularly windhorse, drala, the four animals ( which he called " dignities "), wangtang, lha, nyen and lu, into a secular system of teachings he called Shambhala Training.

In the Shambhala Buddhist community, a Primordial Rigden Ngöndro written by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche is practiced as a preliminary to various terma-derived practices received by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

* 1939 – Chögyam Trungpa, Tibetan Buddhist meditation instructor ( d. 1987 )

The Tibetan Buddhist lama Chögyam Trungpa emphasizes that cessation is a personal experience.

Varela became a Tibetan Buddhist in the 1970s, initially studying, together with Keun-Tshen Goba, with the meditation master Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, founder of Vajradhatu and Shambhala Training, and later with Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, a Nepalese meditation master of higher tantras.

* Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche a lama ( Tibetan Buddhist religious teacher ).

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche ( Wylie: Chos rgyam Drung pa ; February 28, 1939 – April 4, 1987 ) was a Buddhist meditation master and holder of both the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages, the eleventh Trungpa tülku, a tertön, supreme abbot of the Surmang monasteries, scholar, teacher, poet, artist, and originator of a radical re-presentation of Shambhala vision.

Upon moving to the United States in 1970, Trungpa traveled around North America, gaining renown for his unique ability to present the essence of the highest Buddhist teachings in a form readily understandable to western students.

" However, she said had she known that Trungpa began having sexual relations with women at age thirteen, she would not have declined, considering that in the higher stages of Tibetan Buddhist tantra, sexual relations ( especially with tertöns ) are a means of enhancing spiritual insights.

Reginald " Reggie " Ray is a leading Buddhist academic and Vajra Master, teaching and practicing in the lineage of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche for forty years.

At the time of Trungpa Rinpoche ’ s death in 1987, Ray was professor of Buddhist Studies at Naropa University with, in addition, a half-time appointment in the Religious studies department at the University of Colorado.

In 1974 the Kagyu Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa predicted that " Buddhism will come to the West as psychology ".

He was a friend and co-religionist of Allen Ginsberg, both students of Chögyam Trungpa, the Tibetan Buddhist teacher.

This term was also used by Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche as a Sanskrit equivalent of the Tibet term Dzogpa chenpo, although this back-translation is unconventional and did not catch on more widely.

Founded in 1974 by Tibetan Buddhist teacher and Oxford University scholar Chögyam Trungpa, it is named for the eleventh-century Indian Buddhist sage Naropa, an abbot of Nalanda.

A turning point came for Keyes when he visited Trungpa at his center in Barnet, Vermont at Christmas 1970 and discussed with Trungpa the Buddhist notion that the mind's reaction rather than external circumstances creates personal unhappiness.

Chögyam Trungpa, a Tibetan Buddhist lama, used the " Shambhala " name for certain of his teachings, practices, and organizations ( e. g. Shambhala Training, Shambhala International, Shambhala Publications ), referring to the root of human goodness and aspiration.

" He is a student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, and follows the Shambhala Buddhist lineage.

A lineage was also transmitted from Kobun Chino Roshi to the Tibetan Buddhist sangha of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and is now practiced at all Shambhala retreat centers.