Translators
Paul Jeffrey Hopkins ↗
Jeffrey Hopkins was the President and Founder of the UMA Institute for Tibetan Studies and Professor Emeritus of Tibetan Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia, where he taught for thirty-two years.
Daniel Cozort ↗
Daniel Cozort is a Professor of Religion at Dickinson College. He received a B.A. degree from Brown University where he majored in religious studies, specializing in Christian theology and ethics.
Paul G. Hackett ↗
Paul G. Hackett is the compiler and editor of the Buddhist Canons Research Database. He received a M.A. degree from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism from Columbia University.
Jules Levinson ↗
Jules Levinson graduated from Princeton University in 1975 and soon thereafter began studying at the University of Virginia under the guidance of Dr. Jeffrey Hopkins and other eminent Tibetan scholars.
Patrick Lin ↗
Patrick has an MA in Conference Interpreting conferred by the Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation. He has translated the Seventy Topics by Jamyang Shaypa into Chinese.
Su-an Lin ↗
Su-an Lin earned her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from National Chengchi University (on Bhāviveka’s philosophy) and has translated Jeffrey Hopkins’ Maps of the Profound section on the Middle Way into Chinese.
William Magee ↗
William Magee earned his PhD in History of Religions from UVA (1998). He authored The Nature of Things and co-authored Fluent Tibetan. He taught at Dharma Drum and Maitripa, and served as UMA VP.
Elizabeth Napper ↗
Elizabeth Napper has led the Tibetan Nuns Project for 25 years, expanding educational opportunities for nuns. She earned an MA and PhD from UVA, and taught at Stanford and Hawaii.
Hiroshi Nemoto ↗
Hiroshi Nemoto, Ph.D., is a professor at Hiroshima University. A scholar of Indian philosophy, Buddhism, and Tibetology, he earned his Ph.D. from Hiroshima University and studied in India.
Craig Preston ↗
Craig Preston studied Tibetan language and Buddhist philosophy at UVA before earning his J.D. He taught at Namgyal, SUNY Buffalo, and Maitripa, and translated Madhyamaka for UMA.
Katherine M. Rogers ↗
Katherine M. Rogers earned her PhD in Buddhist Studies from UVA. She edited and translated Garland of Mahamudra Practices by Khenchen Konchog Gyaltshen and rendered Buddhist Logic for UMA.
Gareth Sparham ↗
Gareth Sparham, Ph.D. from UBC, is a distinguished scholar in Tibetan language and Buddhist studies. He taught at UC Berkeley, University of Michigan, and served as interpreter for the Dalai Lama.
Steven Weinberger ↗
Steven is a freelance translator and consultant for the Tibetan and Himalayan Library in Charlottesville, VA. He has contributed translations on Buddhist Epistemology for UMA.
Jongbok Yi ↗
Jongbok Yi, Associate Professor at Stockton Univ, NJ, earned degrees in Korea and at UVA. He studied under Hopkins and Germano and contributed Buddhist philosophy translations for UMA.