Treasury of Lives

The Treasury of Lives is an online, peer reviewed,^[1] biographical encyclopedia of historical religious masters of the Himalayan Buddhist and Bon religions.

Background

The Treasury of Lives website was established to provide short well-researched, clearly written biographies of notable religious masters of the Himalayan region, both Buddhist and Bon, illustrated with portraits. The project is funded by the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation. Portrait illustrations used in the biographical articles come from the Rubin Museum of Art. The Treasury of Lives is also closely linked with the independent Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC). E. Gene Smith and Jeff Wallman of the TBRC were instrumental in defining the vision of the site and in forging the plan for its development; and its database of names also comes from the TBRC.^[1][2][3]

Authors

Authors of the biographies in the Treasury of Lives include:

• Jean Luc Achard - researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Paris and editor of the Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines
• Suzanne Bessenger - Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Randolph College
• José Ignacio Cabezón - Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and co editor in chief of the Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies (JIATS)
• Dorje Penjore - senior researcher at the Centre for Bhutan Studies
• Françoise Pommaret - director of research at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (CNRS) in Paris
• Tsering Shakya - Institute of Asian Research (IAR) at the University of British Columbia
• Gene Smith (1936 –2010) - renowned Tibetologist
• Heather Stoddard - professor at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (CNRS), Paris
• Gray Tuttle - Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies at Columbia University
• Cameron David Warner - Postdoctoral Fellow in Buddhism and Modernity Department of Anthropology and Ethnography, Aarhus University
• Jeff Watt - Director and Chief Curator of Himalayan Art Resources.

References

Sources

• Wallman, Jeff (June 8, 2010). "Treasury of Lives". Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center. Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center. Retrieved 22 November 2013. 
• "Projects: Treasury of Lives". The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation. The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation. Retrieved 22 November 2013. 
• "About the Rubin Treasury of Lives". The Treasury of Lives. The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation. Retrieved 22 November 2013. 
• Samuel, Geoffrey. "Useful Websites". Introducing Tibetan Buddhism. Routledge. Retrieved 22 November 2013. 

External links

• "Treasury of Lives: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Himalayan Religion". The Treasury of Lives. The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation.  - Official website