Guardians Contributors
Guardians of the Dharma
Contributors
H. E. Lodan Dagyab, retired researcher at the Institute for Central Asian Studies, University of Bonn and founding director of Tibethaus, kindly granted permisson to adapt and reprint his tales of the Arhats from Tibetan Religious Art, Part 1: Texts (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1977).
Joie Szu-Chiao Chen is a PhD candidate in Buddhist Studies at Harvard University. Her research looks at the confluence of various modes of learnedness in Tibetan Buddhism, in particular how the language and visual arts play into the formation of a learned Buddhist person. A regular host of webinars for 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, in the past she has also served as Reviews Editor at Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly. She holds a BA in Film Studies and English from Yale University and an MPhil in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies from the University of Oxford.
Ariana Maki is an art historian specializing in Buddhist arts of the Himalaya. Her research and teaching focus on the development of Bhutanese and Tibetan art, and the intersections between image, literature, and practice. Dr. Maki has twice served as the Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Bhutan (2019-20, 2024-25) and previously served at Bhutan’s National Museum in Paro and the National Library and Archives in Thimphu. Dr. Maki is the Associate Director of the Tibet Center and Bhutan Initiative at the University of Virginia, where she has also lectured in art history and religious studies.
Adam Pearcey is the founder-director of Lotsawa House, a virtual library of translations from Tibetan, which launched in 2004.
Nathaniel Rich studied Western philosophy and European history as an undergraduate before pursuing MA and PhD degrees in religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research has focused on the intellectual and institutional history of Nyingma traditions in Tibet. Dr. Rich is currently a research editor for 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, and the executive director of the Dawn Mountain Buddhist Research Institute.