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Newland, Guy

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More about Guy Newland

Publications

“Start Making Sense: Finding Tsongkhapa's Middle Way” by Guy Newland in The Legacy of Tsongkhapa Contributions of Tibet’s Great Philosopher-Saint, ed. David Gray. Boston, MA: Wisdom Publications, forthcoming 2023.

Changing Minds: Contributions to the Study of Buddhism and Tibet in Honor of Jeffrey Hopkins, ed. Guy Newland. Boulder, Colorado: Shambhala Publications, 2017.

Moonpaths: Ethics and Emptiness by the Cowherds (a group producing work collaboratively, including Guy Newland, Amber Carpenter, Jay Garfield, Graham Priest, Mark Siderits, Jan Westerhoff, Sonam Thakchoe and others). New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

From Here to Enlightenment by the Dalai Lama, translated, annotated, and introduced by Guy Newland. Boston: Shambhala Publications: 2012.

Presentations

“Always in Between: Phillip Dick and the Tibetan Book of the Dead” at Popular Culture Association National Conference, San Antonio 2022.

“How Tsongkhapa Saved Truth: Falsification and the Possibility of Progress” at Conference in Honor of the 600th Anniversary of Tsongkhapa's Parinirvana, Ganden Labche Monastery, Mundgod, India, 2019.

“Making to Ourselves the Case for Caring: Parallels in Ĺšantideva and Buddhaghosa” at American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, 2018.

“Medicinal Stories” at Beyond Hard Knocks conference, Rice University, Houston, 2017.

“A Quantum of Useful Convergence: Positive Thinking and Buddhism” at Popular Culture Association National Conference, San Diego, 2017.

Ph.D. University of Virginia (1988)

History of religions, Tibetan Buddhism