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WORK TITLE: A Buddhist Grief Observed
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WRITER NOTES: Auto-generated pub dates do not match LOC pub dates. Plus, database does not permit accurate and complete type/role data. In fact, the whole research “packet” is a bit of a mess!
Personal data came from first pages of his book A Buddhist Grief Observed: married Valerie Lynne Stephens (a psychologist), 1985; died of cancer November 19, 2013; children: Gabriel, Rebecca.
EDITOR NOTES:
In Works, the title The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, by Tsong-kha-pa: Volume 1 should not be entirely italic, but it is no longer clear how to input “Volume 1” in a way that the CA style guide features. Same is true for volume 2. (Not that it matters this time, but also how one inputs individual volume titles. Also, I can’t discern why volume 3 is published after volume 2.
PERSONAL
Born July 4, 1955; married Valerie Lynne Stephens (a psychologist), 1985 (died of cancer, November 19, 2013); children: Gabriel, Rebecca.
EDUCATION:University of Virginia, B.A. (with high distinction), 1977, M.A., 1983, Ph.D., 1988.
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CAREER
Part-time instructor at several Virginia colleges and universities, including University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Mary Washington College, and James Madison University, between 1981 and 1986; Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, lecturer, 1987-88; Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, assistant professor, beginning 1988, professor of philosophy and religion, 2001-, department chair, 1997-98, 2000-03, 2006-09, 2012-13, 2016-. Namgyal Institute for Tibetan Buddhist Studies, member of faculty advisory board, 1993-; speaker at other institutions, including Hampshire College; Zen Center of Ann Arbor, MI; Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center, Washington, NJ; Namgyal Monastery; Sravasti Abbey; Bodhi Mind Dharma Center; and Colorado College.
RELIGION: Tibetan BuddhistWRITINGS
Contributor to books, including Tibetan Literature: Studies in Genre, edited by José Cabezón and Roger Jackson, Snow Lion, 1996. Contributor to periodicals, including Buddhadharma.
Newland’s writings have been translated into Danish, French, German, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
SIDELIGHTS
Guy Newland began his academic career at Central Michigan University in 1988, and he has remained there for nearly thirty years. His devotion to Tibetan Buddhism began earlier. At the University of Virginia, he studied under the respected Buddhist scholar Jeffrey Hopkins, who spent ten years as the English-language interpreter of the Dalai Lama. Newland also studied with Buddhist scholars in India and met with others during their visits to the United States. He spent a week in the presence of the Dalai Lama at Lehigh University in 2008. His writings reflect a lifelong quest for enlightenment.
The Two Truths in the Mādhyamika Philosophy of the Ge-luk-ba Order of Tibetan Buddhism was published as a textbook of the Namgyal Monastery Institute. In it Newland focuses on the seminal Buddhist vision of no-self, or emptiness. Various systems of Buddhist philosophy have pondered the differences between appearance and reality, distinguishing between two truths—conventional truth and ultimate truth. Newland’s study explores the concept from the perspective of the Gelugpa order of Tibetan scholars. At more than 300 pages it is a scholarly study of ethical questions that have occupied Buddhist scholars for centuries.
Newland’s next challenge was to edit The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment. Created circa 1402 by the revered master Tsong-kha-pa, considered to be the founder of the Gelugpa order, Newland’s three-volume edition of more than 1,000 pages was published in English between 2000 and 2004. Newland also translated and edited the Dalai Lama’s interpretation of the text in From Here to Enlightenment: An Introduction to Tsong-kha-pa’s Classic Text The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, by the Dalai Lama. Newland’s own interpretation of the classic was published in Introduction to Emptiness: As Taught in Tsong-kha-pa’s Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path. With the scholarly collective known as the Cowherds, Newland edited and penned contributions to collected essays on ethics and emptiness and on conventional truth in Buddhist philosophy. The scope and depth of Newland’s scholarly work suggest a deep understanding of the complexities of the path to enlightenment, but when faced with tragedy, he was no more prepared to cope with it than anyone else.
For nearly thirty years Newland was the devoted partner of Valerie Stephens. When his wife was diagnosed with cancer in 2012, he was devastated. When she died in 2013, he was overwhelmed by grief. Newland struggled to restore a semblance of balance to his life, but Valerie had been, in many ways, the center of his temporal universe. He immersed himself in the Dharma of his faith, but solace was hard to find. Newland revealed his deeply personal journey in A Buddhist Grief Observed.
Newland states clearly that he is not writing as a teacher or even a practitioner: he is writing as a man. He emphasizes that not all of the Dharma worked for him, and what worked for him may not work for someone else. Although he discusses some of the more helpful lessons that he absorbed along his journey toward healing, he does not offer them as recommendations. This is not a self-help book, a guide to Buddhist practice, or an interpretation of any specific path to enlightenment. It is the story of a man in pain.
The title, A Buddhist Grief Observed, references the reflections of Christian author C.S. Lewis after the death of his own wife in 1960. Newland’s journey begins in the autumn of 2012 when his wife, Valerie, returns home from work too exhausted to continue. In a conversational narrative, Newland relates the rest of the story: diagnosis, treatment, steady decline, the end of options, the final farewell.
Nothing—from the ancient Pali texts to the teachings of the Dalai Lama—prepared him for the emotional traumas that beset him. He began to explore a level of enlightenment that can be achieved only through the lived experience. Eventually, Newland was able to “take what helps and leave the rest,” as described by a reviewer at Doddy about Books. Tahlia Newland explained at her home page that A Buddhist Grief Observed “warns us away from using teachings that we have limited understanding of.” For example, the author rejected the interpretation of karma that would have attributed Valerie’s illness to her own agency or some prior activity, but he found comfort in Buddhist guidance to accept, if not embrace, death and grief as part of the human experience.
The reviewer at Doddy about Books reminded readers that A Buddhist Grief Observed “is not a beginners piece” but, rather, warrants “a good understanding of Buddhism.” Despite that caveat, many reviewers seemed deeply moved by Newland’s reflections. A Publishers Weekly contributor described the author as “candid and heartbreakingly honest,” particularly in his “powerful and moving eulogy to his wife.” Ty H. Phillips commented at the Tattooed Buddha that, arriving as it did after he had received word of three different deaths in a matter of days, A Buddhist Grief Observed “was life affirming in its openness and touched on not only the grief of death but our grief of attachment to all things.” Wendy Stevens suggested in the San Diego Book Review that the volume offers “a deeply passionate story which would serve any spiritual person well.”
BIOCRIT
BOOKS
Newland, Guy, A Buddhist Grief Observed, Wisdom Publications (Somerville, MA), 2016.
PERIODICALS
Booklist, October 1, 2012, June Sawyers, review of From Here to Enlightenment: An Introduction to Tsong-kha-pa’s Classic Text The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, p. 4.
Library Journal, December, 2002, Mark Woodhouse, review of The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, Volume 3, p. 136.
Middle Way, November, 2008, review of Introduction to Emptiness: As Taught in Tsong-kha-pa’s Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path, p. 187.
Publishers Weekly, June 13, 2016, review of A Buddhist Grief Observed, p. 94.
ONLINE
Doddy about Books, https://doddyaboutbooks.com/ (June 28, 2016), review of A Buddhist Grief Observed.
San Diego Book Review, http://sandiegobookreview.com/ (October 24, 2016), Wendy Stevens, review of A Buddhist Grief Observed.
Tahlia Newland Home Page, http://www.tahlianewland.com/ (May 23, 2016), review of A Buddhist Grief Observed.
Tattooed Buddha, http://thetattooedbuddha.com/ (February 27, 2017), Ty H. Phillips, review of A Buddhist Grief Observed.
UMA Institute for Tibetan Studies, http://uma-tibet.org/ (March 21, 2017), author profile.
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Guy M. NewlandProfessor and ChairpersonDepartment of Philosophy and ReligionCentral Michigan UniversityAnspach 102; (989) 774-3666; guy.newland@cmich.eduI. Education1988Ph.D., History of Religions: Buddhist Studies, University of VirginiaPrimary Area: Tibetan BuddhismSecondary Areas: Indian Buddhism, Chinese Religious Traditions1983M.A. Buddhist Studies, University of Virginia1977B.A. Religious Studies; with High Distinction, University of VirginiaII. Employment History2012-2013Chairperson, Philosophy and Religion, CMU2006-09 and 2000-03Chairperson, Philosophy and Religion, CMU2003-05 and 1998-99Coordinator of Religion, Philosophy and Religion, CMU2001Promoted to Professor1997-98Chairperson, Religion, Central Michigan University1988Assistant Professor, Central Michigan University1987-8Lecturer (full time), Indiana University at Indianapolis1981-86Part-time Instructor at University of Virginia, VirginiaCommonwealth University, Mary Washington College, and JamesMadison UniversityIII.Creative and Scholarly ActivityA. Published Scholarly Books and ArticlesFrom Here to Enlightenment by the Dalai Lama, translated and annotated by Guy Newland. Inpress with Snow Lion/Shambala for January 2013 release. “Emptiness (śūnyatā)” in Oxford Bibliographies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Moonshadows: Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy edited by the Cowherds (= acollaborative collective including Guy Newland, Jay Garfield, Tom Tillemans, JanWesterhoff, and others). New York: Oxford University Press: 2011. “An Introduction to Conventional Truth” by Guy Newland and Tom Tillemans in Moonshadows.New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. “Weighing the Butter, Levels of Explanation, and Falsification: Models of the Conventional inTsongkhapa’s Account of the Conventional” in Moonshadows. New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 2011. Introduction to Emptiness: As Taught in Tsong-kha-pa's Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path.Snow Lion: 2008. Second revised edition: Snow Lion, 2009. Translated into Spanish andGerman. The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, Volume 2, by Tsong-kha-pa.Translated by the Lamrim Chenmo Translation Committee; Joshua W.C. Cutler, Editor-in-Chief, Guy Newland, Editor. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 2004.
2The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, Volume 3, by Tsong-kha-pa.Translated by the Lamrim Chenmo Translation Committee; Joshua W.C. Cutler, Editor-in-Chief, Guy Newland, Editor. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 2002.Changing Minds: Contributions to the Study of Buddhism and Tibet in Honor of JeffreyHopkins. Edited by Guy Newland. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 2001."Ask a Farmer: Ultimate Analysis and Conventional Existence in Tsong kha pa's Lam rim chenmo" in Changing Minds: Contributions to the Study of Buddhism and Tibet in Honor ofJeffrey Hopkins. Edited by Guy Newland. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 2001.The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, Volume 1, by Tsong-kha-pa.Translated by the Lamrim Chenmo Translation Committee; Joshua W.C. Cutler, Editor-in-Chief, Guy Newland, Editor. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 2000. Appearance and Reality: The Two Truths in Four Buddhist Systems by Guy Newland. Ithaca,NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1999. Published translations in Spanish, Danish, French andVietnamese.“The Debate Manual (yig cha) in Tibetan Monastic Education” by Guy Newland. In TibetanLiterature: Studies in Genre edited by José Cabezón and Roger Jackson. Ithaca, NY: SnowLion Publications, 1996.The Two Truths. Guy Newland. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1992. Compassion: A Tibetan Analysis. London: Wisdom Publications, 1984. Other Publications“Introductory Comments on Volume 3 of The Great Treatise,” a four-page essay for the programof “Teachings on The Great Treatise: His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama at LehighUniversity,” July 2008. “Compassion in Bethlehem: A week with the Dalai Lama” in the Morning Sun, August 2008. "The Best of Both Worlds: A Review of Buddhist Practice on Western Ground by HarveyAronson” in Buddhadharma, Winter 2004, 63-67B. In-ProgressCore Teachings of Tibetan Madhyamaka. A major translation project solicited by the Library ofTibetan Classic Series. I will translate eight Tibetan texts over three years, with an externalfunding budget of $51,000. Contracted with Wisdom Publications.Distinguishing the Two Truths: Annotated Translations from the Tibetan Madhyamaka Traditionby Guy Newland. A 350-page ms. Fully completed manuscript being edited by Snow LionPublications. Ball Don’t Lie: and other Modern Buddhist Ravings. A collection of essays. Sought forpublication by Snow Lion Publications. C. Academic ConferencesOrganized an international conference on Buddhist Ethics and Emptiness at Central MichiganUniversity, September 2012. “How Does Merely Conventional Karma Work?” at conference on Buddhist Ethics andEmptiness, Central Michigan University, September 2012.
Guy Newland is Professor of Religion and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Central Michigan University, where he has taught since 1988. He has authored, edited, and translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism, including the three-volume translation of The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment.
Guy Newland
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Guy Martin Newland (born 1955) is a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism who has been a professor at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan since 1988.[1] He served as Chairperson of Central Michigan University's Department of Philosophy and Religion during the periods 2000-2003, 2006-2009, and 2016-. He was elected to the Mount Pleasant Board of Education in July 2003 and served until December 2007, including six months as President of the Board and one year as Secretary.
Newland was a student of Jeffrey Hopkins.
Contents [hide]
1 Publications
2 Citations to Newland's works
3 See also
4 References
Publications[edit]
In 2016, Newland published a personal memoir: A Buddhist Grief Observed (Wisdom Publications, 2016).
Newland has authored, translated, and edited a number of publications on Tibetan Buddhism, including:[2]
Moonpaths: Ethics and Emptiness by the Cowherds (a scholarly collective producing work collaboratively, including Guy Newland, Jay Garfield, Tom Tillemans, Jan Westerhoff, and several others). New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. “How Does Merely Conventional Karma Work?” in Moonpaths. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. The Non-speaking God: How do I know what God wants from me? http://www.floodofnoah.com/#!noah-movie-nonspeaking-god/c1euh. A short essay on Aronofsky’s film Noah on a peer-reviewed website, 2014. From Here to Enlightenment by the Dalai Lama, translated, annotated, and introduced by Guy Newland. Boston: Shambala Publications: 2012. “Emptiness (śūnyatā)” in Oxford Bibliographies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Moonshadows: Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy edited by the Cowherds (a scholarly collective producing work collaboratively, including Guy Newland, Jay Garfield, Tom Tillemans, Jan Westerhoff, and several others). New York: Oxford University Press: 2011. “An Introduction to Conventional Truth” by Guy Newland and Tom Tillemans in Moonshadows. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. “Weighing the Butter, Levels of Explanation, and Falsification: Models of the Conventional in Tsongkhapa’s Account of the Conventional” in Moonshadows. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Introduction to Emptiness: As Taught in Tsong-kha-pa's Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path. Snow Lion: 2008.
The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, Volume 2, by Tsong-kha-pa. Translated by the Lamrim Chenmo Translation Committee; Joshua W.C. Cutler, Editor-in-Chief, Guy Newland, Editor. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 2004.
The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, Volume 3, by Tsong-kha-pa. Translated by the Lamrim Chenmo Translation Committee; Joshua W.C. Cutler, Editor-in-Chief, Guy Newland, Editor. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 2002.
Changing Minds: Contributions to the Study of Buddhism and Tibet in Honor of Jeffrey Hopkins. Edited by Guy Newland. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 2001.
"Ask a Farmer: Ultimate Analysis and Conventional Existence in Tsong kha pa's Lam rim chen mo" in Changing Minds: Contributions to the Study of Buddhism and Tibet in Honor of Jeffrey Hopkins. Edited by Guy Newland. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 2001.
The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, Volume 1, by Tsong-kha-pa. Translated by the Lamrim Chenmo Translation Committee; Joshua W.C. Cutler, Editor-in-Chief, Guy Newland, Editor. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 2000.
Appearance and Reality: The Two Truths in Four Buddhist Systems by Guy Newland. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1999.
"The Debate Manual (yig cha) in Tibetan Monastic Education" by Guy Newland. In Tibetan Literature: Studies in Genre edited by José Cabezón and Roger Jackson. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1996.
The Two Truths. Guy Newland. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1992.
Compassion: A Tibetan Analysis. London: Wisdom Publications, 1984.
Citations to Newland's works[edit]
Newland's work on The Great Treatise was listed as a "Selected Reading" in How to Be Compassionate: A Handbook for Creating Inner Peace and a Happier World by the Dalai Lama.[3]
The Two Truths is cited twice in A Study of the Dharmadharmatavibhanga: The root text and its scriptural source (the Avikalpapravesadharani) by Raymond E. Robertson et al.[4]
Three of Newland's works are listed in the "Further Reading" section of Insight Into Emptiness by Khensur Jampa Tegchok.[5]
Guy M. Newland
Professor and Chairperson
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Central Michigan University
Anspach 102; (989) 774-3666; guy.newland@cmich.edu
I. Education
1988
Ph.D., History of Religions: Buddhist Studies, University of Virginia
Primary Area: Tibetan Buddhism
Secondary Areas: Indian Buddhism, Chinese Religious Traditions
1983
M.A. Buddhist Studies, University of Virginia
1977
B.A. Religious Studies; with High Distinction, University of Virginia
II. Employment History
2012-2013
Chairperson, Philosophy and Religion, CMU
2006-09 and 2000-03
Chairperson, Philosophy and Religion, CMU
2003-05 and 1998-99
Coordinator of Religion, Philosophy and Religion, CMU
2001
Promoted to Professor
1997-98
Chairperson, Religion, Central Michigan University
1988
Assistant Professor, Central Michigan University
1987-8
Lecturer (full time), Indiana University at Indianapolis
1981-86
Part-time Instructor at University of Virginia, Virginia
Commonwealth University, Mary Washington College, and James
Madison University
III.
Creative and Scholarly Activity
A. Published Scholarly Books and Articles
From Here to Enlightenment
by the Dalai Lama, translated and annotated by Guy Newland. In
press with Snow Lion/Shambala for January 2013 release.
“Emptiness (
śū
nyat
ā
)” in
Oxford Bibliographies
. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Moonshadows: Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy
edited by the Cowherds (= a
collaborative collective including Guy Newland, Jay Garfield, Tom Tillemans, Jan
Westerhoff, and others). New York: Oxford University Press: 2011.
“An Introduction to Conventional Truth” by Guy Newland and Tom Tillemans in
Moonshadows
.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
“Weighing the Butter, Levels of Explanation, and Falsification: Models of the Conventional in
Tsongkhapa’s Account of the Conventional” in
Moonshadows
. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2011.
Introduction to Emptiness:
As Taught in Tsong-kha-pa's Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path.
Snow Lion: 2008. Second revised edition: Snow Lion, 2009. Translated into Spanish and
German.
The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment
, Volume 2, by Tsong-kha-pa.
Translated by the Lamrim Chenmo Translation Committee; Joshua W.C. Cutler, Editor-in-
Chief, Guy Newland, Editor. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 2004.
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The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment
, Volume 3, by Tsong-kha-pa.
Translated by the Lamrim Chenmo Translation Committee; Joshua W.C. Cutler, Editor-in-
Chief, Guy Newland, Editor. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 2002.
Changing Minds: Contributions to the Study of Buddhism and Tibet in Honor of Jeffrey
Hopkins
. Edited by Guy Newland. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 2001.
"Ask a Farmer: Ultimate Analysis and Conventional Existence in Tsong kha pa's
Lam rim chen
mo
" in
Changing Minds: Contributions to the Study of Buddhism and Tibet in Honor of
Jeffrey Hopkins
. Edited by Guy Newland. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 2001.
The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment
, Volume 1, by Tsong-kha-pa.
Translated by the Lamrim Chenmo Translation Committee; Joshua W.C. Cutler, Editor-in-
Chief, Guy Newland, Editor. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 2000.
Appearance and Reality: The Two Truths in Four Buddhist Systems
by Guy Newland. Ithaca,
NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1999. Published translations in Spanish, Danish, French and
Vietnamese.
“The Debate Manual (
yig cha
) in Tibetan Monastic Education” by Guy Newland. In
Tibetan
Literature: Studies in Genre
edited by José Cabezón and Roger Jackson. Ithaca, NY: Snow
Lion Publications, 1996.
The Two Truths
. Guy Newland. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1992.
Compassion: A Tibetan Analysis
. London: Wisdom Publications, 1984.
Other Publications
“Introductory Comments on Volume 3 of
The Great Treatise,
” a four-page essay for the program
of “Teachings on
The Great Treatise
: His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama at Lehigh
University,” July 2008.
“Compassion in Bethlehem: A week with the Dalai Lama” in the
Morning Sun
, August 2008.
"The Best of Both Worlds: A Review of
Buddhist Practice on Western Ground
by Harvey
Aronson” in
Buddhadharma
, Winter 2004, 63-67
B. In-Progress
Core Teachings of Tibetan Madhyamaka.
A major translation project solicited by the Library of
Tibetan Classic Series. I will translate eight Tibetan texts over three years, with an external
funding budget of $51,000. Contracted with Wisdom Publications.
Distinguishing the Two Truths: Annotated Translations from the Tibetan Madhyamaka Tradition
by Guy Newland. A 350-page ms. Fully completed manuscript being edited by Snow Lion
Publications.
Ball Don’t Lie: and other Modern Buddhist Ravings.
A collection of essays. Sought for
publication by Snow Lion Publications.
C. Academic Conferences
Organized an international conference on
Buddhist Ethics and Emptiness
at Central Michigan
University, September 2012.
“How Does Merely Conventional Karma Work?” at conference on Buddhist Ethics and
Emptiness, Central Michigan University, September 2012.
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“Buddhist Ethics and Attachment Theory,” at the International Buddhism and Science
Conference, Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarnath, India, January 15, 2009.
“Weighing the Butter: Conventional Truth in Madhyamaka Philosophy” presented at the
Workshop on Relative Truth, Rangjung Yeshe Institute, University of Kathmandu,
November, 2008.
Discussant at the Light of Berotsana Translator’s Conference, Boulder, CO, September, 2008.
“What is
False
about Conventional Truth?” refereed presentation on a panel at the International
Association of Buddhist Studies conference in Atlanta, June 2008.
“Purity and Bliss: Enlightenment in a Celibate Tantric School” an invited paper at the semi-
annual Buddhist Studies conference at Dongguk University, Seoul, May 2008.
“Philosophy in a Global Context: Ultimate Analysis and Convention in Tibetan
Philosophy” August 1998, 20th International Congress of Philosophy, Boston.
Studies in Tibet-Centered Cross-Culturalism (organized and chaired the session).
November
1991 at 20th Annual South Asia Conference, Madison, WI.
“Good Cop/Bad Cop on the Tibetan Frontier: The Orientalism of Sir Charles Bell and Laurence
Austine Waddell” November 1991 at 20th Annual South Asia Conference, Madison, WI.
“Magic and Mystery: Locating Tibetan Buddhism in the Discourse of Orientalism”
November 1991 at American Academy of Religion National Conference, Kansas City.
“Power and Coherent Reading: Ge-luk Madhyamika in Political Context” March 1990 at
Midwest Regional American Academy of Religion, Kalamazoo, MI.
“Convention and Authority: Political Implications of the Ge-luk Treatment of the Two Truths”
October 1989 at Association for Asian Studies, Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting, Washington,
D.C.
D. Research Awards
nominated
for President’s Award for Outstanding Research, 2009
nominated
for President’s Award for Outstanding Research, 2008
nominated
for Provost’s Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity, 1996
received
Central Michigan University Research Professorship, 1996-97
E. Invited Off-Campus Scholarly Presentations
“N
ā
g
ā
rjuna” with Jay Garfield and Geshe Yeshe Thapke, a weekend intensive at the Tibetan
Buddhist Learning Center, Washington, NJ. August 2012
“N
ā
g
ā
rjuna”: five-day workshop at Sravasti Abbey, Newport WA. March 2012.
“From Here To Enlightenment: The Dalai Lama’s Teachings on the Spiritual Path”: weekend
intensive at Tse chen ling Dharma Center, San Francisco, CA. March 2012.
“Betraying Emptiness
: Translating Tibetan Retextualizations of Madhyamaka Philosophy” at
Smith College, spring 2011.
“Two Ways of Talking about the Ineffable: Tsongkhapa and Gormapa” at Smith College, spring
2011.
“Deity Yoga and Vajrasattva Meditation,” talk and meditation in a class at Smith College, spring
2011.
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“Varieties of Tibetan Madhyamaka”: five-day workshop at Sravasti Abbey, Newport WA. March
2011.
“Dharma and Darwin: Buddhism as a Natural Religion,” Colorado College, fall 2010.
“The Philosophy of Emptiness,” at Colorado College, fall 2010.
“Introduction to Emptiness,” weekend intensive at Bodhi Mind Dharma Center, Colorado
Springs, CO, Fall 2010.
“The Two Truths”: five-day workshop on Buddhist philosophy at Sravasti Abbey, Newport WA.
March 2010.
Discussant on translation of Tibetan at the Light of Berotsana Translators Conference, Boulder,
CO September 2008.
Organizer for “The Dalai Lama Seminar,” a series of talks by distinguished speakers including
Robert Thurman of Columbia University, in preparation for the Dalai Lama’s teachings at
Lehigh University, July 2008.
“Weekend Intensive on Emptiness.” Eight hours of lectures at Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca, NY,
February 2008.
“Insight into Reality” August, 1995. A three-lecture presentation during a weekend seminar at
the Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center, Washington, New Jersey.
“Nirvana and Wisdom” August 1994. A three-lecture presentation during a weekend seminar at
the Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center, Washington, New Jersey.
“The Two Truths in Tibetan Buddhism” March 1992 at the Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center,
Washington, New Jersey.
“Buddhism and the Politics of Tibetan Autonomy” May 1990 at Zen Center, Ann Arbor,
Michigan.
“Tibetan Buddhist Perspectives on N
ā
g
ā
rjuna” Summer 1989, a series of lectures presented as a
faculty member of the 1989 NEH Summer Institute on N
ā
g
ā
rjuna at the University of
Hawai’i.
“Ge-luk Treatment of Madhyamaka Philosophy” October 1989 invited lecture at Hampshire
College sponsored by Hampshire College and Amherst College.
“What is ‘Soul’?: A Tibetan Buddhist Perspective” July 1988 Interfaith Symposium at
Indianapolis University, Indianapolis, Indiana.
“A Buddhist Perspective on Peace” November 1987 Conference on Peace at Christian
Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, Indiana.
“Buddhist Theory and Practice in Light of Freud’s Theory of Drive” May 1985 invited
paper in Buddhist Studies Colloquium Series, University of Virginia.
IV. External Funding
Fellowships, Grants, Contracts
2009
Subsidy of approximately $3000 from Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies
to travel to Sarnath, India to present a paper on Buddhist Ethics.
2008
$50,000 contract to support work on
Core Teachings of Tibetan Madhyamaka
with the Library of Tibetan Classics.
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2008
Elizabeth Fond de Boer grant, University of Lausanne, $4000 to support a week
of collaborative work on Buddhist philosophy in Kathmandu, Nepal.
2008
Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center, $8000 contract for
From Here to
Enlightenment
, a book based on the Dalai Lama’s teachings at Lehigh U. in July
2008.
2008
Subsidy of $2500 from Dongguk University, Seoul, to attend and present at
conference.
2008
The Light of Berotsana Translation Group: grant of $600 to cover hotel costs at
translators’ conference in Boulder, CO.
2006
Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center, $13,000 to support work on
Introduction to
Emptiness
in preparation for Dalai Lama’s teaching at Lehigh U. in 2008.
1998
FRCE Grant for “Philosophy in a Global Context: Ultimate Analysis and
Convention in Tibetan Buddhist Thought,” a premier display at the August 1998,
20th International Congress of Philosophy, Boston.
1997
CMU Research Professor Award, one semester full release time and $1000
expenses to support editing of Tsong kha pa’s
Lam rim chen mo
.
1996
Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center, $1500 summer grant to support editing
of a translation of Tsong kha pa’s
Lam rim chen mo
.
1995
Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center, $1500 summer grant to support editing of
a translation of Tsong kha pa’s
Lam rim chen mo
.
1993
Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center, $2,500 summer grant to subsidize
translation of a section from Tsong kha pa’s
Lam rim chen mo
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1989
FRCE funding at CMU for the paper “Convention and Authority: Political
Implications of the Ge-luk Treatment of the Two Truths” October 1989
at Association for Asian Studies, Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting,
Washington, D.C.
1988
Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center, $4,000 contract to produce the manuscript
later published as
Appearance and Reality
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1984
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad Training Grant $19,500
(this award was not used due to problems obtaining necessary visa)
1984
American Institute of Indian Studies grant for research in India $10,000
(this award was declined because of redundancy with above)
1981-83,
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, South Asia, Tibetan
78-79
(University of Virginia) full tuition and stipend
1979-81
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, East Asia, Japanese
(University of Virginia) full tuition and stipend
Unfunded Applications
1995
NEH Research Grant for College Teachers, $30,000, to support editing of a
translation of Tsong kha pa’s
Lam rim chen mo
—not funded.
1995
NEH Summer Grant to support editing of a translation of Tsong kha pa’s
Lam
rim chen mo
—program suspended that year for federal budget reasons.
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BIOGRAPHY:
Guy Newland is Professor of Religion at Central Michigan University where he has taught since 1988. He holds a Ph.D. in the History of Religions from the University of Virginia, where he studied Tibetan Buddhism with Jeffrey Hopkins. Newland has studied with many Tibetan scholars, most extensively with Kensur Yeshe Thupten, Geshe Gedun Lodrö, Denma Lochö Rinbochay, and Geshe Yeshe Thapkay during their visits to the U.S.A. and with Gen Losang Gyatso and Geshe Palden Drakpa during his studies in India. He is the author of four books on Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, including Introduction to Emptiness. He is the translator and editor of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s lamrim teachings in From Here to Enlightenment. Newland has edited four other volumes, including the first complete English translation of the most important text on the path to enlightenment by Tsong-kha-pa, the founder of the Dalai Lama’s order of Tibetan Buddhism. That work appeared as the Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment. His next book, A Buddhist Grief Observed, will appear in 2016.
A Buddhist Grief Observed
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Newland, chair of the department of philosophy and religion at Central Michigan University and a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, forgoes academic language and instead uses C.S. Lewis's A Grief Observed as a guidepost for Buddhist reflections on bereavement. He is <
From Here to Enlightenment: Teachings on the Spiritual Path
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By Dalai Lama XIV. Ed. by Guy Newland.
Tr. by Guy Newland.
Oct. 2012. 192p. Snow Lion, $24.95
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Buddhist spiritual teacher the Dalai Lama offers spiritual advice using as his guide what is considered one of the greatest, though controversial, works in the Buddhist tradition, Tsong-kha-pa's Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment. This book is based on the course the Dalai Lama taught in 2008 at Lehigh University, in Pennsylvania. From Here to Enlightenment wraps itself around a single theme, "dependent arising," a concept that insists that all things arise and exist only through deep connections and interdependence upon other things. Tsong-kha-pa's work taught that emptiness is the ultimate reality. Here the Dalai Lama asserts not only that on both personal and public levels our choices do matter, and our actions do have moral consequences but also that Tsong-kha-pa's teachings are an integral part of the Tibetan wisdom tradition. The Dalai Lama discusses global responsibility, religious harmony, the meaning of human life, and meditation and serenity, among other topics. Each chapter is followed by a series of questions and answers. Admirers of the Dalai Lama should enjoy this thoughtful volume.
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The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment: The Lamrim Chenmo. Vol. 3
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Volume 3 of this central work of Mahayana Buddhism by Tibetan Master Tsong-kha-pa covers, in great detail, the topics of meditative serenity and insight into the nature of reality. It is appearing in translation before Volume 2 because the translation committee believed that currently there is a strong interest in these topics. The release of Volume 2 next fall will conclude the translation (Volume 1 was reviewed in LJ 10/15/00) and mark the first complete appearance in English of this important text. The appearance of Volume 3 is indeed timely, but only the most serious students of Buddhism will have the patience for its complexities. Still, the style of logical argument will be familiar to readers of Western philosophy, and readers with some experience of meditation will welcome the great attention given to the explication of pitfalls, nuance, and misunderstanding that attend serious Buddhist practice. Ultimately, this is a classic of religious thought and is essential for libraries with a demonstrated interest in Buddhism or comparative religion. It should also be considered for all larger research collections and public libraries.--Mark Woodhouse, Elmira Coll., NY
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Guy Newland is Professor of Religion and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Central Michigan University, where he has taught since 1988. He holds a Ph.D. in the History of Religions from the University of Virginia, where he studied Tibetan Buddhism with Jeffrey Hopkins. He has also studied with many Tibetan scholars in the US and India. In clear language, Introduction to Emptiness explains that emptiness is not a mystical sort of "nothingness", but a specific truth that can and must be understood through calm and careful reflection. His contemporary examples and vivid anecdotes will help readers towards a better understanding of this core concept, as presented in one of the great classic texts of the Tibetan tradition. It is a magnificent, very readable and thoroughly engaging work.
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In one week, I had received three phone calls, each one notifying me that someone else had passed away.
I didn’t know the first two people very well, but the impact on my family was very real. The third phone call was like a blow to the stomach—one that I was not expecting to feel. The person who had passed was an abuser, a womanizer and a person that in all truth, I thought I would feel indifference or relief when the time came.
What I felt was anything but that.
I was angry, I was confused, I was plagued with doubts and questions and people coming at me with the “aren’t you a Buddhist and beyond all that” attack. There was also the turmoil of judging myself for maybe not being that beyond all doubt and questions Buddhist teacher.
And then it arrived in the mail.
I opened the package and inside was A Buddhist Grief Observed, written by Guy Newland. When I looked at it, my first reaction was to throw it on the shelf and growl at it as if it could hear my frustration. That evening however, I found myself alone, in the dark, with it in my hands. Oddly enough, it was like the warm hug I needed. It wasn’t the “there-there” phony sympathy of an academic writing about death and how we should tip toe through the tulips like grand enlightened masters when it happens, but rather the deep hug of someone also in grief who understands exactly what you’re feeling, here and now.
As I kept reading, I found myself relaxing. The judgments of my judgments began unclenching as I realized that it was okay to lean into the sharp edges of my pain.
I didn’t need to be the mythical figure who walks in and out of death with barely a glimpse or whimper, but an actual person, guts deep in the here and now, open and spacious with my hurts and doubts.
Guy Newland’s book was not about how Buddhism helped him escape the pain of his wife’s death, but how he hurt—plain and simple. Not how he denied his pain and took some sadistic grateful smile at the “gift” of her sickness and death, but instead the grief that is leg-shaking, kicking and screaming against loss and pain we all share as humans.
It was not an expression of the positive thinking psychobabble. It was the deep understanding of human experience through the eyes of real dharma. Plainly put, this short book went from a growl of irritation to becoming a favorite text I have already read three times. It <
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A Buddhist Grief Observed
A Buddhist Grief Observed
by Guy Newland
Released August 9th 2016
Format: Paperback
Pages: 136
ISBN: 9811614293015
Published by Wisdom Publications
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Buddhism focuses on compassion and balance. When your world is turned upside down due to the loss of a loved one, or some other traumatic event, how do you incorporate the balance of life? How is it possible to have compassion for others when you feel the world has stripped away the very thing that is the key to your own life and left you raw, alone and empty? Guy Newland writes of his own loss in the book A Buddhist Grief Observed in a deeply personal account of his own life and the journey to it, through it, and from it. An honest and deep sense of the connections most people go through and can identify with it, while grasping at meaning and purpose are laid out in a black and white text which is brilliant and colorful in the words and emotions which are described along the way.
“So it is that when someone asked me in the early months whether my familiarity with Buddhist teachings on emptiness had consoled me in my grief, my reflexive answer was just no. All I could think of was Valier, empty or not, was definitely around here before and now she is definitely not. And that hurts.”
Newland philosophizes on his own life choices and how to restore normalcy which won’t and can’t ever be the same. Along the journey Newland shapes and highlights the clarity through the path or understanding that life is bigger than the why and more often just is. A Buddhist Grief Observed is <> during their most difficult time in life, and possibly awaken their own faith along the way.
REVIEW: A BUDDHIST GRIEF OBSERVED.
May 23, 2016 by Tahlia Newland
Buddhist grief
This is a raw and honest book about a Buddhist practitioner with a strong intellectual understanding of the Buddhist teachings reflecting on them as he grieves for his wife. He asks himself just how are some of these teachings supposed to help, because when in the grip of the intense pain of losing a loved one, the answer to that question is not always obvious. He particularly looks at the teachings on karma and how the common oversimplifications of these teachings can be not at all helpful to someone in pain. It is said that only an enlightened being is capable of fully understanding the workings of karma and this book gives us some idea of why this is so. Is also<
When reading this book I was reminded of the Buddha when he said that one should not take the Buddhist teachings on faith alone, but that we should test them for ourselves. What the author is doing here is testing them in light of his grief. Though some may find the author’s honesty disturbing, he is modelling right behaviour for a Buddhist practitioner, for one cannot progress towards enlightenment if one cannot be honest with oneself.
The book also gives insight into the grieving process, such as that one does not necessarily go through all the stages of grief that are commonly spoken of – perhaps especially if you are a Buddhist practitioner. I think this would be a helpful book for anyone grieving, even if just to know how it was for another.
5 stars
REVIEW: A BUDDHIST GRIEF OBSERVED BY GUY NEWLAND
A Buddhist Grief Observed is a new book by Guy Newland, due out on August 9. Newland is a respected Buddhist teacher and scholar who has been working at Central Michigan University since the 80s. This is a mindful look at the Dharma, and in particular how Newland’s lifelong Buddhist practice helped or hindered him during his wife’s terminal illness and his grief that followed.
Most people assume that Buddhism’s philosophy of “no attachment” encourages its followers to stifle their emotions. Quite the opposite, Buddhism encourages feeling everything, but cultivating non-attachment to one state over another, as it is the attachment to objects and ways of being that cause us discomfort.
Grief is the process of adjusting to unwanted change, and since change is unrelenting, we bear every day unrecognised micro-griefs.
Newland takes us on the journey of his wife’s diagnosis and illness, and his learning to be in the world without her. He reflects that death and impermanence makes up a good portion of the Dharma, but even this did not prepare him for the grief he encountered after his wife’s death. Grief is a unique experience for everyone and not all of the Dharma is helpful to the grieving process. Newland recognises that useful adage of the Buddhist practitioner – <
Newland identifies the practices that helped him manage his grief and his through processes during this difficult time. He recognises that sitting with the pain is necessary but it can also be completely overwhelming.
When we have deep pain that seems not to touch others, we get sucked into this sense that pain is our deepest identity.
He debunks the “cancer as gift” mentality that seems to pervade some of Western thinking, and asks us to reflect that death may be an experience that brings positive growth and change to some, but it certainly is not this experience for everyone. He suggests this is not only narrow and over simplified, but robs people in an awful situation of the freedom to authentically articulate their experience.
There is lots of good stuff in this book – I lost my father at the beginning of May to a long running illness. His death was not a surprise. My grief was. Newland has many words of comfort and support for those going through something similar.He notes how his “Guy-as-teacher” personality was still able to pop up and function with little input from the rest of him, which still felt completely wrung out. (I felt much the same – it’s amazing how much you can achieve on autopilot if you need to).
3 out of 5 Mala beads