Faculty
Our faculty is comprised of expert scholars and educators in the fields of Yoga Studies, Indology, Religious Studies, and South Asian Studies.
Dr. Stephen Jenkins
Professor of Religious Studies at Humboldt State University
Dr. Stephen Jenkins received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1999. Much of his career has been spent in Asia serving study abroad programs in India, Tibet, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Japan. His research has been primarily focused on Indian Buddhist concepts of compassion, their philosophical grounding, and their ethical implications.
Some recent publications include: The Circle of Compassion: An Interpretive Study of Karuṇā in Indian Buddhist Literature, Cambridge Buddhist Institute Series (2003), “Waking into Compassion: the Three Ālambana of Karuṇā,” in Moonpaths (2015), "Confronting the Harmful with Compassion," in Nonviolence in World Religions (2021), and "Compassion Blesses the Compassionate: The Basis of Social and Individual Wealth, Health, Happiness, Power and Security in Indian Buddhist Thought," in Buddhist Visions of the Good Life for All (2021).
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