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