Directors & Advisors

Directors

John Brady
Executive Director

Geshe Michael Roach
Founding Director

Dr. Robert Taylor
Assistant Director

Robert Chilton
Technical Director

Dr. Gordon Aston
Director, Research and Development

Ven. Elly van der Pas
Director, Digital Resource Development

Geshe Jampa Dadak
Director, South Asia Field Office

Sonam Hlamo
General Manager, ACIP India

Bhutia Karma Tenzing
Manager, Russia Field Office

Ngawang Gyatso
Manager, Mongolia Field Office

Kelsang Tahuwa
Japan ACIP Office Representative

Santosh Dwivedi
Director, ACIP Varanasi

N. V. Ramachandran
Director, ACIP Sanskrit Project, Kerala, India

Advisors

Dr. Jose Ignacio Cabezon
XIVth Dalai Lama Professor of Tibetan Buddhism and Cultural Studies, UC Santa Barbara

Dr. Lokesh Chandra
International Academy of Indian Culture

Dr. Artemus Engle
Rashi Gempil Ling, Freewood Acres, NJ

Dr. M. A. Jayashree
Anatha Foundation, Mysore

Geshe Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D
Institute of Tibetan Classics, Montreal

Dr. Vladimir Uspensky
Institute of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg

David Reigle
International Kalachakra Network

Ven. Brian Smith
University of California, Riverside (retired)

Gene Smith
Founder, Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center

Dr. Vesna Wallace
Numata Professor of Buddhist Studies, Oxford University

John Brady
Executive Director

John Brady practiced Buddhist meditation for over twenty years, in both Japanese Zen and Tibetan Buddhist traditions. He has been Director of Asian Classics Input Project since 1999, when he left a successful career as Director of Special Markets for the Lillian Vernon Corporation to undertake this challenging position.

He currently teaches Buddhist philosophy and practice at Diamond Mountain in Arizona, as well as at Asian Classics Institute (ACI) in New York. John is also a director of the Yoga Studies Institute, a non-profit educational institute that grounds students in the classical tradition of yoga.