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Faculty Biographies
Professors
| Snjezana Akpinar
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Snjezana Akpinar holds a Doctorate in Turkish Studies from the University of Istanbul, Turkey, and an M.A. in Oriental Studies from the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. She is President of Dharma Realm Buddhist University and currently lectures on Central Asian influences on Islam. Dr. Akpinar is deeply interested in teaching and working with young Buddhists through the application of Buddhism in one's life. Dr Akpinar's Buddhist family background includes her father who was an ordained Bhiksu for over 30 years. |
Rev. Heng Sure
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Rev. Heng Sure holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and an M.A. in Oriental languages from the University of California at Berkeley. He serves as director of the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery, lectures on Buddhist texts and teaches meditation, and is actively involved in interfaith dialogue. He ordained as a bhikshu (Buddhist monk) in 1976 at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in Talmage, California. After receiving full ordination, he commenced a "three steps, one bow" pilgrimage from South Pasadena to Ukiah, a distance of more than eight hundred miles, over two years and nine months.
He currently lectures on the "Ten Transferences" and "Ten Practices" chapter in the Avatamsaka Sutra. To download some of his talks, please visit Dharma Radio. |
Martin J. Verhoeven
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Martin J. Verhoeven received his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His area of specialty is the process of East/West acculturation, particularly in the European and American encounter with Buddhism. He was a Buddhist monk for eighteen years and has lectured extensively throughout Asia, Europe, the United States and Canada. |
Ron Epstein
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Ron Epstein holds a Ph.D. in Buddhist studies from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.A. in Chinese language and literature from the University of Washington. He taught Buddhist studies and world religions at San Francisco State University for many years and has recently retired. His research interests include the Mahayana sutras, Yogachara Buddhism and applied Buddhist ethics.
He hosts a popular website that contains Resources for Studying Buddhism. |
Bhikshuni Heng Chih
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Bhikshuni Heng Chih is a founding and current member of Dharma Realm Buddhist Association (DRBA) and an active translator and editor of Buddhist Text Translation Society (BTTS). She is the primary translator that translated the Surangama Sutra from Chinese into English in the early 1970s, and was one of the students who attended the first 10-week Surangama Retreat in America led by the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua in the summer of 1968. She was ordained as a bhikshuni (fully ordained Buddhist nun) in 1969. |
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