Jonathan C. Gold

Jonathan C. Gold is Professor in the Department of Religion and Director of the Center for Culture, Society and Religion at Princeton University. A scholar of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, he is especially interested in Buddhist approaches to meaning, ethics, language and learning. He is the author of The Dharma’s Gatekeepers: Sakya Paṇḍita on Buddhist Scholarship in Tibet (2007) and Paving the Great Way: Vasubandhu’s Unifying Buddhist Philosophy (2015) as well as numerous articles, including recently “Wholesome Mind Ethics: A Buddhist Paradigm” in the Journal of Value Inquiry and the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entries on Vasubandhu and Sakya Paṇḍita. He is co-editor, with Douglas S. Duckworth, of Readings of Śāntideva’s Guide to Bodhisattva Practice (Bodhicaryāvatāra) (2019). In his current work he is developing a Buddhist approach to politics and social thought.

Selected publications

• The Dharma’s Gatekeepers: Sakya Paṇḍita on Buddhist Scholarship in Tibet (State University of New York Press, 2007)
• Paving the Great Way: Vasubandhu’s Unifying Buddhist Philosophy (Columbia University Press, 2015)
• The online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entries on Vasubandhu and Sakya Paṇḍita.

External links

• https://religion.princeton.edu/people/jonathan-gold
• https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2012/entries/vasubandhu