Teachers

Guy Newland

Guy Newland is Professor of Religion and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Central Michigan University, where he has taught since 1988. He holds a Ph.D. in the history of religions from the University of Virginia, where he studied Tibetan Buddhism with Jeffrey Hopkins. Newland has also studied with many Tibetan scholars in the U.S. and India. He is an editor of the three-volume translation Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment and Changing Minds. He is the author of three other books on Tibetan Buddhism, including The Two Truths and Appearance and Reality.

Events with Guy Newland

TENTATIVE 2025 - Start Making Sense: How Tsongkhapa Proved that the Path Requires Careful Thought
January 1 - 2, 2025

  We suffer needlessly because we do not see things just as they are. How are we wrong about things? How can we be free from needless suffering?   Some say, “Stop grasping at dualistic categories!”  The Diamond Sutra teaches us that the bodhisattva’s wisdom sees no persons, but out of compassion resolves to save limitless beings. Paradoxes like this may be “true contradictions,” pointing far beyond the dualism of logical constructs. Nondual actuality cannot be expressed just as it is; it may be indicated by a gesture, a riddle, or a silence at just the right moment. This is a powerful tradition.…