Jonathan C. Gold

Jonathan C. Gold is professor of 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 (SUNY Press, 2007) and Paving the Great Way: Vasubandhu’s Unifying Buddhist Philosophy (Columbia University Press, 2015) as well as numerous articles. As director of Princeton’s Center for Culture, Society and Religion since 2019, his main initiatives have been focused around developing public-facing scholarship on Religion and supporting the application of Buddhist thought to contemporary concerns.