Guy Newland


Guy Martin Newland is a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism who has been a professor at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan since 1988. He served as Chairperson of Central Michigan University's Department of Philosophy and Religion during the periods 2000-2003, 2006-2009, and 2016-. He was elected to the Mount Pleasant Board of Education in July 2003 and served until December 2007, including six months as President of the Board and one year as Secretary.
Newland received his PhD from the University of Virginia, where he was a student of Jeffrey Hopkins.

Publications

In 2016, Newland published a personal memoir:
A Buddhist Grief Observed.
Newland has authored, translated, and edited a number of publications on Tibetan Buddhism, including:
Moonpaths: Ethics and Emptiness by the Cowherds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
“How Does Merely Conventional Karma Work?” in Moonpaths. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
The Non-speaking God: How do I know what God wants from me? http://www.floodofnoah.com/#!noah-movie-nonspeaking-god/c1euh. A short essay on Aronofsky’s film Noah on a peer-reviewed website, 2014.
From Here to Enlightenment by the Dalai Lama, translated, annotated, and introduced by Guy Newland. Boston: Shambala Publications: 2012.
“Emptiness ” in Oxford Bibliographies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Moonshadows: Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy edited by the Cowherds. New York: Oxford University Press: 2011.
“An Introduction to Conventional Truth” by Guy Newland and Tom Tillemans in Moonshadows. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
“Weighing the Butter, Levels of Explanation, and Falsification: Models of the Conventional in Tsongkhapa’s Account of the Conventional” in Moonshadows. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.