Steven D. Goodman, Ph.D. (Far Eastern Studies, University of Saskatchewan, 1984; B.A., University of California-Berkeley) was Professor of Tibetan Studies at the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Graduate Theological Union, and Research and Program Director for Asian and Comparative Studies in the Philosophy and Religion Department of the School of Consciousness and Transformation at the California Institute of Integral Studies. In 1994, he was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship at Rice University Center for Cultural Studies for the study of Tibetan mystical poetry. Dr. Goodman also was a founding member of the Working Committee for The 84000 Project: Translating The Words of The Buddha (84000.co), which is an international non-profit group coordinating the translation of the Buddhist Canonical Corpus (Tripitaka) from Tibetan into English, and making them available for free download. Additionally, he was an adviser to the Khyentse Foundation since its inception in 2001.