Members

A list of Edinburgh Buddhist Studies members, both within the University of Edinburgh and our regional partners. For PhD student members see the separate page.

Professor Naomi Appleton

(Religious Studies, University of Edinburgh)

Naomi Appleton's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Dr Ian Astley

(Japanese Studies, University of Edinburgh)

Ian Astley's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Dr Erica Baffelli

(Japanese Studies, University of Manchester)

Erica Baffelli's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Dr Brian Black

(Politics, Philosophy and Religion, University of Lancaster)

Brian Black's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Dr Yashaswini Chandra

(History of Art, University of Edinburgh)

Yashaswini Chandra's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Professor Alice Collett

(Academic Editor, University of St Andrews)

Alice Collett's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Dr Ding Kehan

(Visiting Scholar, Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh)

Ding Kehan's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Dr Paul Fuller

(School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh)

Paul Fuller's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Dr Ophira Gamliel

(Theology and Religious Studies, University of Glasgow)

Ophira Gamliel's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Professor Joachim Gentz

(Chinese Studies, University of Edinburgh)

Joachim Gentz's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Dr Nathan Gilbert

(Latin Literature, Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University)

Research Interests: comparative Greek-Indian philosophy and the history of Western scholarship on Buddhism (esp. work in Latin).

Nathan Gilbert 's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Dr Tim Graf

(Japanese Studies, University of Manchester)

Research Interests: Zen, disaster, spiritual care, crisis evocation, prayer rituals, kitō.

Tim Graf's Profile

Dr Christopher Harding

(School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh)

Christopher Harding's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Dr Rose Harris-Birtill

(School of English, University of St Andrews)

Rose Harris-Birtill's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Professor Peter Harvey

(Emeritus Professor of Buddhist Studies, University of Sunderland)

Peter Harvey's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Dr Simon Paul James

(Philosophy, University of Durham)

Simon Paul James's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Dr Melissa Ann Kaul

(Visiting Researcher in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh)

Research interests: Animal ethics and East Asian philosophy.

Dr Hiroko Kawanami

(Politics, Philosophy and Religion, University of Lancaster)

Hiroko Kawanami's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Ani Rinchen Khandro

(Kagyu Samye Dzong, Honorary Buddhist Chaplain, University of Edinburgh)

Ani Rinchen Khandro's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Dr Mahmood Kooria

(Lecturer in the History of the Indian Ocean World, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh)

Mahmood Kooria's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Dr Abigail MacBain

(Japanese Studies, University of Edinburgh)

Abigail MacBain's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Dr Martin Mills

(Anthropolgy, University of Aberdeen)

Martin Mills's profile, Projects, and Publications

Dr Takeshi Morisato

(School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh)

Takeshi Morisato's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Dr Nic Newton

(Research Assistant, Divinity, University of St Andrews)

Research Interests: Early Mahayana, Buddhist Visuality, Poetics.

Nic Newton's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Dr Janine Nicol

(Research associate)

Research interests: Chinese jātaka literature.

Jataka Database project

Ms Rosanna Nicolson

(Assistant Curator, Middle East and South Asia, National Museum of Scotland)

Rosanna Nicolson's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Dr Halle O'Neal

(History of Art, University of Edinburgh)

Halle O'Neal's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Professor Rajyashree Pandey

(Professor Emerita of Japanese Studies, Department of Politics, Goldsmiths, University of London)

Rajyashree Pandey's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Professor Rajyashree Pandey is currently working on a book manuscript on the significance of excrement in the Buddhist/literary narrative tradition of medieval Japan.

Dr Samuel Pehrson

(Lecturer, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews)

Samuel Pehrson's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Professor Ian Reader

(Emeritus Professor, Japanese Studies, University of Manchester)

Ian Reader's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Dr Susan Roach

(Research associate)

Jataka Database project

Dr Tina Rock

(Philosophy, University of Dundee)

Tina Rock's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Dr Sneha Roy

(School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh)

Research interests: right-wing women, their disputed agency, and their ways of femininising forms of violence in activism for religion and nation.

Sneha Roy's Profile and Publications

Sneha Roy's Project "Nationalism and Ecology: Women’s participation and the Hindu-right in the India-Bangladesh Borderland"

Dr Paul Schweizer

(School of Informatics, Institute of Language, Cognition and Computation, University of Edinburgh)

Paul Schweizer's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Dr Gregory Adam Scott

(Chinese Studies, University of Manchester)

Research Interests: Print Culture, Modern Chinese Buddhism.

Gregory Adam Scott's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Professor Martin Seeger

(Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds)

Martin Seeger's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Dr Roshan de Silva-Wijeyaratne

(School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Dundee Law School, University of Dundee)

Research Interests: Buddhist Legal History in South and Southeast Asia, Buddhist Constitutionalism, Colonial Legal History in South and Southeast Asia, Buddhist Thought and Continental Philosophy.

Roshan de Silva-Wijeyaratne's Profile