Members

Edinburgh Buddhist Studies members.

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

 

Professor Alice Collett 

(Academic Editor, University of St Andrews)

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Dr Ophira Gamliel

(Theology and Religious Studies, University of Glasgow)

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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).

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Dr Tim Graf

(Japanese Studies, University of Manchester)

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

Tim Graf's Profile

 

Dr Rose Harris-Birtill

(School of English, University of St Andrews)

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Professor Peter Harvey

(Emeritus Professor of Buddhist Studies, University of Sunderland)

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Dr Simon Paul James

(Philosophy, University of Durham)

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Dr Hiroko Kawanami

(Politics, Philosophy and Religion, University of Lancaster)

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Ani Rinchen Khandro

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

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Dr Mahmood Kooria

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

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Dr Martin Mills

(Anthropolgy, University of Aberdeen)

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Dr Nic Newton

(Research Assistant, Divinity, University of St Andrews)

Nic Newton's Profile, Projects, and Publications

Research Interests: Early Mahayana, Buddhist Visuality, Poetics.

 

Dr Janine Nicol

(Research associate)

Jataka Database project

 

Ms Rosanna Nicolson

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

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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)

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Professor Ian Reader

(Emeritus Professor, Japanese Studies, University of Manchester)

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Dr Susan Roach

(Research associate)

Jataka Database project

 

Dr Tina Rock

(Philosophy, University of Dundee)

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Dr Sneha Roy

(School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh)

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 Sneha Roy is intrigued by the right-wing women, their disputed agency, and their ways of femininising forms of violence in activism for religion and nation.

 

Dr Gregory Adam Scott

(Chinese Studies, University of Manchester)

Research Interests: Print Culture, Modern Chinese Buddhism.

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Professor Martin Seeger

(Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds)

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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.

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Professor Bob Simpson

(Anthropology, University of Durham)

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Dr Caroline Starkey

(Religion, University of Leeds)

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Rev Favian Straughan

(Portobello Buddhist Priory) 

Portobello Buddhist Priory's Website

 

Ms Friederike Voigt

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

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Dr Jan Vrhovski

(Science Technology and Innovation Studies, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh)

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Dr Asanga Welikala

(Senior Lecturer in Public Law, Associate Director, Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law, Edinburgh Law School)

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Professor Richard Whitecross

(Law, Edinburgh Napier University)

Research Interests: law, Himalayas, Tibetan Buddhism, Nyingma studies.

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Dr Saeko Yazaki

(Theology and Religious Studies, University of Glasgow)

Research Interests: globalisation of Zen, Zen in the West, comparative analysis between Sufism and Zen, the Way of Tea/Chado.

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