Chaisit Suwanvarangkul
BA (Chulalongkorn) MA (Kyoto) PhD (Delhi)
Senior Lecturer, Buddhist Studies
Room: Richardson 4S10
Tel: 64 3 479 8408
Email: chaisit.suwanvarangkul@otago.ac.nz
Chaisit is Lecturer in Buddhist Studies. He was born in a society shaped by Thai Theravada Buddhism, and spent more than ten years as an ordained monk, studying the Dhamma and Vinaya in Thailand. After that he did research into Mahayana Buddhism, particularly into the Yogacara, at Kyoto University in Japan and at the University of Delhi in India. He has taught meditation in Japan, and has taught both Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism at the Dhammakaya temple and at the Mahachulalongkorn Rajavidyalaya University (Thai Buddhist University). He has also taught Japanese in Thailand for more than three years. He studied Sanskrit and Tibetan in Japan and India. His field of research is Buddhist studies, focusing on both Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism.
Teaching
Papers taught in 2019
| First semester | 100 |
200 |
300 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Introductory Sanskrit I | Second semester | 100 |
200 |
300 |
| Introductory Sanskrit II | |||
| Mahayana Buddhism |
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Main research interests
- Early Buddhist doctrine
- Yogacara
- Tathagatagarbha doctrine
Publications
Articles and book chapters
"Pratityasamutpada", in Richard Payne, ed., Oxford Bibliographies Online: Buddhism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015
"Pratityasamutpada and Dharmadhatu in Early Mahayana Buddhism", in Jan Westerhoff and Jay Garfield, ed., Madhyamaka and Yogacara: Rivals or Allies? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015
"On the Concept of Pratiyasamutpada in the Madhyantavibhaga" [in Japanese], Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies 45/1 (1996): 351-357
Conference presentations
"Dharmadhatu in Avata?saka Sutra", NZARS/AABS conference, Queenstown, Dec 7-9, 2011
"Pratityasamutpada and Dharmadhatu in Early Mahayana Buddhism", 16th Conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taiwan, June 20-25, 2011
"From Mahaparinibbana Sutta to Mahaparinirva?a Sutra in Early Mahayana Buddhsim", DIRI, Sancta College University of Sydney, Australia, Aug 28-29, 2010
"On the body in Buddhism: the Dharmakaya", New Zealand Association for the Study of Religion, Rotorua, July 2-4, 2008
"Chu Hen Fun Betsu Ron ni Okeru Engi to Ku Shou ni tsuite", The Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies, Rissho University, Tokyo, 1994