Professor Asanga Tilakaratne

Visiting Professor of Buddhism
Room: 106, 97 Albany Street
Tel: 64 3 479 6459
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Asanga Tilakaratne is a Visiting Professor of Buddhism in the department for Semester One 2015. He is the professor of Pali and Buddhist Studies at University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka. He graduated from University of Peradeniya (Buddhist philosophy) and received Masters (Western philosophy) and his doctorate in comparative philosophy from University of Hawai’I at Manoa. Tilakaratne has published both in English and Sinhala. Among his more recent publications are: 2600 Years of Sambuddhatva: Global Journey of Awakening (2012: Ministry of Buddha Sasana, Sri Lanka), co-edited with Oliver Abenayake, and Theravada Buddhism: the View of the Elders (2012: University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu). His research interests are contemporary social and religious problems of Sri Lanka, studies in the concept of justice in Buddhism, inter-religious studies and philosophy of religion, language and logic.

Teaching

Papers taught in 2015

First semester
Theravada Buddhism
 
Buddhism, State and Society
 

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