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Mahinda Deegalle <m.deegalle@bathspa.ac.uk> Bath Spa University I am working on Theravada Buddhist Preaching, Mahayana and Theravada Interactions in Sri Lanka, Sinhala devotional literature related to Butsarana, Buddhist asceticism in Asia, Peace, Reconciliation, War and Violence |
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| Address: | Study of Religions, School of Historical & Cultural Studies Bath Spa University Newton Park Bath, Somerset BA2 9BN United Kingdom |
| Primary Phone: | +44(0)1225-875429 |
| Fax Number: | +44(0)1225-875605 |
| Web Page: | http://www.bathspa.ac.uk |
| List Affiliations: | Former Review Editor for H-Buddhism |
| Interests: | Asian History / Studies Medieval and Byzantine History / Studies Religious Studies and Theology |
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Bio: EDUCATION: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Doctor of Philosophy: History of Religions, 1995 DISSERTATION Bana: Buddhist Preaching in Sri Lanka(Special Focus on the Two-pulpit Tradition) HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Master of Theological Studies: Comparative Religion, 1989 UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA, Bachelor of Arts, First Class Honors, 1985 TEACHING COMPETENCE: PRIMARY: Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia, Indian Buddhism, Pali, Sanskrit and Sinhala Languages, Methods in the Study of Religions SECONDARY: Japanese Religions, Comparative Religious Ethics, War, Peace and Violence COURSES TAUGHT: Bath Spa University, UK "Buddhism," "Buddhism in Practice," "Japanese Religions," "Studying Religions," "Introduction to Religion," "Religion and Contemporary Issues," "Ethics in Religious and Humanist Traditions," "Buddhism in the Contemporary World," "War and Peace" "An Introduction to Ethical Enquiry" "Beyond Belief," "Comparative Monasticism" Cornell University, NY, USA "Intensive Sinhala Language" McGill University, Montreal, Canada “Mahayana in Theravada” “Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand” Antioch Buddhist Studies Program, Kyoto, Japan "Philosophy and Historical Development of Buddhism in Japan" The University of Chicago, Center for Continuing Studies "Theravada Buddhism" Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka "Buddhist Philosophy," "Buddhist Social and Political Philosophy" RESEARCH Research Fellow, International College for Advanced Buddhist Studies, Tokyo, May-July 1999 Foreign Researcher, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Visiting Research Fellow, Aichi Gakuin University, 1997-99 Research Collaborator, Kyoto University, 1995-96 Research Fellow, Sophia University South Asian Bibliographer Assistant and Cataloger, U. of Chicago, 1989-93 PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS Popularizing Buddhism, State University of New York Press, 2006 Buddhism, Conflict and Violence in Modern Sri Lanka, Routledge, 2006 Bana saha budusamaya (Wadduwa: Wivekarama Sanvardhana Padanama, 1997). Pali Buddhism, eds. Frank J. Hoffman and Deegalle Mahinda (Surrey, UK: Curzon Press, 1996) Nirvanaya saha sadacaraya(Nugegoda: Deepani Press, 1986) ARTICLES “Asceticism: Buddhist Perspectives” (89-92), “Death Rituals: Buddhist” (364-67), “Marathon Monks” (821-22), “Monasticism, Definitions of: Buddhist Perspectives” (868-71), “Music: Buddhist Perspectives” (909-911), “Sri Lanka: History” (1198-99), “Sri Lanka: Recent Changes” (1200), “Temple: Buddhist” (1238-40), and “Virtues: Buddhist” (1329-30) in Encyclopedia of Monasticism, ed. William M. Johnston (Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000) “Buddhist Critical Attitudes for Postmodern Age,” Buddhism for the New Millennium, ed. Lakshman S. Perera et al (London: World Buddhist Foundation, 2000), pp. 133-39 “From Buddhology to Buddhist Theology: An Orientation to Sinhala Buddhism,” Buddhist Theology: Critical Reflections by Contemporary Buddhist Scholars, eds. Roger Jackson and John Makransky (Surrey, UK: Curzon Press, 2000), pp. 331-45 “Noviyat Hudijana: Local Consciousness within Disappearing Cosmopolitan Buddhism,” Sambhasa: Vidyodaya 125 Vana /Sastriya Samaru Sangrahaya, ed. G.D. Ratnap1la et al. Vol. 10. (Battaramulla: Pirivena Education Branch, Ministry of Education and Higher Education, 1999), pp. 483-503 “A Search for Mahayana in Sri Lanka,” Journal of the International Association for Buddhist Studies 22 (2) 1999: 343–57 “Buddha’s Rock: Mahayana Legacy at Buduruvagala,” Journal of Pali and Buddhist Studies 12 (1998): 103–15 “Mahayana Ideas within Theravada?” Buddhist Studies (Bukkyo Kenkyu) 27 (1998): 99-118 “Marathon Preachers: The Two-pulpit Tradition in Sri Lanka,” Asiatische Studien 52 (1) 1998: 15–56 “A Bibliography on Sinhala Buddhism,” Journal of Buddhist Ethics 4 (1997): 216-56 (on-line journal) http://jbe.la.psu.edu “Buddhist Preaching and Sinhala Religious Rhetoric: Medieval Buddhist Methods to Popularize Theravada,” Numen 44 (1997): 180-210 “Buddhist Principles of Democracy: An Exploration of Ethical and Philosophical Foundations,” Buddhist Studies (Bukkyo Kenkyu) 26 (1997): 89-107 “Innovations in Theravada Buddhist Rituals,” Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies (Indogaku Bukkyogaku Kenkyu) 46 (1997): 685-692 “Reconsidering Buddhist Preaching: Bana Tradition in Sri Lanka,” Recent Researches in Buddhist Studies: Essays in Honour of Professor Y. Karunadasa, eds. K. Dhammajoti, Asanga Tilakaratne and Kapila Abhayawansa (Colombo and Hong Kong: Y. Karunadasa Felicitation Committee and Chi Ying Foundation, 1997), pp. 427-53 “Vernacular Buddhism: Neglected Sources in the Study of Sri Lankan Theravada,” Journal of the Japanese Association for South Asian Studies 9 (1997): 69-101 “Buddhist Preaching (Bana) in Sri Lanka: Sinhala Rhetoric in the Popularization of Theravada,” Sri Lanka Journal of Buddhist Studies 5 (1996): 30-41 “Buddhist Preaching: Rethinking of History of Religions Categories,” Transactions of the International Conference of Eastern Studies (The Toho Gakkai) 41 (1996): 42-59 “Introduction,” (with F. Hoffman), Pali Buddhism, eds. Frank J. Hoffman and Deegalle Mahinda (Surrey, UK: Curzon Press, 1996), pp. 1-13 “The Moral Significance of Buddhist Nirvana: The Early Buddhist Model of Perfection,” Pali Buddhism, eds. Frank J. Hoffman and Deegalle Mahinda (Surrey, UK: Curzon Press, 1996), pp. 105-116 “Reflections on Buddhist Marriage: The Jayamangala Gatha,” The Island, May 3, 1996 “Dharmapala and the World’s Parliament of Religions in Chicago,” World Fellowship of Buddhists Review 32 (4) 1995: 54-58 “Buddhist Experience in North America,” A Source Book for Earth’s Community of Religions, ed. Joel D. Beversluis (Grand Rapids, Michigan: CoNexus Press, 1995) “Reflections on Karma,” Realist (Penang, Malaysia and New Southgate, London: Buddhist Realists’ Centre, 1995), pp. 45-50 “Bhavana: The Buddhist Way to Dwell in the Present,” The Washington Buddhist 25 (1) 1994: 20-22 “Liberating Life as a Commitment to Truth,” Current Dialogue 20 (July 1991): 27-30 “Does Feminism Challenge Buddhism?” Vesak Handa 41 (1990): 137-140 “The Origins of Mahayana Buddhism,” The Buddhist 61 (1990): 12-21 “Educated Abroad—At Harvard,” Bulletin: Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University 16 (1) 1989/90: 16-21; also in Harvard Divinity Bulletin 19 (2) 1989 “The Place of Saddh1 in Buddhism,” Vesak Handa 38 (1987): 115-7 “The Buddhist and the Four Evil Causes of Action,” Teachers’ Annual 1986:30-31 BOOK REVIEWS: Relics, Ritual, and Representation in Buddhism: Rematerializing the Sri Lankan Theravada Tradition by Kevin Trainor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997) in Asiatische Studien 53 (3) 1999: 808-810 Style and Function by Mark W. Allon (Tokyo: The Institute for Buddhist Studies, 1997) in Religious Studies Review 25 (1) 1999:121 The Religious World of Kirti Sri: Buddhism, Art, and Politics in Late Medieval Sri Lanka by John Clifford Holt (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996) in Journal of Buddhist Ethics 5 (1998), http://jbe.la.psu.edu |
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