Professor Rupert Gethin
BA, MA, PhD
Current positions
Emeritus Professor
Department of Religion and Theology
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Research interests
My main research interest is the history and development of Indian Buddhist thought in the Nikāyas/Āgamas and Pali and Sanskrit exegetical sources relating to the Abhidharma. I am currently working on two main projects: a series of studies of aspects of the theories of Indian Buddhist meditation, and a book on Abhidharma thought provisionally titled "Buddhist maps of the mind and body: a study of Buddhist thought in the Theravāda, Sarvāstivāda and Yogācāra Abhidharma".
Teaching
At undergraduate level I teach courses relating to Buddhism, Hinduism and Indian Philosophy: Foundations of Buddhist Thought and Practice, Divine Love in Hinduism, Indian Philosophy, Yoga and Meditation, Buddhist Psychology and Mental Health.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
BA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2016 - Susannah Deane - Madness, mental health and Buddhism: an examination of smyo nad('madness') in the Tibetan context
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Religion and TheologyDates
01/10/2017 to 31/03/2021
Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundaton Research Fellowship
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Religion and TheologyDates
01/10/2016 to 30/06/2017
Marie Curie Fellowship: Gregory Kourilsky
Principal Investigator
Description
The aim of this project is to study a major work of the Buddhist literature of Southeast Asia, the Maṅgalatthadīpanī of Sirimaṅgala. Composed in Chiang Mai at the beginning of…Managing organisational unit
School of HumanitiesDates
01/10/2013 to 01/10/2015
Controversies over Causation in Candrakirti's Prasannapada
Principal Investigator
Description
Researcher: Dr Goran Kardaś, Visiting Britisha Academy Scholar. Candrakīrti, the 7th century Indian Buddhist of the Madhyamaka school, in the lenghty first chapter of his commentary (Prasannapadā) to Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakākarikā…Managing organisational unit
School of HumanitiesDates
01/11/2011 to 01/05/2012
Abhidharma: the Buddhist model of the mind
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of HumanitiesDates
01/09/2011 to 01/09/2012
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
01/01/2021Abhidhamma: Theravāda thought in relation to Sarvāstivāda thought
Routledge Handbook of Theravāda Buddhism
Moggaliputta Tissa’s Points of Discussion (Kathāvatthu)
The Routledge Handbook of Indian Buddhist Philosophy
Reading Repetitions in the Saṃyutta-nikāya and Early Abhidhamma: from the Mahā-vagga to the Dhammasaṅgaṇi
Research on the Saṃyukta-āgama
Schemes of the Buddhist Path in the Nikāyas and Āgamas
Mārga: paths to liberation in South Asian Buddhist traditions