Diwakar Acharya
Diwakar Nath Acharya (born 6 November 1969) is a Nepali scholar specialising in the religious and philosophical traditions of South Asia. Since April 2016, he has been the Spalding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He previously taught at the Nepal Sanskrit University (1993–2003), the University of Hamburg (2003–2006), and Kyoto University (2011–2016).[1][2][3][4][5]
Selected works
[edit]- Acharya, Diwakar, ed. (2006). Vācaspatimiśra's Tattvasamīkṣā: the earliest commentary on Maṇḍanamiśra's Brahmasiddhi. Stuttgart: Steiner. ISBN 978-3515088862.
- Acharya, Diwakar, ed. (2015). Early tantric Vaiṣṇavism: three newly discovered works of the Pañcaratra. Paris: EFEO. ISBN 978-2855391526.
- Acharya, Diwakar, ed. (2009). Little Clay Cart. New York: New York University Press/IJC Foundation. ISBN 9780814707296.
References
[edit]- ^ 'ACHARYA, Prof. Diwakar Nath', Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 6 Nov 2017
- ^ "Professor Diwakar Acharya". All Souls College. University of Oxford. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- ^ "Diwakar Acharya". Faculty of Oriental Studies. University of Oxford. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- ^ "Nepali appointed professor at Oxford". The Himalayan Times. 1 February 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- ^ Roy, Amit (27 February 2016). "'Nepali but culturally Indian' in Sarvepalli's Oxford chair". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on February 29, 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
