John Powers

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John Powers (* 1957 ) is an American professor of Asian studies and the history of religion . He currently teaches at the Australian National University in Canberra .

Life

Powers studied at Holy Cross College in Worcester , Massachusetts , where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Religious Studies in 1979 . In 1984 he graduated with a Master of Arts in Indian Philosophy from McMaster University in Hamilton , Ontario . In 1991 he received his PhD in Religious History from the University of Virginia . Powers has been with the Australian National University since 1995 and was appointed to the Chair of the Faculty of Asian Studies there in 2008.

Powers is a practicing Buddhist and is considered an expert on Tibetan Buddhism . As the country's leading expert, he was invited by the Dalai Lama's office in Australia to celebrate the 70th birthday of Tendzin Gyatsho . In addition to specialist books on Buddhist spirituality and meditation techniques , Power produced numerous translations of Tibetan writings and commentaries on them and published works on the culture and history of Tibet, India and China.

Powers advocates Tibetan autonomy and compares the Chinese attitude towards the population of Tibet with that of the Europeans towards the Aborigines at the time of the early colonization of Australia .

Books

  • The Yogācāra school of Buddhism: a bibliography . American Theological Library Association, Vol. 27, 1991
  • Hermeneutics and tradition in the Saṃdhinirmocana-sūtra . Indian thought and culture, Vol. 5, BRILL, 1993
  • Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism . Snow Lion Publications, 1995
  • Wisdom of Buddha: the Saṁdhinirmocana Sūtra . Tibetan translation series, Vol. 16, (as translator), Dharma Publications, 1995
  • Scriptures of world religions . McGraw Hill, 1998 (with James Fieser)
  • Jñānagarbha's Commentary on just the Maitreya chapter from the Saṃdhinirmocana-Sūtra: study, translation and Tibetan text . Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 1998
  • A Concise Encyclopedia of Buddhism . Oneworld Publication, 2000
  • Religion and Culture of Tibet. The spiritual heritage of a Buddhist country . OW Barth, 2002
  • History as propaganda: Tibetan exiles versus the People's Republic of China . Oxford University Press US, 2004
  • A Concise Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism . Snow Lion Publications, 2008
  • A Bull of a Man: Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism . Harvard University Press, 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ANU press release ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / asianstudies.anu.edu.au
  2. ^ A place of their own . The Age, March 18, 2008 (accessed from www.autonomy.com.au)
  3. ↑ Book Review , Word Press Minder
personal data
SURNAME Powers, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1957