Research Strengths

Research strengths in the department of Indian Sub-Continental Studies are:

• Hinduism and the religions of South Asia
• Indian philosophy and Indo-Tibetan Buddhist philosophy
• India and Tibet and comparative philosophy
• Traditions in modernity in India and Tibet
• History of ideas in India and Tibet
• Western interpretations of Indian and Tibetan thought
• Theories of meaning and interpretation in South Asian and Indo-Tibetan thought
• Method in the study of Indian and Buddhist thought
• Early Buddhist literature, particularly of the ‘Mainstream’ schools, preserved in Pali, Gandhari, Prakrit, Buddhist Sanskrit and Chinese
• Recent discoveries of Buddhist manuscripts from Afghanistan and Pakistan
• Buddhism in South and South-east Asia, with a special interest in ancient Gandhara
• Buddhist Sanskrit and the Middle Indo-Aryan languages, particularly Pali and Gandhari

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