Research strengths
Research strengths in the department of Indian Sub-Continental Studies are:
- Madhyamaka and Yogācāra Buddhist philosophy
- Buddhism and comparative philosophy
- Method in the study of Indian 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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