Dr Andrew McGarrity

Bachelor of Arts (Asian Studies) (HONS I) (University of Sydney) (2001);
PhD (Indian Sub-continental Studies, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney) (2008).
Associate Lecturer, department of Indian and Sub-Continental Studies
Room 650, Brennan MacCallum Building A18

Phone: 9351 6768

Andrew McGarrity has been a tutor and associate lecturer in Indian Sub-continental Studies at the University of Sydney as well as being a Numata Research Fellow at Ryukoku University in Kyoto. His research and teaching areas are in Buddhism and Indian Philosophy and Sanskrit and Tibetan language study. As well as a general interest in hermeneutics and issues of meaning and authenticity in Tradition and Modernity, his specific focus is upon the early and later Indian Madhyamaka and Yogacara schools of Buddhism and their transmission and interpretation in Tibet, as well as Buddhist and non-Buddhist Indian logic and the history of ideas.

• Early and Later Indian Madhyamaka and Yogācāra Buddhism;
• Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy;
• Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Logic;
• non-Buddhist Indian Logic.

Published Articles:

2007: ‘Madhyamaka and Pramanavada: Shared Sautrantika Assumptions’, Numata Fellowship Report, The Annual of the Research Institute for Buddhist Culture, Ryukoku University (RIBC), No. 31

2004: ‘Family Resemblances and Empty Language Games: Conceptions of Word-Meaning, Nominalism and ‘the World’ in some Postmodern Comparisons between Nāgārjuna and Wittgenstein’ in Studies in Religion: The Scientific Quarterly for the Study of Religiosity Issue 4-5: ‘Sacred/Profane’, September 2004. ISSN: 1108-8605.

2004: ‘The Dark Side or Just Terrifying Shades of Grey? The Spectres of Relativism and Nihilism in Western Responses to Hindu and Buddhist Non-Duality’ in Christopher Hartney and Andrew McGarrity (eds), The Dark Side: Proceedings of the Seventh Australian and International Religion, Literature and the Arts Conference, 2002. Sydney: RLA Press, 2004. ISBN: 1-86487-623-9.

2004: ‘Darkness and Paradox as the Beginning and End of Understanding’ in Christopher Hartney and Andrew McGarrity (eds), The Dark Side: Proceedings of the Seventh Australian and International Religion, Literature and the Arts Conference, 2002. Sydney: RLA Press, 2004; ISBN: 1-86487-623-9.

Conference proceedings

2004: The Dark Side: Proceedings of the Seventh Australian and International Religion, Literature and the Arts Conference, 2002. Co-edited with Christopher Hartney, Sydney: RLA Press; ISBN: 1-86487-623-9.

• Classical Indian Philosophy (senior undergraduate course)
• Sanskrit Honours program
• Intermediate Sanskrit and Advanced Sanskrit
• Buddhist Philosophy (senior level undergraduate course)
• Sanskrit Honours entry unit
• Beginners and Intermediate Tibetan
• Mahāyāna Buddhism (senior level undergraduate course)

• 2005: ‘How Other is ‘Other’? Issues of Relation, Absence and Relativism in Early and Later Madhyamaka and the Implications for the Tibetan Analysis’ delivered at the Sixteenth Conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 29 August- 3 September, 2005.
• 2005: ‘Using Skilful-Means Skillfully: Upāya, The Limits of Tradition and the Methodological Implications for the Study of Mahayana Buddhism’ delivered at the Australian Association for Studies in Religion: Ways and Means: Reinventing Studies in Religion for the Third Millenium conference held at the University of Sydney, 30 September- 2 October, 2005.
• 2003: ‘Independence and Interdependence: Buddhist Responses to Multiculturalism’ delivered at the From Ottoman to Auburn: Religion and Multiculturalism conference held at Sancta Sofia College, the University of Sydney, October 2003, and organised by the Department of Studies in Religion at the University of Sydney.