Dr Peter Oldmeadow

PhD (ANU) BA (Hons) Grad. Cert. (Higher Ed.)
Honorary Senior Lecturer


Peter’s disiciplinary background is in Sanskrit language and Studies in Religion. He coordinates the Sanskrit program and teaches Indian and Buddhist Philosophy within the Asian Studies and Masters of Buddhist Studies programs. His research interests are primarily in Buddhist and comparative philosophy. Peter also has an interest in methodology in cross-cultural studies and the place of India and Buddhism in the history of ideas.

• Madhyamaka and Yogācāra Buddhist philosophy
• Buddhism and comparative philosophy
• Method in the study of Indian Buddhist thought

• Heidegger and Buddhist Philosophy
• Prajña (wisdom) in Prajnakaramati’s Bodhicaryavatarapanjika
• Idealism and Yogācāra thought

Books

• This Immense Panorama: Studies in Honour of Eric J. Sharpe (Sydney Studies in Religion 2, 1999), Edited with Carole M. Cusack
• The End of Religions? Religion in an Age of Globalization (Sydney Studies in Religion 4, 2001), Edited with Carole M. Cusack
• Zen: an ancient path to enlightenment for modern times (Sydney: Lansdowne, 2001)
• The Wisdom Chapter of Prajnakaramati’s Bodhicaryavatarapanjika, Bibliotheca Indologica et Buddhologica, Tokyo (forthcoming)

Articles

• Buddhist Yogācāra Philosophy and Ecology in Carole M. Cusack and Peter Oldmeadow (eds) This Immense Panorama: Studies in Honour of Eric J. Sharpe (Sydney Studies in Religion 2, 1999)
• Buddhism and Social Engagment, Ordinary Mind: Australian Buddhist Review, Autumn, 2000, pp. 8-23
• Tibetan Buddhism and Globalisation in Carole M. Cusack and Peter Oldmeadow (eds), The End of Religions? Religion in an Age of Globalization (Sydney Studies in Religion 4, 2001)
• Being and emptiness in Heidegger and Indian Madhyamika Buddhism Literature and Aesthetics: the journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics December 2006

Supervision

• Mahayana Buddhism in India and Tibet
• Vedanta and Indian Philosophy
• India and the West
• Buddhism and the West

• 2006 “Approaches to the problem of dualism in Heidegger and Yogācāra Buddhism”, Paper presented at World Without Walls: East and West, Oriental Society of Australia Conference, Sydney, December 3-7 2006
• 2006 “Modern scholars and tradition on the place of the absolute in Yogācāra Buddhism”, Paper presented at Australasian Association of Buddhist Studies Conference, Sydney, 16-17 June 2006
• 2005 "‘Ontological difference’ and the two truths”, Paper presented at Australian Association of Religion, Sydney 1-2 October 2005

• Executive Committee Member, Australasian Association of Buddhist Studies