Iain Sinclair obtained his M.A. (Hons.) on the Māyājāla-tantra from the University of Western Sydney in 2001. He studied living Buddhist traditions in Nepal and Southeast Asia for over ten years. His research focuses on the literature, art and praxis of Indian tantric Buddhism and Newār Buddhism.
At present he is a Research Associate at the Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg.
Ongoing Research
• Edition and translation of the Ācāryakriyāsamuccaya
Selected Publications / Presentations
| 2008 | ‘The Problem of Tantric Sacrifice (mahābali) in Newar Buddhism’. In: Editorial Board of the ICEBS, ed., Esoteric Buddhist Studies: Identity in Diversity. Proceedings of the International Conference of Esoteric Buddhist Studies, Koyasan University, 5 Sept.-8 Sept. 2006, Koyasan: Koyasan University, 26 March 2008, pp.261–266. |
| —— | ‘Militant Pacifists: Conditions for War in Indian Tantric Buddhism’. Presented at: Indology Graduate Seminar, AAI, University of Hamburg, 9 May 2008. (Presented in abbreviated form as: ‘Attitudes to War in Indian Tantric Buddhism’, United Nations Day of Vesak, National Convention Center, Hà Nội, 15 May 2008.) |
Selected Reviews
| 2007 | Booknote on Will Tuladhar-Douglas, Remaking Buddhism for Medieval Nepal: The Fifteenth-Century Reformation of Newar Buddhism (Routledge, 2006). In: Religious Studies Review, Volume 33, Number 2, April 2007, p. 174. [ Ingenta ] |
| 2006 | Review of David Waterhouse, ed. The Origins of Himalayan Studies: Brian Houghton Hodgson in Nepal and Darjeeling (Routledge, 2004). In: Tibet Journal vol.30 no.3, pp.103–107. [ EBSCO / BL ] |
| 2004 | Review of Ruriko Sakuma (佐久間 留理子), Sādhanamālā: Avalokiteśvara Section. Sanskrit and Tibetan Texts (Delhi: Adroit Publishers, 2001). In: Nagoya Studies in Indian Culture and Buddhism: Sambhāṣā vol.24, pp.170–174. |
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