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. From 2007 to 2008 he worked as a Research Associate at the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies of the Asia-Africa Institute at the University of Hamburg. His research focuses on the literature, art and praxis of tantric Buddhism in the pan-Indian tradition, particularly Newār Buddhism.
Ongoing Research
• Edition and translation of the Ācāryakriyāsamuccaya
Selected Publications / Presentations
| 2008 | ‘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.) |
| —— | ‘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. |
| 2005 | ‘Modernity and Newar Buddhism (I): The writings of Pandita Amṛtānanda and Brian Hodgson.’ Presented at: Fourth International Conference on Buddhist Heritage of Nepalmandala, Kathmandu, 9 September 2005. |
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. [British Library ] |
| 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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