Charles Hallisey is the

Yehan Numata was a Japanese industrialist and Buddhist missionary. Early life Born in Hiroshima Prefecture, Numata was the third son of a priest of the Jodo Shinshu sect of Buddhism. He studied at Kyoto Heian Junior High School (today Heian High School) and ...

Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures at

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and an authority on

Sinhala literature Sri Lankan literature is the literary tradition of Sri Lanka. The largest part of Sri Lankan literature was written in the Sinhala language, but there is a considerable number of works in other languages used in Sri Lanka over the millennia (inc ...

and

Theravada Buddhism ''Theravāda'' () ( si, ථේරවාදය, my, ထေရဝါဒ, th, เถรวาท, km, ថេរវាទ, lo, ເຖຣະວາດ, pi, , ) is the most commonly accepted name of Buddhism's oldest existing school. The school' ...

Biography

Hallisey obtained his AB from Colgate University, M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School and later a MA from the

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. Subsequently, he received his Ph.D. from the

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. From 1996 to 2001 he was John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities in the Committee on the Study of Religion and the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at

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. Later in 2001 he joined the

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as Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia and the Religious Studies Program. He joined the Faculty of Divinity of Harvard Divinity School in the academic year 2007–08.

Selected works

* * "Works and Persons in Sinhala Literary Culture." In ''Literary cultures in history: Reconstructions from South Asia'', edited by Sheldon Pollock, 689-746. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. * "Narrative, Sub-ethics, and the Moral Life: Some Evidence from Theravāda Buddhism." ''The Journal of Religious Ethics'' (1996): 305-327. * "Ethical Particularism in Theravada Buddhism." ''Journal of Buddhist Ethics'' 3 (1996): 32-43. * "Roads Taken and Not Taken in the Study of Theravāda Buddhism." In ''Curators of the Buddha: The Study of Buddhism under Colonialism'', edited by Donald S. Lopez Jr., 31-61. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. * "Apropos the Pali Vinaya as a historical document: A reply to Gregory Schopen." ''Journal of the Pali Text Society'' 15 (1990): 197-208.

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