David Kalupahana

David Kalupahana
David J. Kalupahana
Born Sri Lanka
Fields Philosophy, Buddhist Studies
Institutions University of Hawaii
Alma mater University of London
Doctoral advisor K.N. Jayatilleke
Doctoral students David E. Shaner

David J Kalupahana is a Buddhist scholar from Sri Lanka. He was a student of the late K.N. Jayatilleke, who was a student of Wittgenstein. He wrote mainly about epistemology, theory of language, and compared later Buddhist philosophical texts against the earliest texts and tried to present interpretations that were both historically contextualised and also compatible with the earliest texts, and in doing so, he encouraged Theravadin Buddhists and scholars to reevaluate the legitimacy of later, Mahayana texts and consider them more sympathetically.

He obtained his BA (Sri Lanka, 1959), Ph.D (London), and D. Litt (Hon. Peradeniya, Sri Lanka). He is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii. He was assistant lecturer in Pali and Buddhist Civilization at the University of Ceylon and studied Chinese and Tibetan at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London where he completed a Ph.D. dissertation on the problem of causality in the Pali Nikayas and the Chinese Agamas in 1966.

He left the University of Ceylon (1972) to join the University of Hawaii, serving as the Chairman of the Department of Philosophy and Chairman of the Graduate Field in Philosophy (1974-80). He has directed international intra-religious conferences on Buddhism, and on Buddhism and Peace.

Publications

including:

  • Mulamadhyamakakarika of Nagarjuna - The Philosophy of the Middle Way, ISBN 812080774X, published Motilal Barnasidass, 1991.
  • A History Of Buddhist Philosophy: Continuities And Discontinuities
  • A Path Of Righteousness: Dhammapada
  • Buddhist Philosophy: A Historical Analysis. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1976.
  • Buddhist Thought And Ritual
  • Causality: The Central Philosophy Of Buddhism
  • Ethics In Early Buddhism
  • The Buddha And The Concept Of Peace
  • The Buddha’s Philosophy On Language
  • The Principles Of Buddhist Psychology
  • The Way Of Siddhartha

References

http://www.dharmaavenue.com/faces-lives/david-kalupahana.htm



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