Acharya, D.
Full Name[edit]
Diwakar Acharya
Affiliation[edit]
Visiting Foreign Lecturer at Kyoto University
Centre for Tantric Studies - tantric-studies.org
Education[edit]
2004 - PhD. University of Hamburg for a thesis on Vācaspati Miśra’s Tattvasamīkṣā
Since April 2006 he has been a Visiting Foreign Lecturer at Kyoto University.
Other Information[edit]
Dr. Diwakar Acharya (b. 1969) studied Sanskrit with traditional teachers, beginning with his father, and at universities in Nepal and India (MA from Sampurnananda Sanskrit University, Varanasi), before starting his teaching career as a Lecturer at Mahendra Sanskrit University. He has also worked for the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project, and for the Nepalese-German Manuscript Cataloguing Project. In 2004 he was awarded a PhD by the University of Hamburg for a thesis on Vācaspati Miśra’s Tattvasamīkṣā. A revised version of this was published in 2006. Since April 2006 he has been a Visiting Foreign Lecturer at Kyoto University.
His research covers a wide range of topics in Sanskrit literature, Sanskritic religious and philosophical traditions, and Nepalese history. He is currently working on what appears to be the only surviving Solar (Saura) tantra, and on two unpublished early Pañcarātra (Vaiṣṇava tantric) scriptures—all of these works he discovered in early Nepalese palm-leaf manuscripts. He is also a contributor to the Tāntrikābhidhānakośa. Source Accessed February 15 2012
Publications in Tantric Studies[edit]
"The Role of Caṇḍa in the Early History of the Pāśupata Cult and the Image on the Mathurā Pillar Dated Gupta Era 61", in Indo-Iranian Journal 48, 2005, p. 207–222.
"The Saṃskāravidhi: A Manual on the Transformatory Rite of the Lakulīśa-Pāśupatas", in Mélanges tantriques à la mémoire d’Hélène Brunner, sous la direction de Dominic Goodall et André Padoux, Collection Indologie No. 106, Pondicherry: EFEO/IFP, 2007, p. 27–48.
"Madhyakālamā Nepāla āeka Yogī Śaṅkarācārya hoinan [The Yogin who visited Nepal in Mediaeval Times is not a Śaṅkarācārya]" (in Nepali), in Ṛtambharā (Journal of the Research Centre of Mahendra Sanskrit University), 1997, Vol. II.2, p. 76–88, Vol. II.3, p.86–96.
Email: acharyadiwakarhotmail.com Source Accessed February 15 2012