McGarrity, A.
Full Name[edit]
Dr. Andrew McGarrity
Affiliation[edit]
University of Sydney
Education[edit]
BA (Asian Studies) (Hons); PhD (University of Sydney)
Other Information[edit]
Lecturer in South Asian and Indo-Tibetan Studies
Room 650, Brennan MacCallum Building A18
andrew.mcgarrity@sydney.edu.au
Phone: 9351 6768
Andrew McGarrity is lecturer in South Asian and Indo-Tibetan Studies at the University of Sydney and has been a Numata Research Fellow at Ryukoku University in Kyoto. His research and teaching areas are in Buddhism and Indian Philosophy and Sanskrit and Tibetan language study. As well as a general interest in hermeneutics and issues of meaning and authenticity in Tradition and Modernity, his specific focus is upon the early and later Indian Madhyamaka and Yogacara schools of Buddhism and their transmission and interpretation in Tibet, as well as Buddhist and non-Buddhist Indian logic and the history of ideas.
Research areas[edit]
Early and Later Indian Madhyamaka and Yogācāra Buddhism; Indian Philosophy and Hinduism Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy; Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Logic; non-Buddhist Indian Logic; History of Ideas in India and Tibet; Comparative Philosophy.
Selected Publications[edit]
Published Articles:
2009: ‘Using Skilful Means Skilfully: The Buddhist Doctrine of Upāya and its Methodological Implications’, in Journal of Religious History Vol. 33, No. 2, June 2009.
2007: ‘Madhyamaka and Pramāṇavāda: Shared Sautrāntika Assumptions’, Numata Fellowship Report, The Annual of the Research Institute for Buddhist Culture, Ryukoku University (RIBC), No. 31
2004: ‘Family Resemblances and Empty Language Games: Conceptions of Word-Meaning, Nominalism and ‘the World’ in some Postmodern Comparisons between Nāgārjuna and Wittgenstein’ in Studies in Religion: The Scientific Quarterly for the Study of Religiosity Issue 4-5: ‘Sacred/Profane’, September 2004.
2004: ‘The Dark Side or Just Terrifying Shades of Grey? The Spectres of Relativism and Nihilism in Western Responses to Hindu and Buddhist Non-Duality’ in Christopher Hartney and Andrew McGarrity (eds), The Dark Side: Proceedings of the Seventh Australian and International Religion, Literature and the Arts Conference, 2002. Sydney: RLA Press, 2004.
2004: ‘Darkness and Paradox as the Beginning and End of Understanding’ in Christopher Hartney and Andrew McGarrity (eds), The Dark Side: Proceedings of the Seventh Australian and International Religion, Literature and the Arts Conference, 2002. Sydney: RLA Press, 2004.
Conference proceedings
2004: The Dark Side: Proceedings of the Seventh Australian and International Religion, Literature and the Arts Conference, 2002. Co-edited with Christopher Hartney, Sydney: RLA Press.
Areas of teaching[edit]
Classical Indian and Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy Religions of South Asia Tibetan Buddhism South Asian and Tibetan Cultural Traditions and their Interaction with Modernity Human Rights and Popular Culture in South Asia South Asian and Tibetan Literature and Thought in a Comparative Setting Sanskrit and Tibetan Language Study
Conference activity[edit]
2009: ‘Śāntarakṣita’s notion of the ‘vyāvṛttavastu’ in anyāpoha: A New Development? or a Simple Rephrasing of Dharmakīrti?’ delivered at Buddhist Logic Workshop, Dongguk University, Seoul, 30 May. 2008: ‘Why the Self is not like a Raven: An Overlooked Argument in Āryadeva’s Catuḥśataka and the Insights it may afford into Tibetan Scholasticism’ delivered at the Fifteenth Conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies held at Emory University, Atlanta, USA, 23-28 June, 2008. 2008: ‘The Transmission of the Dharma from India to Tibet: The Case of Āryadeva’s Gradual Stages’ delivered to the Australasian Association for Buddhist Studies, University of Sydney, 30 May, 2008. 2007: ‘Emptiness and Voidness: A Controversy in Madhyamika and Yogācāra Buddhism’ delivered at the Second Conference of the Australasian Association of Buddhist Studies held at the University of Western Sydney, 3-4 December, 2007. 2007: ‘The Wonder and Terror of Immersion: Water and Aquatic Imagery in the Upaniṣads’ delivered at the First Australian National Sanskrit conference, Australian National University, 17-18 November, 2007. 2007: Āryadeva’s Formulation of the Three ‘Rejections’ along the Gradual Path and its Later Interpretations’ Numata Public Lecture delivered at Ryukoku University, Kyoto, 26 January, 2007. 2006: ‘Between Exegete and Historian: Hermeneutic Paradigms for Studying Tibetan Reconstructions of Indian Buddhist Thought’ delivered at the First Conference of the Australasian Association of Buddhist Studies held at the University of Sydney, 16-17 June, 2006. 2005: ‘How Other is ‘Other’? Issues of Relation, Absence and Relativism in Early and Later Madhyamaka and the Implications for the Tibetan Analysis’ delivered at the Sixteenth Conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 29 August- 3 September, 2005.