Skilton, A.

Skilton, A. on the DRL

Authors of English Works • Translators • Professors

English Phonetics	Andrew Skilton

Dates

Birth:	1957
Place of birth:	Croydon, Surrey, England

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

King’s College, London

PhD University

Oxford

Biographical Information

Andrew Skilton is a scholar of the Buddhist history and literature of South, Southeast Asia. He studied Buddhism and Buddhist languages at the universities of Bristol and Oxford, where he did his Ph.D. on the Samādhirājasūtra, a major Mahāyāna scripture, examining its Chinese, Tibetan, Sanskrit, and Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit recensions. He was senior lecturer in Buddhist studies at Cardiff University and associate lecturer and research fellow at SOAS, London. He is now senior research fellow in Buddhist studies in the Theology and Religious Studies Department at King’s College, London, and also manages the Revealing Hidden Collections Project at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. His publications include A Concise History of Buddhism, The Bodhicaryāvatāra (with Kate Crosby), and How the Nāgas Were Pleased. (Source Accessed Jan 7, 2021)

Publications

Books:

• How the Nagas Were Pleased & The Shattered Thighs: Two Sanskrit Tragedies. (353 pp.) Clay Sanskrit Library. New York: New York University Press, 2009.
• The Bodhicaryāvatāra: A Guide to the Buddhist Path to Awakening, with H.K. Crosby (191 pp.) Oxford University Press (1996).
• A Concise History of Buddhism (263 pp.) Windhorse Publications (1994)

Edited books:

• André Bareau. The Buddhist Schools of the Small Vehicle. English translation by Sara Boin-Webb, University Hawaii Press, 2013.

Recent Articles:

• "Elective Affinities: The Reconstruction of a Forgotten Episode in the Shared History of Thai and British Buddhism – Kapilavaḍḍho and Wat Paknam". In Pioneer Western Buddhists and Asian Networks 1860–1960. eds. B. Bocking, L. Cox and A. Turner, special issue of Contemporary Buddhism, May 2013.
• The Significance of the Phitsanulok Dhammakāya Inscription for the Dating and Character of Borān/Yogāvacara Meditation in Theravāda’ with Phibul Choompolpaisal, Kate Crosby, Andrew Skilton.
• Research on the Early Schools of Buddhism Since 1955: A Selected Supplementary Bibliography." In The Buddhist Schools of the Small Vehicle, English translation by Sara Boin-Webb, Hawaii University Press, 2013.
• "André Bareau: His Legacy." In The Buddhist Schools of the Small Vehicle, English translation by Sara Boin-Webb, Hawaii University Press, 2013.
• "Theravada Philosophy", for A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy, ed. Steven Emmanuel, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
• "Atheism in Buddhism." In The Oxford Handbook of Atheism. eds. S. Bullivant and M. Ruse. Oxford University Press, 2013.
• "The Sutta on Understanding Death: The Transference of Borān-Yogāvacara from Siam to the Kandyan kingdom', with H.K. Crosby and A. Gunasena." Journal of Indian Philosophy 40, 2012: 177-198.
• "Lost in Translation: Scatological Language in Pali Literature." Contemporary Buddhism 11, 2010: 47-68.

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Full Name

Andrew Skilton

Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion.