Lele, A.

PersonType	Category:Professors
FirstName / namefirst	Amod
LastName / namelast	Lele
namemiddle	Jayant
SortName	Lele, Amod
bio	Lead Educational Technologist Amod Lele helps faculty navigate a wide array of technologies for use in their classes and professional life. He leads and manages a team of educational technologists and has been a part of BU’s Educational Technology team for more than eight years. Amod is interested in the use and promotion of open educational resources (OER) in higher education. He holds a PhD from Harvard University in religious studies and has almost ten years of college and university teaching experience. He regularly teaches a course on Indian philosophy in the CAS philosophy department. As a lifelong learner, Amod also earned an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Metropolitan College in 2016. In his spare time, he publishes scholarly articles on Buddhist ethics and writes a biweekly updated blog on cross-cultural philosophy. (Source Accessed Nov 5, 2021) Dissertation: Ethical Revaluation in the Thought of Śāntideva. Advisor: Prof. Parimal Patil. Available at http://loveofallwisdom.com/other-writings/
associatedwebsite	https://digital.bu.edu/staff/amod-lele/; https://loveofallwisdom.com/
affiliation	Boston University
phduniversity	Harvard University
education	2007 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Ph.D. Study of Religion - Exam Fields: South Asia Religions; South Asian Buddhism; Classical Indian Ethics and Soteriology. 2001: CORNELL UNIVERSITY: Development Sociology major, Government minor 1997: McGILL UNIVERSITY, B.A. Geography/Sociology joint honours
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Other Information

• "The Metaphysical Basis of Śāntideva’s Ethics." Journal of Buddhist Ethics 22 2015
• "The Compassionate Gift of Vice: Shantideva on Gifts, Altruism and Poverty.” Journal of Buddhist Ethics 20 2013
• “Beyond Enacted Experiences.” Journal of Integral Theory and Practice 7.2. 2012
• Shantideva.” The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://www.iep.utm.edu/santideva 2009
• “The Various Forms of Constructive Buddhist Studies.”In Epistemology and Hermeneutics, ed. Rita Das Gupta Sherma and Adarsh Deepak, Contemporary Issues in Constructive Dharma, vol. 2, 131-40. Hampton, VA: Deepak Heritage Books, 2005.