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== Full Name ==
Paul J. Griffiths
== Affiliation ==
Warren Professor of Catholic Thought, Duke University
== Education ==
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison
== Other Information ==
Paul J. Griffiths was born in 1955 in England, raised Anglican, and educated at Oxford, where he read Theology as an undergraduate, and then Sanskrit as a graduate student. He received a doctoral degree in Buddhist Studies in 1983 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has since held academic appointments at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago. Since 2000 he has held the Schmitt Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He has published eight books and many articles and essays. His most recent book is: Lying: an Augustinian Theology of Duplicity (Brazos Press, 2004). He married Judith Heyhoe in 1975, and they have two children, Amy and John. In 1996 Paul was received, together with his family, into the Catholic Church.
== Publications ==
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bio Griffiths was born in London, England, on 12 November 1955. Griffiths has held appointments at the University of Notre Dame, University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of Chicago. A scholar of Augustine of Hippo, Griffiths's main interests and pursuits are philosophical theology and the philosophy of religion – particularly Christianity and Buddhism. He received a doctorate in Buddhist studies in 1983 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and his early works established him as one of the most incisive interpreters of Yogācāra Buddhist philosophy. His works on Buddhism include On Being Mindless (Lasalle, IL: Open Court, 1991) and On Being Buddha (Albany: SUNY Press, 1994). After converting from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism and accepting the Schmitt Chair of Catholic Studies at UIC, he has largely given up his work in Buddhist studies. His recent books include: Problems of Religious Diversity (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001); Philosophy of Religion: A Reader (co-edited with Charles Taliaferro) (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003); and Lying: An Augustinian Theology of Duplicity (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2004). His latest book deals with curiositas and the nature of intellectual appetite; its title is: Intellectual Appetite: A Theological Grammar. According to the faculty pages at Duke Divinity School, from which he resigned in 2017, Griffiths has published ten books as sole author and seven more as co-author or editor. (Source Accessed Jul 21, 2020)
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Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

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