D'Amato, M.

Full Name

Mario D'Amato

Affiliation

Rollins College

Education

• B.A., Loyola University of Chicago
• M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago

Other Information

Associate Professor of Religion (2005; 2009). Specializations: Buddhist philosophy, Asian philosophy and religion, philosophy and psychology of religion, semiotics, and textual studies. Source Accessed December 14, 2011

Short Biography

Mario D’Amato (BA, Loyola University Chicago; MA and PhD, University of Chicago) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL, USA. Before arriving at Rollins, he taught at Hampshire College (Amherst, MA, USA). D’Amato specializes in the study of Mahāyāna philosophy, with a particular focus on the Yogācāra school, and has published papers on Yogācāra thought in Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Journal of Indian Philosophy, Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies, and Semiotica. He is currently completing a book-length study and translation of a Yogācāra doctrinal treatise known as the Madhyāntavibhāga (Distinguishing the Middle from the Extremes).

Source Accessed December 14, 2011

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D'Amato, M. on the DRL

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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.

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).