D'Amato, M.
Full Name[edit]
Mario D'Amato
Affiliation[edit]
Rollins College
Education[edit]
- B.A., Loyola University of Chicago
- M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Other Information[edit]
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[edit]
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