Williams, P.

Full Name

Paul Williams

Affiliation

Professor in Indian Religions at the University of Bristol, England. Director for the University's Centre for Buddhist Studies.

Education

University of Sussex's School of African & Asian Studies, BA 1972.

Wadham College, University of Oxford, DPhil, 1978.

Other Information

Born in 1950

Selected Publications:

• Mi bskyod rdo rje: Routledge Entry
• Buddhism: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies Edited and with a new introduction by Paul Williams (London: Routledge, 2005). Eight volumes. ISBN 978-0415332262
• Songs of Love, Poems of Sadness: The Erotic Verse of the 6th Dalai Lama (IB Taurus, 2004). ISBN 978-1850434795
• The Unexpected Way: On Converting from Buddhism to Catholicism (London: T & T Clark, 2002). ISBN 978-0567088307
• Buddhist Thought: A Complete Introduction to the Indian Tradition (London: Routledge, 2000). ISBN 978-0415207010
• Altruism and Reality: Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicaryavatara (Richmond: Curzon Press, 1998). ISBN 978-0700710317
• The Reflexive Nature of Awareness: A Tibetan Madhyamaka Defence (Richmond: Curzon Press, 1998). ISBN 978-0700710300
• Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations (London: Routledge,1989). ISBN 978-0415356534

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.