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A History Of Buddhist Philosophy: Continuities And Discontinuities
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A Path Of Righteousness: Dhammapada
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Buddhist Philosophy: A Historical Analysis
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Buddhist Thought And Ritual
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Causality: The Central Philosophy Of Buddhism
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Ethics In Early Buddhism
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Mulamadhayamakakarika Of Nagarjuna : The Philosophy Of The Middle Way
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The Buddha And The Concept Of Peace
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The Buddha’s Philosophy On Language
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The Principles Of Buddhist Psychology
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The Way Of Siddhartha
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Sri Lankan Buddhist scholar, writer and speaker.
Read David Kalupahana for scholarly and persuasive writings on early Buddhist thoughts and philosophy.
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He obtained his BA (Sri Lanka, 1959), Ph.D (London), and D. Litt (Hon. Peradeniya, Sri Lanka). He is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii. He was assistant lecturer in Pali and Buddhist Civilization at the University of Ceylon and studied Chinese and Tibetan at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London where he completed a Ph.D. dissertation on the problem of causality in the Pali Nikayas and the Chinese Agamas in 1966.
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He left the University of Ceylon (1972) to join the University of Hawaii, serving as the Chairman of the Department of Philosophy and Chairman of the Graduate Field in Philosophy (1974-80). He has directed international intra-religious conferences on Buddhism, and on Buddhism and Peace.
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