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Alexander James O'Neill
Alexander James O’Neill is a specially appointed assistant professor in Buddhist studies at Musashino University, in Tōkyō, Japan.
He previously served as a research fellow at the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
He earned his PhD in Religion at the University of Toronto in 2022. While at the University of Toronto, Alexander was a recipient of the Joseph Armand Bombardier Doctoral Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada (SSHRC). He also received the Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai (BDK) Canada Graduate Scholarship, for which he engaged in a research fellowship at Taishō University in Tōkyō, Japan.
Alexander’s research consists of a combination of research into Sanskrit Buddhist texts and manuscripts from South Asia, alongside ethnographic research into the contemporary practice of Buddhism in the Kathmandu Valley. In these fields, he is currently working on two monographs. The first is a study of the history and practice of Buddhist manuscript worship in South Asia and Nepal. The second is a study of early efforts at the modernization of Newar Buddhism. His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in the Annual of the Institute for Comprehensive Studies of Buddhism, Taishō University (2020), Pacific World (2020), the European Bulletin of Himalayan Research (2019/20) and Himalaya (2018/9).
He previously served as a research fellow at the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
He earned his PhD in Religion at the University of Toronto in 2022. While at the University of Toronto, Alexander was a recipient of the Joseph Armand Bombardier Doctoral Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada (SSHRC). He also received the Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai (BDK) Canada Graduate Scholarship, for which he engaged in a research fellowship at Taishō University in Tōkyō, Japan.
Alexander’s research consists of a combination of research into Sanskrit Buddhist texts and manuscripts from South Asia, alongside ethnographic research into the contemporary practice of Buddhism in the Kathmandu Valley. In these fields, he is currently working on two monographs. The first is a study of the history and practice of Buddhist manuscript worship in South Asia and Nepal. The second is a study of early efforts at the modernization of Newar Buddhism. His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in the Annual of the Institute for Comprehensive Studies of Buddhism, Taishō University (2020), Pacific World (2020), the European Bulletin of Himalayan Research (2019/20) and Himalaya (2018/9).
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