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Associate Professor
Charles Hallisey

Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1988

Office: 1248 Van Hise Hall
Phone: 608/262-4943

E-mail: cshallisey@wisc.edu

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Charles Hallisey
 
Specialties/Research Interests:

Buddhist Studies; Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia; Pali Language and Literature; Buddhist Ethics; Literature in Buddhist Culture.

[For more on opportunities for the study of Theravada
Buddhism at UW-Madison, please see Charles Hallisey's Home Page.]

 
Current Projects: Flowers on the Tree of Poetry: The Moral Economy of Literature in Buddhist Sri Lanka.
 
Recent Publications:

"The Surprise of Scripture’s Advice," in Religious
Identity and the Problem of Historical Foundation
,
edited by Judith Frishman, Willemien Otten, and
Gerard Rouwhorst. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2004.

"Trajectories in Buddhist Ethics", in A Companion to Religious Ethics, edited by William Schweiker. Oxford: Blackwell’s, 2004.

"A Biography of the Buddha translated from the Sangitiyavamsa", in Buddhist Scriptures, edited by Donald Lopez. New York: Penguin, 2004.

"Works and Persons in Sinhala Literary Culture," in
Literary Cultures in History: Some Reconstructions from South Asia, edited by Sheldon Pollock. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

 
Courses:

LCA 273: Religion in History and Culture: The East

 
Curriculum Vitae:

Charles Hallisey's Curriculum Vitae

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