Kathavatthu

Asanga Tilakaratne, Emeritus Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, graduated from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, majoring in Buddhist philosophy, and completed his postgraduate studies in Western and Comparative Philosophy at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i. He has been a visiting professor at such centres of higher learning as Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune; Somaiya International Academy, Myanmar, Otago University, New Zealand; and Yonsei University, Korea. Tilakaratne has published in Sinhala as well as in English. In 2022, his collected papers (5 volumes in English and 3 volumes in Sinhala) edited by his colleagues and students were published in Colombo. In 2023, he was appointed Adjunct Professor of Pali and Buddhist Studies at Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India. Among the academic distinctions he has received are: Commonwealth Senior Fellow (1999-2000), Kheyentse Foundation India Vising Professor (2017 and 2024), Infosys Visiting Scholar at Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI) (2023), and Ananda Coomarasvamy Fellow of India Sahitya Akademi (2020).