Sean Kerr
Professor
Department of Buddhist Studies, Philosophy and Comparative R
Nalanda University
India
Biography
Sean Kerr is a Ph.D. Candidate in South and Southeast Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. His area of specialization is Pali literature and prior to joining at Nalanda he helped design and implement the core Pali language programs at the Institute of Buddhist Studies (an affiliate of UC Berkeley) and the VipassanÄ Research Institute (an affiliate of Mumbai University), as adjunct faculty. His Ph.D. research on the Pali commentator Anuruddha's collected works and the question of Pali literary production in South India was sponsored initially by the French Institute of Pondicherry. He is currently working on completing his translation and study of Anuruddha's lesser-know abhidhamma treatise, the nÄmarÅ«papariccheda, and his Ph.D. thesis based thereon.
Research Interest
Pali Language and Literature; South Asian Buddhism; TheravÄda Studies; Pali Commentarial Literature; Pali Literary Production in South India; Narrative Literature in Pali and Sanskrit; Meditation Literature; TheravÄda Abhidhamma; aesthetic recastings of doctrinal material.
