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Details for Professor Paul Williams
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Paul Williams |
| Job title | Emeritus Professor of Indian and Tibetan Philosophy |
| Department | Department of Religion and Theology University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | BA(Sus), DPhil(Oxon) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | Buddhism Tibet Buddhist philosophy Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophy Prasangika Madhyamaka |
| Areas of expertise | Most of my work has been on Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophy, a school of Buddhism which developed in India probably initially during the first century C.E. and had a wide influence on Buddhist thought throughout India, Tibet and East Asia. In particular this tradition was often taken in Tibet as the final philosophical position of Buddhism, and it has been studied as such by Tibetans to the present day. I have also worked on the Tibetan assimilation and scholastic extension of Madhyamaka ideas, notably the complex understanding developed by a sub-school known as Prasangika Madhyamaka. |
| Media experience | Television, radio, and newspaper interviews. |