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| Charles Hallisey | |
|---|---|
| Name | Charles Hallisey |
| Occupation | Scholar, Professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Discipline | Buddhist Studies, Tibetan Studies, South Asian Studies |
| Institutions | Harvard University, Tufts University, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Charles Hallisey is an American scholar of Buddhist studies and Tibetan literature known for translations and historical analysis of Pali, Sanskrit, and Tibetan texts. He has held academic posts at major universities and contributed to the study of Theravāda Buddhism, South Asian textual traditions, and Southeast Asian religious history. His work intersects with scholars and institutions across Buddhist, South Asian, and Himalayan studies.
Born and raised in the United States, Hallisey pursued undergraduate and graduate training that connected him with institutions and scholars influential in Asian studies. He studied languages and philology under mentors associated with Harvard University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, School of Oriental and African Studies, Columbia University, and University of Chicago. His training included programs linked to the Southeast Asian Studies Program, the Association for Asian Studies, and field-oriented research in regions such as Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, and the Tibetan Plateau. During his graduate years he engaged with archives and manuscript collections at the British Library, the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, the Pali Text Society, and university libraries including Harvard-Yenching Library and Yale University Library.
Hallisey's faculty appointments and visiting posts have placed him within departments and centers like the Department of South Asian Studies at Harvard University, the Department of Religion at Tufts University, and the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has collaborated with research centers such as the Center for the Study of World Religions, the Reynolds Program in Buddhist Studies, the Harvard Divinity School, and the Asian Cultural Council. His teaching has involved undergraduate and graduate seminars alongside colleagues from Princeton University, Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, Oxford University, SOAS University of London, and McGill University. Hallisey has served on editorial boards for journals including the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, History of Religions, and publications affiliated with the Buddhist-Christian Studies community.
Hallisey's research focuses on textual transmission, translation practice, and the social history of Buddhist texts in traditions linked to Theravāda Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism, and Tibetan Buddhism. He has analyzed canonical and commentarial materials from manuscript traditions housed at the Pali Text Society, the National Library of Sri Lanka, and monastic collections in Kandy, Colombo, and Rangoon. His comparative work engages figures and texts such as the Dhammapada, the Vinaya Pitaka, the Sutta Nipāta, and Tibetan historiographical works preserved in the Tibetan Buddhist canon. Hallisey has collaborated with colleagues working on philology, codicology, and digital humanities projects at institutions including the Digital Himalaya Project, the Open Sanskrit Initiative, and the World Digital Library. His contributions intersect with scholarship by Richard Gombrich, Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, Donald Lopez, Ludwig Alsdorf, Thomas Rhys Davids, and Erik Zürcher.
Hallisey's publications include translations, edited volumes, and articles that have appeared in venues associated with the Pali Text Society, the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Journal of Asian Studies, and university presses such as Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Harvard University Press, and University of California Press. Notable works have engaged topics like vernacular Buddhist poetry, monastic narrative traditions, and the role of textual performance in society. His editions and translations have been used alongside reference works by George Turnour, Rhys Davids, Max Müller, and compendia from the CSCDP and the Buddhist Digital Resource Center.
Hallisey has received recognition and support from awarding bodies and foundations including fellowships and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Program, the Guggenheim Foundation, and university-based research awards at Harvard University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has delivered invited lectures and keynote addresses at conferences sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies, the International Association of Buddhist Studies, the American Academy of Religion, and research institutes such as the Institute of Buddhist Studies and the École française d'Extrême-Orient.
Category:Living people Category:American historians of religion Category:Buddhist studies scholars Category:Harvard University faculty