Paul Williams (British professor)

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Professor Paul Williams, BA, DPhil (b. 1950) is Professor in Indian Religions at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. He is also director for the university's Centre for Buddhist Studies.

Williams studied at the University of Sussex's School of African & Asian Studies where he graduated with a first class BA in 1972. He then went on to study Buddhist Philosophy at Wadham College, University of Oxford, where he was awarded his DPhil in 1978.

His main research interests are Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophy, Prasangika Madhyamaka and Virtue Ethics. Williams was a Buddhist himself for many years but has since converted to Roman Catholicism.

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Buddhism: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies, Edited and with a new introduction by Paul Williams (London: Routledge, 2005). Eight volumes.

Songs of Love, Poems of Sadness: The Erotic Verse of the 6th Dalai Lama (IB Taurus, 2004).

The Unexpected Way: On Converting from Buddhism to Catholicism (London: T & T Clark, 2002).

Buddhist Thought: A Complete Introduction to the Indian Tradition (London: Routledge, 2000).

Altruism and Reality: Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicaryavatara (Richmond: Curzon Press, 1998).

The Reflexive Nature of Awareness: A Tibetan Madhyamaka Defence (Richmond: Curzon Press, 1998).

Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations (London: Routledge,1989).