Daniel Stuart received his Ph.D. in 2012, under the supervision of Alexander von Rospatt. His dissertation, entitled A Less Traveled Path: Meditation and Textual Practice in the Saddharmasmṛtyupasthāna(sūtra), deals with the history of Buddhist meditation in Northwest India during the first half of the first millennium CE. Over the years, Daniel has worked extensively on Buddhist sūtra literature and Buddhist manuscripts in various Asian languages and scripts. He works primarily with Sanskrit and Pāli materials, but also works with Indic literature translated into Chinese and Tibetan. He is particularly interested in the interrelationships between Buddhist practice traditions, theories of mind, and scriptural production in premodern India. His current project is a historical and ethnographic study of the modern insight (vipassanā) meditation tradition that focuses on the interplay of textual authority, charismatic authority, and meditative experience in the historical formation of a transnational religious movement. Daniel received a BA in interdisciplinary Asian Studies from Long Island University and an MA in Sanskrit Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of South Carolina beginning in the summer of 2013.
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Dissertation: A Less Traveled Path: Meditation and Textual Practice in the Saddharmasmṛtyupasthāna(sūtra)[electronic resource](link is external). 2012. 619 p.