Prof John Powers

STAFF PROFILE

Position

Honorary Professor

Faculty

Faculty of Arts and Education

Department

School of Hum & Social Science

Campus

Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus

Contact

john.powers@deakin.edu.au
+61 3 924 68584

Publications

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2022

Can Ultimate Reality Change? The Three Natures/Three Characters Doctrine in Indian Yogācāra Literature and Contemporary Scholarship

J Powers

(2022), pp. 1-21, Sophia, Berlin, Germany, C1

journal article
2021

The disputed middle ground: Tibetan mādhyamikas on how to interpret nāgārjuna and candrakīrti

J Powers

(2021), Vol. 12, pp. 1-14, Religions, Basel, Switzerland, C1

journal article
2019

Indian Buddhist concepts of normative and deviant bodies: can ancient sexual mores be reconciled with modern sensibilities?

J Powers

(2019), Vol. 49, pp. 735-744, Religion, London, Eng., C1-1

journal article
2018

Buddhist hermeneutics

John Powers

(2018), pp. 40-48, History of Indian philosophy, London, Eng, B1

book chapter

The gendered Buddha: neither God nor man, but supremely manly

C Powers

(2018), pp. 245-264, God's own gender?, Baden-Baden, Germany, B1

book chapter

Tibet and China's Orientalists: Knowledge, power, and the construction of minority identity

C Powers

(2018), Vol. 19, pp. 1-19, Journal of Global Buddhism, Lucerne, Switzerland, C1-1

journal article

Scriptures of the world's religions

Chester Powers, James Fieser

(2018), New York, N.Y., A7-1

edited book
2017

Compassion and rebirth: some ethical implications

C Powers

(2017), pp. 221-237, Buddhist philosophy : a comparative approach, Hoboken, N.J., B1

book chapter
2016

The Buddha party: how the People's Republic of China works to define and control Tibetan Buddhism

C Powers

(2016), New York, N.Y., A1-1

book

Buddhas, siddhas, and Indian masculine ideals

C Powers

(2016), pp. 1-29, Tantric traditions in transmission and translation, New York, N.Y., B1-1

book chapter

Buddhas and Buddhisms

C Powers

(2016), pp. 11-59, The Buddhist world, Abingdon, Eng., B1-1

book chapter

Tsongkhapa

C Powers

(2016), pp. 579-590, The Buddhist world, Abingdon, Eng., B1-1

book chapter

Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama

C Powers

(2016), pp. 629-640, The Buddhist world, Abingdon, Eng., B1-1

book chapter

Thich Nhat Hanh

C Powers

(2016), pp. 606-616, The Buddhist world, Abingdon, Eng., B1-1

book chapter

The subject matter of investigation of the percept: a tale of five commentaries

C Powers, Malcolm Eckel, Jay Garfield

(2016), pp. 3-37, Dignāga's investigation of the percept : a philosophical legacy in India and Tibet, New York, N. Y., B1

book chapter

Ngawang Dendar's commentary

C Powers

(2016), pp. 118-130, Dignāga's investigation of the percept : a philosophical legacy in India and Tibet, New York, N.Y., B1

book chapter

Dignāga's investigation of the percept: a philosophical legacy in India and Tibet

D Duckworth, M Eckel, J Garfield, C Powers, Y Thabkhas, S Thakchöe

(2016), New York, N.Y., A7

edited book
2015

The Buddhist world

J Powers

(2015), Abingdon, Eng., A7-1

edited book

Introduction

C Powers

(2015), pp. 1-7, The Buddhist world, Abingdon, Eng., A7-1

edited book
2014

Yogācāra : Indian Buddhist Origins

C Powers

(2014), pp. 41-63, Transforming Consciousness : Yogacara thought in modern China, New York, N.Y., B1

book chapter
2012

Human rights and cultural values: The political philosophies of the Dalai Lama and the people's Republic of China

J Powers

(2012), pp. 175-202, Buddhism and Human Rights, B1-1

book chapter
2011

Yogācāra

C Powers

(2011), pp. 1-12, The Oxford handbook of world philosophy, New York, N.Y., B1

book chapter
2007

Introduction

T Gannon, T Ward, A Beech, D Fisher

(2007), pp. 1-7, Aggressive offenders' cognition : theory, research, and practice, Chichester, England, B1-1

book chapter
2004

History as propaganda: Tibetan exiles versus the People's Republic of China

J Powers

(2004), Oxford, Eng., A1-1

book

Funded Projects at Deakin

Australian Competitive Grants

A Buddhist Debate and Its Contemporary Relevance - John Powers - transfer in 17/10/2016

Prof John Powers, Dr Sonam Thakchoe, Prof Jay Garfield, Dr Douglas Duckworth, Dr Jose Cabezon

ARC - Discovery Projects

  • 2018: $126,111
  • 2017: $184,010

Troubled Waters: Tibet's Rivers and Their Connection to Climate Change

Dr Gillian Tan, Prof John Powers, Asst/Prof James Pittock, Prof Petra Maurer, Dr Sara Beavis, Dr Ruth Gamble, A/Prof Per Sorensen, Dr Yangmotso Yangmotso, Prof John Powers

ARC - Discovery Projects

  • 2023: $4,782
  • 2021: $140,240
  • 2020: $108,569
  • 2019: $161,191

Supervisions

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