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"""Sentient beings must still have some merit if there are people as skilled and dedicated as Peter Skilling. The release of this remarkable anthology is a sign that the compassion of the Buddha is still with us."" --Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse"

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Peter Skilling is a special lecturer at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, and an honorary associate, Department of Indian Subcontinental Studies, University of Sydney, Australia. Until his retirement in 2017, he was a professor of the French School of Asian Studies (EFEO) based in Bangkok. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in the humanities by Chulalongkorn University in 2020. He is an honorary member of the Siam Society, Bangkok, and in 2017 he was elected an honorary fellow of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai. He has been visiting professor at Harvard University (2000), the University of California at Berkeley (2001), Oxford University (2002), Sydney University (2009), Soka University (2009), and Savitribai Phule Pune University (2016-17). He has published widely on the Buddhist literature, history, and epigraphy of South and Southeast Asia.

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