Dr. Naomi Appleton

Address

Cardiff University Humanities Building Colum Drive
CF10 3EU Cardiff, Wales, UK

Contact

Phone: +44 (0)29 208 70122
E-Mail:

Links

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/share/research/centres/chra/whatwedo/narrating-karma-an

About

British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow, Cardiff University, Cardiff School of Religious & Theological Studies

Research Interests

• Developments in early Indian Buddhist literature and thought.
• Multi-life narratives in Indian religious traditions (especially Buddhism and Jainism).
• Biographies of the Buddha, especially stories of his past lives, both in texts and lived contexts (e.g. festivals and rituals).

Teaching

• Religion, Culture and Society I
• Elementary Pali Language
• Theravada Buddhism
• Stories of Karma and Rebirth in Buddhism and Jainism
• MA Asian Religions

Recent Publications

• Jataka Stories in Theravada Buddhism: Narrating the Bodhisatta Path (Ashgate, 2010)

CV

• http://blogs.cf.ac.uk/birthstories/entry/naomi_appleton_s_cv