Title
Robert Ho Professor in Asian Studies and Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Director of Chapel House and the Fund for the Study of the Great Religions of the World (1972)

Degree
BA Baylor University 1960; BD Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 1963; MTh King's College and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1965; PhD Harvard University 1972; DLitt Kelaniya University 1999

Specialties
The Buddhist, Hindu, and other Asian religious traditions, comparative study of religion, comparative religious philosophy, history of religion, theological issues of a religiously plural world, Sanskrit, Pali, Sinhala

Interests
History of humankind's religiousness with special reference to Buddhist and Christian studies; missionaries of Colgate University / India, Sri Lanka, Japan, England, China

Selected Publications
The Religious Heritage of Japan, ed. (Book East, 1999); On Understanding Buddhists: Essays on the Theravada Tradition in Sri Lanka (1993), Of Human Bondage and Divine Grace: A Global Testimony, ed. (Open Court, 1992), coauthor/ translator, The Dhammapada: A New English Translation with the Pali Text . . . (Oxford University Press, 1987, new paperback edition, 1998), The Threefold Refuge in the Theravada Buddhist Tradition, ed. (Anima Books, 1982), Religiousness in Yoga, co-editor (1980), Religiousness in Sri Lanka, ed. (Marga Institute, 1979), Dhamma: Western Academic and Sinhalese Buddhist Interpretations - A Study of a Religious Concept (Hokuseido Press, 1978); numerous articles, reviews in professional and theological journals such as The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Religious Studies, Journal of Japanese Religion, The Eastern Buddhist, The Journal of Church and State; contributions to A Companion to World Philosophies(1998), Modern Sri Lanka: A Society in Transition (1979), Christian Faith in a Religiously Plural World (1978), etc

Distinctions
Recipient of several fellowships and scholarships including a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship to Sri Lanka; Visiting Research Associate, Shinto Studies, Kokugakuin University, Tokyo 1973; Division of Cultural Anthropology, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka 1985-1986; Buddhist Studies, Ryukoku University, Kyoto 1985-86; Otani University, Kyoto 1993; Wijesekera Memorial Oration, Colombo 1993