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GeorgeBondProfessorEmeritusofReligion,DepartmentofReligious
Studies

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GeorgeD.Bond,ProfessorofReligion,specializesinBuddhiststudiesandSouthAsianreligions.Heworksprimarilyon
TheravadaBuddhismstudyingthetextsandthepracticeofBuddhisminSriLankaandSoutheastAsia.Hereceivedhis
Ph.D.fromNorthwesternUniversityandalsostudiedattheUniversityofSriLanka.

HisteachingfocusesonBuddhism,Hinduismandthehistoryofreligions.HehasbeenarecipientoftheCharlesDeering
McCormickProfessorshipofTeachingExcellence,theNorthwesternAlumniAssociation'sAwardforExcellenceinTeaching
andtheWeinbergCollegeofArtsandSciencesTeachingAward.

Hispublicationsinclude:TheBuddhistRevivalinSriLanka(1988),TheWordoftheBuddha(1980),Sainthood:Its
ManifestationsinWorldReligions(1988),whichhecoauthoredandeditedwithRichardKieckheferandBuddhismatWork:
CommunityDevelopment,SocialEmpowermentandtheSarvodayaMovement(2004)Hehasalsowrittennumerous
articlesonBuddhisttextsandBuddhistpractice.Onerecentarticle,entitled"TheContemporaryLayMeditationMovement
andLayGurusinSriLanka,"appearedinReligion(2004).HiscurrentresearchfocusesonTheravadaBuddhistmeditation
andBuddhisminSriLanka.

HeisapastpresidentoftheMidwestregionoftheAmericanAcademyofReligionandhasservedascochairofthe
BuddhismSectionofthenationalAmericanAcademyofReligion.Hehasbeenanofficerandaboardmemberofthe
AmericanInstituteforSriLankaStudiesandhasservedastheoverseasdirectorfortheAmericanInstituteforSriLanka
StudiesinColombo,SriLanka.

SelectedWorks
Books
TheWordoftheBuddha:TheTipitakaandItsInterpretationinTheravadaBuddhism(1982,revisedversionforthcoming
2010).

TheBuddhistRevivalinSriLanka:ReligiousTradition,Reinterpretation,andResponse.ComparationStudiesinReligion
Series,.(Columbia:UniversityofSouthCarolinaPress,1988.)

Sainthood:ItsManifestationsinWorldReligions.CoeditedandauthoredwithRichardKieckhefer,(Berkeley:Universityof
CaliforniaPress,1988).

BuddhismatWork:CommunityDevelopment,SocialEmpowermentandtheSarvodayaMovement.(Bloomfield,CT:
KumarianPress,2005).

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TheContemporaryLayMeditationMovementandLayGurusinSriLanka.Religion,Vol.33(2003),pp.2355.

"ReinterpretingthePath:TwoCaseStudiesofLayMeditationMovementsinSriLanka."inApproachingtheDhamma:
BuddhistTextsandPracticesinSouthandSoutheastAsia,editedbyAnneBlackburnandJeffreySamuels(Seattle:
BuddhistPariyattiBooks,2003.pp.167189.

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