Keown, Professor Damien
Academic qualifications
BA (Religious Studies) University of Lancaster, 1977DPhil Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford, 1986
Professional activities
Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society
Founding co-editor of the Journal of Buddhist Ethics
Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Law and Religion
Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Contemporary Buddhism
Co-editor of the Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism Series
Member, Pali Text Society
Member of UK Association of Buddhist Studies
Member of American Academy of Religion
Doctoral Research Students
Research interests
Buddhist ethics: theoretical foundations and normative applications, with particular reference to medicine and biotechnology.
Selected publications
Books published
The Nature of Buddhist Ethics. Macmillan/Palgrave, 1992/2001
Buddhism & Bioethics. Macmillan/Palgrave, 1995/2001
Buddhism. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996/2000
Contemporary Buddhist Ethics Curzon Press, 2000
Buddhism and Human Rights (with Charles S.Prebish and Wayne Husted, Curzon Press, 1998)
Buddhism and Abortion (Macmillan/University of Hawaii Press, 1999)
A Dictionary of Buddhism (Oxford University Press, 2003)
Action Dharma: New Studies in Engaged Buddhism (with Christopher Queen and Charles Prebish, RoutledgeCurzon, 2003)
Buddhism-the Ebook, (with Charles Prebish) JBE Online Books, 2004
Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction. OUP, 2005
From Ancient India to Modern Benares: Buddhist Studies in Honor of Charles Prebish. Routledge, 2005
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Routledge, 2007