Leonard Priestley

Leonard Priestley has been professor of Buddhism at U of T where he taught Buddhist philosophy with a strong focus on the South Asian literature of the Madhyamaka and Yogācāra schools, but also including its later Tibetan and East Asian developments. Expanding on the work of the late Vietnamese scholar Thích Thién Châu, Leonard Priestley has presented the most comprehensive account of the early Buddhist philosophical school known as the Pudgalavādins or “personalists”. To this day, his monograph Pudgalavāda Buddhism. The Reality of the Indeterminate Self (1999) remains the standard work of reference on this subject.

The biography above is courtesy of the South Asian Religion at U of T website.