Sthaneshwar Timalsina

Sthaneshwar Timalsina holds the Nirmal K. and Augustina Mattoo Endowed Chair in Classical Indic Humanities at Stony Brook University's Department of Asian & Asian American Studies, part of the College of Arts & Sciences. He also teaches at San Diego State University's Departments of Religions and Philosophy. His academic journey includes a master’s from Sampurnananda Sanskrit University, a Ph.D. from Martin Luther University (Halle, Germany), and teaching stints at UC Santa Barbara and Washington University in St. Louis.

Research focuses on Hindu philosophy, comparative religions, and Tantric studies. He explores Advaita Vedanta, consciousness studies, tantric symbolism, and yoga traditions through philological and cognitive approaches. Over 80 scholarly articles and multiple books including Seeing and Appearance (2006), Consciousness in Indian Philosophy (2009), and works on tantric visual culture (2015) reflect this.

His writings synthesize classical Sanskrit scholarship with modern analytical frameworks. He launched the Vimarsha Foundation (2019) to globalize Sanskrit-based philosophical education through immersive courses.