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Dr Dhivan Thomas Jones is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Chester’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences. His research focuses on early Buddhist philosophy, particularly the reception of Buddhist ideas into Western contexts. He has held academic positions at Lancaster, Leeds, and Bristol Universities, and completed an MPhil in Sanskrit and South Asian Studies at Cambridge. Jones is also a member of the Triratna Buddhist Order, actively teaching and leading retreats within this community. His book This Being, That Becomes: The Buddha’s Teaching on Conditionality (2011) explores foundational Buddhist concepts. Jones teaches modules including Buddhist Concepts of Awakening and Asian Philosophies, supervising doctoral research in early Buddhist doctrine, Pāli/Sanskrit texts, and Buddhism’s environmental dimensions.
Education: BA Religious Studies (Lancaster), MA Modern European Philosophy, PhD in Phenomenology of Love (Lancaster, 1995), MPhil Sanskrit and South Asian Studies (Cambridge).
Research interests span Pāli texts, early Buddhist thought, Indian Buddhist philosophy, and Buddhism’s engagement with environmentalism. He advises students on early Buddhist history, Pāli/Sanskrit textual analysis, and Buddhist environmental ethics. His publications blend philological rigor with philosophical interpretation, addressing topics like dependent arising, self-denial in Buddhist texts, and cross-cultural philosophical dialogues.
