Diwakar Acharya

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Diwakar Nath Acharya (born 6 November 1969) is a Nepali scholar specialising in the religious and philosophical traditions of South Asia. Since April 2016, he has been the Spalding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He previously taught at the Nepal Sanskrit University (1993–2003), the University of Hamburg (2003–2006), and Kyoto University (2011–2016). [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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