Dr. Sukhbir Singh

Professor & Dean

Professor Sukhbir Singh is an eminent scholar in Comparative Literature and Yoga Philosophies. He retired from Osmania University, Hyderabad (India) as Professor Emeritus after serving for more than three decades. He holds a Ph.D. from the Central University of Hyderabad and he was a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, IL.(U.S.). He is one of the most accomplished Professors in India today…

Dr. Anand Singh

Professor

Professor Anand Singh specializes in Buddhist history and archaeology, the origin of Buddhism, its expansion and sects, sacred spaces in the Ganga Valley, ecological consciousness in Buddhism, and studies related to sacred spaces of Sārnāth, and Nālandā. As a researcher, he…

Dr. Sreekala M. Nair

Professor

Sreekala M. Nair is a Professor at the School of Buddhist Studies at Nalanda University. A former Professor and Dean School of Humanities and Social Sciences of Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kerala, she has served this University in various capacities, both academic and administrative since…

Dr. Aleksandra Wenta

Assistant Professor

Dr. Aleksandra Wenta is Assistant Professor in the School of Buddhist Studies, Philosophy and Comparative Religions. She was trained at Oxford University, Banaras Hindu University, and Jagiellonian University. She was fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (2012-2014) where…

Dr. Saroj Kanta Kar

Assistant Professor

Dr. Saroj Kanta Kar, currently Assistant Professor in Philosophy, at School of Buddhist Studies, Philosophy, and Comparative Religions, Nalanda University, Bihar, has worked in various major capacities in different institutions. He has been Programme Officer in Indian Council of Philosophical…

Dr. Bipin Kumar Jha

Teaching Fellow

Dr. Bipin Kumar Jha (b. 05.02.1984), a Teaching Fellow (Nalanda University, Rajgir, Nalanda, Bihar) belongs to a family of Sanskrit scholars(in which three members have been awarded by Honourable President of India for their contribution in the field of Sanskrit.)….

Dr. Veena Gaur

Guest Faculty (Teaching Associate)

Dr. Veena Gaur is a Guest Faculty (Teaching Associate) in Pali at the School of Buddhist Studies, Philosophy and Comparative Religion. She acquired her Ph.D. degree in Buddhist Studies from Delhi University (D.U) Delhi in 1985 on “Buddhist Doctrine in…

Dr. Arvind Sharma

Distinguished Visiting Professor

Formerly of the IAS, Arvind Sharma is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion in the School of Religious Studies as McGill University of Queensland, Sydney) and the USA (Northeastern, Temple, Boston, Harvard) and has published extensively in the fields of comparative religion and Indology. He was instrumental, through three global conferences (2006, 2011, 2016), in facilitating the adoption of a…