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PhD American Studies Columbia University
Masters History Stanford University
Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, John Powers is American born Professor of Asian Studies and Buddhism. Much of his teaching career was at the Australian National University in Canberra. Studies Powers studied at College of the Holy Cross Massachusetts, taking a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Religion there in 1979. He went on to earn a Master of Arts in Indian philosophy at McMaster University in Ontario then a Doctorate of Religious history from the University of Virginia. From 1995 to 2016, Powers taught at the Australian National University, where he was made professor in 2008. Powers, like several others, left the university after a controversial restructuring of the department.

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Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism (1995) (121)
History As Propaganda (2004) (41)
A Bull of a Man: Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism (2009) (29)
Wisdom of Buddha : the Saṁdhinirmocana sūtra (1995) (11)
The Buddha Party: How the People's Republic of China Works to Define and Control Tibetan Buddhism (2016) (10)
Mothering: Moral cultivation in buddhist and feminist ethics (1994) (9)
Historical Dictionary of Tibet (2012) (7)
Hermeneutics and Tradition in the Saṃdhinirmocana-Sūtra (1993) (7)
Extraordinary persons : works by eccentric, nonconformist Japanese artists of the early modern era (1580-1868) in the collection of Kimiko and John Powers (2000) (6)
Finding Ernst Mayr's Plato. (2013) (6)
The Yogācāra school of Buddhism : a bibliography (1991) (4)
Lost in China, Found in Tibet: How Wonch'uk Became the Author of the Great Chinese Commentary (1992) (3)
One Goal: A Chronicle of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team (1984) (3)
History of Indian Philosophy: Routledge history of world philosophies (2017) (3)
Indian Buddhist concepts of normative and deviant bodies: can ancient sexual mores be reconciled with modern sensibilities? (2019) (3)
Dignaga's Investigation of the Percept: A Philosophical Legacy in India and Tibet (2016) (2)
A DIY Come-On: A History of Optical Printing in Avant-Garde Cinema (2018) (2)
Review of: Gregory Schopen, Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks: Collected Papers on the Archaeology, Epigraphy, and Texts of Monastic Buddhism in India (1998) (2)
Characters, Plots, and Motivations in Tibetan History (2004) (1)
Future of work (2018) (1)
The Yankees: An Illustrated History (1982) (1)
Two commentaries on the Samdhinirmocana-Sutra (1992) (1)
Jnanagarbha's Commentary on Just the Maitreya Chapter from the Samdhinirmocanasutra: Study, Translation, and Tibetan Text (2003) (1)
The gendered Buddha: neither God nor man, but supremely manly (2018) (1)
Compassion and Rebirth (2017) (1)
A winning strategy (2009) (1)
The Body of the Buddha (2021) (1)
The Buddhist World (2016) (1)
Infrastructure for the future (2018) (1)
Dimboola : a wedding reception play . The last of the knucklemen (1974) (1)
On Being Wrong: Kripke’s Causal Theory of Reference (1992) (1)
The State of Buddhist Studies in the World 1972-1997. Edited by Donald K. Swearer and Somparn Promta. (2002) (1)
Autocommentary to Investigation of the Percept (Alambana-parik~a-vrtti) (2016) (1)
The subject matter of investigation of the percept: a tale of five commentaries (2016) (1)
Buddhism, an introduction (2001) (1)
Family Reunion or Shotgun Wedding (2004) (1)
The Future of the Economy (2018) (1)
4. The Problem with Bodies (2009) (0)
THE ASTM LIMS GUIDE (1994) (0)
Common dental emergencies (2018) (0)
Buddhism and the Body (2013) (0)
Readability of Award-winning Fantasy Sports Journalism (2018) (0)
Beautiful String of Pearls: A commentary on investigation of the Percept (dMigs pa brtag pa'i 'grel pa mu tig 'phreng mdzes) (2016) (0)
Introduction to Summary of the Essence: A commentary on Investigation of the Percept (2016) (0)
Ornament for Dignaga's Thought in Investigation of the Percept (dMigs pa brtag pa'i 'grel pa phyogs glang dgongs rgyan) (2016) (0)
Melvyn C. Goldstein. A History of Modern Tibet. Volume 2, The Calm before the Storm: 1951–1955. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2007. Pp. xxx, 639. $60.00 (2008) (0)
Buddhists: Understanding Buddhism through the Lives of Practitioners , edited by Todd Lewis (2016) (0)
Book reviews and notices (1987) (0)
Yogic Deed of Bodhisattvas: Gyel-tsap on Aryadeva's Four Hundred@@@Wisdom of Buddha: The Samdhinirmocana Sutra@@@Mahayanasutralamkara (1996) (0)
Central Tibetan famines 1280–1400: when premodern climate change and bad governance starved Tibet (2022) (0)
Book reviews and notices (1999) (0)
Subcommentary on Investigation of the Percept ( Alambana-parik~a-μka) (2016) (0)
Abhidharmasamuccaya: The Compendium of Higher Teaching (Philosophy) by Asanga. Originally translated into French and annotated by Walpola Rahula. English translation by Sara Boin-Webb. (2001) (0)
Can Ultimate Reality Change? The Three Natures/Three Characters Doctrine in Indian Yogācāra Literature and Contemporary Scholarship (2022) (0)
Review of: William M. Bodiford, ed., Going Forth: Visions of Buddhist Vinaya. (2006) (0)
Tibet in Agony: Lhasa 1959. By Jianglin Li. Translated by Susan Wilf. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. xxiv, 410 pp. ISBN: 9780674088894 (cloth, also available as e-book). (2018) (0)
Melvyn C. Goldstein.A History of Modern Tibet.:A History of Modern Tibet.Volume 2, The Calm before the Storm: 1951–1955 (2008) (0)
Kathy NEUSTADT, Clambake : a History & Celebration of American Tradition (Amherst, The University of Massachusetts Press, 1992, xi and 227 pp., illus., ISBN 0-87023-782-3, paperback) (1994) (0)
LINEAGES OF THE LITERARY: TIBETAN BUDDHIST POLYMATHS OF SOCIALIST CHINA. By NicoleWillock. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. Pp. xvi+320. Hardback, $140.00; Paperback, $35.00. (2022) (0)
The Disputed Middle Ground: Tibetan Mādhyamikas on How to Interpret Nāgārjuna and Candrakīrti (2021) (0)
A Man with Whom One Could Talk (1977) (0)
Glancing Outward: Notes on the New Historicist Film (2015) (0)
From the guest editors (2020) (0)
Tibet and China’s Orientalists: Knowledge, Power, and the Construction of Minority Identity (2018) (0)
Book reviews (2005) (0)
: The Alien Art: A Critical Study of George Gissing's Novels. . Michael Collie. ; George Gissing: Ideology and Fiction. . John Goode. (1980) (0)
A Whetstone for the Mind: 1981 March 1-7 (1997) (0)
Cray versus Convex (1991) (0)
Interactions between Clinicians and the Microbiology Laboratory (2007) (0)
1. The Ultimate Man (2009) (0)
Philtrum Guards (2018) (0)
Atrazine Research and Criteria of Characterizational Adequacy (2014) (0)
Writing to Learn: "The Diary of Anne Frank.". (1989) (0)
Tibetology with Chinese Characteristics (2016) (0)
5. The Company of Men (2009) (0)
The role of government in the future of the economy (2018) (0)
Ngawang Dendar's commentary (2016) (0)
6. The Greater Men of the Greater Vehicle (2009) (0)
Appendix 1: The Major and Minor Physical Characteristics of a Great Man (2009) (0)
3. Sex and the Single Monk (2009) (0)
8. Conclusion: Oversights and Insights (2009) (0)
Acts of Ingratitude (2016) (0)
New challenges for the Asian developmental state (2018) (0)
7. Adepts and Sorcerers (2009) (0)
"Growing up Quaker" in the Civil War era (2006) (0)
Rebirth and Causation in the Yogacara Adhidharma. Robert Kritzer. (2000) (0)
New growth industries and the challenge of productivity (2018) (0)
Inclusive growth and managing trade-offs (2018) (0)
The Limitations of Propaganda (2016) (0)
Classical Indian Buddhist Philosophy (2010) (0)
Buddhist philosophy in Australian universities (2019) (0)
Chinese and Tibetan Perspectives on History (2016) (0)
Patriotic Soul Boys and Other Chinese Myths (2016) (0)
Moving through stasis in Stan Brakhage’s Passage Through: A Ritual (2019) (0)
2. A Manly Monk (2009) (0)
Gender and Virtue in Indian Buddhism (2011) (0)
The God of Stupidity (2015) (0)
Three Turnings of the Wheel of Doctrine (Dharma-Cakra) (2010) (0)
Poe and Prolixity. (1990) (0)
Appendix 2: Epithets of the Buddha (2009) (0)
Singapore's Economic Development: The Dilemma of Managing Success (2019) (0)
Seasons to Remember: The Way It Was in American Sports, 1945-1960 (1993) (0)

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