Mahinda Deegalle

Deegalle is the author of Popularizing Buddhism: Preaching as Performance in Sri Lanka (State University of New York Press, 2006),^[1] the editor of Dharma to the UK: A Centennial Celebration of Buddhist Legacy (World Buddhist Foundation, 2008),^[2] Buddhism, Conflict and Violence in Modern Sri Lanka (Routledge, 2006),^[3] and the co-editor of Pali Buddhism (Curzon, 1996).^[4]

Deegalle attended the University of Peradeniya and obtained a B.A. Honours degree in Buddhist Studies. He studied Comparative Religion at Harvard University,^[5] where he obtained a Master of Arts in Theological Studies degree. He obtained a Ph.D. in History of Religions from the University of Chicago.

Deegalle serves in the Steering Committee of the Buddhism Section of the American Academy of Religion^[6] and of the managing committee of the Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions. He is the editor-in-chief of Buddhist-Christian Studies.^[7]