Overview
Availability
- Associate Professor Adam Bowles is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, La Trobe University
- Doctor of Philosophy, La Trobe University
Research interests
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Sanskrit literature
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South Asian history and culture
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South Asian religious traditions
Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism.
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Religious diversity in Queensland
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Mahābhārata
Works
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2024
Journal Article
Oral history interview: Venerable Rinchen
Bowles, Adam (2024). Oral history interview: Venerable Rinchen. Queensland Atlas of Religion.
2024
Journal Article
The Saints of Silkwood
Ginn, Geoff and Bowles, Adam (2024). The Saints of Silkwood. Queensland Atlas of Religion.
2024
Journal Article
Pain and suffering: Two thinkers in conversation
Bowles, Adam (2024). Pain and suffering: Two thinkers in conversation. Australian Book Review (463).
2023
Book Chapter
Āstīka, black magic and apotropaic ritual: peacemaking brahmins and the snake sacrifice in the Mahābhārata’s Ādiparvan
Bowles, Adam (2023). Āstīka, black magic and apotropaic ritual: peacemaking brahmins and the snake sacrifice in the Mahābhārata’s Ādiparvan. Visions and revisions in Sanskrit narrative: studies in the Sanskrit epics and purāṇas. (pp. 37-64) Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/vrsn.2023.02
2023
Other Outputs
“The destroyer of worlds”: Oppenheimer, death, and the Bhagavad-Gītā
Bowles, Adam (2023, 08 11). “The destroyer of worlds”: Oppenheimer, death, and the Bhagavad-Gītā ABC Religion and Ethics
2022
Journal Article
Review of Andrijanić, Ivan / Sellmer, Sven (Hg.): On the Growth and Composition of the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas. Relationship to Kāvya. Social and Economic Context. Proceedings of the Fifth Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas August 2008. Zagreb: Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts/Ibis grafika 2016. XXXVI, 534 S. 8°. Hardbd. ISBN 978-953-7997-28-1.
Bowles, Adam (2022). Review of Andrijanić, Ivan / Sellmer, Sven (Hg.): On the Growth and Composition of the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas. Relationship to Kāvya. Social and Economic Context. Proceedings of the Fifth Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas August 2008. Zagreb: Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts/Ibis grafika 2016. XXXVI, 534 S. 8°. Hardbd. ISBN 978-953-7997-28-1.. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 117 (1), 73-76.
2019
Book Chapter
The Gṛhastha in the Mahābhārata
Bowles, Adam (2019). The Gṛhastha in the Mahābhārata. Gṛhastha: The Householder in Ancient Indian Religious Culture. (pp. 173-203) edited by Patrick Olivelle. New York, NY, United States: Oxford University Press.
2018
Book Chapter
The dasyu in the Mahābhārata
Bowles, Adam (2018). The dasyu in the Mahābhārata. The Churning of the Epics and Purāṇas: Proceedings of the Epics and Purāṇas Section at the 15th World Sanskrit Conference. (pp. 155-172) edited by Simon Brodbeck, Adam Bowles and Alf Hiltebeitel. New Delhi: Dev Publishers & Distributors.
2018
Book Chapter
Law during emergencies: āpaddharma
Bowles, Adam (2018). Law during emergencies: āpaddharma. Hindu law: a new history of Dharmaśāstra. (pp. 245-256) edited by Patrick Olivelle and Donald R. Davis. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198702603.003.0020
2018
Book
The churning of the Epics and Purāṇas: proceedings of the Epics and Puranas Section at the 15th World Sanskrit Conference
Simon Brodbeck, Adam Bowles and Alf Hiltebeitel eds. (2018). The churning of the Epics and Purāṇas: proceedings of the Epics and Puranas Section at the 15th World Sanskrit Conference. New Delhi, India: Dev Publishers & Distributors.
2017
Book Chapter
The Mahābhārata and dharma
Bowles, Adam (2017). The Mahābhārata and dharma. Hinduism in India: The Early Period. (pp. 60-84) edited by Bailey, Greg. Delhi: Sage.
2016
Book Chapter
Reflections on the upākhyānas in the Āpaddharmaparvan of the Mahābhārata
Bowles, Adam (2016). Reflections on the upākhyānas in the Āpaddharmaparvan of the Mahābhārata. Argument and Design: The Unity of the Mahābhārata. (pp. 320-358) edited by Adluri, Vishwa and Bagchee, Joydeep. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004271494_012
2015
Journal Article
Dharma and ‘custom’: semantic persistence, semantic change and the anxieties of the principled few
Bowles, Adam (2015). Dharma and ‘custom’: semantic persistence, semantic change and the anxieties of the principled few. Religions of South Asia, 9 (2), 137-163. doi: 10.1558/rosa.v9i2.31072
2012
Journal Article
Historical traditions in Hindu texts
Bowles, Adam (2012). Historical traditions in Hindu texts. Oxford Bibliographies in Hinduism doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780195399318-0054
2012
Book
A history of state and religion in India
Copland, Ian, Mabbett, Ian, Roy, Asim, Brittlebank, Kate and Bowles, Adam (2012). A history of state and religion in India. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203126943
2010
Journal Article
Governance and religious conflict in the eighteenth century: Religion and the civil discourse of separateness in the Maratha polity
Bowles, Adam (2010). Governance and religious conflict in the eighteenth century: Religion and the civil discourse of separateness in the Maratha polity. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 33 (1), 61-74. doi: 10.1080/00856401003592479
2010
Journal Article
The failure of dharma
Bowles, Adam (2010). The failure of dharma. Seminar (New Delhi): the monthly symposium (608), 26-31.
2009
Book Chapter
Framing bhisma's royal instructions: The Mahabharata and the problem of its ‘design’
Bowles, Adam (2009). Framing bhisma's royal instructions: The Mahabharata and the problem of its ‘design’. Parallels and comparisons : proceedings of the Fourth Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Puranas, September 2005. (pp. 121-135) edited by Petteri Koskikallio. Croatia: Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
2008
Other Outputs
Maha-bharata: Book Eight. Karna Volume Two: Cantos 55-96
Bowles, Adam (2008). Maha-bharata: Book Eight. Karna Volume Two: Cantos 55-96. New York, NY, U.S.A.: New York University Press; JJC Foundation.
2007
Book
Dharma, Disorder and the Political in Ancient India: the Āpaddharmaparvan of the Mahābhārata
Bowles, Adam (2007). Dharma, Disorder and the Political in Ancient India: the Āpaddharmaparvan of the Mahābhārata. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers.
Supervision
Availability
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
South Asian Immigration and Religious Diversity in Queensland, 1975-2018.
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Ryan Williams
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Doctor Philosophy
Great Goddess or Model Devotee? A Study of Radha in the Puranas
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Rick Strelan
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Doctor Philosophy
A Reconsideration of Sufism and the Origins of Islam in the Indonesian Archipelago in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Patrick Jory
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Doctor Philosophy
Islam and Queensland: assessing generational patterns
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Tom Aechtner
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Doctor Philosophy
Using the Unusual, Normalising the Non-Mundane: Didactic Uses of Wonder in the medieval Latin West, c. 1000 ¿ 1300
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Philip Almond, Dr Beth Spacey
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Doctor Philosophy
Religion and Spirituality in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Gerhard Hoffstaedter
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Doctor Philosophy
Threadbare: the Bhutanese textile industry. Contemporary innovation in Bhutanese weaving and its translation to market
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Diana Young
Completed supervision
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2024
Master Philosophy
Cultivated Wisdom, Knowledge, and Discerning Insight: A Study of Jnana in the Samkhya Textual Tradition
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Joel Katzav
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Buddhist Nationalism in Sri Lanka: Engagement with the Global
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Patrick Jory
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2023
Master Philosophy
The Tamil way and the Hindu ecumene: community, identity, and devotion at a Ganesha temple in Queensland, Australia
Principal Advisor
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Beyond the Solar Door : Yoga in the Mahabharata and its Vedic Antecedents
Principal Advisor
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Yudhisthira's Life as Religious Vocation: Soteriology in the Mahabharata
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Patrick Jory
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
The Majjhimanikaya sub-commentary (Majjhimanikaya Atthakatha Tika) in Sinhala script and its place in the commentarial tradition of Sri Lankan Buddhism
Principal Advisor
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Darkness & Light: A Myth Analysis of Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada's Early Discourse on Science
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Tom Aechtner
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC AND THE GRAMOPHONE (c. 1900-1930): A SOCIO-CULTURAL, HISTORICAL, AND MUSICAL ANALYSIS OF THE GRAMOPHONE COMPANY'S INDIAN RECORDING EXPEDITIONS
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Robert Davidson
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
Literary Representations of War and Warfare in Old Javanese Kakawin Poetry
Associate Advisor
Media
Enquiries
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- Buddhism
- Early Indian history
- Early modern Indian history
- Hinduism
- India - history, philosophy
- Indian history - early modern
- Mahabharata
- Sanskrit literature
- South Asia - history, philosophy
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