Roderick S. Bucknell
Roderick "Rod" S. Bucknell (1937 – 8 March 2026) was an Australian linguist and scholar of Buddhism who wrote several books on the Sanskrit language and Buddhist sanghas.
Biography
Roderick S. Bucknell was born in 1937 in Australia. He studied chemistry and biology at the University of Queensland.
He was ordained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand from 1967 to 1971. He also worked as a freshwater biologist for the Department of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries in Papua New Guinea. From 1979 to 2003, he taught Chinese language and Religious Studies at the University of Queensland. He retired from his teaching career in 2003.
Several of his students are active in Buddhist Studies in Australia. Some of them include Munk Keat Choong, Edward Crangle and Ayya Suvira.
He died on the eighth of March 2026.
Bibliography
He is the author of a number of notable books:
- Translating Buddhist Chinese Problems and Prospects
- The Structure of the Sagātha-Vagga of the Saṃyutta-Nikāya
- The Buddhist Path to Liberation: An Analysis of the Listing of Stages
- Politicization of the Buddhist Sangha in Laos
- The ‘three knowledges’ of Buddhism: Implications of Buddhadasa's interpretation of rebirth
- Polyphony in the Chinese Writing System
- The Twilight Language: Explorations in Buddhist Meditation
- Reconstructing Early Buddhism
- Buddhist Meditation and the Study of Mystical Experience
See also
- University of Queensland
- Buddhist Sangha