Adam Bowles

Adam Bowles is Associate Professor in Asian Religions at the University of Queensland in Australia. A scholar of Sanskrit, much of his work is on the great epic the Mahābhārata, on which he has published three volumes. He is co-author of A History of State and Religion in India (Routledge, 2012) and has written numerous articles on South Asian cultural, literary, and religious pasts. He is currently working on a translation of the Critical Edition of the Mahābhārata’s thirteenth book, as well as on a project titled The Queensland Atlas of Religion.

Adam Bowles reviews ‘The Buddhist and the Ethicist: Conversations on effective altruism, engaged Buddhism, and how to build a better world’ by Peter Singer and Shih Chao-Hwei

April 2024, no. 463 • 25 March 2024

This volume brings together two highly credentialled thinkers about moral and ethical matters: Peter Singer, the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and Venerable Shih Chao-Hwei, a Taiwanese Buddhist nun, founder of the animal welfare organisation the Life Conservation Association and the Buddhist Hong-Shi College, as well as a lecturer at Hsuan Chuang University. Peter ... (read more)