Alexis Sanderson

Alexis Sanderson

Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson is the Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics (since 1992) and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University. He is a Sanskritist and scholar of Indian religions, especially of Shaivism and esoteric Shaiva Tantra (commonly known as Kashmir Shaivism, though this is something of a misnomer). He has written over a thousand pages of articles, most of which can be difficult to obtain in print form (although many are available, complete, online). Sanderson's published work is of a sufficiently high calibre of scholarly rigor and accuracy that it has contributed to his reputation, amongst European Indologists and a handful of American scholars, as one of the finest living Sanskritists and a preeminent scholar of the Shaiva religion. [ See, e.g., Mastery: Interviews with 30 Remarkable People, by Joan Evelyn Ames.]

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