Guy R. Welbon

Guy R. Welbon is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies and of South Asia Regional Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Author of The Buddhist Nirvana and its Western Interpreters, he has also published several articles and critical reviews on the study of religion in South Asia. Having begun his studies of agamic traditions and the Hindu temple in 1963, the first of his four year long research tours in India, he is currently completing a monograph on the Vaikhanasas, hereditary arcakas in many of South India’s Vishnu temples.