Shaunaka Rishi Das

Shaunaka Rishi Das
Board of Governor's Dinner 2010
Born
Timothy Kiernan

(1961-02-18) 18 February 1961 (age 63)
NationalityIrish
Alma materSt Peter's College, Wexford
TitleDirector, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies
Term1997–present
SpouseKeshava Kiernan 1958-2013
Relatives

Shaunaka Rishi Das (IAST: Śaunaka Ṛṣi Dāsa; born 18 February 1961 as Timothy Kiernan) is the Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (OCHS), a position he has held since the centre's foundation in 1997.[1] He is a lecturer,[2] a broadcaster, and Hindu Chaplain to Oxford University.[3] His interests include education, comparative theology, communication, and leadership.[4] He is a member of The Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life, convened in 2013 by the Woolf Institute, Cambridge.[5] In 2013 the Indian government appointed him to sit on the International Advisory Council of the Auroville Foundation.[6] Keshava, Rishi Das's wife of 27 years, died in December 2013.[7]

  1. ^ Banerjee, Akanksha (13 August 2006). "Oxford gets a Hindu flavour". CNN-IBN. Archived from the original on 14 October 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
  2. ^ "Lectures in Radical Christian Faith". Carrs Lane Church and Conference Centre.
  3. ^ "ISKCON Member Appointed Chaplain to Oxford University". Archived from the original on 1 January 2011. Retrieved 8 February 2011.
  4. ^ "Pagina niet gevonden". Archived from the original on 24 July 2011.
  5. ^ Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life, National Consultation, Cambridge, June 2014
  6. ^ News & Notes, a weekly bulletin for the residents of Auroville, No. 521, 2 November 2013
  7. ^ "Staff declared woman dead prematurely". Oxford Mail. 15 November 2014. Retrieved 4 April 2021.