Peter Jackson (academic)

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An Australian writer and scholar of sexual politics and Buddhism in Thailand. He is currently a Fellow in the Division of Pacific & Asian History, at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is the author of several books on sexual identity and Buddhism and has published on the topic of the role and position of Kathoeys in Thai society.

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• "A Topic Index of the Sutta Pitaka - Datchanii Sap Thamma Nai Phra Suttantapidok" (Thai and English), Chulalongkorn University Press, Bangkok, 1986. (189 pages) ISBN 974 566 422 7
• "Buddhadasa - A Buddhist Thinker for the Modern World", The Siam Society, Bangkok, 1988. (354 pages, publication of revised version of doctoral dissertation)
• "Male Homosexuality in Thailand - An Interpretation of Contemporary Thai Sources", Global Academic Publishers, New York, 1989 (285 pages) ISBN 1 55741 007 0
• "Buddhism, Legitimation and Conflict - The Political Functions of Urban Thai Buddhism", Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1989. (245 pages) ISBN 981 3035 20 X
• "Dear Uncle Go: Male Homosexuality in Thailand", Bua Luang Books, Bangkok, 1995. (310 pages) ISBN: 0 942777 11 5.
• "Buddhadasa: Theravada Buddhism and Modernist Reform in Thailand", Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai, 2003. ISBN: 974-7551-91-8 (A fully revised version of my 1988 monograph above, including a new Epilogue).

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academic biography here.