Sara L. McClintock

Sara L. McClintock (they/them) is a Buddhist philosopher and scholar of religion whose interests converge at the intersections of ethics, metaphysics, truth, and story. They obtained their PhD from Harvard in 2002, and are now an associate professor at Emory University, where they teach graduate and undergraduate courses in Indian and Buddhist philosophy, Buddhist narrative traditions, women in Buddhism, and interpretation theory in the study of religion.

A specialist in the work of Śāntarakṣita and Kamalaśīla, they also write and translate more broadly on topics in narrative, epistemology, and ethics.

Selected publications

• Omniscience and the Rhetoric of Reason (2010)
• The Svātantrika-Prāsaṅgika Distinction (2003), co-authored with Georges Dreyfus
• Nāgārjuna’s Precious Garland—Ratnāvalī, translated by John Dunne and Sara McClintock (Wisdom Publications, 2024).

Further reading

• Sara McClintock (bio), Emory University
• Sara L. McClintock (bio), Wisdom Publications
• Sara L. McClintock, Tsadra Commons
• Sara McClintock (bio), 84000 Collection