Towards a Buddhist View of Nature

Richard Hayes (aka Dharmacārī Dayāmati) (born 1945) is an Emeritus professor of Buddhist philosophy at the University of New Mexico. He received his Ph.D. in Sanskrit and Indian studies from the University of Toronto in 1982. Hayes was a professor of Buddhist Studies at McGill's Faculty of Religious Studies from 1988 to 2003. He joined the University of New Mexico in the fall of 2003 and retired in 2013. Hayes is a noted scholar in the field of Buddhist Sanskrit, specializing in the study of Dharmakīrti and Dignāga.