whispered lineage

Martin Kovan is a writer and research scholar working in ethics and philosophy, fiction and non-fiction, memoir and poetry. Work in these genres, with literary and book reviews, reportage and interviews, has appeared in the USA, Australia, the U.K., France, India, Thailand, Hong Kong and the Czech Republic, in English and Czech. Between completing postgraduate studies in English with poet Gary Snyder at UC Davis, and later doctoral studies in Philosophy with Jay L. Garfield at University of Melbourne, he lived in and around Buddhist monasteries across the East and West, taught for some years in Paris, and in India, and worked in human rights advocacy in Thailand/Myanmar. His most recent book publication is a monograph “A Buddhist Theory of Killing: a philosophical exposition” published by Springer Verlag in 2022.

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