Georgios T. Halkias (born June 6, 1967) is a Greek scholar of Oriental Studies with publications on Tibetan Buddhism, Himalayan regions, and cross-cultural contacts between Hellenism and Buddhism.
He is currently an associate professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Hong Kong.
[1] and co-editor in chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Buddhism [2] Halkias was born in Athens, Greece, and studied for his B.A.
in Western and Asian philosophy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
He received in 2006 his DPhil in Oriental studies at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford, where he is currently a visiting associate researcher.