C. John Powers FAHA (born 1957) is an Australian scholar of Asian Studies and Buddhism.
Powers studied at College of the Holy Cross Massachusetts, taking a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Religion there in 1979.
[citation needed] From 1995 to 2016, Powers taught at the Australian National University, where he was made professor in 2008.
[citation needed] A practicing Buddhist, he has special expertise in Buddhism in Tibet.
He was invited by the Dalai Lama's Australian office, as the leading expert in the country, to Tenzin Gyatsho's 70th birthday celebration .