Professor Dr. S. S. Bahulkar has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Sanskrit for more than 50 years, during which time he has been engaged in a variety of research projects. Both his research and teaching focus on Vedic Studies, Buddhist Studies, Ayurveda, and Classical Sanskrit Literature. For his Ph.D. he worked on the healing practices in the Atharvaveda and published his thesis under the title 'Medical Ritual in the Atharvaveda Tradition'.
He headed the Rare Buddhist Texts Research Department of CUTS and edited the celebrated commentary Vimalaprabhā on the Kālacakra Tantra (Vols. 2 and 3), the journal Dhīḥ, and other Tantric works. He has written and edited 17 books and about 70 research and popular articles, and has visited a number of foreign countries in connection with teaching, research and conferences.
He is Dalai Lama Chair Professor at Somaiya Vidyavihar University, Mumbai; Adjunct Professor at the Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies, Sāvitrībai Phule Pune University; Chief Investigator of the Atharvaveda Project of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune; and Senior Fellow at the Oxford Centre of Hindu Studies (OCHS), Oxford, U.K.