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This is a: about, written by Birgit Kellner 1245 days ago.
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Current status

Professor in Buddhist Studies, University of Heidelberg, Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows

Education

Ph.D. in Philosophy (Indian Philosophy), Department for Indian Philosophy, Faculty of Letters, University of Hiroshima, Japan, March 1999. Dissertation: “Studies on non-cognition (anupalabdhi) in the logico-epistemological school of Buddhism”. Dissertation advisor: Shōryū Katsura

Doctoral studies, Department for Indian Philosophy, Faculty of Letters, University of Hiroshima, Japan, 1994-1999

Magister (approximately corresponding to an M.A. degree) in Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, with Philosophy, Japanese Studies and Linguistics as additional subjects, University of Vienna, Austria, 1994. Advisor: Ernst Steinkellner

Funded Research Projects

2006-2010: “The awareness of the mental in Buddhist philosophical analysis – theories of svasaṃvedana in Buddhist pramāṇavāda“, funded by the Austrian Science Fund.

Grants and Scholarships

Charlotte-Bühler-fellowship for the completion of a Habilitationsschrift by the Austrian Science Fund, 2004-2005

Fellowship of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung at the Institute for the History and Culture of India and Tibet, University of Hamburg, Germany, 2002-2003

“Herta-Firnberg-Stelle” of the Austrian Science Fund, i.e. a post-doctoral research fellowship, at the Institute for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna, 1999-2002

Ph.D.-scholarship of the Japanese Ministry for Cultural Affairs (Monbushō) at the Department for Indian Philosophy, Faculty of Letters, University of Hiroshima, Japan, 1996-1999

Research scholarship of the Japanese Ministry for Cultural Affairs (Monbushō) at the Department for Indian Philosophy, Faculty of Letters, University of Hiroshima, Japan, 1994-1996

Awards

The course “Lektüre buddhistischer erkenntnistheoretischer Texte (einführend)” (“Introductory readings in Buddhist epistemology”) was awarded as an “innovative course” by the University of Vienna, summer term 2001.

Conference Papers and Invited Lectures (selective list)

“Representation in some Buddhist analyses of perception – Vasubandhu, Dignāga, Dharmakīrti”. February 2007, Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University. (The lecture was accompanied by a workshop on divergent epistemological models in Buddhist philosophy.)

“Philosophische Verneinung und heilstheoretische Überwindung der Außenwelt im altindischen Buddhismus” (“Philosophical negation and soteriological transcendence of the external world in ancient Indian Buddhism”), May 2006, Institute for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna.

“Erkenntnistheorie und Erlösungslehre im altindischen Buddhismus: zum Problem des äußeren Gegenstandes bei Dignāga, Sthiramati und Dharmakīrti” (“Epistemology and soteriology in ancient Indian Buddhism: the problem of the external object in Dignāga, Sthiramati, and Dharmakīrti”), February 2006, Abteilung für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens und Tibets, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg.

“Dharmakīrti’s exposition of pramāṇa and pramāṇaphala and the sliding scale of analysis”. 4th International Dharmakīrti Conference, Vienna, August 23-27, 2005.

“Dignāga and Dharmakīrti on the means of valid cognition and its result” Lecture at the University of Kyōto, Japan, accompanied by a one-week seminar devoted to the translation into English and interpretation of the Sanskrit text of Dharmakīrti’s Pramāṇaviniścaya, August 2004; the lecture was also held at the University of Naples, Italy, May 2004, and at the University of Leipzig, Germany, June 2004 [German]

“Sind Logik und Erkenntnistheorie buddhistisch? Über Selbstverständnis und Rolle der erkenntnistheoretisch-logischen Tradition des Buddhismus” Lecture in the course “Buddhismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart’, University of Hamburg, January 2004

“First the Buddha, then logic? Remarks on the chapter-sequence of Dharmakīrti’s Pramāṇavārttika”, Symposium “Logic, Grammar, and Argumentation in Buddhist Texts” at the EKŌ-Center for Japanese Culture, Düsseldorf, Germany, September 2003

“The logical reason called virodhin in Vaiśeṣika and its significance for connection-based theories of reasoning” XIIth World Sanskrit Conference, Helsinki, Finland, July 2003

“Jñānaśrīmitra’s anupalabdhi-theory as presented in Anupalabdhirahasya and Sarvaśabdābhāvacarcā. A survey” XIIIth Conference of The International Association of Buddhist Studies, Bangkok, Thailand, December 2002

“Ichlose Erkenntnis? Nicht-Subjekt-Theorien in der buddhistischen pramāṇa-Tradition” (“Cognition without an I? Non-subject-theories in the Buddhist pramāṇa tradition”) Symposium “Ich und Ichlosigkeit” at the EKŌ-Center for Japanese Culture, Düsseldorf, Germany, April 2002

“Integrating negative knowledge into pramāṇa theory: the development of the dṛśyānupalabdhi in Dharmakīrti’s earlier works” International Seminar on Argument and Reason in Indian Logic, Kazimiercz Dolny Poland, June 2001

“Der Begriff der Seele in der buddhistischen Philosophie” (“The concept of soul in Buddhist philosophy”) Symposium “Der Begriff der Seele in der Philosophie” (“The concept of soul in philosophy”), Hagenbrunn, Austria, November 2000

“Revisiting incompatibility – Dharmakīrti and his followers on virodha“ Conference “On Understanding Other Cultures: International Conference on Sanskrit and Related Studies”, Warszaw, Poland, October 1999

“upalabdhilakṣaṇaprāpti ni tsuite” (“On upalabdhilakṣaṇaprāpti“) [Japanese], 48th Conference of the Japanese Association for Indian and Buddhist Studies, Ōtani University, Kyōto, Japan, June 1997

Editorial Activities

Editor-in-chief, together with Helmut Krasser, of the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, since 2006.

Co-editor, with Eli Franco, Helmut Krasser and Horst Lasic, of the Proceedings of the 4th International Dharmakīrti Conference, Vienna, August 23-27, 2005 (in preparation)

Co-editor, with Helmut Tauscher and Helmut Krasser, of the academic monograph series “Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde” (Vienna Studies in Tibetology and Buddhism), since May 2004

Other Professional Activities

Development of the Indian Logic Knowledge Base within the project “Development of an Intelligent Cognitive System for Sanskrit”, funded within the EU-India Economic Cross Cultural Programme, since 2004

Member of the moderating committee of the academic online discussion list INDOLOGY, since 2001

Languages

Sanskrit, Buddhist Sanskrit, Classical Tibetan, Pāli: main research languages

English: reading, speaking and writing as second language

French, Japanese: reading knowledge