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  • Geschichte des indischen Buddhismus
  • Buddhistische Schriften
  • Institutionsgeschichte des Buddhismus
  • Kulturgeschichte des antiken und frühmittelalterlichen Südasiens
  • Indische Inschriften- und Handschriftenkunde

Curriculum Vitae

Wissenschaftliche Anstellungen

  • 10/2022– Professor (W3) für Klassische Indologie, Department für Asienstudien, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München.
  • 01/2018–09/2022 Maître de Conférences, École française d’Extrême-Orient, Paris.
  • 09/2013–12/2017 Seiyu Kiriyama Lecturer in Buddhist Studies, Department of Religions and Philosophies, SOAS University of London. Chair, Centre of Buddhist Studies, SOAS.
  • 09/2013 – 06/2014 Chargé de conférences, History of Indian Buddhism, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris.
  • 01/2012 – 08/2013 Postdoctoral researcher, Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Akademische Qualifikationen

  • 2012 Promotion (PhD), Religionsgeschichte und Religionsanthropologie (École Pratique des Hautes Études, 5th section, Paris. Summa cum laude.) Dissertationstitel: “La formation du Mahāvastu et la mise en place des conceptions relatives à la carrière du bodhisattva.”
  • 2005 Diplôme d'Études Approfondies, Altertumswissenschaften (History of Religions Pathway (Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg)
  • 2004 Maîtrise, Geschichte (Hauptfach: Religionsgeschichte) (Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg)
  • 2003 Licence, Geschichte (Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg)
  • 2003 Licence, Anthropologie (Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg)
  • 2002 Diplôme d'Études Universitaires Générales, Geschichte (Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg)
  • 2000 Baccalauréat général, série scientifique (Naturwissenschaftlicher Zweig, Konzentration Biologie) (Lycée Laurent de Lavoisier, Mulhouse)

Preise

  • 08/2026-07/2027 Nominated as “Project Professor” at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia of the University of Tokyo.
  • 01/2026- Co-principal investigator of the Research Cluster “Cross-Cultural Philology. New Perspectives on Premodern Textualities”, established through the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments (2026–32). (Granted May 2025)
  • 11/2024- Project Director of the project “Buddhist Manuscripts from Gandhāra” (2012–32), sponsored by the Federal Academies of Germany, and based at LMU Munich.
  • 01/2024- Co-investigator, with Pia Brancaccio and Akira Shimada, of the collaborative project “Mapping Ancient Kanheri (MAK),” sponsored by the Khyentse Foundation.
  • 05/2019- Research Associate in the project DHARMA (“The Domestication of ‘Hindu’ Asceticism and the Religious Making of South and Southeast Asia”), funded from 2019 through 2026 by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement no. 809994).
  • 2018 Preis der Colette Caillat Foundation am Institut de France für die Publikation des Buches La formation du Mahāvastu et la mise en place des conceptions relatives à la carrière du bodhisattva, veröffentlicht 2017 (EFEO, Paris).
  • 2011 Preis der Fondation des Treilles für das Projekt “The extended canon of the Mahāsāṁghika-Lokottaravādins and the incorporation of Bodhisattvayāna scriptures.”

Organisation von Forschungstagungen

  • 08/2025 Co-convener of the Panel “Light on the “Dark Mountain”: Buddhism in First-Millennium Kanheri,” 20th Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS), 10–15 August 2025, University of Leipzig.
  • 02-03/2025 Co-organiser and lecturer of the EFEO/EPHE/LMU “Winter School of Buddhist Textual Scholarship,” 24 February–1 March 2025, EFEO Centre of Chiang Mai, Thailand.
  • 05/2024 Co-organiser of the 4th LMU–UC Berkeley Buddhist Studies Workshop, “Dynamics of Tradition Building in Asian Buddhism(s),” 24–26 May 2024, LMU Munich.
  • 03/2024 Co-organiser and lecturer of the EFEO/EPHE/LMU “Winter School of Buddhist Textual Scholarship,” 4–9 March 2024, EFEO Centre of Chiang Mai, Thailand.
  • ʾ06/2023 Co-organiser of the Workshop “Doctrine, Precepts, and Apologetics in Middle-Period Indian Buddhist Narratives,” 16 June 2023, LMU Munich.
  • 10/2022- Convener of the Lecture series in Indology, Tibetology, and Buddhist Studies, LMU Munich.
  • 11/2019 Mitorganisator des Workshops “Regards croisés sur l’ascèse : Méditerrannée, Asie(s)”, 22. November 2019, École française d’Athènes, Athen.
  • 12/2017 Organisator des Workshops “Mahāyāna and the Precepts”, 9. December 2017, SOAS Centre of Buddhist Studies, London.
  • 09–12/2017 Organisator/Convener der Robert H.N. Ho Lecture Series in Chinese Buddhism, SOAS Centre of Buddhist Studies.
  • 09/2013–12/2017 Organisator/Convener der Buddhist Forum Vortragsreihe, SOAS Centre of Buddhist Studies.
  • 08/2017 Mitorganisator der Konferenz “From Vijayapurī to Śrīkṣetra? The beginnings of Buddhist exchange across the Bay of Bengal”, 31. Juli-7. August 2017, EFEO, Pondicherry.
  • 08/2017 Mitorganisator/Co-convener des Panels “Deeds of a Buddha”, 18th Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS), 20.-25. August 2017, University of Toronto.
  • 12/2015 Mitorganisator des internationalen Workshops “Spirited Dharma: Exploring Spirit Possession in Asian Buddhist Traditions”, 5. Dezember 2015, SOAS.
  • 12/2014 Organisator des internationalen Workshops “Just Buddhists? Monasticism and issues of hierarchy, freedom, and fairness in Buddhist Asia”, 11.-12. Dezember 2014, SOAS.
  • 08/2014 Organistor/Convener des Panels “Scriptural Formation and Authentication”, 17th Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS), 18.-23. August 2014, Universität Wien.
  • 04/2009 Co-organiser of the workshop “Textual Approaches to the study of Indian and Tibetan cultures. Symposium organised by the Gonda Fellows at the International Institute for Asian Studies”, 16 April 2009, Universität Leiden.
  • 06/2006 Organisator des Workshop “Études indiennes, études bouddhiques”, 20, Juni 2006, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris.

Doktoranden

  • Danping Long, “Dāna in the reconfiguration of the greater Gandhāran area as a Buddhist holy land from the 1st to the 7th century CE.”
  • Shuning Zhang, “Beyond Wealth for Merit: Buddhist-Merchant Interactions through Microscopic Evidence”
  • Navpreet Singh, “The Avalokita-sūtra Textual Family: Formation, Transmission and Historical Import.”
  • Fu Fan, “Sanskritization of the Epigraphic Languages in the Deccan: from the Second to the Fifth Century CE.”
  • Upulvehere Dhammawasa, “Interpreting the Pāli Vinaya between the 1st century BCE and the 4th century CE: Views of the Elders Mahāpaduma and Mahāsumma as reflected in the Samantapāsādikā.”
  • Yiren Zhang, “A Study on Zhi Qian’s Translations of Madhyamāgama Sūtras and the Dharmapada in Light of Their Parallels.”
  • Yael Shiri, “The Identity of the Śākya Clan as a Mirror of Buddhist Identity in Ancient South Asia,” SOAS. Im Dezember 2019 verteidigt.
  • Aruna Gamage, “Buddhaghosa’s Critique of Divergent Buddhist Views: A Doctrinal Study Mainly Based on Pāli Commentarial Exegesis,” SOAS. Im Mai 2019 verteidigt.

Verantwortungspositionen

  • Mitglied des Vorstands, Pali Text Society (2015–).
  • Mitglied des Vorstands, International Association of Buddhist Studies (2019–).
  • Fachherausgeber/Subject editor (zusammen mit P.-D. Szántó), South Asia Section, Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism, volume IV (History) [Arbeit an 15 Einträgen, insgesamt ca. 120.000 Wörter].
  • Mitglied der Redaktionsleitung/Editorial Board, Annual Report of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University (ARIRIAB).
  • Mitglied der Redaktionsleitung/Editorial Board, Journal of Gandhāran Buddhist Texts.
  • Mitglied des Beratungsauschuss/Board of Advisors, Buddhist Digital Resource Center (2020–).
  • Mitglied des internationalen Beratungsauschuss/International Advisory Board, Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Art and Conservation, The Courtauld Institute (2016–2020).
  • Mitglied (2014–2019) und Vorsitzender (2020–2023) des Academic Board, Khyentse Foundation PhD Dissertation Prize in Buddhist Studies (Europa).
  • Mitglied des Teaching and Learning Committee, MA in Asian Studies, EPHE/PSL (2019–2022).
  • Mitglied des Vorstands/Executive Board, Postgraduate Programme in Religious Studies, PSL University, Paris (2021–2022).
  • Mitglied des wissenschaftlichen Beirats/Scientific Board, Institut thématique interdisciplinaire (ITI) “Histoire, sociologie, archéologie et anthropologie des religions,” Université de Strasbourg (2021–).
  • Externer Prüfer, MPhil und MSt in Buddhist Studies and Oriental Studies —Indian Religions, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford (2015–2021).
  • Begutachter von Forschungsprojekten für das Nationales Wissenschaftszentrums Polen (Narodowe Centrum Nauki) und der Forschungsstiftung — Flandern (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek — Vlaanderen, FWO).
  • Begutachter des Zentrums für Süd- und Südostasienstudien (Centro studi su Asia meridionale e Sud-Est Asiatico – CSSEAS), Universität Neapel “L’Orientale”, im Rahmen der Bewertung des Programms “Dipartimenti di Eccellenza”.
  • Rezensionstätigkeit für die folgenden Zeitschiften: Annual Report of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology; Archaeological Review from Cambridge; Écriture et image; Indo-Iranian Journal; inTRAlinea: Online Translation Journal; Journal of Indian Philosophy; Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies; Puṣpikā; Religion; Scripta: An International Journal of Codicology and Paleography; Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism (Wisdom Publications).

Publikationen

Monographien

2017 La formation du Mahāvastu et la mise en place des conceptions relatives à la carrière du bodhisattva. Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient (Collection Monographies, 195), 656 p.

Herausgebertätigkeit

2025 (mit Arlo Griffiths und Akira Shimada) Early Āndhradeśa: Historical Studies around the Epigraphic Corpus, 2 vols. Leiden and Boston: Brill (Gonda Indological Studies, XXV), 880 p.

2020 (mit Vincent Eltschinger und Marta Sernesi). Archaeologies of the Written: Indian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies in Honour of Cristina Scherrer-Schaub. Naples: Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” (Series Minor, LXXXIX), 975 p.

Artikel

  • 2024. (with Francesco Sferra) “Ajātaśatru among the Pudgalavādins: A Leaf of the Saṃmitīya Śāmaṇṇaphala-mahāsūtra in Bhaikṣukī Script,” Indo-Iranian Journal 67/4: 305–350.
  • 2021–2022 “Kings as Patrons of Monasteries and Stūpas in Early Āndhra: Sada Rulers, the Rājagiriya Fraternity, and the ‘Great Shrine’ at Amaravati.” Buddhism, Law & Society 7: 1–57.
  • 2018 “A Tide of Merit: Royal Patrons, Tāmraparṇīya monks, and the Buddha’s Awakening in 5th–6th century Āndhradeśa.” Indo-Iranian Journal 61/1: 20–96.
  • 2016 [2017] (with Stefan Baums, Arlo Griffiths, and Ingo Strauch) “Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa: Results of fieldwork in January and February 2016.” Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient 102: 355–398.
  • 2014 “Mahākāśyapa, His Lineage, and the Wish for Buddhahood: Reading anew the Bodhgayā Inscriptions of Mahānāman.” Indo-Iranian Journal 57/1–2: 1–60.
  • 2012 “The Mahāvastu and the Vinayapiṭaka of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins.” Annual Report of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology 15: 87–104.

Buchkapitel

  • 2025a (with Arlo Griffiths and Akira Shimada) “Introduction,” In Early Āndhradeśa: Historical Studies around the Epigraphic Corpus, edited by Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier, and Akira Shimada, vol. 1, pp. 1–15. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
  • 2025b (with Arlo Griffiths) “Inventory of the Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa,” In Early Āndhradeśa: Historical Studies around the Epigraphic Corpus, edited by Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier, and Akira Shimada, vol. 1, pp. 17–197. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
  • 2025c (with Andrew Ollett and Arlo Griffiths) “Early Memorial Stones from the Deccan (up to 300 CE)” In Early Āndhradeśa: Historical Studies around the Epigraphic Corpus, edited by Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier, and Akira Shimada, vol. 2, pp. 162–333. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
  • 2023b “Buddhist Patronage and Monastic Institutions in Āndhra: Epigraphic Evidence.” In Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, ed. by John Guy, pp. 123–128, 298–299. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press.
  • 2023a “A 4th/5th-Century sūtra of the Saṁmitīya Canon? On the So-Called ‘Continental Pāli’ Inscription from Devnimori (Gujarat)” In Proceedings of the Third International Pali Studies Week — Paris 2018, edited by Claudio Cicuzza, pp. 403–470. Bangkok and Lumbini: Fragile Palm Leaf Foundation; Lumbini International Research Institute (Material for the Study of the Tripitaka, vol. 18).
  • 2020a “Stairway to Heaven and the Path to Buddhahood: Donors and Their Aspirations in Fifth- and Sixth-Century Ajanta.” In Mārga. Paths to liberation in South Asian Buddhist traditions. Vol. I. Papers from an International Symposium held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 17–18 December, hrsg. von Cristina Pecchia und Vincent Eltschinger, pp. 177–248. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
  • 2020b “Buddhist Lineages along the Southern Routes: On Two nikāyas Active at Kanaganahalli under the Sātavāhanas.” In Archaeologies of the Written: Indian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies in Honour of Cristina Scherrer-Schaub, hrsg. von Vincent Tournier, Vincent Eltschinger und Marta Sernesi, pp. 859–912. Neapel: Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” (Series Minor, LXXXIX).
  • 2016 “Protective Verses for Travellers: A Fragment of the Diśāsauvastika-gāthās Related to the Scriptures of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins.” In Buddhist manuscripts, volume IV, hrsg. von Jens Braarvig, pp. 407–437. Oslo: Hermes Publishing (Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection).
  • 2012 “Matériaux pour une histoire de la légende et du culte de Mahākāśyapa: une relecture d’un fragment inscrit retrouvé à Silao (Bihār) [Materials for a history of the legend and cult of Mahākāśyapa: a new reading of an inscribed fragment found in Silao (Bihār)].” In Autour de Bāmiyān. De la Bactriane hellénisée à l’Inde bouddhique, hrsg. von Guillaume Ducœur, pp. 375–413. Paris: De Boccard.

Online-Corpora

2025 Inscriptions of Kanaganahalli. Documentation, new edition, and translation of 438 inscriptions from a major stūpa-site in Karnataka, and its surroundings. With contributions by Robert Arlt and Andrew Ollett. Published at https://dharmalekha.info/.

2025- (with Kelsey Martini) Inscriptions of Kanheri. Documentation, new edition, and translation of ca. 110 inscriptions from the cave site of Kanheri, Maharashtra. Published by instalments at https://dharmalekha.info/.

2017– (mit Arlo Griffiths) Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa. Dokumentation, Edition und Übersetzung von ca. 900 frühen Inschriften (vor dem 7. Jh. ) aus den Staaten Andhra Pradesh und Telangana. Mit Beiträgen von Stefan Baums, Emmanuel Francis und Ingo Strauch. Schrittweise hier veröffentlicht.

Rezensionen

“Gérard Fussman, Choix d’articles. Réunis par Denis Matringe, Éric Ollivier et Isabelle Szelagowski. (Réimpressions, no. 14) 598 pp. Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2014.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 80/1: 169–170.

Nachschlagewerke

  • 2019a (mit John Strong) “Śākyamuni: South Asia.” In Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Volume II — Lives, hrsg. von Jonathan Silk et al., pp. 3–38. Leiden: Brill.
  • 2019b “Past Buddhas: South Asia.” In Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Volume II — Lives, hrsg. von Jonathan Silk et al., pp. 95–108. Leiden: Brill.

Projekte

Aktuelle Projekte

  • 11/2024– Projektleiter des Akademie Projekt „Buddhistische Handschriften aus Gandhāra“ (2012-32), LMU München.
  • 01/2024– Zusammen mit Pia Brancaccio und Akira Shimada Co-Investor des projekts „Mapping Ancient Kanheri (MAK)“, gefördert von der Khyentse Foundation.
  • 05/2019– Research Associate beim Projekt DHARMA (“The Domestication of ‘Hindu’ Asceticism and the Religious Making of South and Southeast Asia”), von 2019 bis 2025 gefördert vom Europäischen Forschungsrat/European Research Council (ERC) als Teil des EU-Forschungs- und Innovationsprogramms Horizont 2020 (grant agreement no. 809994).
  • 2017– (mit Arlo Griffiths) Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa. Dokumentation, Edition und Übersetzung von ca. 900 frühen Inschriften (vor dem 7. Jh.) aus den Staaten Andhra Pradesh und Telangana. Mit Beiträgen von Stefan Baums, Emmanuel Francis und Ingo Strauch. Schrittweise hier veröffentlicht.

Abgeschlossene Projekte und Forschungsstellen

  • 09/2015 – 08/2017 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter/Collaborative Research Fellow, The American Council of Learned Societies/Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies, für die Zusammenarbeit an “From Vijayapurī to Śrīkṣetra? The beginnings of Buddhist exchange across the Bay of Bengal as witnessed by inscriptions from Andhra Pradesh and Myanmar”. Forschungsprojekt koordiniert von Prof. A. Griffiths (EFEO), unter Mitarbeit von Prof. I. Strauch (Lausanne), Dr. S. Baums (LMU) und Dr. J. Wheatley (unabhängiger Forscher).
  • 01/2012 – 08/2013 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter/Research Fellow innerhalb des VICI-Projekts “Buddhism and Social Justice” geleitet von Prof. J. Silk und finanziert vom Dutch National Research Fund (NWO). Forschungsprojekt zum Thema “Social Hierarchy within Monastic Communities of South Asia, during the Middle Period of Indian Buddhism”.
  • 12/2008 – 04/2009 Gonda Foundation Fellowship für das Projekt “A study of the Bahubuddhakasūtra textual traditions”.
  • 02–05/2008 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship (Short Term), für ein Projekt zum Herausgeben ausgewählter Teile des Mahāvastu unter der Anleitung von Prof. S. Karashima (Soka University).

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