Dr. Aruna Gamage
Research Associate
The Early Lost Legal Commentaries of the Mahāvihāra Tradition (DFG-Project)
Office address:
Schellingstraße 9
Room 203
80539 München
Office hours:
By appointment
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Main Research and Teaching Interests
Under the auspices of a DFG (Eigene Stelle) grant, Aruna Gamage conducts research on the project titled The Early Lost Legal Commentaries of the Mahāvihāra Tradition: A Contribution to the Development of Buddhist Monastic Law. His primary research interests lie in Abhidhammic and legal hermeneutics within the Mahāvihāra Buddhist school.
Publications
- Monograph(s)
2025: Buddhaghosa, His Sources, and the Buddhist Others: Authority and Heterodoxy in Early Mahāvihāra Commentaries. Halle: Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg. 362 pages.
- Articles
2024a: “Pars Pro Toto in the Pāli Commentaries: Desanāmatta (‘a mere reference’) and its Application.” Zeitschrift für Indologie und Südasienstudien, 41, 87–136.
2024b: “Convention of speech (rūḷhi) in Theriya Buddhism: the law of generalization.” Journal of Pali Text Society, 35, 7–55.
2024c: “Passion for intercourse (methunarāga) vs. passion for bodily contact (kāyasaṃsaggarāga): A Study of Exegeses in the Mahāvihāra-Vinaya.” Journal of Buddhism, Law & Society, 8, 81–111.
2023a: “The Locative of Cause Discounted: A Study of the Grammatical Exegeses in the Mahāvihāra Buddhist School.” International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture, 33/2, 183–216.
2023b: “Many for One: An Exegetical Method in Mahāvihāra Buddhism.” Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, 23, 118–147.