Dr. Athanaric Huard

Main Research and Teaching Interests

• Buddhist meditation
• Buddhist narrative literature (Sanskrit, Tocharian, Chinese) of
• the first millenium (especially Maitreya literature, Buddhacarita)
• Manuscriptology and paleography of Central Asian Brāhmī
• Tocharian linguistics

Curriculum Vitae

After training in Greek and Latin philology and linguistics (2009-2015), I turned to Indology and Tocharian languages and Buddhism. From 2016 to 2022, I wrote a dissertation on Tocharian meditation texts. From 2016 to 2020 I worked as document researcher at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, where I was in charge of cataloging the Fonds-Pelliot Kouchéen. From 2020 to 2023, I worked in the ERC project HisTochText that investigates manuscripts and Tocharian Buddhist texts.

Publications

Orcid : 0000-0002-1264-2399
Academia: https://ephe-sorbonne.academia.edu/AthanaricHuard

• 2025, with Bai Yu, “The Cosmic Body of the Buddha as a Narrative Motif,” Buddhist Studies Review 41 (1‑2), 191‑211.
• 2023, with Adam Catt and Yuima Inaba, “Tocharian Abhidharma Texts III: A Philological Study of B 199,” Journal Asiatique 311 (1), 87–106.
• 2022, with Adam Catt and Yuima Inaba, “Tocharian Abhidharma Texts II: A Philological Study of A 384–386,” Journal Asiatique 310 (2), 237–273.
• 2022, Recherches sur les textes de méditation en tokharien, dissertation, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris.
• 2021, “pattitrukālle kariśkenta wärpanamane” ou comment honorer un moine tokharien,” in: Hannes Fellner, Melanie Malzahn, and Michaël Peyrot (ed.), lyuke wmer ra: Indo-European Studies in Honor of Georges-Jean Pinault, Ann Arbor, Beech Stave Press, 225–235.
• 2020, “On Tocharian B kents* and the Origin of PIE *ǵhans- ‘goose’,” Wékwos 5, 215–262.
• 2020, with Adam Catt and Yuima Inaba, “Tocharian Abhidharma Texts I: A Philological Study of B 197,” Journal Asiatique 308 (2), 177–198.
• 2020, “The End of Mahākāśyapa and the Encounter with Maitreya: Two Leaves of a Maitreya-Cycle in Archaic TB,” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 20, 1–82.
• 2019, “The Beginning of the Tocharian B Karmavibhaṅga,” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 19, 27–66.