Birgit waiter

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Birgit Kellner (born 1969) is an Austrian Buddhist scholar and Tibetologist. She studied Tibetology and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna , where she completed her master's degree under Ernst Steinkellner in 1994 , and at the University of Hiroshima (Japan) under Katsura Shōryū, where she obtained her doctorate in 1999. After a number of research projects, u. a. As a Humboldt fellow at the University of Hamburg and a visiting professorship at the University of California at Berkeley , she took up a professorship for Buddhist studies at the University of Heidelberg in 2010 within the cluster of excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”. In 2015 she was offered a position at the Austrian Academy of Sciences as director of the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia in Vienna.

Kellner's scientific interests are primarily the philosophical analysis of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism , in particular the so-called pramāṇa school, which goes back to the Indian philosophers Dignaga and Dharmakirti and has been preserved in various forms, especially in Tibet. In her analysis she not only takes into account the philosophical and historical context, but also tries to clarify the general philosophical meaning of this school of thought.

Birgit Kellner is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , a member of the Humboldt Society , a member of the scientific advisory board of the Annali dell ' Università di Napoli “L'Orientale” and co-editor of the Vienna Studies on Tibetology and Buddhist Studies . She also served as co-editor of the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies for a long time .

Publications (selection)

  • Jñānaśrīmitra's Anupalabdhirahasya and Sarvaśabdābhāvacarcā: A Critical Edition with a Survey of his Anupalabdhi-Theory. Vienna: Vienna Studies on Tibetology and Buddhist Studies 67, 2007
  • Nothing remains nothing. The Buddhist rejection of Kumārilas abhāvapramāṇa. Translation and interpretation of Śāntarakṣitas Tattvasaṅgraha vv. 1647-1690 with Kamalaśīas Tattvasaṅgrahapañjikā as well as approaches and working hypotheses on the history of negative knowledge in Indian philosophy. Vienna: Vienna Studies on Tibetology and Buddhist Studies 39, 1997

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