Christopher I. Beckwith

Christopher I. Beckwith (* 1945 ) is Professor of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington , Indiana . He received his BA in Chinese from Ohio State University in 1968, his MA in Tibetan from Indiana University's Department of Uralic and Altaic Studies in 1974, and his Ph.D. in 1977. in Inner Asian Studies from Indiana University. He is particularly interested in the early history of Central Asia and the early ethnolinguistic history of Centraleurasia and east asia .

In 1986 he became a MacArthur Fellow .

Works

• Greek Buddha: Pyrrho's Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-691-16644-5 . ( Table of contents )
• Warriors of the Cloisters: The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, ISBN 9780691155319 .
• Empires of the Silk Road: a history of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the present . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009, ISBN 9780691135892 .
• Phoronyms: classifiers, class nouns, and the pseudopartitive construction . Lang, New York 2007, ISBN 9781433101397 .
• Koguryo. The Language of Japan's Continental Relatives . Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2004.
• Medieval Tibeto-Burman languages . Brill, Cologne 2002, ISBN 9004124241 .
• The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia: a history of the struggle for great power among Tibetans, Turks, Arabs, and Chinese during the Early Middle Ages . Princeton University Press, Princeton 1987, ISBN 9780691024691 .
• Silver on Lapis: Tibetan literary culture and history . Tibet Society, Bloomington 1987.

Web links

• indiana.edu: Christopher Beckwith