Johannes Schneider (Tibetologist)

Johannes Schneider (born February 9, 1964 in Wangen im Allgäu ) is a German Tibetologist and Indologist .

Life

From 1986 to 1992 he studied Indology, Tibetology and Religious Studies at the Philipps University in Marburg (1992 Magister / 1994 PhD ). From 1994 to 1999 he worked at the Free University of Berlin . Since 1999 he has been teaching at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Since 2003 he has been working on the dictionary of the Tibetan written language for the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . After completing his habilitation in 2006, he has been an adjunct professor of Indology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich since 2014 .

His research and teaching focuses on Sanskrit poetry and poetics , Tibetan philology and lexicography and the literature of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism .

as editor: The Praise of the Excellence of the Buddha. Udbhaṭasiddhasvāmins Viśeṣastava. With Prajñāvarman's comment. According to the Tibetan Tanjur . Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-923776-23-3 .
Sukṛtidatta Pantas Kārtavīryodaya. A modern Sanskrit Mahākāvya from Nepal . Swisttal-Odendorf 1996, OCLC 832822174 .
Vāgīśvarakirtis Mṛtuvañcanopadeśa, a Buddhist text on how to ward off death . Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6722-8 .
A Buddhist Critique of the Indian Gods. Śaṃkarasvāmin's Devātiśayastotra with Prajñāvarman's commentary . Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-902501-19-6 .

^ Schneider, Johannes. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. degruyter.com, accessed on May 10, 2020 (founded by Joseph Kürschner , constantly updated, restricted-access online edition).

personal data
SURNAME	Schneider, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Tibetologist and Indologist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 9, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wangen in the Allgäu