Michael Zimmermann (Buddhologist)
Michael Zimmermann is a German Buddhologist .
Life
He studied classical Indology , Tibetology and Japanology in Kyoto , Tokyo and at the University of Hamburg ( Master's thesis : The Nine Illustrations of the Buddha-Nature in the Tathagatagarbhasutra ) and received his doctorate in 2000 with a thesis on the origin of the doctrine of Buddha nature in India. He worked for the Nepalese-German Manuscript Preservation Project of the German Research Foundation in Hamburg and Kathmandu , where he also headed the Nepal Research Center from 2002 to 2003 . After four years as Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University and as Director of the Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies , he was appointed Professor of Indian Buddhism at the Asia-Africa Institute in Hamburg in 2007 .
His research interests are Indian Mahayana Buddhism in all its forms of expression (textual history research based on the canonical languages in India, Tibet and China), Buddhist ethics such as B. the relationship of Buddhism to government and violence and modern developments in Asian and Western forms of Buddhism.
Works (selection)
- A Buddha within. Rhe Tathāgatagarbhasūtra. The earliest exposition of the Buddha-nature teaching in India (= Bibliotheca philologica et philosophica Buddhica . Volume 6). The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University, Tokyo 2002, ISBN 4-9980622-5-5 (also dissertation, Hamburg 2000).
- Editor: Buddhism and violence (= LIRI seminar proceedings series . Volume 2). Lumbini International Research Institute, Lumbini 2006, ISBN 99946-933-1-X .
- Editor with Carola Roloff and Wolfram Weisse : Buddhism in the West. A dialogue between religion and science (= religions in dialogue. A series of publications by the Interdisciplinary Center for World Religions in Dialogue at the University of Hamburg . Volume 6). Waxmann, Münster 2011, ISBN 3-8309-2555-7 .
- Editor with Christof Spitz and Stefan Schmidt : Mindfulness. A Buddhist concept conquers science . Huber, Bern 2012, ISBN 3-456-85154-5 .
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SURNAME | Zimmermann, Michael |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Buddhologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |