Michael Zimmermann (Buddhologist)

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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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personal data
SURNAME Zimmermann, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Buddhologist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century