Rudolf Kaschewsky

Rudolf Kaschewsky (born April 16, 1939 in Cologne ) is a German Mongolist and Tibetologist .

Life

He attended high school with a focus on ancient languages ​​(including Hebrew and Arabic). After graduating from high school in 1959, he studied Catholic theology, education , Semitic studies , Indology , language and cultural studies of Central Asia and Sinology at the Universities of Cologne and Bonn , where he graduated in Catholic theology in 1963. He received his doctorate in 1967 with a major in Linguistics and Cultural Studies of Central Asia (Tibetan and Mongolian) and the minor subjects Indology and Old Testament. On June 22, 1968 he was awarded the GEFFRUB Prize. He taught as an Academic Councilor or Academic Senior Councilor at the University of Bonn from 1974 to 2004, during which time he also held temporary teaching assignments for Tibetan at the Sinological Seminar of the Goethe University . Until the winter semester 2012/2013 he had unpaid teaching assignments at the University of Bonn. He headed a working group on Tibetan / Mongolian translation methodology, which resulted in a joint essay The Life of Byams-chen chos-rje and the Development of the Monastery of Se-ra (Central Asian Studies 45 (2016) pp. 591–650). He made several research and study stays in Tibetan-speaking areas of Nepal and India .

His fields of work are questions on Mongolian translations of Tibetan Buddhist texts (terminology, syntax), the relationship between older and modern Mongolian translations, in this context comparative use of Greek and Latin translations of the Hebrew psalms (text variants in the commentaries on the psalms of Augustine) and parallels between Tibetan-Buddhist and medieval-Christian scholasticism .

Fonts (selection)

• The life of the Lamaist saint Tsongkhapa Blo-bzaṅ-grags-pa (1357–1419). Shown and explained on the basis of his vita “source of all happiness”. Čaqar dge-bśes Blo-bzaṅ chul-khrims (= Asian research. Volume 32). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1971 (also dissertation, Bonn 1967).
  • Volume 1. Translation and Commentary, ISBN 3-447-01374-5 .
  • Volume 2. Facsimiles, ISBN 3447005939 .
• as editor: Serta Tibeto-Mongolica. Festschrift for Walther Heissig on his 60th birthday on December 5th, 1973 . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1973, ISBN 3-447-01550-0 .
• The life of the sky fairy 'Gro-ba-bzaṅ-mo. A Buddhist play (= Tibetan texts from Nepal. Volume 1). Octopus-Verlag, Vienna 1975, OCLC 988322620 .
• as editor with Pema Tsering: The conquest of the castle of Sum-pa (= Asiatic research. Volume 94). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1973, ISBN 3-447-02519-0 .
  • Volume 1. Translation and indices
  • Volume 2. Facsimiles
• with Pema Tsering: Sde-dpon sum-cu. Ritual and iconography of the “Thirty Protective Deities of the World” . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-447-03990-6 .
• as editor: Paul Hacker : Abomination of desolation in holy place. On the situation of the Church after the Second Vatican Council . Heimbach 2012, ISBN 978-3-86417-005-8 .

Web links

• University of Bonn