Steffen Döll

Steffen Döll is a German Buddhologist.

Life

From 1998 he studied Japanese Studies , Sinology and Religious Studies in Munich and Kyoto . In 2001/2002 he was a guest student at the Institute for Japanese History of Philosophy, University of Kyoto . After graduating (MA) from LMU in 2004 , he did a research stay at Kyoto University from 2006 to 2008. From 2008 to 2011 he was a research assistant at the LMU Japan Center. After completing his doctorate in 2009 at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the University of Munich, he was accepted into the Young College of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 2010. In 2011 he was a Research Fellow at the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies at Seikei University . From 2012 to 2015 he was a research assistant ( Klaus Vollmer ), Japan Center, University of Munich. In 2013 he was visiting professor at Numata Center for Buddhist Studies in Hamburg . In 2014/2015 he had a teaching position at the Institute for Comparative Cultural Research, Philipps University of Marburg . Since 2015 he has been teaching as Numata Professor for Japanese Buddhism at the Asia-Africa Institute at the University of Hamburg .

His main research interests are the history of Buddhism, especially its transfer to Japan and the subsequent institutionalization processes, the philosophy of Buddhism, especially with regard to hermeneutics, understanding of language and the philosophy of mind, as well as their reception in modern Japanese philosophy and the interdependencies between religious traditions and written cultures Japan and China.

Works (selection)

• So why look? Introducing the thought of Ueda Shizuteru . Iudicium, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-89129-794-7 (also Master's thesis, Munich 2004).
• Translator: Kubota Nobuhiro: The climate of Japanese polytheism (= Japan and its century ). Studies, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-89129-886-2 .
• Translator: Imamichi Tomonobu: Eco-Ethica. An introduction to the ethics of the sphere of life (= Japan and its century ). Iudicium, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-89129-882-X .
• In the east of the sea. Chinese emigrant monks and the early institutions of Japanese Zen Buddhism (= Munich East Asian Studies . Volume 84). Steiner, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-515-09794-9 (also dissertation, Munich 2009).

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Steffen Döll