Archaeologies of the Written: Indian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies in Honour of Cristina Scherrer-Schaub

Vincent Tournier; Vincent Eltschinger; Marta Sernesi

doi:10.6093/978-88-6719-174-1

Archaeologies of the Written: Indian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies in Honour of Cristina Scherrer-Schaub

Authors

Vincent Tournier

École française d'Extrême-Orient

Vincent Eltschinger

École Pratique des Hautes Études

Marta Sernesi

École Pratique des Hautes Études

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6719-174-1

Keywords:

Tibetan Studies, Cristina Scherrer-Schaub, Buddhism

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Series Minor

ISSN: 1824-6109

Pages: 978

Language: English

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-27958

Abstract: The present volume is a token of appreciation and admiration offered to Cristina Scherrer-Schaub, in recognition to her outstanding contributions to the fields of Buddhist and Indo-Tibetan Studies. The twenty-seven contributions gathered in this volume were authored by some of Cristina Scherrer-Schaub’s closest pupils and colleagues and adress various issues relevant to the political, religious, intellectual, and cultural histories of India, Tibet, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. Each article contributes in its own way to pointillistically map an Asian landscape familiar to the honorand, from Tepe Sardar to Candi Sewu and mTho lding, and from Abhinavagupta to the Prasannapadā. It is the editors’ hope that the diversity of the contributions assembled in this volume may succeed in partly mirroring Scherrer-Schaub’s broad intellectual horizon and her impact on many scholarly trajectories.

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Author Biographies

Vincent Tournier, École française d'Extrême-Orient

Vincent Tournier is Associate Professor in Buddhist Studies at the École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO), Paris. Tournier’s main field of interest is the history of Buddhism in Ancient and Early Medieval South Asia. He has investigated models and figures of human perfection; the history of Buddhist schools, lineages, and centres; processes of scriptural formation and authentication; Buddhist cosmology and narrative representations of the past; patronage and donors’ aspirations. His publications include La formation du Mahāvastu et la mise en place des conceptions relatives à la carrière du bodhisattva (2017), and the online corpus Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa (edited with A. Griffiths; http://epigraphia.efeo.fr/andhra).

Vincent Eltschinger, École Pratique des Hautes Études

Vincent Eltschinger is Professor for Indian Buddhism at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, PSL Research University, Paris. His research work focuses on the religious background, the apologetic dimensions and the intellectual genealogy of late Indian Buddhist philosophy. His publications include numerous books and articles dedicated to various aspects of the Indian Buddhists’ polemical interaction with orthodox Brahmanism from A śvaghoṣa to late Indian Buddhist epistemologists such as Śaṅkaranandana. Vincent Eltschinger, one of the editors of Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism, has been teaching at various universities including Budapest, Lausanne, Leiden, Leipzig, Tokyo, Venice, Vienna, and Zurich.

Marta Sernesi, École Pratique des Hautes Études

Marta Sernesi is Professor of Tibetan Religions at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, PSL Research University, Paris. She has previously worked at the LMU Munich, SOAS University of London, and the University of Oxford. Her research work focuses on the cultural and religious history of Tibet and the Himalayas, with a special focus on contemplative traditions and instructional literature, biographical and narrative sources, and the institutional landscape of Tibetan Buddhism. She also studies Tibetan book culture, investigating modes of textual production and circulation, and early xylographic book printing. Her publications include Fifteen Century Tibet (2017) and Re-enacting the Past (2021).