Indrabhūti’s Jñānasiddhi. A New Critical Edition of the Sanskrit Text and its Tibetan Translation With English Translation and Reproductions of the MSS

Currently employed as research editor for 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha (link: https://84000.co/about/about-us), Torsten Gerloff began his academic studies in 2008 at the University of Hamburg, where he studied Sanskrit (major), and Tibetan and Thai (minor). In 2012, he received his BA and then deepened his study of Tantric Buddhism (specifically the Hevajra cycle) and Sanskrit philology. In 2014, he submitted his MA thesis, and three years later, in 2017, his doctoral dissertation, both concerning the Hevajra lineage associated with Saroruhavajra (Tib. mtsho skyes rdo rje). After three years of research and teaching at the International PhD Program in Buddhist Textual Studies, Mahidol University, Thailand, Gerloff returned to his alma mater to conduct the joint research project on Indrabhūti’s Jñānasiddhi. Although he primarily focuses on the Buddhist Tantric traditions with a special emphasis on the Hevajra and Guhyasamāja systems, Gerloff has a general interest in the study of Mahāyāna Buddhism and Abhidharma literature in the cultural extents of India, Tibet, and beyond, considering the close study of the surviving textual witnesses of major importance for a more complete and thorough understanding of the Buddhist traditions, in the light of their own doctrinal positions and soteriological practices. Academia link: https://uni-hamburg.academia.edu/TorstenGerloff.

Julian Schott, currently working as a postdoc at the University of Vienna (link: https://stb.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/team/julian-schott/user/schottj85/inum/1083/backpid/198178/), studied Indology, Philosophy and Religious Studies in Göttingen, Pune and Hamburg. His dissertation, conducted and funded at the Center for the Study of Manuscript Culture (CSMC) in Hamburg and published in 2019, focusses on the esoteric Buddhist Apabhraṃśa poems (dohā) of Kṛṣṇacaryā and their commentary traditions. His dissertation was the first in which one of the most important poems of his genre was comprehensively studied, edited and translated. After having taught for one term each Sanskrit and classical Tibetan in the University of Sydney and the Rangjung Yeshe Institute, in 2020, Schott returned to Hamburg for a three-year DFG funded project on Indrabhūti's Jñānasiddhi. His general expertise lies in the Indo-Tibetan tantric traditions with a focus on primary Buddhist Sanskrit sources and Tibetan translation literature. Within this broad area, Schott has published for instance on the Dohā traditions and their reception in the Tibetan cultural area, exegetical "siddha literature" such as contained in the Grub pa sde bdun. He is also interested in the Nāmasaṅgīti and the Kālacakra. Besides, Julian is involved in field of contemplative sciences. Academia link: https://ku-np.academia.edu/JulianSchott.