Baums, S.
Full Name[edit]
Dr. Stefan Baums
Bukkyo University
96 Kitahananobo-cho
Murasakino, Kita-ku
Kyoto 603-8301
Japan
baums@uw.edu
Affiliation[edit]
- 1997–1998 Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, as Research Assistant on the projects “Sanskritwörterbuch der buddhistischen Texte aus den Turfanfunden” and “Katalogisierung der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland”
- 2000–2002 Asien‐Institut, Københavns Universitet, as Teaching Assistant and Lecturer for Sanskrit and Indian Studies
- 2002Centre for Advanced Study, Norwegian Academy of Sciences, as Research Fellow on the project “Buddhist manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection”
- 2006–2007 Department of Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington, as Teaching Associate for Sanskrit
- 2007–2010 Department of Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington, as Research Associate on the Gāndhārī Dictionary Project
- 2010–2011 Graduate School of Literature, Bukkyo University, as Research Fellow in Buddhist Studies
Education[edit]
- 1994–1998 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: state examination in Greek (Graecum); Zwischenprüfung in Indologie and Tibetologie, Vorprüfung in Allgemeine und indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft
- 1998–1999 School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London: Master of Arts with distinction (Sanskrit Literature, Nepali Language, and Buddhism: History and Doctrines; dissertation topic: “Word order stylistics of Daṇḍin’s Daśakumāracarita”)
- 2002–2009 University of Washington, Seattle: Doctor of Philosophy (Asian Languages and Literature; dissertation topic: “A Gāndhārī commentary on early Buddhist verses: British Library Kharoṣṭhī fragments 7, 9, 13 and 18”)
Other Information[edit]
Dr. Stefan Baums teaches Sanskrit, Prakrit and Pali language and literature and South Asian Buddhism at the Institute for Indian and Tibetan Studies of the University of Munich and serves as lead researcher of the Buddhist Manuscripts from Gandhāra project at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Before joining the University of Munich, he held research and teaching posts at the University of Copenhagen, the University of Washington, the University of California, Berkeley, and Leiden University, and was a Visiting Professor of South Asian and Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include Buddhist philology and epigraphy, the beginnings of written Buddhist literature, the interaction of written and oral modes of text transmission, the development of Buddhist hermeneutics, and the description of Gāndhārī language and literature. His work focuses on the decipherment and edition of three Gāndhārī birch‐bark manuscripts containing commentaries on early Buddhist verses, and on a comprehensive study of the historical connections and exegetical principles of this group of verse commentaries and the related Gāndhārī Saṃgītisūtra commentary. He is also an editor (with Andrew Glass) of the Dictionary of Gāndhārī. |Source