Christoph Emmrich
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Emmrich, C.
| FirstName / namefirst | Christoph |
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| LastName / namelast | Emmrich |
| MainNamePhon | Christoph Emmrich |
| SortName | Emmrich, Christoph |
| bio | Christoph Emmrich (Ph.D. in Classical Indology, Heidelberg University, 2004) is currently working on and with Newar girls in the Kathmandu Valley (Nepal) and their involvement in Buddhist practices related to marriage, image consecration, temporary ordination, and female education. In his forthcoming monograph titled Buddhist Rituals for Newar Girls: Mimesis and Memory in the Kathmandu Valley he confronts the personal and ethnographic remembrance of singular ritual events with the history of their local and academic exegesis on the basis of ritual manuals reaching back to the early seventeenth century. Christoph Emmrich works in the fields of Newar Buddhism, Pali and Burmese literature and Tamil Jainism and has covered themes such as the historiography of ritual failure, the relationship of soteriology, temporality and language, and the shifting religious affiliation of literary texts. After past appointments at the University of Heidelberg, the Universita degli Studi di Firenze and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, he currently teaches South and Southeast Asian Buddhism at the University of Toronto. Recent studies include “On the Road to Mawlamyine. Transit and Translation through a Burmese Buddhist Novel, forthcoming; The Ins and Outs of Jains in Tamil Literary Histories. Journal of Indian Philosophy, in press; Emending Perfection. Prescript, Postscript and Practice in Newar Buddhist Manuscript Culture, in Buddhist Manuscript Cultures: Knowledge, Ritual and Art, S. Berkwitz, J. Schober, and C. Brown, eds. (London: Routledge, 2008), 140-55; All the King’s Horses and All the King’s Men. The 2004 Red Matsyendranatha Incident in Lalitpur, Indologica Taurinensia 32 (2006), 31-65. (Sasson, Little Buddhas, xii) |
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