Jowita Kramer

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bio	Jowita Kramer is professor of Indology at the Institute for Indology and Central Asian Studies. She specializes in Indian and Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, with particular focus on the psychological concepts of the Yogācāra tradition. Her research interests also include aspects of authorship and intertextuality in Buddhist literature. She is the author of a monograph on the Yogācāra concept of the “five categories” (vastu) and numerous publications on the Pañcaskandhakavibhāṣā, a 6th-century commentary by the Indian scholar Sthiramati. Before joining the University of Leipzig, Jowita Kramer has held positions at the Universities of Heidel­berg and Munich, the University of Oxford, the University of California, Berkeley, and at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. (Source Accessed June 29, 2023)
affiliation	University of Leipzig
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Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).