MacDonald, Anne

MacDonald, Anne on the DRL

Professors • Translators

Anne Elizabeth MacDonald

English Phonetics	Anne MacDonald
Sort Name	MacDonald, Anne

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences

PhD University

University of Vienna

Education

• Ph.D. in Indology (summa cum laude), University of Vienna, Austria, 2003
• Doctoral Studies, Institute for the Culture and History of India and Tibet, University of Hamburg, Germany, 1994–2000.
• Graduate Studies, Dept. of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1988–1994.
• M.A. in Religious Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1988.
• Qualifying Studies, Dept. of Religious Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada, 1983–84.
• Undergraduate Studies in Museology, University of British Columbia, Canada, 1979–1980.
• B.A. in Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1980
  

Biographical Information

Dr. MacDonald is a researcher at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria. Her primary focus is the development of Madhyamaka thought in India and Tibet. Her research on Chandrakirti's Prasannapada and Madhyamakavatarabhaṣya is based on newly available manuscripts of these works. (Source Accessed Apr 7, 2021)

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Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.