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|bio=Alexander von Rospatt is Professor for Buddhist and South Asian Studies, and director of the Group in Buddhist Studies. He specializes in the doctrinal history of Indian Buddhism, and in Newar Buddhism, the only Indic Mahayana tradition that continues to persist in its original South Asian setting (in the Kathmandu Valley) right to the present. His first book sets forth the development and early history of the Buddhist doctrine of momentariness. His new book "The Svayambhu Caitya and its Renovations" deals with the historical renovations of the Svayambhū Stupa of Kathmandu. Based on Newar manuscripts and several years of fieldwork in Nepal, he reconstructs the ritual history of these renovations and their social contexts. This book complements numerous essays Prof. von Rospatt has authored on various aspects of this tradition, including its narrative literature, and its rituals and their origins and evolution. He currently has two related monographs under preparation, one dealing with the mural paintings and other visual depictions of the Svayambhupurana, the other with the life-cycle rituals of old age as observed among Newars and other South Asian communities. | |bio=Alexander von Rospatt is Professor for Buddhist and South Asian Studies, and director of the Group in Buddhist Studies. He specializes in the doctrinal history of Indian Buddhism, and in Newar Buddhism, the only Indic Mahayana tradition that continues to persist in its original South Asian setting (in the Kathmandu Valley) right to the present. His first book sets forth the development and early history of the Buddhist doctrine of momentariness. His new book "The Svayambhu Caitya and its Renovations" deals with the historical renovations of the Svayambhū Stupa of Kathmandu. Based on Newar manuscripts and several years of fieldwork in Nepal, he reconstructs the ritual history of these renovations and their social contexts. This book complements numerous essays Prof. von Rospatt has authored on various aspects of this tradition, including its narrative literature, and its rituals and their origins and evolution. He currently has two related monographs under preparation, one dealing with the mural paintings and other visual depictions of the Svayambhupurana, the other with the life-cycle rituals of old age as observed among Newars and other South Asian communities. | ||
Before joining UC Berkeley in 2003, von Rospatt served as assistant professor at the University of Leipzig and taught as visiting professor at the Universities of Oxford and Vienna. More recently he has also taught on visiting appointments at the University of Munich, and at the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies at Tokyo. | Before joining UC Berkeley in 2003, von Rospatt served as assistant professor at the University of Leipzig and taught as visiting professor at the Universities of Oxford and Vienna. More recently he has also taught on visiting appointments at the University of Munich, and at the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies at Tokyo. ([https://sseas.berkeley.edu/people/alexander-von-rospatt/ Source Accessed Feb 7, 2023]) | ||
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:[http://sseas.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/faculty/files/avrospatt_past_renovations_of_the_svayambhucaitya_in_light_of_the_valley_2011.pdf The Past Renovations of the Svayambhūcaitya (in LIGHT OF THE VALLEY, 2011)] | :[http://sseas.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/faculty/files/avrospatt_past_renovations_of_the_svayambhucaitya_in_light_of_the_valley_2011.pdf The Past Renovations of the Svayambhūcaitya (in LIGHT OF THE VALLEY, 2011)] | ||
:[http://sseas.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/faculty/files/avrospatt_2012_past_continuity_and_recent_changes_in_the_ritual_practice_of_newar_buddhism_brill.pdf Past continuity and recent changes in the ritual practice of Newar Buddhism] | :[http://sseas.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/faculty/files/avrospatt_2012_past_continuity_and_recent_changes_in_the_ritual_practice_of_newar_buddhism_brill.pdf Past continuity and recent changes in the ritual practice of Newar Buddhism] | ||
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|phduniversity=University of Hamburg | |phduniversity=University of Hamburg | ||
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MainNamePhon | Alexander von Rospatt |
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bio | Alexander von Rospatt is Professor for Buddhist and South Asian Studies, and director of the Group in Buddhist Studies. He specializes in the doctrinal history of Indian Buddhism, and in Newar Buddhism, the only Indic Mahayana tradition that continues to persist in its original South Asian setting (in the Kathmandu Valley) right to the present. His first book sets forth the development and early history of the Buddhist doctrine of momentariness. His new book "The Svayambhu Caitya and its Renovations" deals with the historical renovations of the Svayambhū Stupa of Kathmandu. Based on Newar manuscripts and several years of fieldwork in Nepal, he reconstructs the ritual history of these renovations and their social contexts. This book complements numerous essays Prof. von Rospatt has authored on various aspects of this tradition, including its narrative literature, and its rituals and their origins and evolution. He currently has two related monographs under preparation, one dealing with the mural paintings and other visual depictions of the Svayambhupurana, the other with the life-cycle rituals of old age as observed among Newars and other South Asian communities.
Before joining UC Berkeley in 2003, von Rospatt served as assistant professor at the University of Leipzig and taught as visiting professor at the Universities of Oxford and Vienna. More recently he has also taught on visiting appointments at the University of Munich, and at the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies at Tokyo. (Source Accessed Feb 7, 2023) Publications:
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associatedwebsite | http://sseas.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/alexander-von-rospatt |
affiliation | University of California, Berkeley |
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