Tillemans, T.

PersonType	Category:Professors Category:Authors of English Works
FirstName / namefirst	Tom
LastName / namelast	Tillemans
namemiddle	J. F.
MainNamePhon	Tom Tillemans
SortName	Tillemans, Tom
bio	Tom Tillemans (born Haarlem, December 21, 1950) is a Dutch-Canadian Buddhologist, Indologist and Tibetologist. Since 1992, Tillemans has been Professor of Buddhology in the Faculty of Oriental Languages and Civilizations at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Tom Tillemans received his bachelor's degree at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. His masters, in Sanskrit, Chinese and philosophy, he received at the Universities of Lausanne and Geneva and his doctorate in Buddhist Studies in Lausanne. After his studies he did research at Hiroshima University in Japan and was invited to several universities as a visiting professor. In addition to his professorship in Lausanne as head of the department of Oriental Studies and Associate Dean for the Faculty of Arts, Tillemans does research on Indian and Tibetan Buddhist logic and epistemology, Madhyamaka philosophy, indigenous Tibetan literature, and Tibetan grammar and poetry. (Source Accessed Feb 25, 2021)
YearBirth	1950
BornIn	Haarlem
languagetranslation	Tibetan; Sanskrit; Chinese
languagetarget	English
affiliation	University of Lausanne, Switzerland;84000;Hiroshima University
phduniversity	University of Lausanne
archivistnotes	Scholar;Buddhologist;Indologist;Tibetologist
IsInGyatsa	No
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Full Name

Tom J. F. Tillemans

Affiliation

University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Other Information

Tom J.F. Tillemans is Professor Emeritus of Buddhist Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Languages and Civilizations at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. With a focus on Buddhist logic and epistemology, Madhyamaka philosophy, and comparative philosophy, he was from 1998–2006 co-editor of the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies. Born in 1950 in the Netherlands and raised in Canada, he now serves as a senior project editor for the 84000 project tasked with translating the scriptures of the Tibetan Buddhist canon. He divides his time between Switzerland and British Columbia, Canada. source

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.