Tom Tillemans

PersonType	Category:Professors
FirstName / namefirst	Tom
LastName / namelast	Tillemans
namemiddle	J. F.
MainNamePhon	Tom Tillemans
SortName	Tillemans, Tom
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.