Education
- Ph.D. South Asian and Buddhist Studies. University
of Washington. 2009
- M.A. (with distinction). Sanskrit, Nepali and Buddhist Studies. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 1999.
- Indian Studies, Tibetan Studies and Linguistics. Georg‐August‐Universität Göttingen. 1998
Research and Teaching Fields
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Buddhist philology, narrative and kāvya literature, historical linguistics, epigraphy and paleography.
Current Research Projects
- Editor (with Andrew Glass) of the first dictionary of the Gāndhārī language.
- Grammatical studies of Gāndhārī, Buddhist Sanskrit and related languages.
- Editions and studies of several Gāndhārī commentarial texts (British Library fragments 4, 7, 9, 13 and 18).
- Editions of other Sanskrit and Gāndhārī manuscript fragments and inscriptions.
- Investigation of the exegetical principles underlying the Gāndhārī and related scholastic traditions.
Selected Publications
- “Jyotiṣkāvadāna.” In: Jens Braarvig, ed., Buddhist Manuscripts, Volume II, Oslo: Hermes Publishing, 2002 (Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection, III), pp. 287–302.
- “A Pali ghost word: dattu and related issues.” In: Gerd Carling, ed., GIŠ.ḪURgul‐za‐at‐ta‐ra: Festschrift for Folke Josephson, Göteborg: Meijerbergs institut vid Göteborgs universitet, 2006 (Meijerbergs arkiv för svensk ordforskning, 32), pp. 20–31.
- “Bemerkungen zum Ordinalzahlsystem der Gāndhārī.” In: Ute Hüsken, Petra Kieffer‐Pülz & Anne Peters, eds., Jaina‐Itihāsa‐Ratna: Festschrift für Gustav Roth zum 90. Geburtstag, Marburg: Indica et Tibetica Verlag, 2006 (Indica et Tibetica: Monographien zu den Sprachen und Literaturen des indo‐tibetischen Kulturraumes, Band 47), pp. 33–44.
- “Towards a computer encoding for Brāhmī.” In: Adalbert J. Gail, Gerd J. R. Mevissen & Richard Salomon, eds., Script and Image: Papers on Art and Epigraphy, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 2006 (Papers of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference, vol. 11.1), pp. 111–143.
- “Indiske skrifter.” In: Stig T. Rasmussen, ed., Alverdens Skrifter, København: Forlaget Vandkunsten, forthcoming.
- “Catalog, revised text and translation of Gandhāran reliquary inscriptions.” In: David Jongeward, ed., Gandhāran Buddhist Reliquaries, Seattle: University of Washington Press, forthcoming.
- “Truth and scripture in early Buddhism: categorial reduction as exegetical method in ancient Gandhāra and beyond.” Buddhism across Asia. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, forthcoming.
- Two Gāndhārī Commentaries on Early Buddhist Verses: British Library Kharoṣṭhī fragments 7, 9, 13 and 18. Seattle: University of Washington Press, in progress (Gandhāran Buddhist texts).
- (with Richard Salomon:) “Sanskrit Ikṣvāku, Pali Okkāka, and Gāndhārī Iṣmaho.” Journal of the Pali Text Society 29 (2007): 201–227.
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Courses Taught
- Introduction to Sanskrit
- Intermediate Sanskrit
- Advanced Sanskrit
- Seminar on Sanskrit Literature
- Introduction to Gāndhārī Language and Literature
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