Buddhist Institution and Patronage in Āndhra between the 2nd c. BCE and the 7th c. CE

14:00 September 15

Room 208, IHSS, PKU

Speaker: Vincent Tournier (Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich)

Discussants: Ye Shaoyong (Peking University), Chen Ruixuan (Peking University)

Language: English

About the Speaker

Vincent Tournier is Professor of Classical Indology at Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich. His main area of interest is Buddhism in Ancient and Early Medieval South Asia. In particular, he has worked on Buddhist soteriology; the history and self-representation of Buddhist lineages; patronage at major Buddhist centres; scriptural formation and authentication; cosmology and narrative representations of the past. Employing philological and historical methods, he works with a wide range of texts on multiple supports (manuscripts and inscriptions), and he also includes visual evidence into his analysis. Before coming to LMU, Vincent Tournier was the Seiyu Kiriyama Lecturer in Buddhist Studies and Chair of the Centre of Buddhist Studies at SOAS University of London (2013–2017), and Maître de conférences at the École française d’Extrême-Orient, Paris (2018–2022).