emer. O. Univ.-Prof. Dr.

Ernst Steinkellner

Personal Data

Date of Birth: 03. 10. 1937

Place of Birth: Graz

Nationality: Austrian

Education

1967 Habilitation for Indology, University of Vienna

1963 Ph.D. in Indology, University of Vienna

1957 – 1963 University of Vienna (Indology)

1955 – 1957 University of Graz (German and English Studies)

1955 Matura at Akademisches Gymnasium, Graz

Career History

2007 – Guest Researcher, Institute for Cultural and Intellectual History

of Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences

2007 – Adjunct Professor, China Tibetology Research Center, Beijing

02/2002 – 01/2005 Research Professor, Austrian Academy of Sciences

1992 Visiting Professor, Balliol College, University of Oxford

1982 Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Kyoto

1973 – 2006 Full Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, University of

Vienna

1972 – 1973 Associate Prof. of Indian Philosophy, Univ. of Pennsylvania,

Philadelphia

1971 – 1972 Visiting Lecturer in Indic Studies, University of Pennsylvania,

Philadelphia

1964 – 1971 Lecturer, Department of Indology, University of Vienna

1963 – 1972 University Assistant, Department of Indology, University of
Vienna

1961 – 1963 Research Assistant, Department of Indology, University of Vienna

Career-related Activities (selected)

2003 – General Editor, Buddhist Tradition Series (Motilal Banarsidass,

New Delhi)

2003 – 2005 Vice-President, International Association of Buddhist Studies

1998 – 2007 Director, Institute of the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia,
Austrian Academy of Sciences

1995 – 2008 Chairman, Austrian Academy of Sciences Press

1995 Convenor, 7th Seminar of the International Association for

Tibetan Studies, Schloß Seggau - Graz

1994 – 1998 Director at large, International Association of Buddhist Studies

05/1994 – 06/1995 Managing Secretary, phil.-hist. Class, Austrian Academy of

Sciences

1990 Co-convenor, VIIIth World Sanskrit Conference, Vienna

1989 – 2003 President, The International Tibetological Tennis Society

1989 – 1995 Chairman, Publication Committee, Austrian Academy of Sciences

1989 Convenor, 2nd International Dharmakirti Conference, Vienna

1982 – Editorial Consultant, The Journal of the Tibet Society,

Bloomington

1982 – 1994 Editor, The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist

Studies

1981 Convenor, Csoma de Körös-Symposium, Velm-Vienna

1977 – 2005 Editor, Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde

1961 – 1971 Managing editor, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens
Memberships and Awards (selected)

2008 Honorary Member, The International Association of Buddhist

Studies

2008 Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize of the Austrian Research

Community200

2006 Indira Gandhi Gold Plaque of the Asiatic Society, Kolkata

2004 Great Badge of Honours in Silver for Services to the Republic of

Austria

1996 Kardinal Innitzer Valuation Award

1993 The Eastern Study Prize, Eastern Institute, Tokyo

1989 Corresponding Member, Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo

Oriente

1988 Full Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences

1985 Member of the Commission for Buddhist Studies, Academy of

Sciences at Göttingen

1978 Corresponding Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences

1973 M.A.h.c. University of Pennsylvania

1967 Kardinal Innitzer Award

Publications (selected since 2007):

Books and Edited Volumes

Steinkellner, E. (2007) Dharmakīrti’s Pramāṇaviniścaya, Chapters 1 and 2. Critically

edited. Beijing – Vienna, pp. xlviii + 142.

Steinkellner, E., Li, X. (2008), Vasubandhu’s Pañcaskandhaka. Critically edited with

a contribution by Toru Tomabechi. Beijing – Vienna, pp. XXV + 107.
Steinkellner, E., Qing, D., Krasser, H. (eds) (2009), Sanskrit Manuscripts in China.
Proceedings of a Panel at the 2008 Beijing Seminar on Tibetan Studies, October 13
to 17.

Articles

Steinkellner, E. (2007/2008), Further Remarks on the Compound avinābhāvaniyama

in the Early Dharmakīrti. In: WZKS 51, 193–205.

Steinkellner, E. (2007/2008), Miszellen zur erkentnistheoretisch-logischen Schule des

Buddhismus X: Corrigenda 2 et addenda to Dharmakīrti’s Pramāṇaviniścaya.
Chapters 1 and 2. Critically edited by E. Steinkellner. In: WZKS 51, 207–208.

Steinkellner, E. (2008), What can we learn from philology? Some methodological

remarks. Keynote speech. Conference of Tibetan Studies, Beijing, October 14:
http://ikga.oeaw.ac.at/Mat/steinkellner_keynote_beijing_2008.pdf

(Chinesische Übersetzung in Shen Weirong, Xun Zhao Xiang Ge Li La, In Search of

Shangri-la: Essays on China Studies, Philology and Virtual Tibet. Beijing, 14–15 + 22–
26).

Steinkellner, E. (2008), Methodological perspectives: Trans-disciplinary research in

the Western Himalayas. In: D. Klimburg-Salter, J. Liang, H. Tauscher, Y. Zhou (eds):
The Cultural History of Western Tibet. Recent research from the China Tibetology
Research Center and the University of Vienna. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und
Buddismuskunde 71. Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien. Wien,
199–202.

Steinkellner, E. (2008), Is the Ultimate Cognition of the Yogin Conceptual or Non-

conceptual? Part 2: Introducing the Problem in the Final Section of the Tantristic
Tattvasiddhi with Analysis and Translation. In: Esoteric Buddhist Studies: Identity in
Diversity. Proceedings of the International Conference on Esoteric Buddhist Studies,
Koyasan University, 5 Sept.-8 Sept. Kōyasan, 291–305.

Steinkellner, E., Qing, D. (2009), Introduction. In: E. Steinkellner, Duan Qing, H.

Krasser (eds): Sanskrit Manuscripts in China. Proceedings of a Panel at the 2008
Beijing Seminar on Tibetan Studies, October 13 to 17. Beijing 2009, 7–9.

Steinkellner, E. (2009), Strategies for Modes of Management and Scholarly Treatment

of the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the TAR. In: E. Steinkellner, Duan Qing, H. Krasser
(eds): Sanskrit Manuscripts in China. Proceedings of a Panel at the 2008 Beijing
Seminar on Tibetan Studies, October 13 to 17. Beijing, 279–292.

Steinkellner, E. (2009), Vorbemerkungen zu Jakob Stuchlik, Der arische Ansatz. Erich

Frauwallner und der Nationalsozialismus. Wien 2009:
http://ikga.oeaw.ac.at/Mat/steinkellner_vorwort_stuchlik_2009.pdf

Steinkellner, E. (2010), Tib. Ma rdum pa – a phantom name. In: Shen Weirong (ed):
Historical and Philological Studies of China's Western Regions. Beijing, 15–16.

Steinkellner, E. (2010), Preface. In: E. Frauwallner (ed): The Philosophy of Buddhism.

Translated by Gelong Lodrö Sangpo with the assistance of Jigme Sheldrön under the
supervision of Professor Ernst Steinkellner. Delhi, viii–xxiv.

Steinkellner, E. (2012), Sensory perception, body and mind in Indian Buddhist

philosophy. In: F. G. Barth, P. Giampieri-Deutsch, H.-D. Klein (eds): Sensory
Perception. Mind and Matter. Wien, 357–368.