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Alexander L.
Mayer
(Ph.D. Tuebingen
University, Habilitation Heidelberg University)
Associate Professor EALC and Religious Studies:
Chinese Buddhism, Chan/Zen, Buddhist literatures and language,
Buddhism in 20th century China.
217-244-2293
amayer@uiuc.edu
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Professor Mayer specializes in Chinese Buddhism; biographical
literature; Xuanzang; Chinese Yogacara; commentarial literature;
prajna exegesis. His current research interests include the
making of biographical literature and the representation of
the person in the 7th cent; Chinese Buddhist forms of commentary
writing from the 5th through the 19th centuries. Selected publications
include Xuanzangs Leben und Werk. Xuanzang. Übersetzer
und Heiliger [Xuanzang's Life and Work. Translator and Sacred
Person; in three vols]. (Wiesbaden, 1991, 1992, 2001; 388 p.,
223p., 116p.). "Die Frage nach cetanå in der Triµçikå
Vasubandhus" [Buddhist Ethics: The Place of cetanå
/volition and the Will in Western Philosophy]. Hôrin 4
(1997). Sengzhao über Verursachung [Sengzhao about
Causation]. Hôrin 7 (2001). "Die Kultbilder im Lichte
der Lehre" [The Vision of Buddhist Images in the Light
of the Teaching] - Die Rückkehr des Buddha. Chinesische
Skulpturen des 6.Jahrhunderts. Der Tempelfund von Qingzhou [Katalog
zur Ausstellung in Berlin, Zürich, London], ed. by Lukas
Nickel (Berlin, Zürich, London, 2001), 18 p. (2001). Professor
Mayer received his doctorate from Tuebingen University in 1989,
habilitation from Heidelberg University in 1999. |
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