Internal staff
Internal staff
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Dr. Péter-Dániel SzántóHead of Department, Associate Professor
Room: Múzeum körút 4. Building B, room 109
Péter-Dániel Szántó started his studies at ELTE, obtaining a Diploma in Tibetan (2004) and Indology (2006). He continued his studies at Oxford University where he first obtained a DPhil (Balliol, 2012), was a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College (2010-2013), and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at All Souls College (2014-2019). Between 2013 and 2014 he was a stipendiant at Universität Hamburg, and taught a semester each as Visiting Professor at Universiteit Leiden (2018) and Universität Wien (2019). Between 2019 and 2022 he taught and conducted research in the ERC-sponsored Open Philology Project. He obtained a habilitation in Italy in 2022. Since autumn 2022, he is an Associate Professor and Head of Department at ELTE, Department of Buddhology and Tibetology.
Main areas of research: the literature of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Tantric Buddhism, Buddhist Homiletics, Sanskrit and Tibetan poetry and poetics, yoga, Buddhist epistemology, history of mediaeval Indian Buddhism, Indo-Tibetan philology, codicology and textual criticism.
Main publications: more than 50 studies of varying length (accessible here), a co-authored monograph (with James Mallinson, The Amṛtasiddhi and Amṛtasiddhimūla: The Earliest Texts of the Haṭhayoga Tradition. Pondicherry: EFEO/IFP [École française d'Extrême-Orient]), with three further monographs close to completion: a) with Klaus-Dieter Mathes, Saraha's Spontaneous Songs. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2024; b) with Serena Saccone, Tantra and Pramāṇa: Studies in the Sāramañjarī. Napoli: UniOr Press, 2023; c) Buddhism for Beginners I. The Suhṛllekha of Nāgārjuna. Leiden: Brill, 2023. |
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Dr. Ferenc RuzsaProfessor
Phone/ext.: +36 1 411 6500 / 5010
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Karma DorjeLector
Phone/ext.: +36 1 411 6500 / 2039
He studied at the Rig-lam slob-grwa Buddhist Institute in Dharamsala (Himachal Pradesh, India). Graduated in 1982 as Phar-phyin (Prajnaparamita) Rab-’byams-pa in Buddhist philosophy (equivalent to BA), then in 1983 as Dbu-ma (Madhyamaka) Rab-’byams-pa (equivalent to MA). As post-graduate studies he took up Byams chos sde lnga and Mdzod (Abhidharma) courses, then in 1987 attained doctoral degree in Buddhist philosophy. From 1985 to 1990 he taught Tibetan grammar, Buddhist epistemology and subjects on Tibetan Buddhist culture in Dharamsala. He came to Hungary in 1991; first he was a lecturer at the Szeged University, later at “The Gate of Dharma” Buddhist Highschool, he taught Tibetan language and gave lectures on Buddhist logic and philosophy. Since 1992 he has been the lecturer of Eötvös Lorand University. He gives lectures and seminars on various themes of Tibetan Buddhist culture, and also teaches modern Tibetan language. His special fields comprise Buddhist philosophy (Prajnaparamita, Madhyamaka, Abhidharma), the teachings of Buddhism in Tibet, Buddhist culture of Tibet.
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Dr. Mónika SzegediAssistant Professor, the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Professor in Buddhist Studies
Phone/ext.: +36 1 411 6500 / 5010
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Dávid JónásAssistant Lecturer
Phone/ext.: +36 1 411 6500 / 2039
Graduated from Eötvös Loránd University, majoring in Chinese Studies MA (2019) and Tibetan Studies BA (2020). He is currently pursuing his PhD degree in Chinese Studies at Doctoral School of Linguistics, ELTE. He has been teaching Modern Chinese and Classical Chinese at the Department of Chinese Studies since 2019. In 2021, he became a full-time assistant lecturer at the Department of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, he has been giving lectures and seminars on topics in Tibetan history, culture and cultural history, as well as Tibetan and Chinese Buddhism.
Main publications: https://elte.academia.edu/DávidJónás |