Dr. Carmen Meinert

Biography

since 2013 Numata Visiting Professor in Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria

2011-2012 Visiting Research Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

2010-2011 Interim Professor for East Asian Religions in Past and Present at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

2010 Research Fellow at the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies at Bonn University, Germany

since 2008 Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen (KWI), Germany

2008-2009 Coordinator of the research project Humanism in the Era of Globalisation at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen (KWI), Germany

Between 2003 and 2008 Research Fellow at the Asian Africa Institute at Hamburg University, Germany

Publications

Books/Editions

2011. (ed.): Buddha in the Yurt – Buddhist Art from Mongolia, Munich: Hirmer Publisher, 2 vols., English Russian edition, 840 pages.

2011. (ed.): Buddha in der Jurte – Buddhistische Kunst aus der Mongolei, Munich: Hirmer Publisher, 2 vols., German Mongolian edition, 840 pages.

2010. (ed.): Traces of Humanism in China, Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag, 207 pages.

2010. Carmen Meinert/Hans-Bernd Zöllner (eds.): Buddhist Approaches to Human Rights, Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag, 250 pages.

2004. Chinesische Chan- und tibetische rDzogs chen-Lehre: eine komparatistische Untersuchung im Lichte des philosophischen Heilskonzeptes ‚Nicht-Vorstellen‘, 400 pages.


Articles

2010. „Lun Chanding muju de jiegou: Sheng ru wu fenbie zongchi jing ‚si zhengxing‘ yu Chanding muju sige zhuyao zhangjie zhi bijiao [Strukturanalyse des bSam gtan mig sgron: komparatistische Untersuchung zu den vier ‚korrekten Übungen‘ in der Āryāvikalpapraveśanāmadhāraņī und die vier Hauptkapitel des bSam gtan mig sgron]“, in: Festschrift for Prof. Wang Yao on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday, Shen Weirong (Hrsg.), Beijing: China Tibetology Publishing House, 10 pages (in print).

2010. „‚Glatte Worte und schmeichelnde Mienen…‛. Humanistischer Anspruch und (in)humane Wirklichkeit in China“, in: Von der Kultur der Verantwortung zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit, Christopf auf der Horst (ed.), Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf University Press, 18 pages.

2009. „Gangkar Rinpoché between Tibet and China: A Tibetan Lama among Ethnic Chinese in the 1930s to 1950s“, in: Buddhism between Tibet and China, Matthew T. Kapstein (ed.), Boston: Wisdom Publications, 215-238.

2008. „Gestückelte Schriften: Überlieferungsgeschichten der dem Medita-tionsmeister Wolun zugeschriebenen Dunhuang-Manuskripte“, Oriens Extremus 47 (2008), 215-245.

2007. „The Conjunction of Chinese Chan and Tibetan rDzogs chen Thought: Reflections on the Tibetan Dunhuang Manuscripts IOL Tib J 689-1 and PT 699“, in: Contributions to the Cultural History of Early Tibet (extra volume to Studies in Central and East Asian Religion), Matthew T. Kapstein/Brandon Dotson (eds.), Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2007, 239-301.

2007. „A Pliable Life: Facts and Fiction about the Figure of the Chinese Meditation Master Wolun“, in: Oriens Extremus 46 (2007), 184-210.

2006. „Between the Profane and the Sacred? On the Context of the Rite of “Liberation” (sgrol ba)“, in: Buddhism and Violence, Michael Zimmermann (ed.), Lumbini: Lumbini International Research Institute (2006), 99-130.

2006. „Legend of Cig car ba Criticism in Tibet: a List of Six Cig car ba Titles in the Chos ’byung me tog snying po of Nyang Nyi ma ’od zer (12th century)“, in: Tibetan Buddhist Literature and Praxis. Studies in its Formative Period 900-1400, Ronald Davidson/Christian Wedemeyer (eds.), Leiden: Brill (2006), 31-54.

2003/4. Vortragsmanuskript: „Plötzliches oder allmähliches Erwachen – konträre Positionen im chinesischen Mahāyāna-Buddhismus“, in: Buddhismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Bd. X, 17-37, Universität Hamburg, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Abteilung für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens und Tibets. Online-Veröffentlichung: http://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/fileadmin/pdf/digitale_texte/Bd9-K02Meinert.pdf.

2003. „Structural Analysis of the bSam gtan mig sgron: A Comparison of the Fourfold Correct Practice in the Āryāvikalpapraveśanāmadhāraņī and the Contents of the Four Main Chapters of the bSam gtan mig sgron“, in: Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 26/1 (2003), 175-195.

2002. „Chinese Chan and Tibetan Rdzogs Chen: Preliminary Remarks on Two Tibetan Dunhuang Manuscripts“, in: Religion and Secular Culture in Tibet. Tibetan Studies II (PIATS 2000), Henk Blezer (ed.), Brill: Leiden (2002), 289-307.