Prof. Tom TILLEMANS (Buddhist Studies)

Section de langues et civilisations orientales Faculté des Lettres Bureau 4117 Anthropole Université de Lausanne CH-1015 Lausanne-Dorigny Tel.: +41 (0)21 692 30 03 Fax: +41 (0)21 692 30 45 E-mail: Tom.Tillemans@unil.ch

Date of birth: Dec. 21, 1950 in Haarlem, Holland

Citizenships: Canadian and Dutch

Present position since 1992: Professor of Buddhist Studies, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Other positions: At various times Invited Professor at different universities, Head of the Department of Oriental Languages, University of Lausanne, and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Letters.

University Studies: BA Honours (Philosophy) from University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Licence ès lettres (Sanskrit, Chinese and Philosophy) Lausanne and Geneva; Doctorate (Buddhist Studies), Lausanne. Research scholarship at Hiroshima University, Japan.

Research interests : Indian and Tibetan Buddhist logic and epistemology; Madhyamaka philosophy; indigenous Tibetan grammatical literature; Tibetan poetry.

Other responsibilities:

• Co-editor ( with Cristina Scherrer-Schaub) of the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies.

• Editor in chief of the series Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. Wisdom Publications, Boston.

• General Secretary of the International Association of Buddhist Studies.

Doctorate theses directed:

1. John D. Dunne, Foundations of Dharmakirti's Epistemology. A Study of the Central Issues in his Ontology, Logic and Epistemology with Particular Attention to the Svopajnavrtti , Harvard, 1999.

2. Sara L. McClintock, Omniscience and the Rhetoric of Reason in the Tattvasamgraha and the Tattvasamgrahapañjika, Harvard, 2002.

3. Vincent Eltschinger, Dharmakirti sur les Ecritures et l'Incréation des Vedas. Autour du Pramanavarttika k. 213-275 et Svavrtti. Lausanne, 2003.

4. Ryusei Keira, Madhyamaka and Epistemology. A study of Kamalasila's Method for proving the Voidness of all Dharmas. Introduction, Annotated Translations and Tibetan Texts of Selected Sections of the Second Chapter of the Madhyamakaloka. Lausanne, 2003.

5. Pascale Hugon, Trésors du raisonnement. Sa skya Pandita et ses prédécesseurs tibétains sur les modes de fonctionnement de la pensée et le fondement de l'inférence. Edition et traduction annotée du quatrième chapitre du Tshad ma rigs pa'i gter et d'une portion de la section initiale du dixième chapitre. Lausanne, 2005.

6. Toru Tomabechi, Étude du Pañcakrama. Introduction et traduction annotée. Lausanne, 2006.

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