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Ass.-Prof. Christopher Jones, PhD
Christopher Jones
Summer term 2024
420012 SE EurAsian Transformations Doctoral Seminar - New Perspectives in the Philological, Historical and Cultural Studies of EuraAsia: Basic Methods and Interdisciplinary Approaches

A Buddha as One’s Self: Philosophical Reflections on Buddhist Selfhood in Indian Mahāyāna Literature

Christopher Jones (Speaker)

3 Nov 20235 Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Buddha-nature Between India and China: Analyzing the Creative Translation Work of Dharmakṣema (曇無讖) in the Early Fifth Century

Christopher Jones (Speaker)

11 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Career of Satyaka Nirgranthaputra, a Non-Buddhist Bodhisattva (eventually)

Christopher Jones (Speaker)

3 Nov 20225 Nov 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Nature of the Buddha to Buddha-nature: reassessing the Mahāmeghasūtra

Christopher Jones (Speaker)

6 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Royalty and Patronage in the Mahāparinirvāṇa-Mahāsūtra

Christopher Jones (Speaker)

2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Three Paths, Two Buddhas and One Vehicle: Disentangling Indian Buddhist Literature

Christopher Jones (Speaker) & Naomi Appleton (Speaker)

2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


What makes a Buddha-nature text? Reflections on a ‘tathāgatagarbha corpus’

Christopher Jones (Speaker)

5 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Reflections on Buddha-nature and Brahmanism in India

Christopher Jones (Speaker)

2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Selfhood, Secrecy, Singularity: Reassessing the Early Life of the Tathāgatagarbha in India

Christopher Jones (Speaker)

17 Jul 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Two Garlands on the Single Vehicle: Ekayāna and Tathāgatagarbha

Christopher Jones (Speaker)

12 Jul 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Gossip, Games and Governance: The Public Sphere Represented in Early Buddhist Literature

Christopher Jones (Speaker)

Jun 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Buddhists on Non-Buddhists: Representing the Religious Other in Indian Buddhist Literature

Christopher Jones (Speaker)

13 Mar 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A Shepherd in Wolf’s Clothing: The bodhisattva-tīrthika in Indian Buddhism

Christopher Jones (Speaker)

9 Sep 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Tīrthika in (Some) Mahāyānist Buddhist Works

Christopher Jones (Speaker)

Aug 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Secrecy and Mystery in the Mahāyāna: A Shared Theme in the ‘Lotus’ and ‘Nirvāṇa’ Sūtras’

Christopher Jones (Speaker)

14 Apr 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Dhātu Discourse’: Reassessing the ‘Essence’ of Tathāgatagarbha literature

Christopher Jones (Speaker)

2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Reevaluating the Buddha-Nature Idea in India

Christopher Jones (Speaker)

2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Reevaluating the Buddha-Nature Idea in India

Christopher Jones (Speaker)

2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Translating Tīrthikas: Enduring ‘Heresies’ in Buddhist Translation

Christopher Jones (Speaker)

1 Jul 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Tathāgatagarbha as True Self in the Mahāparinirvāṇa-mahāsūtra

Christopher Jones (Speaker)

7 Jan 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Cultures of Awakening: An Interpretation of Secular Buddhism in the West

Christopher Jones (Speaker)

2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Tathāgatagarbha as Ātman: Mahāyānist Doctrinal ‘Expansionism’

Christopher Jones (Speaker)

2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Two Tathāgatagarbhas: Invention and Reinvention of the Indian Buddha-Nature

Christopher Jones (Speaker)

2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Shadows of a former Self: the True Self taught by the Tathāgatagarbha Literature

Christopher Jones (Speaker)

2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Buddhist Self as outlined in the Mahāyāna Aṅgulimālīyasūtra

Christopher Jones (Speaker)

19 Aug 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies

Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2 (Campus)
1090 Wien

christopher.jones@univie.ac.at