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Dr. Cristina Pecchia
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Pecchia, C. (2024). The Doctor, the Patient, and Their Interaction: Reading the Carakasaṃhitā. In P. A. Maas, & A. Cerulli (Eds.), Suhṛdayasaṃhitā : A Compendium of Studies on South Asian Culture, Philosophy, and Religion Dedicated to Dominik Wujastyk (Vol. 28, pp. 109-125). Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg. https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1386

Pecchia, C. (2023). Meditation and Knowledge in Indian Buddhist Epistemology. In H. Matsuoka, S. Moriyama, & T. Neill (Eds.), To the Heart of Truth: Felicitation Volume for Eli Franco on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday (pp. 667-684). Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studie.



Pecchia, C. (2022). With the Eye of a Scholar and the Insight of a Physician: Gangadhar Ray Kaviraj and the Carakasaṃhitā. In F. Sferra, & V. Vergiani (Eds.), 'Verità e Bellezza': Essays in Honour of Raffaele Torella (pp. 797–839). Unior Press.



Pecchia, C. (2020). Dharmakirti on the Role of Salvific Initiation and the Reception of His Critique in the Later Saiva Tradition. In B. Kellner, P. McAllister, H. Lasic, & S. McClintock (Eds.), Reverberations of Dharmakīrti’s Philosophy : Proceedings of the Fifth International Dharmakīrti Conference Heidelberg, August 26 to 30, 2014 (pp. 363–374). Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW). https://austriaca.at/9783700188605

Pecchia, C., & Eltschinger, V. (2020). Foreword. In C. Pecchia, & V. Eltschinger (Eds.), Mārga: Paths to Liberation in South Asian Buddhist Traditions. Papers from an International Symposium held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 17 – 18 December, 2015 (pp. 1-3). Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW).

Pecchia, C., & Eltschinger, V. (Eds.) (2020). Mārga. Paths to Liberation in South Asian Buddhist Traditions: Papers from an international symposium held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, December 17–18, 2015. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW). Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens Vol. 100 Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse Vol. 900 https://doi.org/10.1553/0x003bed1c


Pecchia, C. (2020). Diachronic Migration of Ancient Indian Medical Literature: Divisions and Paratextual Elements in the Carakasaṃhitā. In T. L. Knudsen, J. Schmidt-Madsen, & S. Speyer (Eds.), Body and Cosmos: Studies in Early Indian Medical and Astral Sciences in Honor of Kenneth G. Zysk (pp. 52-76). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004438224_006






Pecchia, C. (2013). Transmitting the Carakasaṃhitā. Notes for a history of the tradition. In D. Wujastyk, A. Cerulli, & K. Preisendanz (Eds.), Medical Texts and Manuscripts in Indian Cultural History (pp. 1-27). Manohar Publishers.



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Cristina Pecchia

Academic third-party funded project staff

  • Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies
Type of address: Postal address.
Austria

Research interests

 

·         Buddhist studies, especially Buddhist epistemology and religious philosophy

·         Intellectual history of South Asia

·         History of philology

·         Ayurvedic tradition

·         Methodology of textual criticism

·         Manuscript studies with reference to Sanskrit texts

·         History of the book in South Asia

 

Research interests

  •  South Asian and Buddhist studies, in particular Buddhist epistemological tradition
  •  Ayurvedic tradition in the cultural and intellectual history of South Asia
  •  Methodology of textual criticism and manuscript studies
  •  History of philology in South Asia
  •  History of the book in South Asia

Employment

Academic third-party funded project staff

Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies

University of Vienna

Austria

1 Aug 2007 → present

External lecturer

Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies

University of Vienna

Austria

1 Mar 201428 Feb 2023

IKGA

Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW)

Wien, Austria

Publications

The Doctor, the Patient, and Their Interaction: Reading the Carakasaṃhitā

Pecchia, C., 2024, Suhṛdayasaṃhitā : A Compendium of Studies on South Asian Culture, Philosophy, and Religion Dedicated to Dominik Wujastyk. Maas, P. A. & Cerulli, A. (eds.). Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg, Vol. 28. p. 109-125 (Studia Indologica Universitatis Halensis).

Meditation and Knowledge in Indian Buddhist Epistemology

Pecchia, C., 2023, To the Heart of Truth: Felicitation Volume for Eli Franco on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday. Matsuoka, H., Moriyama, S. & Neill, T. (eds.). Wien: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studie, p. 667-684 (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde, Vol. 104).

Ayurveda, philology and print. On the first printed edition of the Carakasamhita and its context: On the First Printed Edition of the Carakasaṃhitā and Its Context

Pecchia, C., 4 Apr 2022, In: South Asian History and Culture. 13, 1, p. 112-134 23 p.

Christian Coseru, Perceiving Reality. Consciousness, Intentionality, and Cognition in Buddhist Philosophy. Oxford University Press, New York 2012

Pecchia, C., 2022, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens, 58, p. 275-281.

With the Eye of a Scholar and the Insight of a Physician: Gangadhar Ray Kaviraj and the Carakasaṃhitā

Pecchia, C., 2022, 'Verità e Bellezza': Essays in Honour of Raffaele Torella. Sferra, F. & Vergiani, V. (eds.). Napoli: Unior Press, p. 797–839 (Series Minor, Vol. XCVII).

Print Cultures in the Making in 19th- and 20th-Century South Asia: Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries

Pecchia, C., Buß, J. & Chudal, A., Jul 2021, In: Philological Encounters. 6, 1-2, p. 1-14 14 p.

Print Cultures in the Making in 19th and 20th-Century South Asia: Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries

Pecchia, C. (ed.), Buß, J. (ed.) & Chudal, A. (ed.), 2021, Brill.

Dharmakirti on the Role of Salvific Initiation and the Reception of His Critique in the Later Saiva Tradition

Pecchia, C., 18 Dec 2020, Reverberations of Dharmakīrti’s Philosophy : Proceedings of the Fifth International Dharmakīrti Conference Heidelberg, August 26 to 30, 2014. Kellner, B., McAllister, P., Lasic, H. & McClintock, S. (eds.). Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW), p. 363–374 (Sitzungsberichte / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, Vol. 904). (Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens, Vol. 104).

Foreword

Pecchia, C. & Eltschinger, V., Oct 2020, Mārga: Paths to Liberation in South Asian Buddhist Traditions. Papers from an International Symposium held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 17 – 18 December, 2015. Pecchia, C. & Eltschinger, V. (eds.). Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW), p. 1-3 (Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens, Vol. 100). (Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse, Vol. 900).

Mārga. Paths to Liberation in South Asian Buddhist Traditions: Papers from an international symposium held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, December 17–18, 2015

Pecchia, C. (ed.) & Eltschinger, V. (ed.), Oct 2020, Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW). 426 p. (Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens, Vol. 100). (Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse, Vol. 900).

Seeing as Cognizing: Perception, Concepts, and Meditation Practice in Indian Buddhist Epistemology

Pecchia, C., Oct 2020, In: Asiatische Studien: Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft. 74

Diachronic Migration of Ancient Indian Medical Literature: Divisions and Paratextual Elements in the Carakasaṃhitā

Pecchia, C., 2020, Body and Cosmos: Studies in Early Indian Medical and Astral Sciences in Honor of Kenneth G. Zysk. Knudsen, T. L., Schmidt-Madsen, J. & Speyer, S. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 52-76 25 p. (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, Vol. 20).

Christopher G. Framarin, Desire and Motivation in Indian Philosophy. [Routledge Hindu Studies Series 12] Routledge, London and New York 2009.

Pecchia, C., 2019, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens, 56-57, p. 232-234.

Eli Franco and Miyako Notake, Dharmakīrti on the Duality of the Object: Pramāṇavārttika III 1-63. [Leipziger Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte Süd- und Zentralasiens 5] LIT-Verlag, Berlin, Münster, Wien, Zürich, London 2014

Pecchia, C., 2018, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 138, 3, p. 662-665.

Johannes Schneider. Eine buddhistische Kritik der indischen Götter. Śaṃkarasvāmins Devātiśayastotra mit Prajñāvarmans Kommentar, nach dem tibetischen Tanjur herausgegeben und übersetzt. (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 81) Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien, Wien 2014

Pecchia, C., 2016, In: Journal of the American Oriental Society. 136, 2, p. 439-440

Dharmakīrti on the cessation of suffering: A critical edition with translation and comments of Manorathanandinʼs Vṛtti and Vibhūticandraʼs glosses on Pramāṇavārttika II.190-216

Pecchia, C., 2015, Leiden: Brill. 318 p. (Brill's Indological Library, Vol. 47).

A discussion of Alex Watson’s The self's awareness of itself. Bhaṭṭa Rāmakaṇṭha's arguments against the Buddhist doctrine of no-self. With an addendum about the transmission of Dharmakīrti’s Pramāṇaviniścaya

Pecchia, C., 2014, In: Rivista degli Studi Orientali. 87, p. 107-119

Transmitting the Carakasaṃhitā. Notes for a history of the tradition

Pecchia, C., 2013, Medical Texts and Manuscripts in Indian Cultural History. Wujastyk, D., Cerulli, A. & Preisendanz, K. (eds.). Delhi: Manohar Publishers, p. 1-27

Jean Papin, Caraka Samhita. Traité fondamental de la médecine ayurvédique. 2. Les thérapeutiques. Avant-propos de Guy et Sylvain Mazars. Introduction, traduction et notes de Jean Papin. Éditions Almora, Paris 2009

Pecchia, C., 2012, In: Indo-Iranian Journal. 55, p. 171-174

Book review: Johannes Bronkhorst (ed.), Mīmāṃsā and Vedānta: Interaction and Continuity. [Papers of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference held in Helsinki, Finland, 13-18 July 2003. Vol. 10.3]. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 2007

Pecchia, C., 2010, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens, 52-53, p. 315-317 3 p.

Contradictions on the Way to Liberation: Dharmakirtis Discussion

Pecchia, C., 2010, Papers from the Second Conference of Buddhist Studies held in Naples in June 2004. Italian School of East Asian Studies, Kyoto. Orofino, G. & Vita, S. (eds.). Unknown publisher, p. 47-67 21 p. (The Italian School of East Asian Studies).

Johannes Bronkhorst (ed.): Mīmāṃsā and Vedānta: Interaction and Continuity. [Papers of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference held in Helsinki, Finland, 13-18 July 2003. Vol. 10.3]. Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi 2007

Pecchia, C., 2010, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens, 52-53, p. 121-159 39 p.

Transmission-specific (In)utility, or Dealing with Contamination: Samples from the Textual Tradition of the Carakasaṃhitā

Pecchia, C., 2010, In: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens. 52-53, p. 121-156 36 p.

Walter Slaje (ed.), Śāstrārambha. Inquiries into the Preamble in Sanskrit. [Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 62] Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008]

Pecchia, C., 2010, Rivista di Studi Sudasiatici, 4, p. 169-172 4 p.

Transmitting the Carakasaṃhitā. Notes for a History of the Tradition

Pecchia, C., 2009, In: Indian Journal of History of Science. 44, 2, p. 141-161 20 p.

14th World Sanskrit Conference: Section on the Scientific Literature - A Report

Pecchia, C., 2009, In: Indian Journal of History of Science. 44, 4, p. 616-619

Is the Buddha like "a Man in the Street"? Dharmakīrti's Answer

Pecchia, C., 2008, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens, 51, p. 163-192 29 p.

Scegliere il Buddha come maestro

Pecchia, C., 2006, Maestri: Leadership spirituali: vie, modelli, metodi. Colafato, M. (ed.). Milano: Franco Angeli, p. 213-220

La scuola logico-epistemologica buddhista

Pecchia, C., 2004, La rivelazione del Buddha. Il Grande veicolo.: A cura e con un saggio di Raniero Gnoli. Introduzione ai testi tradotti di Claudio Cicuzza e Francesco Sferra, con contribuiti di Mauro Maggi e Cristina Pecchia. Gnoli, R. (ed.). Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori, Vol. 2. p. cxxxix-clii (I Meridiani: Classici dello spirito).

Mokṣākaragupta, Tarkabhāṣā: Manuale di logica (capitolo primo)

Pecchia, C., 2004, La rivelazione del Buddha. Il Grande veicolo.: A cura e con un saggio di Raniero Gnoli. Introduzione ai testi tradotti di Claudio Cicuzza e Francesco Sferra, con contribuiti di Mauro Maggi e Cristina Pecchia. Gnoli, R. (ed.). Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori, Vol. 2. p. 1103-1153 (I Meridiani: Classici dello spirito).

Activities

Making Public in the Anonymity of the Printed Book Market: Ayurvedic Classics in Colonial South Asia

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

17 May 2024

The Doctor, the Patient, and Their Interaction: Reading the Carakasaṃhitā

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

17 May 2024

And Yet He Spoke: The Buddha from Silence to Dialogue

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

18 Jan 2024

The Buddha’s Authority: Omniscience as a Problem in Dharmakīrti’s Philosophy

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

22 Nov 2023

Lasciar andare

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

6 Oct 20238 Oct 2023

Is Extraordinary Knowledge Possible? Superhuman Knowledge: Feasibility and Problems

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

5 Jul 2023

A Doctor, a Scholar, and His Works

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

23 Jun 2023

Onniscienza come problema. Sull’onniscienza del Buddha in Dharmakīrti.

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

20 Apr 2023

Ayurveda and Philology: Gangadhar Ray Kaviraj and His Legacy

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

17 Apr 2023

Universita Ca' Foscari, Venezia

Cristina Pecchia (Visiting lecturer)

17 Apr 202321 Apr 2023

The synergy between physical and textual evidence: The history of the transmission of Sanskrit texts beyond historically determined boundaries

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

Nov 2022

Dharmakīrti on omniscience: Readings from the Pramāṇavārttika and commentaries thereon

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

21 Jul 2022

Omniscience: To the limits of knowledge

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

21 Jul 2022

Omniscience as a Problem: Disputing Reliability in Religious Matters

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

20 Jun 202223 Jun 2022

With the Eye of a Scholar and the Insight of a Physician: Gangadhar Ray Kaviraj and the Carakasaṃhitā

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

27 May 2022

Kognitive Prozesse und Meditationspraxis

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

20 May 2022

Embodying the scholarly persona of the Ayurvedic tradition: Gangadhar Ray Kaviraj and the transmission of Ayurveda in colonial South Asia.

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

29 Apr 2022

Gangadhar Ray Kaviraj and the Carakasaṃhitā

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

21 Mar 2022

Equinox Publishing Ltd. (Publisher)

Cristina Pecchia (Reviewer)

2022 → …

Indian philologists in the colonial period: Continuing or recovering traditional knowledge systems

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

19 Nov 202120 Nov 2021

The transmission of the Carakasaṃhitā in colonial South Asia

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

27 Jul 2021

26th European Conference on South Asian Studies

Cristina Pecchia (Organiser)

27 Jul 2021

Meditationspraxis und buddhistische Erkenntnistheorie

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

15 Jul 2020

Paths to Liberation in Hindu and Sikh Traditions

Marion Rastelli (Organiser), Cristina Pecchia (Organiser) & Vincent Eltschinger (Organiser)

28 Nov 201929 Nov 2019

Manuscript, Print and Publication Cultures in South Asia

Alaka Chudal (Organiser), Johanna Buß (Organiser) & Cristina Pecchia (Organiser)

20 Sept 201821 Sept 2018

The Omniscient Buddha: Dharmakīrti’s Remarks

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

11 Jul 2018

For the Other, Without Thinking of the Other

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

10 Apr 2018

Philologists and Publishers: On the First Printed Edition of the Carakasaṃhitā and its Context

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

6 Mar 2018

South Asian Philosophy and Language

Cristina Pecchia (Participant)

18 Dec 201720 Dec 2017

South Asian Philosophy and Language

Cristina Pecchia (Panellist)

18 Dec 201720 Dec 2017

The Challenge of Postcolonial Philosophy in India

Cristina Pecchia (Panel chair)

28 Sept 201729 Sept 2017

Medicine and yoga in South and Inner Asia

Cristina Pecchia (Participant)

1 Aug 20173 Aug 2017

Cultures of Knowledge in Mutual Encounter

Cristina Pecchia (Participant)

6 Jul 20177 Jul 2017

Kamalaśīla's 'Stages of Meditative Cultivation' (Bhāvanākrama)

Cristina Pecchia (Participant)

26 Jun 201729 Jun 2017

The Future of Digital Texts in South Asian Studies

Cristina Pecchia (Participant)

22 May 201724 May 2017

Dharmakīrti on the Cessation of Suffering, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2015

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

26 Jan 2017

Seeing and Visualizing from the Point of View of the Indian Epistemological Tradition

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

25 Nov 2016

Dal respiro alla mente

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

8 Sept 201611 Sept 2016

Philologists at Work. The Case of the Carakasaṃhitā

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

5 Jul 2016

God or the Divine

Cristina Pecchia (Participant)

26 Jun 201628 Jun 2016

Philologists at Work. The Case of the Carakasaṃhitā

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

11 Jun 2016

Dharmakīrti and the Path to Liberation III

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

19 May 2016

Dharmakīrti and the Path to Liberation II

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

7 Mar 2016

Dharmakirti and the Path to Liberation I

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

17 Dec 2015

Marga - Paths to Liberation in South Asian Buddhist Traditions

Cristina Pecchia (Organiser)

17 Dec 201518 Dec 2015

Pramāṇasamuccayaṭīkā

Cristina Pecchia (Participant)

21 Oct 2015

Approaches to Textuality. Samples from the Carakasaṃhitā

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

30 Jun 2015

Some Reflections on Methodological Questions in the Study of Dharmakīrti

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

29 Jun 2015

16th World Sanskrit Conference

Cristina Pecchia (Organiser)

28 Jun 20152 Jul 2015

From Kashmir to Tibet A set of proto-Śāradā palm leaves and two works on the Ratnagotravibhāga

Cristina Pecchia (Participant)

21 Apr 2015

Tantric Communities in Context: Sacred Secrets and Public Rituals

Cristina Pecchia (Participant)

5 Feb 20157 Feb 2015

Pratiche di meditazione indiana

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

5 Sept 20147 Sept 2014

Dharmakīrti on the Role of Rituals

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

26 Aug 201430 Aug 2014

Meditation and Indian Philosophical Theories

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

18 Aug 201422 Aug 2014

Le siddhi

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

6 Sept 20138 Sept 2013

Commenting by quoting. The case of Manorathanandin’s Pramāṇavārttikavṛtti

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

21 Dec 2012

A dharma to be proved: Texts from the Indian Buddhist epistemological tradition

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

10 Dec 2012

A dharma to be proved: Texts from the Indian Buddhist epistemological tradition

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

6 Dec 2012

Copying and Editing in Pre-modern and Modern South Asia. Samples from the Carakasamhita

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

13 Oct 2012

Yama and niyama

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

8 Sept 2011

Causation and Seflessness in View of Liberation

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

20 Jun 2011

Modalities of the Diachronic Migration of Ancient Medical Literature : The Textual Witnesses of the Carakasamhita

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

13 Nov 2010

Modalities of the diachronic migration of ancient medical literature: the textual witnesses of the Carakasaṃhitā

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

11 Nov 2010

A Note on saṃbhavānumāna in the Writings of Dharmakīrti

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

2 Sept 2009

A note on sambhavanumana in the writings of Dharmakirti

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

1 Sept 2009

Treating diseases by knowing health: patients and physicians in dialogue

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

1 Sept 2009

Verità sulla liberazione: la tradizione logico-epistemologica buddhista. (Truth(s) about liberation: The Buddhist logical-epistemological tradition)

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

9 Apr 2009

Projects

Ayurveda and Philology: Gangadhar Ray Kaviraj and His Legacy

Pecchia, C., Li, C., Maas, P. A., Puthiyedath, R., Mukharji, P. B. & Munsi, S.

1/05/2231/01/25

Philosophie und Medizin im frühklassischen Indien II

Preisendanz, K., Maas, P. A., MacDonald, A. & Pecchia, C.

1/08/0730/11/10

Philosophie und Medizin im frühklassischen Indien III

Preisendanz, K., Angermeier, V., Jäger, H., Kintaert, T., Pecchia, C., Robl, D. & Wujastyk, D.

1/04/1131/03/16

Making Public in the Anonymity of the Printed Book Market: Ayurvedic Classics in Colonial South Asia

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

17 May 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Doctor, the Patient, and Their Interaction: Reading the Carakasaṃhitā

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

17 May 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


And Yet He Spoke: The Buddha from Silence to Dialogue

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

18 Jan 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Buddha’s Authority: Omniscience as a Problem in Dharmakīrti’s Philosophy

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

22 Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Lasciar andare

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

6 Oct 20238 Oct 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Is Extraordinary Knowledge Possible? Superhuman Knowledge: Feasibility and Problems

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

5 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A Doctor, a Scholar, and His Works

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

23 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Onniscienza come problema. Sull’onniscienza del Buddha in Dharmakīrti.

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

20 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ayurveda and Philology: Gangadhar Ray Kaviraj and His Legacy

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

17 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



Dharmakīrti on omniscience: Readings from the Pramāṇavārttika and commentaries thereon

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

21 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Omniscience: To the limits of knowledge

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

21 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Omniscience as a Problem: Disputing Reliability in Religious Matters

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

20 Jun 202223 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


With the Eye of a Scholar and the Insight of a Physician: Gangadhar Ray Kaviraj and the Carakasaṃhitā

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

27 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Embodying the scholarly persona of the Ayurvedic tradition: Gangadhar Ray Kaviraj and the transmission of Ayurveda in colonial South Asia.

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

29 Apr 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Gangadhar Ray Kaviraj and the Carakasaṃhitā

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

21 Mar 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Indian philologists in the colonial period: Continuing or recovering traditional knowledge systems

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

19 Nov 202120 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The transmission of the Carakasaṃhitā in colonial South Asia

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

27 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Meditationspraxis und buddhistische Erkenntnistheorie

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

15 Jul 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Omniscient Buddha: Dharmakīrti’s Remarks

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

11 Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


For the Other, Without Thinking of the Other

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

10 Apr 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Philologists and Publishers: On the First Printed Edition of the Carakasaṃhitā and its Context

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

6 Mar 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Seeing and Visualizing from the Point of View of the Indian Epistemological Tradition

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

25 Nov 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Dal respiro alla mente

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

8 Sept 201611 Sept 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Philologists at Work. The Case of the Carakasaṃhitā

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

5 Jul 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Philologists at Work. The Case of the Carakasaṃhitā

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

11 Jun 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Dharmakīrti and the Path to Liberation III

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

19 May 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Dharmakīrti and the Path to Liberation II

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

7 Mar 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Dharmakirti and the Path to Liberation I

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

17 Dec 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Approaches to Textuality. Samples from the Carakasaṃhitā

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

30 Jun 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Some Reflections on Methodological Questions in the Study of Dharmakīrti

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

29 Jun 2015

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Pratiche di meditazione indiana

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

5 Sept 20147 Sept 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Dharmakīrti on the Role of Rituals

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

26 Aug 201430 Aug 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Meditation and Indian Philosophical Theories

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

18 Aug 201422 Aug 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Le siddhi

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

6 Sept 20138 Sept 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Commenting by quoting. The case of Manorathanandin’s Pramāṇavārttikavṛtti

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

21 Dec 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


A dharma to be proved: Texts from the Indian Buddhist epistemological tradition

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

10 Dec 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


A dharma to be proved: Texts from the Indian Buddhist epistemological tradition

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

6 Dec 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Copying and Editing in Pre-modern and Modern South Asia. Samples from the Carakasamhita

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

13 Oct 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Yama and niyama

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

8 Sept 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Causation and Seflessness in View of Liberation

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

20 Jun 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Modalities of the Diachronic Migration of Ancient Medical Literature : The Textual Witnesses of the Carakasamhita

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

13 Nov 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Modalities of the diachronic migration of ancient medical literature: the textual witnesses of the Carakasaṃhitā

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

11 Nov 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


A Note on saṃbhavānumāna in the Writings of Dharmakīrti

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

2 Sept 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


A note on sambhavanumana in the writings of Dharmakirti

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

1 Sept 2009

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Treating diseases by knowing health: patients and physicians in dialogue

Cristina Pecchia (Speaker)

1 Sept 2009

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Ayurveda and Philology: Gangadhar Ray Kaviraj and His Legacy

Pecchia, C., Li, C., Maas, P. A., Puthiyedath, R., Mukharji, P. B. & Munsi, S.

1/05/2231/01/25

Project: Research funding


Philosophie und Medizin im frühklassischen Indien III

Preisendanz, K., Angermeier, V., Jäger, H., Kintaert, T., Pecchia, C., Robl, D. & Wujastyk, D.

1/04/1131/03/16

Project: Research funding


Philosophie und Medizin im frühklassischen Indien II

Preisendanz, K., Maas, P. A., MacDonald, A. & Pecchia, C.

1/08/0730/11/10

Project: Research funding


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