Francesco Sferra is full professor of Sanskrit language and literature at the University of Naples “L’Orientale,” where he has been teaching since 1998. His primary areas of expertise are connected to Sanskrit philology, history of Indian religions, tantric studies, and classical Indian philosophy. In 2007 and in 2011-2012 he has been visiting professor at the Hamburg Universität. Since 2006 he has directed an international research project on unpublished Buddhist texts in Sanskrit. His works include the critical edition and translation of the Ṣaḍaṅgayoga by Anupamarakṣita with its commentary by Raviśrījñāna (2000), the Sekoddeśaṭīkā by Nāropā (2006) and (with H. Isaacson) the Sekanirdeśapañjikā by Rāmapāla (2014). He is founder and coeditor of the series Manuscripta Buddhica (1st vol. 2008).
Texts in Context. An Inquiry into the Social and Religious Context in which the Kālacakra Buddhist Tradition originated
