Christopher V. Jones
Christopher V. Jones
Kontakt:
E-Mail: christopher.jones@univie.ac.at
Web: https://univie.academia.edu/ChristopherJones
Dr Christopher V. Jones received an undergraduate degree in theology and religious studies at the University of Cambridge (Corpus Christi), and subsequent graduate and doctoral training in Sanskrit and other Asian languages at the University of Oxford (St Anne’s, St Peter’s), where he taught for the faculties of Religious Studies and of Oriental Studies (2012-2019). He later taught at the University of Cambridge (2019-2023). His research is in classical Buddhist literature extant in various Asian languages (Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan), and particularly Mahāyāna Buddhist literature from the early centuries of the Common Era.
Research focus
A significant focus of Dr Jones’ research, and the focus of his first monograph (The Buddhist Self: On Tathāgatagarbha and Ātman), has been the Indian ‘Buddha-nature’ tradition as it has been preserved in South, Central and East Asian literatures, foremost in connection to literature associated with the Mahāparinirvāṇa-mahāsūtra/Dabanniepan jing 大般涅槃經. His other research interests include pre-modern Buddhist attitudes to non-Buddhist teaching and authority in India and elsewhere, and the evolving place of Buddhist reflection on liberation and liberated beings in South Asia in the early centuries CE.
Recent activities include a UK AHRC-funded project on narrative explorations of Buddhology in Indian literature (with Prof. Naomi Appleton, University of Edinburgh), editorial duties for Buddhist Studies Review (Assistant Editor) and Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism (Section Editor), and public engagement work for teachers of Buddhism in schools across the UK.
Selected online media
Webinar (UC Berkeley, in recognition of The Buddhist Self): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNruR-vobVk&t=6s
Book launch (SOAS, for The Buddhist Self): https://buddhanature.tsadra.org/index.php/Articles/Book_Launch:_Revisiti…
Lectures for teachers of Buddhism in UK schools: bit.ly/WhoistheBuddha