Dr. Martin Delhey

Martin Delhey has various research interests in the field of ancient Indian Buddhism, with a strong emphasis on textual studies. While he focused on the Yogācārabhūmi, a medieval Indian encyclopaedia of Buddhist scholasticism, in the early years of his career, he turned his attention to other topics like Buddhist ethics (in particular, history of suicide) and the early Tantric text Mañjusriyamūlakalpa in later times. At present, he occupies a full-time position in the newly established inter-disciplinary Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (SFB 950) at the University of Hamburg in which manuscripts as material artefacts rather than mere containers of texts form the object of historical and comparative research.