Numata Visiting Professor for Buddhist Studies
25 January 2013
Photo: Steffen Döll
It is with great pleasure that The Numata Center for Buddhist Studies welcomes Prof. Dr. Steffen Döll as it’s new Visiting Professor. Prof. Döll will be teaching two courses to students of Buddhist Studies during the Summer Semester 2013.
It is with great pleasure that The Numata Center for Buddhist Studies welcomes Prof. Dr. Steffen Döll as it’s new Visiting Professor. Prof. Döll will be teaching two courses to students of Buddhist Studies during the Summer Semester 2013.
Steffen Döll was educated in Japanese Studies, Chinese Studies, and Religious Studies in Munich and Kyoto. He currently serves as an assistant professor at the University of Munich’s Japan Center and is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities’ Young Academy. His research focuses on Japanese intellectual and literary history, Buddhist philosophy and history, and cultural transfer processes in East Asia. These areas of interests were realized in his PhD thesis, “East of the Ocean. Chinese Emigrant Monks and the Early Institutions of Japanese Zen Buddhism”, published in German in 2010.