Mattia Salvini: Numata Visiting Professor for the Winter Semester 2014/15
10 October 2014
Photo: M. Mattini
Dr. Mattia Salvini had most of his higher education in India (RKM Vivekānanda College, Chennai), and studied Buddhist texts with Prof.Rāṁśaṅkar Tripāṭhī (Sarnath). He obtained his PhD from SOAS, London, with a dissertation entitled ‘Conventions and Agency in the Philosophies of the Mahāyāna.’ His research focuses on Buddhist philosophy, Sanskrit grammar, and other aspects of South Asian culture. He has mostly published articles on Buddhist thought, and, occasionally, on traditional Indian architecture.
Dr.Salvini has taught at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute (Kathmandu), the International Buddhist College (Songkhla, Thailand) and, for the past five years, at the International PhD Programme in Buddhist Studies, Mahidol University (Thailand). He will be teaching an introductory course in Buddhist Philosophy, and a reading class focusing on a Sanskrit philosophical commentary, on a section of Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra.