Ferenc Ruzsa

Ferenc Ruzsa is Professor at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, jointly affiliated with the Institute of East Asian Studies and the Department of Buddhology and Tibetology, and a core faculty member of the Department of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies. His research focuses on Indian philosophy—especially Sāṁkhya and Vedānta—Buddhist thought, and the philology of Sanskrit and Pali texts.

Education:

• MA Indology & Philosophy, ELTE Univ. 1982
• PhD (Sāṁkhya philosophy), Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1994
• Habilitation in Philosophy, ELTE 2016
• DSc (Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) 2017

Research Interests:

Ruzsa’s work explores classical Indian dualisms, the oral formation of philosophical sūtras, the no-self doctrine in early Buddhism, and comparative motifs across Greek and Indian philosophies. He has authored four books and over 90 articles, often blending rigorous textual philology with bold historical hypotheses.

Publication Trends:

Recent output (2022-25) interrogates the authorship of the Nyāya proof-of-God text Kusumāñjali, re-edits Sāṃkhya commentaries, and reconsiders the Buddha’s restriction of his doctrine to monastics, signalling sustained engagement with textual stratification and socio-religious context of early Indian thought.

Honours:

• DSc title, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2017)
• University Habilitation in Philosophy (2016)

Doctoral Supervision & Grants:

No named advisees or specific grant details appear in the available sources; he is active in ELTE’s doctoral programmes and has received Hungarian National Research Fund support (OTKA K 75550).

Labs & Teams:

Ruzsa conducts research within ELTE’s long-standing Indology cluster and participates in international networks visible on Academia.edu (2,600+ followers, co-authors across Europe, India and Japan), though no dedicated lab is listed.