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Prof. Michael Radich is a Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Heidelberg since 2018, part of the Cluster of Excellence 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context'. Previously, he held positions at Victoria University of Wellington (Associate Professor in Religious Studies) and Kyoto University (Visiting Associate Professor). His research focuses on Buddhist textual traditions, particularly in Chinese and Indian contexts, with emphasis on Tathāgatagarbha doctrine, Yogācāra philosophy, and stone sutra inscriptions. He has authored seminal works like The Mahāparinirvāṇa-mahāsūtra and the Emergence of Tathāgatagarbha Doctrine (2015) and Buddhist Stone Sutras in China (2024).
Education: PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University (2007), MA in Chinese Studies (Auckland, 1995), and BMus in Composition (Auckland, 1989).
Research interests include comparative Buddhist studies, computational philology, and the transmission of Indic ideas into Chinese Buddhism. Recent projects involve analyzing Buddhist stone inscriptions in Northern China and computational methods for studying Paramārtha's corpus. His work bridges textual criticism, archaeology, and interdisciplinary approaches like psychoanalytic theory applied to Buddhist concepts.
Awards: Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2015), CUE Teaching Excellence (2003), Harvard Departmental Fellowship (2000–2005).
Grants & Collaborations: Director of the Heidelberg Academy's Buddhist Stone Inscriptions in Northern China project, leading initiatives like the Encounter of Chinese Buddhists with Indian Yogācāra Texts (2014–2017). He has co-edited volumes on Buddhist encyclopedias and served on editorial boards for journals like Singaporean Journal of Buddhist Studies and the Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism.
