Martin Delhey studied the languages and culture of classical India, together with Tibetan and Chinese, at the University of Hamburg, where he received an M.A. (in 1998) and D.Phil (in 2002) for his research on the Yogācārabhūmi.
Between 2002 and 2005, Dr. Delhey held a teaching position in the Seminar for Indology and Buddhist Studies at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Subsequently he worked on a DFG-funded project at the University of Hamburg, and most recently he has been a post-doctoral research fellow at the Research Institute for Buddhist Culture at Ryukoku University, Kyoto, in connection with his research on Suicide in Buddhism.
Ongoing Research in Tantric Studies
Selected Publications
| in press | ‘Samāhitā Bhūmiḥ: Das Kapitel über die meditative Versenkung im Grundteil der Yogācārabhūmi‘. Dissertation. University of Hamburg, Hamburg 2002. Publication forthcoming in the series ‘Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde’. |
| in press | “The Textual Sources of the Mañjuśriyamūlakalpa (Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa): With Special Reference to Its Early Nepalese Witness A39/4.” In: Newsletter of the Nepalese German Manuscript Cataloguing Project 7 (2009). In press. |
| in press | “Vakkali: A New Interpretation of His Suicide.” In: Journal of the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies 13 (2009). In press. |
| 2006 | ‘Asamāhitā Bhūmiḥ: Zwei Kapitel der Yogācārabhūmi über den von meditativer Versenkung freien Zustand’. In: Jaina-Itihāsa-Ratna: Festschrift für Gustav Roth zum 90. Geburtstag. Eds. Ute Hüsken, Petra Kieffer-Pülz and Anne Peters. Indica et Tibetica 47. Marburg: Indica et Tibetica Verlag, 2006. 127–152. |
| 2006 | ‘Views on Suicide in Buddhism: Some Remarks’. In: Buddhism and Violence. Ed. Michael Zimmermann, with Chiew Hui Ho and Philip Pierce. LIRI Seminar Proceedings Series 2. Lumbini: Lumbini International Research Institute, 2006. 25–63. [ PDF (CTS) ] |
| 2005 | ‘ Zum Verständnis der Selbsttötung im Buddhismus’. In: Weiterbildendes Studium Buddhismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Band 10. Eds. L. Schmithausen and J. Sobisch [unofficial publication]. Hamburg 2005. 145–165. [ PDF ] |
| 2002 | ‘Buddhismus und Selbsttötung’. In: Weiterbildendes Studium Buddhismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Band 7. Eds. L. Schmithausen and J. Sobisch [unofficial publication]. Hamburg 2002. 113–132. [ PDF ] |
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