Lecturer for Buddhist Studies at the University of Oxford
Jowita Kramer completed a doctorate (Hamburg, 2004) and habilitation (Munich, 2010) in Indology and currently holds the post of Departmental Lecturer for Buddhist Studies at the University of Oxford. The main focus of her research lies on Indian and Indo-Tibetan Buddhism (with particular emphasis on the philosophical concepts of the Yogācāra tradition) and on aspects of authorship, originality, and intertextuality in Buddhist commentarial literature. Her publications include a monograph on the Yogācāra concept of the “five categories” (vastu) and studies of the Pañcaskandhakavibhāṣā, a 6th-century commentary by the Indian scholar Sthiramati on Vasubandhu’sPañcaskandhaka.