Stefan Baums

I am a Group in Buddhist Studies Visiting Professor in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and a Research Fellow in the School of Asian Studies at Leiden University. My research interests include Buddhist philology and epigraphy, the beginnings of written Buddhist literature, the interaction of written and oral modes of text transmission, the development of Buddhist hermeneutics, and the description of Gāndhārī language and literature. My current work focuses on the decipherment and edition of three Gāndhārī birch‐bark manuscripts containing commentaries on early Buddhist verses, and on a comprehensive study of the historical connections and exegetical principles of this group of verse commentaries and the related Gāndhārī Saṅgītisūtra commentary. I am the editor (with Andrew Glass) of the Dictionary of Gāndhārī, and the director (with David Mellins) of the Buddhist Translators’ Workbench project at the Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages.

Dr. Stefan Baums
South and Southeast Asian Studies
University of California, Berkeley
7233 Dwinelle Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720‐2520
baums@berkeley.edu