Christoph Emmrich (Email)

Homepage: http://www.religion.utoronto.ca/people/facultyl/emmrich.htm

Christoph Emmrich is Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto and teaches at the Centre for the Study of Religion, St. George, and at Historical Studies, UTM. He received his MA from the Free University of Berlin and holds a Ph.D. in Classical Indology from Heidelberg University (2004). Professor Emmrich has worked on the concepts of time and world in Pali canonical literature as well as on ritual prescription, performance, gender and reform among Buddhist Newars in the Kathmandu Valley from the 17th cent. to the present. He is currently working on networks of Theravāda Buddhist monastic exchange between Nepal and Burma, the hagiographical writings of their agents in Newar and Burmese and the agency of children, particularly girls, in the interface of education and ritual.

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