Birgit Kellner (Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, Vienna)

Birgit Kellner, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies
Vienna University
Uni-Campus AAKh, Hof 2
Spitalgasse 2-4
A-1090 Vienna - AUSTRIA

phone: +43-1-4277-43707
FAX:   +43-1-4277-9437
email: birgit.kellner@univie.ac.at

Description of work:
Classical Indian Philosophy, especially Buddhist logic and epistemology.

Tibetan Philosophy, religious history.

M.A. and PhD-Work specialized on theories of negative cognition
(cognition of "non-existence") in Indian and Tibetan Philosophy.

M.A.Thesis:
Translation and interpretation of Santaraksita's Tattvasamgraha (with
-panjika) 1647-1690 on _abhava_ (revised and published, in German, in
Vienna 1997). 

PhD: comprehensive study of post-Dharmakirtian Indian interpretations of
negative cognition (currently being revised for publication in English).

Various small articles on related issues.
Currently engaged in a research-project regarding the
"form-question"/"aspect-problem"
(sakarajnanavada/nirakarajnanavada) in Buddhist epistemology.
Also interested in Asian film studies.