University of Heidelberg

Contact information

Karl Jaspers Centre
Voßstraße 2, Building 4400
Room 115
69115 Heidelberg
Germany

Office Hours
Tuesday 4pm - 6pm

Email:

kellner@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de

Phone:

+49 (0) 6221 54 4301

Projects

• D16 Reasoning in South Asian and Tibetan Buddhism
• EAST
• HRA
• Professorship Buddhist Studies

Selected publications

Monographs

2007

• Jñānaśrīmitra’s Anupalabdhirahasya and Sarvaśabdābhāvacarcā: A Critical Edition with a Survey of his Anupalabdhi-Theory. Wien: Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 67. 

1997

• Nichts bleibt nichts. Die buddhistische Zurückweisung von Kumārilas abhāvapramāṇa. Übersetzung und Interpretation von Śāntarakṣitas Tattvasaṅgraha vv. 1647-1690 mit Kamalaśīas Tattvasaṅgrahapañjikā sowie Ansätze und Arbeitshypothesen zur Geschichte negativer Erkenntnis in der indischen Philosophie. Wien: Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 39. 

Articles & Encyclopedia Entries

• “Dharmakīrti’s criticism of external realism and the sliding scale of analysis”. In: Helmut Krasser, Horst Lasic, Eli Franco, Birgit Kellner (ed.): Religion and Logic in Buddhist Philosophical Analysis. Proceedings of the Fourth International Dharmakīrti Conference. Vienna, August 23–27, 2005. Wien 2011: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 291–298.
• Self-Awareness (svasaṃvedana) in Dignāga’s Pramāṇasamuccaya and -vṛtti: a close reading”. In: Birgit Kellner (ed.): Buddhist Theories of Self-Awareness (svasaṃvedana): Reception and Critique. Journal of Indian Philosophy 38/3 (2010) 203-231.
• “Self-awareness (svasaṃvedana) and Infinite Regresses: a Comparison of Arguments by Dignāga and Dhar­makīrti”. Journal of Indian Philosophy 39/4-5 (2011) = Special issue on 14th World Sanskrit Conference (eds. Shōryū Katsura, Mark Siderits, Kiyotaka Yoshimizu), 411-426.
• “Towards a Critical Edition of Dharmakīrti’s Pramāṇavārttika’‘. In: Jürgen Hanneder, Philipp A. Maas (eds.): Text Genealogy, Textual Criticism and Editorial Technique. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens 52-53 (2009-2010) 161-211.
• “The Logical Reason Called virodhin in Vaiśeṣika and Its Significance for Connection-based Theories of Reasoning”. In: Brendan S. Gillon (ed.), Logic in Earliest Classical India. [Papers of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference 10.2]. Delhi 2010: Motilal Banarsidass, 87-120. 
• “Buddhistische Theorien des Geistes — Intentionalität und Selbstbewusstsein’‘. In: Birgit Kellner, Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (eds.), Denkt Asien anders? Göttingen 2009: V & R unipress, 55-75. 
• “A missing page from Durvekamiśra’s Dharmottarapradīpa on Nyāyabindu 3.15 and 3.18 in its context”. In: Francesco Sferra (ed.), Sanskrit Texts from Giuseppe Tucci’s Collection. Part I. Manuscripta Buddhica 1. Roma 2008: Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, 207-228. 
• together with Francesco Sferra: “A Palm-leaf Manuscript for Dharmakīrti’s Pramāṇavārttika from the Collection kept by the Nepalese rājaguru Hemarāja Śarman”. In: Francesco Sferra (ed.), Sanskrit Texts from Giuseppe Tucci’s Collection. Part I. Manuscripta Buddhica 1. Roma 2008: Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, 229-248. 
• “Der Begriff der Seele in der buddhistischen Philosophie” In: Hans-Dieter Klein (ed.), Der Begriff der Seele in der Philosophiegeschichte. Der Begriff der Seele 2. Würzburg 2005: Königshausen und Neumann, 177-196. 
• “Sind Logik und Erkenntnistheorie buddhistisch? Über Selbstverständnis und Rolle der erkenntnistheoretisch-logischen Tradition des Buddhismus”. In: Lambert Schmithausen (ed.), Buddhismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Bd. IX – Facetten des Buddhismus – gibt es einen gemeinsamen Kern? Hamburg 2004: Universität Hamburg (Weiterbildendes Studium), 153-170.  
• “First logic, then the Buddha? Remarks on the chapter sequence of Dharmakīrti’s Pramāṇavārttika”. Hōrin 11 (2004) 147-167. 
• “Why Infer and not just Look? Dharmakīrti on the Psychology of Inferential Processes” In: Shôryû Katsura & Ernst Steinkellner (eds.), “The Role of the Example (dṛṣṭānta) in Classical Indian Logic”. Wien: Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde, vol. 58 (2004) 1-51. 
• “Integrating Negative Knowledge into Pramāṇa Theory: The Development of the dṛśyānupalabdhi in Dharmakīrti’s Earlier Works”, Journal of Indian Philosophy 31/1-3 (2003) 121-159. 
• “Negation – failure or success? Remarks on an allegedly characteristic trait of Dharmakīrti’s anupalabdhi-theory.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 29 (2001), 495-517.  
• “Levels of (im)perceptibility. Dharmottara on the dṛśya in dṛśyānupalabdhi.” Katsura, Shôryû (ed.): Dharmakīrti’s Thought and Its Impact on Indian and Tibetan Philosophy. Proceedings of the 3rd Dhar-makīrti Conference, Hiroshima. November 4-6, 1997. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 193-208. 
• “upalabdhilakṣaṇaprāpti ni tsuite (On upalabdhilakṣaṇaprāpti).” (In Japanese). Indogaku Bukkyôgaku Kenkyû 46/2 (1997) 111-114. 
• “Non-cognition (anupalabdhi) – perception or inference? The views of Dharmottara and Jñānaśrīmitra.” Tetsugaku 49 (1997) 121-134.  
• “Types of Incompatibility (’gal ba) and Types of Non-cognition (ma/mi dmigs) in Early Tibetan tshad ma-Literature.” Helmut Krasser, Michael Torsten Much, Ernst Steinkellner, Helmut Tauscher (eds.): Tibetan Studies. Proceedings of the 7th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Graz 1995, 495-510. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.  
• “There are no pots in the Ślokavārttika. ŚV abhāvapariccheda 11 and patterns of negative cognition in Indian philosophy.” Journal of the Oriental Institute (Baroda) 46/3-4, Sept.-Dec. 1996 (1999), 143-167.

Edited Volumes

• together with Helmut Krasser, Horst Lasic and Eli Franco: Religion and Logic in Buddhist Philosophical Analysis. Proceedings of the Fourth International Dharmakīrti Conference. Vienna, August 23–27, 2005. Wien 2011: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
• Buddhist Theories of Self-Awareness (svasaṃvedana): Reception and Critique. Special issue, Journal of Indian Philosophy 38/3. 2009.
• together with Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik: “Denkt Asien anders?” Göttingen 2009: V & R Unipress. 
• together with Helmut Krasser, Horst Lasic, Michael-Torsten Much and Helmut Tauscher: “Pramāṇakīrti. Papers dedicated to Ernst Steinkellner on the occasion of his 70th birthday”. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 70.1 and 70.2. Wien 2007: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien.

General Editor

• since 2006: together with Helmut Krasser, editor of the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (JIABS). 
• since 2004: together with Helmut Tauscher and Helmut Krasser, editor of the monograph series Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde.