Urs App

Urs App ( * 1949 in Rorschach ) is a Swiss researcher in the field of Buddhist Studies, Humanities and the history of ideas, philosophy and the history of East-West relations.

Life

Urs App was born in 1949 in Rorschach at Lake Constance and studied in Freiburg, Kyoto and Philadelphia psychology, philosophy and religious studies. He received his doctorate in 1989 at Temple University in Philadelphia, specializing in Chinese Buddhism. From 1989 to 1999 he was professor of Buddhism at Hanazono University in Kyoto and Deputy Director of the International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism at the same university. Since then, he conducts research at various institutions in Asia and Europe, most recently at the Research Institute for Zen culture ( Zenbunka Kenkyujo, Kyoto, 2005-2007), the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF; 2007-2010). the Scuola Italiana di Studi sull'Asia Orientale ( Italian School of East Asian Studies, ISEAS; 2010-2011 ) and the École Française d' Extrême -Orient (2012 - ).

The research focus of Urs App, the Buddhist Studies (especially Zen Buddhism ), the history of Orientalism, the history of the European discovery of Asian religions, the history of philosophy in East and West ( Asian especially of Schopenhauer and his reception idea good), and the history of Ideas in the Orient and Occident.

Publications (selection )

In addition to numerous journal articles app has published a number of books on his research interests.

  • The Cult of Emptiness. The Western Discovery of Buddhist Thought and the Invention of Oriental Philosophy. Rorschach / Kyoto University Media, 2012 ( ISBN 978-3-906000-09-1 ) ( Best Buddhist books of the year 2012, Buddhadharma magazine)
  • Schopenhauer's compass. Rorschach / Kyoto University Media, 2011 (ISBN 978-3-906000-08-4 [ bound ] ISBN 978-3-906000-02-2 and [ Paperback ] )
  • Richard Wagner and Buddhism. Rorschach / Kyoto University Media, 2011 (ISBN 978-3-906000-00-8 )
  • The Birth of Orientalism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010 (ISBN 978-0-8122-4261-4 ) (winner of the 2012 Book Prize of the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres )
  • Sino - Platonic Papers No. 200 (April 2010) (PDF file, 8.7 MB PDF, 172 pages) Arthur Schopenhauer and China. (PDF, 8.5 MB)
  • About twenty volumes of Chinese concordances Zentexte.
  • Richard Wagner and Buddhism: Love - tragedy. Zurich: Museum Rietberg, 1997 Upgrade edition: . Rorschach / Kyoto University Media, 2011 (ISBN 978-3-906000-10-7 )
  • Zen words from the Cloud Gate Mountain. Explanations and discussions of the Zen master Yunmen Wenyan ( 864-949 ). Bern / Munich: Barth, 1994 ISBN 3-502-64640-6
  • Master Yunmen. New York: Kodansha International, 1994 ( ISBN 1-56836-004-5 ). .
  • Facets of the Life and Teaching of Chan Master Yunmen Wenyan ( 864-949 ) (PDF, 17.4 MB). Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 342 pp. (Ph. D. dissertation, Temple University, 1989)

Documentary

  • The tea whisk. 20 - minute documentary for the bamboo exhibition at the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich (2003) and the Museum of Ethnology, Munich ( 2006) ( in collaboration with Monica Esposito )
  • Towards Tōhakus pine forest. 20 - minute documentary for the Hasegawa Tohaku Art Exhibition (2002) at the Rietberg Museum, Zurich (in collaboration with Monica Esposito )
  • Dangki - Les Chamanes de la Chine. 51- minute documentary, shown at the 2001 channel France 2 (in collaboration with Monica Esposito );
  • Oracle in China. 11- minute documentary for the oracle Exhibition 2000 at the Rietberg Museum, Zurich (in collaboration with Monica Esposito )
  • Oracle in Japan. 10 - minute documentary for the oracle Exhibition 2000 at the Rietberg Museum, Zurich (in collaboration with Monica Esposito )
  • Dangki: Chinese oracle children. 12 - minute documentary for the oracle Exhibition 2000 at the Rietberg Museum, Zurich (in collaboration with Monica Esposito )

CD -Rom

  • ZenBase CD1. Kyoto: International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism ( ISBN 4-938796 -18- X; worldwide earliest CD - ROM with over 80 Chinese Buddhist texts).
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