Faculty
Our faculty is comprised of expert scholars and educators in the fields of Yoga Studies, Indology, Religious Studies, and South Asian Studies.
Dr. Philipp MaasĀ isĀ currently a research associate at the Institute for Indology and Central Asian Studies, University of Leipzig in Germany, where he works on a digital critical edition of theĀ NyÄyabhÄį¹£ya, a Sanskrit work on spiritual liberation through proper reasoning. Previously he had served as an assistant professor and postdoc researcher at the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the University of Bonn Germany.
He received his M.A. (1997) and Dr. phil. (2004) degrees from the University of Bonn, where he had completed studies in Indology, Comparative Religious Studies, Tibetology and Philosophy. His first book (originally his PhD thesis) is the first critical edition of the first chapter (SamÄdhipÄda) of the PÄtaƱjalaĀ YogaÅÄstra, i.e. theĀ Yoga SÅ«tra of PataƱjaliĀ together with the commentary calledĀ Yoga BhÄį¹£ya. He has published extensively on classical Yoga and SÄį¹ khya philosophy and meditation, Äyurveda, the relationship of PÄtaƱjalayoga to Buddhism as well as on the textual tradition of theĀ PÄtaƱjalayogaÅÄstra. He is a member of the āHistorical Sourcebooks on Classical Indian Thoughtā project, convened by Prof. Sheldon Pollock, to which he contributes with a monograph on the development of Yoga-related ideas in pre-modern South Asian intellectual history.
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