Vincent Eltschinger
Présentation
Vincent Eltschinger (1970) est Directeur d’études à l’École Pratique des Hautes Études, section des Sciences religieuses, où il occupe depuis 2015 une chaire d’histoire du bouddhisme indien. Après un doctorat en études indiennes et bouddhiques à l’Université de Lausanne (2003), rédigé sous la codirection de Tom J.F. Tillemans et Johannes Bronkhorst, Vincent Eltschinger a poursuivi ses recherches à l’Institut für Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens de l’Académie des sciences d’Autriche (Vienne, 2003-2015), institut qu’il a dirigé en 2014-2015. Ses travaux ont porté sur la tradition philosophique dite « logico-épistémologique » du bouddhisme indien, en particulier sur plusieurs de ses figures majeures (Dharmakīrti, Śubhagupta, Śāntarakṣita, Kamalaśila, Jitāri, Śaṅkaranandana). Vincent Eltschinger s’est intéressé à leur doctrines linguistiques, à leurs arrière-plans religieux, à leur programme apologétique et à leur généalogie intellectuelle (Aśvaghoṣa, Yogācārabhūmi, Vasubandhu). Parmi ses publications, on peut mentionner Caste et Philosophie bouddhique (Vienne, 2000 ; trad. angl. Caste and Buddhist Philosophy, Delhi, 2012), Penser l’autorité des Écritures (Vienne, 2007), Self, No-self, and Salvation (avec Isabelle Ratié, Vienne, 2013), Can the Veda Speak ? (avec Helmut Krasser et John Taber, Vienne, 2012), Buddhist Epistemology as Apologetics (Vienne, 2014 [HDR]), Dharmakīrti on Exclusion (avec John Taber, Michael Torsten Much et John Taber), et Qu’est-ce que la philosophie indienne ? (Paris, Gallimard, 2023). Vincent Eltschinger est co-éditeur de la Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism (vol. I et II parus en 2015 et 2019), et directeur du Groupe de recherches en études indiennes (GREI, EA 2120). Il a notamment enseigné aux universités de Budapest, Lausanne, Leiden, Leipzig, Tokyo, Venise, Vienne, Zurich.
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Cette philosophie qui parle sanskritLes études philosophiques, 152 (1), 2025 |
A Buddhist Refutation of the Existence of a Creator God: Śubhagupta’s ĪśvarabhaṅgakārikāVincent Eltschinger, Jowita Kramer, Parimal Patil, Chizuko Yoshimizu. Burlesque of the Philosophers. Indian and Buddhist Studies in Memory of Helmut Krasser, University of Hamburg, pp.29-72, 2023 |
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AbhidharmaJonathan Silk, Vincent Eltschinger, Oskar von Hinüber. Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism, I, Brill, pp.88-102, 2015, Languages and Literature |
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Philosophical Literature: South AsiaJonathan Silk, Vincent Eltschinger, Oskar von Hinüber. Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism, I, Brill, pp.593-620, 2015, Languages and Literature |
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Latest News from a Kashmirian ‘Second Dharmakīrti’: On the Life, Works and Confes-sional Identity of Śaṅkaranandana According to New Manuscript ResourcesPatrick Mc Allister, Cristina Scherrer-Schaub, Helmut Krasser. Cultural Flows across the Western Himalaya, Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, pp.303-363, 2015 |
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Pure Land SūtrasJonathan Silk, Vincent Eltschinger, Oskar von Hinüber. Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism, I, Brill, pp.210-230, 2015, Languages and Literature |
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Turning Hermeneutics Into Apologetics: Reasoning and Rationality under Changing Historical CircumstancesVincent Eltschinger, Helmut Krasser. Scriptural Authority, Reason and Action. Proceedings of a Panel at the 14th World Sanskrit Conference, Kyoto, September 1-5, 2009, Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, pp.71-145, 2013 |
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Die vorislamischen indischen ReligionenN.N. Das Indien der Maharadschas, pp.118-126, 2013 |
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Buddhist Esoterism and Epistemology. Two Six-Century Innovations as Buddhist Responses to Social and Religio-Political TransformationsEli Franco. Periodization and Historiography of Indian Philosophy, De Nobili Research Library, pp.171-273, 2013 |
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Debate, Salvation and Apologetics. On the Institutionalization of Dialectics in the Buddhist Monastic EnvironmentFrançois Voegeli, Vincent Eltschinger, Danielle Feller, Maria Piera Candotti, Bogdan Diaconescu, Malhar Kulkarni. Devadattiyam. Johannes Bronkhorst Felicitation Volume, Peter Lang, pp.429-489, 2012 |
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Apocalypticism, Heresy and PhilosophyPiotr Balcerowicz. World View and Theory in Indian Philosophy, Manohar, pp.29-85, 2012 |
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Cultures of EschatologyDe Gruyter, 2020, ⟨10.1515/9783110597745⟩ |
Commentaire et philosophie. Un divertissement.Enjeux de la philologie indienne, Collège de France (Lyne Bansat-Boudon, Silvia d'Intino, Jean-Noël Robert), Dec 2016, Paris, France |
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Dharmakīrti’s views on the transformation of the basis and the status of the ālayavijñānaMind and Consciousness : International Conference on Ālayavijñāna, Dongguk University, Nov 2016, Séoul, South Korea |
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Comparer les scolastiques?Le comparatisme en sciences humaines: questions de méthode, Christophe Grellard et Frédéric Fruteau de Laclos, Jun 2016, Paris, France |
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Mahāyāna Apologetics in Indian SourcesWhat is Mahāyāna? And what are Mahāyāna Scriptures?, Eko-Haus der Japanischen Kultur, Apr 2016, Düsseldorf, Germany |
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Pour une généalogie de la philosophie en milieu bouddhiqueXIe Journée du Monde Indien, UMR 7528 Mondes Iranien et Indien (Isabelle Ratié et Jan Houben), May 2016, Paris, France |
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Dharmakīrti, apoha, and the two truthsConceptuality and Non-Conceptuality in Buddhist Thought, Center for Buddhist Studies, University of California (Robert Sharf, Alexander von Rospatt), Nov 2016, Berkeley, United States |
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A Early Indian Dhyāna Master on Mindfulness and the Four Applications of MindfulnessMārga - Paths to Liberation in South Asian Buddhist Traditions, Institut für Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens (Cristina Pecchia, Vincent Eltschinger), Dec 2015, Vienna, Austria |
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The Indian Buddhist Appropriation of the KaliyugaMaking Ends Meet Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the End of Times in Medieval Christianity, Islam and Buddhism, SFB Viscom, Institut für Mittelalterliche Forschung (Veronika Wieser), Institut für Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens (Vincent Eltschinger), Sep 2015, Vienna, Austria |
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Pourquoi les bouddhistes ont-ils adopté le sanscrit ?HIÉROGLOSSIE I - Moyen Âge latin, monde arabo-persan, Tibet, Inde, Chaire de Philologie de la civilisation japonaise (Jean Noël Robert), Jun 2015, Paris, Collège de France, France |
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Why Did the Buddhists Adopt Sanskrit?Conference WW_HistSlx 2015 Strategies of Language Variation: Transcultural Perspectives, Soziolinguistisches Forum Wien, Institut für Iranistik, Institut für Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens, Apr 2015, Vienna, Austria |
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On the Contemporary Arising of Buddhist Epistemology and Buddhist TantrismTantric Communities in Context: Sacred Secrets and Public Rituals, SFB Viscom - Institut für Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens (Vincent Eltschinger, Nina Mirnig, Marion Rastelli), Feb 2015, Vienna, Austria |
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Buddhist philosophy as critical examination (parīkṣā): From Buddhist canonical literature to Dharmakīrti5th International Dharmakirti Conference, University of Heidelberg, Cluster Professorship Buddhist Studies, Aug 2014, Heidelberg, Germany |
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The Yogācārabhūmi’s Critique of the Brahmanical Account of the Caste-ClassesBuddhism and Social Justice, NFO Research Project "Buddhism and Social Justice", University of Leiden (Jonathan Silk), Apr 2014, Leiden, Netherlands |
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The Uses of “Critical Examination” (parīkṣā) and Independent Reasoning/Analysis in the Self-Diction of Early Indian Buddhist Literati17th Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS), University of Vienna, Institut für Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde, Aug 2014, Vienna, Austria |
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Whose insight did Śaṅkaranandana provide with adornment? More light on the PrajñālaṅkāraAround Abhinavagupta. Aspects of the Intellectual History of Kashmir from the 9th to the 11th Centuries, University of Leipzig, Institute of Indology and Central Asian Studies (Isabelle Ratié, Eli Franco), Jun 2013, Leipzig, Germany |
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Remarks on Indian Buddhist Eschatology and Its Uses of the KaliyugaMeanings of Community across Medieval Eurasia, SFB Viscom - Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of Vienna, Nov 2013, Vienna, Austria |
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Aśvaghoṣa’s Buddhacarita and Vinaya literatureSymposium Numata Chair Holders in Europe, Eko-Haus der Japanischen Kultur, Sep 2012, Düsseldorf, Germany |
Helmut Krasser (1956-2014)2015, pp.11-13 |
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Review of: Raffaele Torella, The Philosophical Traditions of India. An Appraisal2012, pp.105-108 |
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Review of: Lawrence J. McCrea and Parimal G. Patil, Buddhist Philosophy of Language in India. Jñanasrimitra on Exclusion2012 |