Sebastian Nehrdich
Sebastian Nehrdich studied Classical Indology and Sinology at the University of Hamburg and graduated with a thesis on Xuanzang's Cheng weishi lun (2012–2017). He received his Master’s degree from the same university in 2020 with a thesis on the fourth chapter of Sthiramati’s Madhyāntavibhāgaṭīkā. His main research area is classical Yogācāra literature with a focus on Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese material. Furthermore, he has an active interest in the application of computational linguistics to the field of Buddhist philology. In 2016/2017 he spent one year as an exchange student at the Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts, Taiwan. During 2018–2020, he spent one and a half years as an exchange student at Kyōto University, Japan. Since 2019 he is working together with Dr. Orna Almogi and Prof. Dr. Dorji Wangchuk on the BuddhaNexus project.