Peter Skilling

Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, 1949

Member since 2006

Peter Skilling is Maître de Conférences with the École française d’Extrême-Orient, Bangkok and Paris. He received his PhD (2004) and his Habilitation (2008) from Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris. He specializes in the history and literature of the Buddhism of South and South-East Asia. He has been visiting professor at Harvard, Oxford, Berkeley, Sydney, and the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University. He is Special Lecturer at Chulalongkorn University and Honorary  Associate, Department  of  Indian Sub Continental  Studies, University of Sydney. In 2009 he was awarded the Ikuo Hirayama Prize from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belle-Lettres, Paris for his work in general and the publication Wat Si Chum, Sukhothai (Bangkok, 2008).

Publications

1994-1997

Mahāsūtras: Great Discourses of the Buddha. Vol. I. Texts. Critical editions of the Tibetan Mahāsūtras with Pāli and Sanskrit counterparts as available. 1994. Vol. II, Parts I & II. 1997. Oxford: The Pali Text Society (Sacred Books of the Buddhists XLIV, XLVI).

2002

(with Santi Pakdeekham). Pāli Literature Transmitted in Central Siam: A catalogue based on the Sap Songkhro. Bangkok: Fragile Palm Leaves Foundation/Lumbini International Research Institute (Materials for the Study of the Tripitaka, Volume 1).

2004

(with Santi Pakdeekham). Pāli and Vernacular Literature Transmitted in Central and Northern Siam. Bangkok: Fragile Palm Leaves Foundation/Lumbini International Research Institute (Materials for the Study of the Tripitaka, Volume 2).

2008

(ed.). Past Lives of the Buddha. Wat Si Chum – Art, Architecture and Inscriptions (with contributions by Pattaratorn Chirapravati, Pierre Pichard, Prapod Assavavirulhakarn, Santi Pakdeekham, Peter Skilling). Bangkok 2008.

2009

Buddhism and Buddhist Literature of South-East Asia: Selected Papers by Peter Skilling. Edited by Claudio Cicuzza. Bangkok and Lumbini: Fragile Palm Leaves 2009 (Materials for the Study of the Tripiṭaka Volume 5).

2009

Images et imagination – Le bouddhisme en Asie (Conférences Iéna, Cycle 2007-2008) Sous la direction de Peter Skilling. Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient.

2009

"Redaction, Recitation, and Writing: Transmission of the Buddha’s Teachings in India in the Early Period" Chap. 4. In Stephen C. Berkwitz, Juliane Schober, and Claudia Brown (eds.). Buddhist Manuscript Cultures: Knowledge, Ritual, and Art. London: Routledge.

2009

"Des images moulées au service de l’idéologie du mérite’ et ‘L’énigme de Si Thep.", In Pierre Baptiste et Thierry Zéphir (ed.), Dvaravati – aux sources du bouddhisme en Thaïlande. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux/Établissement public du musée des Arts asiatiques Guimet, 2009, pp. 107-125.

2009

"Quatre vies de Sakyamuni: à l’aube de sa carrière de Bodhisatta," In Bouddhismes d’Asie: monuments et littératures, Journée d’étude en hommage à Alfred Foucher (1865-1952) réunie le 14 décembre 2007 à l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (palai de l’Institute de France), receuil édité pas Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat et Jean Leclant, Paris: AIBL – Diffusion De Boccard, 2009, pp. 125-139.

2009

"Commentary at Nālandā in the Age of Dharmapāla: Vīryaśrīdatta’s Nibandhana on the Arthaviniścaya-dharmaparyāya." In Martin Straube, Roland Steiner, Jayandra Soni, Michael Hahn and Mitsuyo Demoto (ed.), Pāsādikadānaṃ: Festschrift für Bhikhu Pāsādika, Indica et Tibetica Verlag Marburg, 2009 (Indica et Tibetica 52), pp. 399-447.

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