Short bio
Professor emer. for Buddhist Studies and Tibetology at the University of Vienna. From 1998 to 2006 director of the Institute. Initiator of the project "Development of the epistemological-logical tradition of Buddhism in India and Tibet".
For more details see Former directors.
Selected publications
Ernst Steinkellner and Cynthia Peck-Kubaczek, 2019
Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra. A translation. Extracted from: Schmidt-Leukel, Perry, with a new translation by Ernst Steinkellner and Cynthia Peck-Kubaczek, Buddha Mind – Christ Mind. A Christian Commentary on the Bodhicaryāvatāra. Leuven et al.: Peeters, pp. XXIII + 553.
Ernst Steinkellner, 2017
Early Indian Epistemology and Logic: Fragments from Jinendrabuddhi's Pramāṇasamuccayaṭīkā 1 and 2. Tokyo: The International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 2017.
Ernst Steinkellner (ed.), 2016
Dharmakīrti's Hetubindu: Critically edited by Ernst Steinkellner on the basis of preparatory work by Helmut Krasser with a translation of the Gilgit fragment by Klaus Wille. (STTAR 19.) Beijing, Vienna: China Tibetology Publishing House and Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2016 (order online).
Ernst Steinkellner, 2013
Dharmakīrtis frühe Logik: Annotierte Übersetzung der logischen Teile von Pramāṇavārttika 1 mit der Vṛtti. Tokyo: The International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 2013.
Ernst Steinkellner, Li Xuezhu (eds.), 2008
Vasubandhu's Pañcaskandhaka. (STTAR 4.) Beijing, Vienna: China Tibetology Publishing House and Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2008 (order online).
Ernst Steinkellner (ed.), 2007
Dharmakīrti’s Pramāṇaviniścaya: Chapters 1 and 2, Critically edited. (STTAR 2.) Beijing, Vienna: China Tibetology Publishing House and Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2007 (order online).
Ernst Steinkellner, Helmut Krasser, Horst Lasic (eds.), 2005
Jinendrabuddhi´s Pramāṇasamuccayaṭīkā: Chapter 1, Part 1: Critical Edition. Part 2: Diplomatic Edition. (STTAR 1.) Beijing, Vienna: China Tibetology Publishing House and Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2005 (order online).
Ernst Steinkellner, Shoryu Katsura, ed., 2004
On the Role of the Example (drstanta) in Classical Indian Logic. (WSTB 58.) Wien: Arbeitskreis für tibetische und buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien, 2004 (order online).
Online publications
- The Kundeling Manuscript of Śāntarakṣita's Vādanyāyaṭīkā (a supplement to Ernst Steinkellner, The Edition of Śāntarakṣita's Vādanyāyaṭīkā Collated with the Kundeling Manuscript. Wien, Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität Wien 2014)
- Dignāga's Pramāṇasamuccaya, Chapter 1 (A hypothetical reconstruction of the Sanskrit text). IKGA 2005, X+35 pp. (PDF-Format; see also the revision, published in 2014).
- A Tale of Leaves. On Sanskrit Manuscripts in Tibet, their Past and their Future. (2003 Gonda Lecture.) Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2004, pp. 39.
- EAST (Epistemology and Argumentation in South Asia and Tibet). Bibliografische Datenbank zur erkenntnistheoretisch-logischen Schule des Buddhismus, erstellt von Birgit Kellner auf der Grundlage von Steinkellner und Much 1995.
More at Steinkellner repository.