Jens Wilhelm Borgland
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Teologiska institutionen; Religionshistoria och global kristendom
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 21 92
- E-mail:
- jens.borgland@teol.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3 B
- Postal address:
- Box 511
751 20 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
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Jens W. Borgland er religionshistoriker, filolog og sanskritist, med bred interesse for indisk religion, filosofi og språk. Hans vitenskapelige aktivitet tar hovedsakelig for seg å belyse den indiske religionshistorien — med spesielt fokus på indisk buddhisme — gjennom filologiske studier av kilder på sanskrit, pali, tibetansk og kinesisk. Han er spesielt interessert i buddhistiske klosterregler (vinaya) og sanskritmanuskripter av tekster tilhørende Mūlasarvāstivāda-skolen.
Biography
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Jens W. Borgland (Ph.D., Universitetet i Oslo 2014) är docent och universitetslektor i religionshistoria vid Teologiska institutionen, Uppsala Universitet; Institute Fellow vid PHI - Norwegian Institute of Philology; och ämnesansvarig för buddhism i Store Norske Leksikon. Han var i perioden 2021–2024 Uppsala Universitets representant i tankesmedjan Humtank.
Publications
Recent publications
- Forskningsförmedling (2023)
- Humaniorastrategier i Sverige (2022)
- Lies, Laymen and False Accusation (2021)
- Examination into the True Teaching (2020)
- Devadatta and the Extracurricular Ascetic Practices: Some Highlights from the Story of the First Buddhist Schism as Told in the Samghabhedavastu of the Mulasarvastivada Vinaya (2018)
All publications
Articles
- Lies, Laymen and False Accusation (2021)
- Undetermined Matters (2018)
- Mahādeva in Dunhuang (2016)
- Klassiske Indiske Diskusjoner om Guds Eksistens: (2014)
- Jakten på et ord (2012)
Books
Chapters
- Devadatta and the Extracurricular Ascetic Practices: Some Highlights from the Story of the First Buddhist Schism as Told in the Samghabhedavastu of the Mulasarvastivada Vinaya (2018)
- Some Reflections on Thich Nhat Hanh’s Monastic Code for the Twenty-First century (2017)
- A Kuṣāṇa Brāhmī Fragment of a Commentary on aśubhabhāvanā and the Formation of the Foetus (2016)
Reports
