Jörg Plassen
Professor of Religions of East Asia, Ruhr University Bochum
Short Biography
Jörg Plassen is Professor of Religions of East Asia at the Faculty of East Asian Studies and at CERES (Center for Religious Studies) at Ruhr University Bochum. His research interests include early Korean Hwaŏm and Samnon Buddhism in the East Asian context and authorship and intertextuality in Huayan/Hwaŏm/Kegon texts of the Tang Dynasty. He combines traditional philological methods with the latest methods of digital humanities, e.g. digital text mining. Further research interests include the literary and pragmatic dimensions of Buddhist commentaries as well as religious transfer processes. He is interested in the "Sinicization" of Buddhism, the interdependencies between Buddhism and Taoism / Xuanxue, and Buddhist-Confucian interactions in China and Korea.
Selected Publications
- Liefke, Lena and Joerg Plassen. „Some New Light on an Old Authorship Problem in Huayan Studies: The Relation between T.1867 and T.1877 from a Text-Critical and Linguistic Perspective.“ Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 39 (2016): 103–136.
- Plassen, Joerg. “Some Further Reflections on Hye'gyun's Taesŭng saron hyŏnŭi ki and Its Place within East Asian Buddhism: A Note on the Explanations of the ‘Chojang’ Formula, and Their Possible Implications.” International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture. Special Issue: Korean Buddhism in Asian Perspectives 1 (2016): 55–74.
- Plassen, Joerg. “Some Remarks on the Notions of ‘Freedom’ (chayu) and ‘Love’ (sarang) in Manhae Han Yongun’s (1879–1944) Nim-ŭi ch’immuk.” In: The Dynamics of Knowledge Circulation. Cases from Korea. (Research on Korea Vol. 5). Ed. by Eunjeung Lee and Marion Eggert. Frankfurt am Main et al.: Peter Lang, 2016, 65–78.
- Plassen, Joerg. “Einige kursorische Bemerkungen zur Frage des Einflusses des Huayan auf den Neo-Konfuzianismus.” Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 38 (2015): 383–392.