Christian Wittern 維習安
Professor at the Institute of Research in Humanities, Kyōtō University
Short Biography
Christian Wittern is a professor at Kyōtō University and a major contributor to the Chan Knowledgebase Project, an online database for Chan Buddhist texts in China. He is also co-manager of the Kanseki Repository, an online database for Chinese texts, including the Daozang and Daozang jiyao, as well as numerous Buddhist texts. His research interests include the development of the Chinese school of Chan Buddhism from the Tang Dynasty to the early Song and the digitization of East Asian literary sources.
Selected Publications
- Jingde chuandeng lu. Aufzeichnungen von der Übertragung der Leuchte aus der Ära Jingde. Translated by Christian Wittern. Berlin: Verlag der Weltreligionen, 2014.
- Wittern, Christian. “Some Preliminary Remarks to a Study of Rhetorical Devices in Chán yǔlù 禪語錄 Encounter Dialogues.“ In: Zen Buddhist Rhetoric in China, Korea, and Japan. Ed. by Christoph Anderl. Leiden, Boston und Tokyo: Brill, 2011, 219–238.
- Wittern, Christian. “Patterns of Variation: The Textual Sources of the Chinese Buddhist Canon as Seen through the CBETA Edition.” In: Essays on East Asian Religion and Culture. Festschrift in Honour of Nishiwaki Tsuneki on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. Ed. by Christian Wittern and Shi Lishan. Kyoto: 2007, 209–232.
- Wittern, Christian. “Writing Systems and Character Representation.” In: Electronic Textual Editing. Ed. by Lou Burnard, Katherine O'Brien O'Keffe and John Unsworth. New York: Modern Language Association, 2006, 291–298.