Curriculum vitae


Ulrike Roesler, née Wessel
born in Barbengo, Switzerland on August 12, 1963

Education
1969-1982 primary and secondary school in Wuppertal, Germany
Oktober 1982-Februar 1983: work in a home for handicapped children in South India
1989 M.A., University of Muenster, Germany
         (M.A. thesis on natural philosophy in the Upanishads)
1995 PhD, University of Muenster, Germany
         (Ph.D. thesis: "Licht und Leuchten in Rgveda. Untersuchungen zum Wortfeld des Leuchtens und zur Bedeutung des Lichts")

Asian languages
Vedic and Classical Sanskrit, Pali, Hindi,
Literary und Modern Tibetan, Classical Mongolian

Work experience
October 1994-September 2005
    research assistant/assistant professor at the University of Marburg (teaching and research, administrative experience, conference organisation)
since October 2005
    Numata Lecturer in Buddhist Studies, Balliol College, Oxford

co-editor of the series Bauddha Books

Work in progress
Translation of the dPe chos rin chen spungs pa by Po-to-ba Rin-chen-gsal (1027/31-1105), study of the historical and religious setting durin the early phyi dar, study of Indian an Tibetan elements in Po-to-ba's work.

Field research
Nepal/Tibet, September-October 2000
Tibet/Nepal, August-September 2002
Tibet/Nepal, September-October 2004

Select papers and lectures
26.03.1998 university of Venice: Origins of Philosophy in India and Greece
02.04.1998 university of Venice: The Development of the Vedic Schools
16.06.1998 university of Berlin: Po-to-ba Rin-chen-gsal: ein früher Autor der bKa'-gdams-pa-Schule des tibetischen Buddhismus ("Po-to-ba Rin-chen-gsal: an early author of the bKa'-gdams-pa school of Tibetan Buddhism")
30.07.1998 8th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies in Bloomington/Indiana: "Studies in Genre": The dPe chos rin chen spungs pa of Po to ba Rin chen gsal and the genres of bstan rim and blo sbyong
18.10.1999 Venice, conference of the Fondazione Cini on "Aspetti della tradizione religiosa e contatti con aree culturali attigue": Not a Mere Imitation. Indian Narratives in a Tibetan Context
30.06.2000 9th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies in Leiden/Niederlande: The Great Indian Epics in the Version of dMar ston Chos kyi rgyal po
07.07.2000 Marburg, Symposium "Aspects of the Female in Indian Culture": On Interpreting Female Figures in the Veda
26.10.2000 Pagode Vien Giac/Hannover, conference on "Buddhismus in Wissenschaft und Praxis": Brahmanismus, Asketenbewegungen und Buddhismus ("Brahmanism, asceticism and Buddhism")
30.05.2002 3rd International Vedic Workshop in Leiden/Niederlande: The Theory of Semantic Fields as a Tool for Vedic Research
06.07.2002 lecture in Schloß Eichholz (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung): Leibhaftige Götter. Zur Kunst des Hinduismus ("Gods incarnate. On the art of Hinduism")
14.11.2003 University of Giessen: Auf der Suche nach alten Klöstern. Bericht einer Forschungsreise in Zentraltibet. ("In search for old monasteries. Report on a research trip to Central Tibet.")
23.09.2004 29. Deutscher Orientalistentag in Halle: Ich will meiner Lehre einen Namen geben. Beobachtungen zu Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit in der tibetischen buddhistischen Tradition. (" 'I'll give a name to my teaching.' Considerations on oral and written literature in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.")

Teaching experince
Univerity of Marburg
winter 1994/95     Literary Tibetan I
summer 1995        Literary Tibetan II
winter 1995/96     Tibetan readingssummer 1996 Vedic texts in comparative Indoeuropean perspective
winter 1996/97     Early Tibetan narrative literature
                            Introduction to Indology I
summer 1997       Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit
                            Introduction to Indology II
winter 1997/98     Sanskrit readings
summer 1998        Death and rebirth in the Upanishads
winter 1998/99     Literary Tibetan I
summer 1999        Literary Tibetan II
winter 1999/2000  Sanskrit III
summer 2000        The Upanishads
winter 2000/2001  Vedic cosmogonies
                             Introduction to the Hindu religions
summer 2001        Rgveda and Samaveda
                             Tibetan Tales
winter 2001/2002  Literary Tibetan I
                            Classical Mongolian I
summer 2002        Literary Tibetan II
                             Classical Mongolian II
winter 2002/03     Vedic visionary hymns
                            Introduction to Indian studies
summer 2003       Introduction to Indian grammatical theory
winter 2003/04     Literary Tibetan I
summer 2004        Literary Tibetan II
winter 2004/05     Philosophy of the Upanishads
summer 2005       Manu's Dharmashastra
                            Early sources on the history of Buddhism in Tibet

University of Göttingen
winter 2004/05     Bards, yogis and scholars. Monastic and secular traditions of Tibetan literature