Daniel Boucher (academic)

Daniel Boucher is Associate Professor of East Asian Religions and Buddhism at Cornell University. He earned his Ph.D. in 1996 from University of Pennsylvania, focusing on the transmission of Buddhism from India to China under the guidance of Victor H. Mair.^[1] His scholarly focus is Buddhist studies, particularly the early development of the cluster of Indian Buddhist movements called the Mahayana and their transmission to China in the first few centuries of the Common Era. Professor Boucher's interests also include translation as a religious genre, with special focus on the earliest translations of Buddhist texts into Chinese; Buddhist Middle Indo-Aryan, particularly the role of Gandhari Prakrit in the earliest transmission of Buddhism to Central Asia and China; art historical, epigraphical, and archeological materials as sources for the study of religion; and history, theory, and methods in the academic study of religion.^[2]

Selected Publications

• Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahayana: A Study and Translation of the Rastrapalapariprccha-sutra (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008).
• China at the Crossroads: A Festschrift in Honor of Victor H. Mair. Special Issue of Asia Major 3rd. ser., 19, pts. 1-2. Co-edited with Neil Schmid and Tansen Sen.
• "The Pratityasamutpadagatha and Its Role in the Medieval Cult of the Relics," The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 14.1 (1991) : 1-27.
• "Sutra on the Merit of Bathing the Buddha," in Donald S. Lopez, Jr., ed., Buddhism in Practice (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), 59-68; reprinted in Donald S. Lopez, Jr., ed., An Anthology of Asian Religions in Practice (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002), 206-215.
• "The Nagaropamasutra: An Apotropaic Text from the Samyuktagama. A Transliteration, Reconstruction, and Translation of the Central Asian Sanskrit Manuscripts," In collaboration with Gregory Bongard-Levin, Takamichi Fukita, and Klaus Wille in Sanskrit-Texte aus dem buddhistischen Kanon: Neuentdeckungen und Neueditionen III. Sanskrit-Worterbuch der buddhistischen Texte aus den Turfan-Funden, Beiheft 6 (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1996), 7-131.
• "Gandhari and the Early Chinese Buddhist Translations Reconsidered: The Case of the Saddharmapundarikasutra," Journal of the American Oriental Society 118.4 (1998) : 471-506.
• "On Hu and Fan Again: the Transmission of 'Barbarian' Manuscripts to China," The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 23.1 (2000): 7-28.

References

1. ^ http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9636133/
2. ^ http://www.lrc.cornell.edu/asian/faculty/bios/boucher

External links

• Homepage at Cornell

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