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Centre for Tantric Studies

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Péter-Dániel Szántó

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All Souls College, University of Oxford
Oxford OX1 4AL
UK

Biography

Péter-Dániel Szántó studied Indology and Tibetology at the ELTE Budapest. He is about to submit his D. Phil. dissertation at the University of Oxford. The thesis deals with a hitherto barely studied Buddhist yoginītantra, the Catuṣpīṭha. Formerly affiliated with Merton College at the same University (Junior Research Fellowship, 2010 to 2013) as well as Hamburg University (2013 to 2014), he is currently post-doctoral research fellow at the All Souls College, University Oxford. His primary research interest is Tantric Buddhism in India from the 9th to the 13th century, with special attention to Sanskrit manuscripts containing works from that period. He is currently working on a new edition of the Gurupañcāśikā, an edition of the Samvarodayā maṇḍalopāyikā, and an edition of the Anāvilatantra.

Selected Publications

  • Forthcoming. “Minor Vajrayāna Texts II. A New Manuscript of the Gurupañcāśikā.” In Puṣpikā: Proceedings of the First International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (St. Hilda’s College, Oxford University, September 28–29, 2009), ed. by Nina Mirnig, Péter-Dániel Szántó & Michael Williams, 2011.
  • Forthcoming. “Minor Vajrayāna Texts I. A Fragment from Abhayākaragupta’s Śrīsamvarābhisamayopāyikā.” Tantric Studies 2, 2011.
  • 2010. “The case of the vajra-wielding monk.” Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarium Hungaricae 63 (3), pp. 289–299.
  • 2008a. “Antiquarian Enquiries into the Initiation Manuals of the Catuṣpīṭha.” Newsletter of the NGMCP 6, pp. 2–12. [Available online at: http://www.uni-hamburg.de/ngmcp]
  • 2008b. “A Critical Edition of Catuṣpīṭhatantra I.3. with Three Sanskrit Commentaries.” Tantric Studies 1, pp. 2–21.
  • 2008c. “Review article: David B. Gray, The Cakrasamvara Tantra (The Discourse of Śrī Heruka): A Study and Annotated Translation.” Tantric Studies 1, pp. 215–219.
  • 2007. “atra kim prayojanam? An Essay on the Reception and Naturalization of kāvya in Tibet.” In Indian Languages & Texts Through the Ages: Essays of Hungarian Indologists in Honour of Prof. Csaba Töttössy, ed. by Csaba Dezső. Delhi: Manohar Publishers, pp. 209–255.

Further Publications: (external link):

http://oxford.academia.edu/P%C3%A9terD%C3%A1nielSz%C3%A1nt%C3%B3