Former Ph.D. Student Dr. Quoc-Bao Do

Quoc-Bao Do studied Classical Indology and History of South Asia in Heidelberg and graduated in 2006 with a Magister Artium. He then worked as a research assistant for Dr. Mitsuyo-Demoto Hahn in the DFG project ‘Edition of Chapters 1–3 of the Sanskrit Text of the Saddharmasmṛtyupasthānasūtra’ (until 2012) at the Philipps-Universität Marburg. It was here, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Michael Hahn (1941–2014), that he began his dissertation, which comprised an edition of the first six chapters of the Buddhist collection of stanzas Dharmasamuccaya. With this work, ‘Compendium of the Dharmas I–VI. New edition of the first six chapters of the Buddhist collection of stanzas Dharmasamuccaya on the basis of a palm-leaf manuscript from Nepal’, he completed his doctorate in Heidelberg in 2019 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ute Hüsken.

He is particularly interested in Buddhist narrative literature (Jātakamālā, Udānavarga, Dharmapada, Dharmasamuccaya, etc.), manuscriptology, Mahāyāna literature, especially Prajñāpāramitā and Yogācāra literature, as well as Sanskrit grammar and syntax, which is reflected in his reading courses and seminars. Currently, he is focused on teaching Sanskrit to Vietnamese students, especially members of the Vietnamese Buddhist Saṃgha, and on translating the Mahāyānasūtras and ‑śāstras from Sanskrit into Vietnamese. He is planning the translation of the Udānavarga and the Abhidharmasamuccaya.