Skip to main content

Curriculum Vitae

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Comparative Religion, Department Member
EVIATAR SHULMAN: CURRICULUM VITAE AND LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Updated: 15.5.2015 1. PERSONAL DETAILS Date of Birth: 6.10.1973 Country of Birth: UK Nationality: Israel, USA Family status: Married + 4 E-mail: eviatar.shulman@mail.huji.ac.il 2. HIGHER EDUCATION B.A, 1998 – 2000: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Psychology and General B.A studies in the Humanities. Graduated cum laude M.A, 2001 – 2003: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Personal Program in the Faculty of the Humanities. Advisors: Dr. Yael Bentor and Prof. Benny Shanon. Title of thesis: “Creative Mind: A Psychological Reading of the 'Four Tenets' in the dGe-Lug-pa." Graduated Summa cum Laude Ph.D, 2004-2009: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Indian, Iranian and Armenian studies. Advisors: Dr. Yael Bentor and Dr. Yohanan Grinshpon. Title of thesis: "The Fullness of Emptiness: Nāgārjuna’s Thought in light of the Yukti-ṣaṣṭikā-kārikā and the Śūnyatā-saptati." Graduated Summa cum Laude 3A. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2013- Post-doctoral fellow, Mandel Scholion Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 2009-2013: Adjunct, Department of Comparative Religion, Department of Asian Studies, ‘Amirim’ humanities honors program, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 2004-2013: Adjunct, Department of East Asian Studies, Tel-Aviv University. 2004-2009: Adjunct, Department of Philosophy, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. 2009-2010: Adjunct, Department of Philosophy and the Program for Asian Studies, Bar-Ilan University. AWARDS AND PRIZES 2001 The Hebrew University, Rector's prize 2001 The Hebrew University, Dean's list 2004-2005 The Hebrew University, Rector's Scholarship 2005-2006 The Hebrew University, Rector's Scholarship 2006 Wolf Foundation Prize for young scholars 2006-2007 The Hebrew University, Rector's Scholarship 2007 The Award in memory of Prof. Shlomo Pines 2007 The Hebrew University, Yitschak Amir Prize 2009 The Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines (awarded for PhD dissertation) 2013-2014 Participant in study group "Tantra in China and Tibet" at the Institute for Advanced Studies, the Hebrew University – Declined. 2013 - Mandel postdoctoral fellow, Mandel Scholion Center, The Hebrew University OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITY 2009 Panel convener: “Indian Challenges to Western Thought, Society and Culture.” East and West: Comparative Perspectives on Democracy, Culture and Philosophy, International Conference, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. 2012 Panel Convener: "The Thundering Echoes of Silence: Quiet in the Indian and Buddhist Traditions." Quiet Please! The 9th Annual conference of the Department for History and Theory, Bezalel Academy of Art, 2012. 2014 Panel convener on "Buddhist Puzzles and Paradoxes", Asian Studies in Israel XI, Haifa University. 2014 Panel convener on "The Nature of a Buddha", at the 17th conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, the University of Vienna. Co-convened with Carmen Meinert, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany. 2015 Organizer, international conference on "Images of Perfection: an interdisciplinary conference in the study of religion", sponsored by the Scholion Center and the Buber Society of Fellows, January 5-7, 2015. Co-organized with Shai Secunda. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Shulman, Eviatar, (2010). The Root Verses of the Middle Way: A Translation of Nāgārjuna’s Mūla-Madhyamaka-kārikā. Jerusalem: Carmel publishing house, 278 pp. (Hebrew). Shulman, Eviatar, (2013). Song of Enlightenment: Translations of Ancient Buddhist Poetry. Carmel Publishing House, 175 pp. (Hebrew) Shulman, Eviatar, (2014). Rethinking the Buddha: Early Buddhist Philosophy as Meditative Perception. New York: Cambridge University Press, 206 pp. CHAPTERS IN COLLECTIONS: Shulman, Eviatar, (2008). "Nāgārjuna on Impermanence, the Buddha on Illusion." In Shulman, David, and Weil, Shalva, (eds.), Karmic Passages: Israeli Scholarship on India. Delhi: Oxford University Press. (#1) Shulman, Eviatar, (2008). "Don Quijote iluminado Y los molinos como Gigantes: Un análisis búdico-filosófico del Quijote." In Fine, Ruth, y Lopez Navia, Santiago, (eds.), Cervantes y las religiones. Biblioteca Áurea Hispánica, Frankfurt am Main/Madrid: Vervuert/ Iberoamericana. (Spanish) Shulman, Eviatar, (2015). “Vasubandhu the Mādhyamika? Nāgārjuna the Yogacārin? On the Middle way between Realism and Anti-Realism.” In Garfield, J., and Westerhoff, J., (eds.). Madhyamaka and Yogācāra. Oxford University Press. ARTICLES: Shulman, Eviatar, (2008). "Early Meanings of Dependent-Origination." Journal of Indian Philosophy 36 (2): 297-317. (#1, #4) Shulman, Eviatar, (2007 [2009]). "Creative Ignorance: Nāgārjuna on the Ontological Significance of Consciousness." Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 30.1-2: 123-157. (#1) Shulman, Eviatar, (2010). “Mindful Wisdom: The Sati-paṭṭhāna-sutta on Mindfulness, Memory and Liberation.” History of Religions 49.4: 393-420. (#4) Shulman, Eviatar, (2010). “The Commitments of a Madhyamaka Trickster: Innovation in Candrakīrti’s Prasanna-padā. Journal of Indian Philosophy 38: 379–417. Shulman, Eviatar, (2011). “Vasubandhu on Truth and Subjectivity.” Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion. (#7) Shulman, Eviatar, (2011). “Ratnāvalī: A Precious Garland of Buddhist Philosophical Systems.” Indo-Iranian Journal 54.4: 301-329. Shulman, Eviatar, (2012). "Language, Understanding and Reality: A Study of their Relation in a Foundational Metaphysical Indian Debate." Journal of Indian Philosophy 40: 339-369 Shulman, Eviatar, (2013). "The Divine Buddha? Buddhism as a Specimen of Classical Indian Culture." Zmanim 122: 78-87 (Hebrew). Shulman, Eviatar, (2012 [2013]). "Early Buddhist Imagination: The Aṭṭhakavagga as Buddhist Poetry. Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 35: 363-411. Shulman, Eviatar, (forthcoming, 2017) – "Reflections on Psychological Solutions to Metaphysical Problems in the Pārāyaṇa-vagga." Philosophy East and West 67.3. Under Review, History of Religions. “The Buddha as the Pole of Existence”. BOOK REVIEWS Shulman, Eviatar, (2009). Review of John J. Holder, trans., (2006). Early Buddhist Discourses. Indianapolis, Cambridge: Hackett. Published in American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, Vol 8., no.2. Shulman, Eviatar, (2012). Review of Akassoy, Anna, Burnett, Charles, and Yoeli-Tlalim, Ronit, (eds.), Islam and Tibet: Interactions along the Musk Routes (Ashgate, 2011). Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 39: 501-510. Shulman, Eviatar, (2012). Review of The Cowherds, (eds.), Moonshadows: Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2011). Journal of Religion 92.1: 161-163. Shulman, Eviatar, (forthcoming, 2016). Review of Heim, Maria, The Forerunner of All Things: Buddhaghosa on Mind, Intention and Agency (OUP, 2014). Philosophy East and West 66.1. CONFERENCES PAPERS AND LECTURES: “Vasubandhu the Mādhyamika." ASI (Asian Studies in Israel) IV, The Hebrew University, 2005, (Hebrew). "Is Don Quijote Enlightened? A Buddhist Philosophical Analysis of the Quijote." Coloquio Internacional “Cervantes y las Religiones”, Hebrew University (in collaboration with the Cervantes Institute and Navarra University), 2005. "On the Origins of Mahāyāna: The Origination of Non-origination." ASI V, Tel Aviv University, 2006, (Hebrew). "Is Everything Dependent on Everything? The Original Meaning of Dependent-Origination." ASI VI, Haifa University, 2007, (Hebrew). "Consciousness as Memory: Buddhist Analytical Meditation." The Concept of Memory in Asian Cultures and Judaism, Haifa University, 2007, (Hebrew). "What's True about the Four Noble Truths?" ASI VII, The Hebrew University, 2008, (Hebrew). "Re-reading Nāgārjuna, the Role of Consciousness." International conference “Buddhism in Asia,” Tel-Aviv University, 2008. "Reading Nāgārjuna in Light of The Yukti-ṣaṣṭikā and the Śūnyatā-saptati." The XVth Conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Emory University in Atlanta, 2008. “Remembering Mindfully: The Sati-paṭṭhāna-sutta on the Relation between Consciousness and Memory.” Sensitive Readings, Far Reaching Implications: Penetrations into South Asian Traditions, International Conference in Honor of David Shulman on his 60th birthday, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Institute for Advanced Studies, 2008. “Has Anybody Seen the Middle Way? When a Baffled Commentator becomes Over-Creative.” ASI VIII, Tel-Aviv University, 2009, (Hebrew). “Of What is Nāgārjuna Empty?” ASI IX, Haifa University, 2010, (Hebrew). “Reinterpreting the Buddha’s Enlightenment: Nāgārjuna’s Ratnāvalī.” International and Interdisciplinary Conference: Language, Culture and Civilization, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2010. “Thinking about Thoughts: The Concept of Thought in Early Buddhism.” ASI X, The Hebrew University, 2011, (Hebrew). “The Four Noble Truths as Meditative Vision." The XVI Conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taiwan, 2011. "The Middle-Way between Realism and Anti-realism in Indian Buddhist Thought." ASI XI, Tel-Aviv University, 2012. (Hebrew) "Silence or Silencing: Quiet in Early Buddhism." "Quiet Please! The 9th Annual conference of the Department for History and Theory, Bezalel Academy of Art, 2012, (Hebrew). "The Buddha in light of Upaniṣadic Metaphysics", ASI XII, Haifa University, 2014, (Hebrew). "The Buddha as the Pole of Existence", The XVII Conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna, 2014. "Understanding the Buddha's Death." In "Images of Perfection: an Interdisciplinary Conference in the Study of Religion", HUJI, January 2015. (Forthcoming). "Orality and Creativity in the Early Buddhist canon." "Buddhist Sūtras: Language, Practice, and Power", The Mangalam Research Center For Buddhist Languages, Berkeley, June 2015. (Forthcoming). "Understanding the Buddha's Death." The 16th World Sanskrit Conference, Bangkok, June-July 2015.