Profile - Dr. Rolf Scheuermann
Education
2000 - 2005: Studies in Buddhist Philosophy and Tibetan language, Karmapa International Buddhist Institute, New Delhi – Diploma (K.I.B.I.)
2005 - 2010: Tibetan and Buddhist Studies (major), and Indology (minor), University of Vienna – Mag. phil.
2010 - 2016: Doctoral studies of Philosophy in the Humanities (Tibetan and Buddhist Studies), University of Vienna
Professional Experience
Since 2005: Tibetan interpreter for Buddhist scholars of different traditions
2011-2014: PhD research fellow in the Doctoral College “Cultural Transfers and Cross-Contacts in the Himalayan Borderlands”, University of Vienna
Since 2011: Lecturer at the International Institute for Tibetan and Asian Studies, Vélez-Màlaga
→ Interpreting Tibetan Lectures 1
→ Interpreting Tibetan Lectures 2
→ Introduction to Tibetan and Buddhist Studies
Since 2012: Translator for 84000 - Translating the Words of the Buddha
Since 2012: Lecturer at the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna
→ Theory and Methodologies of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies
→ The Progressive Path to Awakening in Tibetan Buddhism
→ Introduction to the Tibetan Religious Traditions
Since 2012: Lecturer at the Karmapa International Buddhist Institute, New Delhi
→ Tibetan Listening Comprehension
→ Buddhist Terminology
→ Specialized Subjects
Since 2014: Research Coordination at the IKGF "Fate, Freedom and Prognostication", FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
4/2017 - 9/2018: visiting postdoc-fellow (substituting the professorship of Central Asian Studies), University of Leipzig