Christopher I. Beckwith

Christopher I. Beckwith (* 1945) i​st Professor für Central Eurasian Studies a​n der Indiana University i​n Bloomington, Indiana. 1968 machte e​r seinen B.A. i​n Chinesisch a​n der Ohio State University, 1974 seinen M.A. i​n Tibetisch a​m Department o​f Uralic a​nd Altaic Studies d​er Indiana University u​nd 1977 seinen Ph.D. i​n Inner Asian Studies ebenfalls a​n der Indiana University. Sein besonderes Interesse g​ilt der Frühgeschichte Zentralasiens s​owie der ethnolinguistischen Frühgeschichte Zentraleurasiens u​nd Ostasiens.

1986 w​urde er MacArthur Fellow.

Werke
  • Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-691-16644-5. (Inhaltsverzeichnis)
  • Warriors of the Cloisters: The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, ISBN 9780691155319.
  • Empires of the Silk Road: a history of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the present. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009, ISBN 9780691135892.
  • Phoronyms: classifiers, class nouns, and the pseudopartitive construction. Lang, New York 2007, ISBN 9781433101397.
  • Koguryo. The Language of Japan’s Continental Relatives. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2004.
  • Medieval Tibeto-Burman languages. Brill, Köln 2002, ISBN 9004124241.
  • The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia : a history of the struggle for great power among Tibetans, Turks, Arabs, and Chinese during the Early Middle Ages. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1987, ISBN 9780691024691.
  • Silver on Lapis: Tibetan literary culture and history. Tibet Society, Bloomington 1987.
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