App, Urs, 1949-

LC control no.	nr 93048791
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Personal name heading	App, Urs, 1949- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Appu, Urusu, 1949-
Associated country	Switzerland
Birth date	19490810
Place of birth	Rorschach (Switzerland)
Field of activity	Buddhism Zen Buddhism
Affiliation	Hanazono Daigaku Hanazono Daigaku. Kokusai Zengaku Kenkyūjo Zen Bunka Kenkyūjo (Hanazono Daigaku) Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung Italian School of East Asian Studies École française d'Extrême-Orient
Profession or occupation	Religion historians Historians of philosophy College teachers
Found in	Master Yunmen, 1994: CIP t.p. (Urs App) CIP data sheet (b. 08/10/49) Kongō Sanmaikyō ichiji sakuin, 1993: t.p. (Urs App [in rom.]; Urusu Appu) Esposito, Monica. Facets of Qing Daoism, 2014: page 4 (editor, Urs App) Wikipedia, July 22, 2014 (Urs App (born 1949 in Rorschach, Switzerland) is a historian of ideas, religions, and philosophies with a special interest in the history and modes of interaction between East and West; In 1989 he obtained a Ph. D. in Religious Studies (Chinese Buddhism) from Temple University in Philadelphia. From 1989 to 1999 he was full professor of Buddhism at Hanazono University in Kyoto and Associate Director of the International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism at Hanazono University. He has since devoted himself to full-time research at various academic institutions in Asia and Europe, most recently at the Research Institute for Zen Culture (Zenbunka kenkyujo, Kyoto; 2005-2007), the Swiss National Science Foundation (2007-2010), the Scuola Italiana di Studi sull'Asia Orientale (2010-2011), and the École Française d'Extrême-Orient (2012-))
Associated language	eng ger jpn