Curriculum vitæ
Aleix Ruiz-Falqués
Lecturer in Pali & Head of the Department of Pali and Languages
Shan State Buddhist University, Taunggyi, Myanmar
Khyentse Research Fellow in Buddhist Studies (2021–23)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
(+0095) 09428757648 — Myanmar
(+0034) 635158302 — Spain
E-mail: arfalques@cantab.net
Website: www.kabbasetu.com
Education
2011–2016 Ph.D., Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. Title of dissertation: “A Firefly in the Bamboo Reed: the Suttaniddesa of Saddhammajotipāla and the Grammatical Foundations of Burmese Theravāda Buddhism”. Supervisor: Prof. Eivind Kahrs.
2008–2010 M.A. Ancient Languages and Cultures, University of Barcelona. M.A. Thesis: Viatge a l’altra riba (Journey to the other shore), a study and Catalan translation of the Pārāyanavagga, the 5th book of Sutta Nipāta. Supervisor: Prof. Ignasi-Xavier Adiego/ Dr. Ole H. Pind.
2006–2008 M.A. Sanskrit, University of Pune (India). Specialization: Nyāya (Indian Logic). Tutor: Prof. V.N. Jha.
2000 – 2005 B.A. Classics (Greek, Latin), University of Barcelona.
Appointments
March 2022–[current] Pali Instructor, Yogic Studies Online (www.yogicstudies.com)
October 2021–[current] Khyentse Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Buddhist Studies and Lecturer in Pali, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Mar 2018–[current] Lecturer in Pali, Shan State Buddhist University, Taunggyi, Myanmar. Head of the Department of Pali and Langauges.
April 2019–June 2019 Research Collaborator in the book project The Pyu Language of Ancient Burma, by Dr. Marc Miyake, Funded by: European Research Council Grant.
Aug 2017–May 2018 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. Singapore University of Technology and Design. Project: Mapping Medieval Sciences in South and Southeast Asia. Director of the Project: Dr. Alastair M. Gornall.
Oct 2015–Aug 2017 Editor and Academic Coordinator at the Dhammakaya Tipiṭaka Project, Bangkok, Thailand.
Fields of Expertise
Pali Language and Literature, Indian Linguistic Traditions (vyākaraṇa, śabdaśāstra), Scholastic Pali, Pali in Southeast Asia, Pali Poetry (kāvya) and Poetics (alaṅkāra)
Recent Publications
– (2022) “The Pali Version of Caṅgadāsa’s Sambandhopadeśa. A Preliminary Study of Yasa’s Kaccāyanasāra and Its Major Commentaries”, in Jñānapraśaṃsā. In Praise of Knowledge: Essays in Honour of E.G. Kahrs, edited by Alasair Gornall. Halle and der Saale: Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg: 299–338.
– (2022) “Frozen Sandhi, Flowing Sound: Permanent Euphonic Ligatures and the Idea of Text in Classical Pali Grammars”, Journal of Indian Philosophy 50 (4): pp. 689-704.
– (2021) “Two levels of optionality in the Kaccāyana Vyākaraṇa”, in Śabdānugamaḥ. Indian Linguistic Studies in honor of George Cardona. Volume 1: Vyākaraṇa and Śābdabodha, edited by Peter M. Scharf. Providence: The Sanskrit Library, 2021: 431–466.
– (2021) “The Sword and the Sheath. Three Notes on Kaccāyana 1: attho akkharasaññāto”, in Dhamma-Anusīlana, Investigating Papers on Buddhist Studies, edited by Bimalendra Kumar and Ujjwal Kumar. Delhi: Aditya Prakashan: 373–400.
– (2021) “Boundaries and Domains: Undersanding Optionality in Buddhappiya’s Rūpasiddhi”, in Journal of the Pali Text Society XXXIV.
– (2019) “Purifying the Pātimokkha: Buddhist Law and Pali Grammar in 17th-century Burma”, in Buddhism Law & Society, vol. 4.
– (2018) with A.M. Gornall, “Verses of a Dying Arahant: A New Translation and Revised Edition of the Telakaṭāhagāthā”, Journal of the Pali Text Society XXXIII.
Chapters in books
– [forthcoming 2023] “Some Notes on Myittha and Kubyaukgyi Pali Stone Inscriptions of Burma”, in The Pyu Language of Ancient Burma, edited by Marc Miyake. Berlin: DeGruyter.
– [forthcoming 2023] “Dandin in Burma and the Bay of Bengal”, in A Lasting Vision: Dandin’s Mirror of Literature in Asia, edited by Yigal Bronner.
Encyclopedias and Handbook entries
– (2019) with A.M. Gornall, “Pāli Scholars and Philosophers in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia”, entry for the Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Vol. II: Lives, edited by Jonathan Silk. Leiden: Brill.
Translations
– (2022) Los últimos días del Buddha. El Mahāparinibbānasutta pali con el comentario de Buddhaghosa. Madrid: Trotta. [Spanish translation of the Mahāparinibbānasutta with the commentary of Buddhaghosa]
Others
Board member of the Fundación Dharmagaia (Barcelona, Spain)
Assistant editor of the Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies (http://jocbs.org/index.php/jocbs/index)
Member of the Transnational Network of Theravada Studies, I run Pali Grammar courses and reading sessions online:
Pali Instructor at the Instituto de Estudios Buddhistas Hispano (Mexico): www.iebh.org
Member of the Project to Digitize Myanmar Manuscripts: http://www.palitext.com, https://mmdl.utoronto.ca/
Referees
Prof. Kate Crosby
henrietta.crosby@kcl.ac.uk
Numata Professor of Buddhist Studies
Balliol College, Oxford
Prof. Eivind Kahrs
egk1000@cam.ac.uk
Reader in Sanskrit (Retd. Sep 2019)
Department of Indian Studies
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
University of Cambridge
Dr. Petra Kieffer-Pülz
kiepue@t-online.de
Senior Researcher
Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur, Mainz
Prof. Mahesh A. Deokar
hodpali@unipune.ac.in
Head of the Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies
Savitribai Phule Pune University, India
Last update: 28/2/2023