作者简介
Marcus Bingenheimer 馬德偉 was born in Germany. He obtained an MA (Sinology) and Dr.phil (History of Religions) from Würzburg University and an MA (Communication Studies) from Nagoya University. Marcus currently works as Assistant Professor at Temple University, Philadelphia. From 2005 to 2011 he taught at Dharma Drum Buddhist College 法鼓佛教學院, Taiwan, where he supervised various projects concerning the digitization of Buddhist culture. Here is a blog about these issues.His main research interests are the history of Buddhism in East Asia and early Buddhist Sutra literature. Currently, he is working on two very different kinds of texts: Āgama literature and Ming-Qing dynasty temple gazetteers. Next to that, Marcus is interested in Humanities Computing and how to do research in the age of digital information.
