Professor Bingenheimer was born in Germany. He obtained an MA (Sinology) and Dr.phil (History of Religions) from Würzburg University. He currently works as Associate Professor at Temple University, Philadelphia.

From 2005 to 2011 he taught Buddhism and Digital Humanities at Dharma Drum 法鼓山, Taiwan, where he also supervised various projects concerning the digitization of Buddhist culture. 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.

~ Adapted from Temple University and Profesor Bingenheimer’s Website

Selected Works (in chronological order)

A Bibliography of Translations from the Chinese Buddhist Canon into Western Languages (2001) – Marcus Bingenheimer

The Suttas on Sakka in Āgama and Nikāya Literature: Some Remarks on the Attribution of the Shorter Chinese Saṃyukta Āgama (2008) – Marcus Bingenheimer

Studies in Āgama Literature: With Special Reference to the Shorter Chinese Saṃyuktāgama (2011) – Marcus Bingenheimer

Two Sūtras in the Chinese Saṃyuktāgama without Direct Pāli Parallels: Some Remarks on how to identify Later Additions to the Corpus (2013) – Marcus Bingenheimer

A translation of MA Discourses 1–71.

A Study and Translation of the Yakṣa-saṃyukta in the Shorter Chinese Saṃyukta-āgama (2020) – Marcus Bingenheimer