- Visiting Fellow
- Jens, Schlieter
- Prof. Dr.
- Time period: 01.10.2025 - 30.01.2026
- Research title: Esoteric Dimensions of Buddhist Meditation: Reaching Out to Transform Other People’s Minds
- Research Region: Buddhism in Asia
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- Video Statement
2006: Habilitation
2000: PhD
Jens Schlieter, PhD in philosophy, habilitation in Science of Religion, since 08/2009 professor for the systematic study of religion, University of Bern. Co-director of the Department for Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies. Trained in Western Philosophy, Comparative Religion, and Tibetology/Buddhist Studies, his work focuses on the history of religions (especially discourse on religious experiences in the West, near-death experiences), on Buddhist Philosophy and its Western reception, and on bioethical discourse of Buddhism. Methodological contributions include conceptual metaphor theory and philosophy of language, applied to the study of religion.
Schlieter, Jens. 2000. Versprachlichung – Entsprachlichung. Untersuchungen zum philo¬so¬phi¬schen Stellenwert der Sprache im europäischen und buddhistischen Denken. Edition Chōra: Köln.
Schlieter, Jens. 2013. Checking the Heavenly ‘Bank Account of karma’: Cognitive Metaphors for karma in Western Scholarship and Early Theravāda Buddhism. Religion 13, 4, 463-486.
Schlieter, Jens. 2013. ‚Selbstlosigkeit’ durch Kultivierung von Mitgefühl: Eine buddhistische Übungspraxis und ihre jüngste neurowissenschaftliche Erforschung. In: Marcus Schmücker, Fabian Heubel (Hgg.), Dimensionen der Selbstkultivierung. Beiträge des Forums für Asiatische Philosophie. Freiburg, München: Verlag Karl Alber, 373-398.
Schlieter, Jens. 2016. ‘Master the chariot, master your Self’: comparing chariot metaphors as hermeneutics for mind, self and liberation in ancient Greek and Indian sources. In: Richard Seaford (Hg.), Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 168-185.
Schlieter, Jens. 2018. What is it like to be Dead? Near-death Experiences, Christianity, and the Occult. Oxford University Press: New York.
Schlieter, Jens. 2025. Riders in the Chariot: Chariot Metaphors as a Means for Illustrating Self-Cultivation and the Ends of Life in Early Buddhism. In: Rajeev Bhargava, Roger T. Ames (eds.) The Ends of Human Life. Indian and Chinese Perspectives. New Delhi: Bloomsbury, 191-214.
