Duan Qing 段晴 (13 May 1953 – 26 March 2022) was a Chinese scholar of Indian and Iranian languages. She was a Professor of Indo-Iranian Studies and Boya Chair Professor of Peking University.
Life
Born in Beijing on 13 May 1953, Duan Qing studied
German
German(s) may refer to:
* Germany, the country of the Germans and German things
**Germania (Roman era)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...
at
Peking University
Peking University (PKU) is a Public university, public Types of universities and colleges in China#By designated academic emphasis, university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of the Peop ...
, 1971–1974. After gaining her
MA in
Indology
Indology, also known as South Asian studies, is the academic study of the history and cultures, languages, and literature of the Indian subcontinent, and as such is a subset of Asian studies.
The term ''Indology'' (in German, ''Indologie'') is ...
under
Ji Xianlin
Ji Xianlin (; August 6, 1911 – July 11, 2009) was a Chinese Indologist, linguist, paleographer, historian and writer who has been honored by the governments of both India and China. Ji was proficient in many languages including Chinese, San ...
季羨林 and Jiang Zhongxin 蔣忠新, she earned her
Ph.D.
A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...
in
Hamburg
Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-lar ...
,
West Germany
West Germany was the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. It is sometimes known as the Bonn Republi ...
, in 1986. She majored in Middle Iranian Studies with
Ronald Emmerick
Ronald is a masculine given name derived from the Old Norse ''Rögnvaldr'', Hanks; Hardcastle; Hodges (2006) p. 234; Hanks; Hodges (2003) § Ronald. or possibly from Old English '' Regenweald''. In some cases ''Ronald'' is an Anglicised form of ...
, and took
Indology
Indology, also known as South Asian studies, is the academic study of the history and cultures, languages, and literature of the Indian subcontinent, and as such is a subset of Asian studies.
The term ''Indology'' (in German, ''Indologie'') is ...
and
Tibetology
Tibetology () refers to the study of things related to Tibet, including its history, religion, language, culture, politics and the collection of Tibetan articles of historical, cultural and religious significance. The last may mean a collection of ...
as minor fields under
Lambert Schmithausen
Lambert Schmithausen (born 17 November 1939 in Cologne, Germany)
"On the Problem of the External World in the Ch'eng wei shih lun"
Tokyo: The International Institute for Buddhist Studies 2005
(''Studia Philologica Buddhica'', Occasional Paper ...
and
Albrecht Wezler. She then returned to Peking University, where she had a life-long teaching career. She died on 26 March 2022.
Obituary> Professor Duan Qing (段晴), 1953–2022
/ref>
Publications
Duan Qing's publications, in Chinese, English, German and Japanese, include:
* ''Das Khotanische Aparimitāyuḥsūtra'' (1986)
* ''Bonini yufa rumen 波你尼語法入門'' (Introduction into Pāṇini’s System) (2001)
* ''Yutian, fojiao, gujuan 于闐·佛教·古卷'' (New Finds and Findings from Khotan) (2013)
* ''Zhongguo guojia tushuguan cang Xiyu wenshu, Yutianyu juan (1) 中國國家圖書館藏西域文書·于闐語卷（一）''(Xinjiang Manuscripts Preserved in the National Library of China: Khotanese Remains, Part I) (2015)
* ''Qinghai Zangyiyao wenhua bowuguan cang Quluwen chidu 青海藏醫藥文化博物館藏佉盧文尺牘'' (Kharoṣṭhī Documents Preserved in Qinghai Tibetan Medical Culture Museum) (2016)
* ''Yutianyu Wugoujingguang datuoluoni jing 于闐語無垢淨光大陀羅尼經'' (A Scroll of Khotanese Raśmivimalaviśuddhaprabhā nāma Dhāraṇī) (2019)
* ''Shenhua yu yishi: Pojie gudai Yutian Qushu shang de wenming mima 神話與儀式：破解古代于闐氍毹上的文明密碼'' (Myth and Ritual: Deciphering the Code of Civilizations on Qushu from Ancient Khotan) (2022).
References
External links
Duan Qing on Academia.edu
Duan Qing on Worldcat
{{DEFAULTSORT:Duan, Qing
1953 births
2022 deaths
Academic staff of Peking University
Chinese Indologists
Chinese philologists
Scientists from Beijing
Iranologists