Käte Hamburger Kolleg

Associated Researcher (08-12/2018)
Visiting Professor BuddhistRoad (02-07/2018)
KHK Research Fellow Fellow (03-04/2017)

Kirill Solonin’s research in the BuddhistRoad project was mainly devoted to the contextualizing of several Tangut Buddhist texts, belonging to the domain of legitimation, within a more general framework of Buddhism of Northern China in the tenth through the thirteenth centuries. Kirill Solonin received a PhD degree from St Petersburg University in 1997 and obtained full doctorate in 2007.

During his career he worked in St. Petersburg University and Institute for Oriental Manuscript Research, specializing in Buddhism and Tangut language and texts. Since 2013 he has been working in the Department of History and Philology of China Western Regions, Renmin University of China. In 2010-2011 he was a member of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton, New Jersey. 

Education

Ph.D., St. Petersburg State Unversity, 2008

KHK Fellowship

Duration: March 2017 - April 2017

Monographs

2007

Solonin, Kirill. 2007. Obretenie Uchenia: Tradicia Huayan-Chan v Buddhisme Tangutskogo Gosudarstva [Appropriation of Teaching: Huayan-Chan Buddhism in the Tangut State]. St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg University Press.

1995

Solonin, Kirill. 1995a. Bertsnaider Albums: Paintings of the 19th Century Life in Beijing. Annotated by K. Solonin, introduced by Francis Wood. London: Granet.
---. 1995b. Dvendtsat’ Tsarstv. Neizvstnij Pamyatnik Tangutskoi Literatury [Twelve Kingdoms: An Unknown Monument of Tangut Literature]. 《十二國》), translated from Tangut with notes by K. Solonin. St. Petersburg: Peterburskoe Vostokovedenie.

Book Chapters

2015

Solonin, Kirill. 2015a. Tangut Buddhist Literature. In: Encyclopedia of Buddhism, 1th vol. Leiden: Brill.
---. 2015b. The Tangut Empire. In: Encyclopedia of Empire. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons.

2013

Solonin, Kirill. 2013. 西夏文大手印文獻雜考, Xixia wen Dashou yin wenxian zakao. In: 沈衛榮主編 <漢藏佛教: 版本,圖像>. 北京: 中國藏學出版社.

2012

Solonin, Kirill. 2012a. The Teaching of the Tang Dynasty Chan Master Nanyang Huizhong in Tangut Translations. Accepted for publication in: Medieval Tibeto-Burmese Linguistics, 267-345. Vol. IV. Leiden: Brill.
---. 2012b. The Teaching of Daoshen in Tangut Translation:  The Mirror of Mind: In: Avatamsaka Buddhism in East Asia: Huayan, Kegon, Flower Ornament Buddhism: Origins and Adaptation of a Visual Culture. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz Verlag.
---. 2012c. 西夏文<洪州文獻>再考, Xixia <Hongzhou wenxian>zaikao. In: 首屆中國少數民族古籍文獻國際學術研討會論文集, 32-54. 北京: 民族出版社.
---. 2012b. 西夏佛教的 ‘真心’思想, Xixia Fojiao ‘Zhenxin’ sixiang [The Teaching of ‘True mind’ in Tangut Buddhism]. In: Xixia xue lunji 西夏學論集, 391-403. Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe.

2010

Solonin, Kirill. 2010. 南陽惠忠及其禪思想:《惠忠語錄》西夏文本與漢文本比較研究, Nanyang Huizhong jiqi Chan sixiang: Nanyang ‘Huizhong’ yulu Xixia wenben yu Han wenben bijiao yanjiu [The Chan Teaching of Nanyang Huizhong: Comparative Study of Chinese and Tangut Versions of ‘Huizhong yulu’]. In: Nie Hongyin, Zhongguo duowenzi shidai de lishi wenxian yanjiu, 17-41. Beijing: Shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe.

2007

Solonin, Kirill. 2007. Khitan Connection of the Tangut Buddhism. In: Humanitiy and Nature in the Khara-Khoto Area, 250-265. Beijing: Renmin University Press.

2006

Solonin, Kirill. 2006. Tangut Buddhism as a Local Tradition. In: Xixia Yanjiu. Vol. 3. Beijing: Zhongguo Shehui Kexue.

2005

Solonin, Kirill. 2005. The Essence of the Doctrine of the Masters of Hongzhou Lineage as the Source for the Research of Tangut Buddhism. In: Festschrift in Honor of Hwang-cherng Gong, 549-563. Taibei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica.

2003

Solonin, Kirill. 2003. Uchenie Baotang’a Wuzhu i Sichuanskij Chan-Buddhism [Teaching of Baotang Wuzhu and Sichuan Chan Buddism]. In: Religion and Culture: Russia, East and West. St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg University Press.

2001

Solonin, Kirill. 2001. Uchenie Tiantai o Nedvoistvennosti [Tiantai Teaching of Non-duality, Translation and Study of ‘Ten Gates of Non-Duality’ (十不二門)]. In: Religii Kitaya: Chrestomatia [Religions of China: A Sourcebook], 269-306. St. Petersburg: Eurasia Press.

2000

Solonin, Kirill. 2000a. Martin Heidegger and the Buddhism of Far Eastern Mahāyāna. In: Hiedegger and Oriental Philosophy: Complementary Cultures?, 115-138. St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg University Press.
---. 2000b. Martin Heidegger and Japanese Philosophy. In: Hiedegger and Oriental Philosophy: Complementary Cultures?,. 183-194. St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg University Press.
---. 2000c. Zolotoy Lev Huayan [The Golden Lion of Huayan] (Translation of the Text and Study of Huayan Thought). In: Orient: Philosophy, Religion and Culture. St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg University Press.
---. 2000d. Sutra Sovershennogo Probuzhdenia [Translation of the ‘Sutra of Complete Enlightenment’]. In: Selected Sutras of Chinese Buddhism. St. Petersburg: Nauka Press.

1999

Solonin, Kirill. 1999. Predislovie k Sobraniu Razyasnenij Istokov Chan’skih Istin. [Translation and Study of Zongmi’s Preface to the ‘Collection of Chan Truths’]. In: Zongmi: Chan’skie Istiny [Zongmi: Chan Truths]. (St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Press.

1993

Solonin, Kirill. 1993. Zongmi. Predislovie k Sobraniyu Chanskih Istin [Preface to the ‘Collection of Chan Truths’], part 2. In: Buddhism in Translations. Vol. 2. St. Petersburg: Andreev Publishers.
---. 1993b. Zongmi. Predislovie k Sobraniyu Chanskih Istin [Preface to the ‘Collection of Chan Truths’], part 1. In: Buddhism in Translations. Vol. 1. St. Petersburg: Andreev Publishers.

Journal Papers

2016

Solonin, Kirill. 1993. Atiśa’s Satyadvayāvatāra (Bden pa gnyisla ’jug pa) in the Tangut Translation: A Preliminary Study. Journal of Indian Philosophy 44.4 (2016).

2015

Solonin, Kirill. 2015a. Dīpaṃkara in Tangut Context. Part 1. Acta Orientalia 68.4 (2015): 425-451.
---. 2015b. Dīpaṃkara in Tangut Context Part 2. Acta Orientalia 69.1 (2015):1-25

2014

Solonin, Kirill. 2014a. Buddhist Connections between the Liao and Xixia: Preliminary Considerations. Journal of Song Yuan Studies 43 (2013): forthcoming.
---. 2014b. Sinitic Buddhism in the Tangut State. Central Asiatic Journal 53 (2014).
---. 2014c. Chan Contemplation in Tangut Buddhism. Fudan Journal of Humanities and Social sciences 7.2 (2014).
---. 2014d. Dīpaṃkara in Tangut Context (accepted for publication, Acta Orientalia Academia Scientarum Hungaricae).

2013

Solonin, Kirill. 2013a. In Search of the ‘Perfect Teaching’: Liao Sources of Tangut Chan Buddhism: A Study of Jiexing zhaoxin tu. Asia Major, 26.1 (2013).
---. 2013b. 西夏佛教之系统性初探.《世界宗教研究》4 (2013).
---. 2013c. 西夏文<鏡心錄>初探. 《西域歷史語言研究季刊》 5 (2013)

2012

Solonin, Kirill. 2012a. 一行慧覺及其《大方廣佛華嚴經海印道場十重行願常徧禮懺儀》, Yixing Huijue jiqi ‘Dafanggang Fo Huayan jing haiyin daochang shizhong xingyuan chanpian lichan yi’. 台大佛學研究, 第23期: 1-77.

2011

Solonin, Kirill. 2011a. 白雲釋子《三觀九門初探》, Baiyun Shizi ‘Sanguan Jiumen chutan. 西夏學, Xixia xue 8 (2011).
---. 2011b. 西夏佛教的 ‘真心’思想, Xixia Fojiao ‘Zhenxin’ sixiang [The Teaching of ‘True Mind’ in Tangut Buddhism]. 西夏學, Xixia xue 7 (2011): 161-173

2009

Solonin, Kirill. 2009. Mahāmudrā Texts in Tangut Buddhism. 西域歷史語言研究季刊, Xiyu lishi yuayan yanjiu jikan 2: 278-305.

2008

Solonin, Kirill. 2008. The Glimpses of Tangut Buddhism. Central Asiatic Journal, 52.1 (2008): 64-127.
---. 2008b. The Fragments of Tangut Translation of the ‘Platform Sūtra’ of the Sixth Patriarch, Preserved in Fu Su-nian Library, Academia Sinica. Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology of Academia Sinica 79.1 (2008): 163-185.

2007

Solonin, Kirill. 2007a. Ponyatie ‘zong’ v primenenii k Tangutskony Buddhismu [The Concept of ‘Zong’ as Applied to the Tangut Buddhism]. Ethnosocium, 7: 34-45.
---. 2007b. O Formirovanii Tangutskoi Kultury [Formation of the Tangut Culture]. Ethnosocium 6: 26-40.
---. 2007c. O Vozmozhnosti Lokalnoi Tradicii Tangutskogo Buddhisma [Tangut Buddhism as a Local Tradition]. Ethnosocium 6: 179-189.
---. 2007d. Uchenie Zongmi v period Severnoi Sun i ego vliyanie na formirovanie Tangutskogo Buddhisma [Zongmi’s Teaching in the Northern Song and its Influence on the Formation of the Tangut Buddhism] Vestnik Sankt-Petersburgskogo Universiteta [Journal of St. Petersburg State University] 6.3: 174-182.
---. 2007e. Katolicheskaya Filosofia na Taiwane [Catholic Philosophy in Taiwan]. Prilozhenie k zhurnalu Filosofskie Nauki [Philosophical Studies Supplement] 9.
---. 2007f. 西夏文《二十五問答》初探, Xixia wen ‘Ershi wu wenda’ chutan [Preliminary Research of the Tangut Texts of ‘Twenty Five Questions and Answers’]. 西夏學, Xixia xue 2.

2005

Solonin, Kirill. 2005. Hongzhou Buddhism in Xixia and the Heritage of Zongmi (780-841): A Tangut Source. Asia Major 16.2 (2003, actually published in 2005: 57-104.

2004

Solonin, Kirill. 2004. Huineng i Uchenie ob Otsutstvii Mysli [Huineg and the Teaching of ‘No-thought’]. Philosophical Studies Supplement 5.

2002

Solonin, Kirill. 2002. Kidane, Tanguty Wutaishan i Buddhism na Severe Kitaya [Khitan, Tangut, Wutaishan and Buddhism of Northern China]. Peterburgskoe Vostokovedenie [St. Petersburg Journal of Oriental Studies] 10: 124-142.

2000

Solonin, Kirill. 2000. The Tang Heritage of Tangut Buddhism: Teaching Classification in the Tangut Text ‘The Mirror’. Manuscripta Orientalia 6.3: 39-48.

1998

Solonin, Kirill. 1998a. Hongzhou Masters in the Tangut State. Manuscripta Orientalia 4.3: 15-25.

---. 1998b. Guifeng Zongmi and Tangut Chan Buddhism. Zhonghua Foxue xuebao 11: 365-424.

---. 1998c. Desyat Vrat Nedvoistvennosti [Translation and Research of the Ten Gates of Non-duality]. Peterburgskoe Vostokovedenie 8: 41-87.

1997

Solonin, Kirill. 1997a. Po Povodu Tangutskih Chan Buddiyskih Tekstov iz Sobranija SPbF IVRAN [Concerning the Tangut Chan Buddhjst Text from St. Petersburg Collection]. Peterburgskoe Vostokovedenie 7: 390-412.

1995

Solonin, Kirill. 19975. Opravdanie Bit’iya. Structura Kitaiskoi Religioznosti [Justification of Being. Ideas about Chinese Religious Consciousness]. Kunstakmmer: Ethnograficheskie Tetradi [Papers in Ethnology] 12: 254-265.