MAMMITZSCH, Ulrich Hans Richard. Rodishain, Thuringia 15.12.1935 — Bellingham, Wash. 19.11.1990. U.S. (German-born) Sinologist and Scholar of Tibetan and Japanese Buddhism. Son of Hans Richard Mammitzsch and his wife Helene. After school of Frankesche Stiftung studied at Halle, in 1957 escaped from East Germany to West and continued studies at Hamburg (diploma 1959). Soon settled in the U.S.A. M.A. 1961 Southern Illinois University in American history. In 1963-64 taught history in Taipei, Taiwan, then seven years Assistant at University of Hawaii, Ph.D. there 1968. From 1971 taught at Western Washington State College, later Western Washington University, in Bellingham, finally as director of East Asian Studies.
Publications: “On the evolution of the Garbhadhātu maṇḍala”, AOHu 44, 1990, 25-40.
– Publications on East Asia; translations.
Sources: archiveswest.orbiscascade.org; stray notes in Internet.
Last Updated on 5 days by Admin
