- UNAM
- Coordinación
- PUEAA
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Programa Universitario
de Estudios sobre Asia y África
He holds a PhD and MA in South Asian Studies from the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México, and a BA in Modern German Letters from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at UNAM. Between 2015 and 2017 he was a researcher and translator at the Buddhist Translators Workbench, a Sanskrit lexicography project of the Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages in Berkeley, California. He is currently Professor-Researcher of Buddhist Studies at the Center for Asian and African Studies (CEAA) of El Colegio de México. He is the author of several academic articles on Buddhist literature and culture. His publications include the book Jātakas, Before the Buddha (Mexico, 2015), a translation from the pāḷi language of past life stories of the Buddha. He regularly participates in diploma courses, congresses and seminars with lectures specializing in Buddhist religion and literature.