Cristina Pecchia

is Research Fellow at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia at the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Cristina Pecchia (PhD 2003, University of Rome “La Sapienza”) is a philologist working primarily with texts in Sanskrit. She specializes in Indian Buddhist philosophy, with a focus on the religious aspects of the epistemological tradition, and has a strong research interest in the intellectual history of South Asia, with a special emphasis on the history of philology.