Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā was born in Italy in 1980 and went forth in Sri Lanka in 2012. She studied Indology, Indo-Iranian philology and Tibetology at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’ and at the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University in Tokyo. She obtained her doctorate in 2010 with a dissertation on the Khotanese ‘Book of Zambasta’.

Her main research interests are early Buddhist discourse and Vinaya texts (with a focus on the Theravāda and Mūlasarvāstivāda traditions), the formative phases of Mahāyāna ideology in Khotan in the fifth and sixth centuries, and the development of the theories, practices and ideologies of Buddhist meditative traditions. She is currently a research associate professor in the Department of Buddhist Studies of the Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts, mainly working on a study of the evolution of the notions of great compassion and omniscience in the history of Buddhist thought and on a collated digital edition, annotated translation and comparative study of the Mūlasarvāstivāda āgama quotations in Śamathadeva’s Abhidharmakośopāyikāṭīkā preserved in Tibetan translation. Dhammadinnā also serves as the series editor for the ARG publications with the Dharma Drum Publishing Corporation.

~ From Vinaya Revival

Selected Works (in chronological order)

Quotations in Śamathadeva’s Abhidharmakośopāyikā-ṭīkā Parallel to Chinese Saṃyukta-āgama Discourses on the Six Sense-bases (2018) – Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā

Discourses on the establishments of mindfulness (smṛtyupasthānas) quoted in Śamathadeva’s Abhidharmakośopāyikā-ṭīkā (2018) – Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā

Discourses on Feeling Tones (vedanā) Quoted in Śamathadeva’s Abhidharmakośopāyikā-ṭīkā (2019) – Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā

The Celestial Coral Tree and the Noble Disciple: Ekottarika-āgama Discourse 39.2 (2021) – Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā

Bhikṣuṇī Śailā’s Rebuttal of Māra’s Substantialist View: The Chariot Simile in a Sūtra Quotation in the Abhidharmakośopāyikā-Ṭīkā (2021) – Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā

Reflections on Truth and Experience in Early Buddhist Epistemology (2021) – Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā

Knowledge tied to or freed from identity?: Epistemic reflections through the prism of the early Buddhist teachings (2021) – Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā and Raymond Lam

Exclusive Reliance on Reasoning as ‘Mere Belief’: The Buddha’s epistemic approach in the Saṅgārava-sutta and its Sanskrit parallel (2021) – Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā

Giving as Sacrifice, Sacrifice as Giving: The Definition of Right View as the Antithesis of Wrong View in the Early Buddhist Discourses (2023) – Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā

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