June 19, 1985: High School Diploma (Abitur) in Wörth am Rhein, Germany

October 1985 – July 1990: studied European Art History, East Asian Art History, and Classical and Modern Sinology at Heidelberg University, Germany

September 1989 – August 1990: Studies in Sinology at the First Foreign Language University in Beijing (北京外国语学院)

August 3, 1993: M.A. in East Asian Art History, European Art History, and Modern Sinology from Heidelberg University

November 15, 2001: Ph.D. in East Asian Art History, Heidelberg University

English, Mandarin, Traditional Chinese, French, basic Japanese

January 1, 2005: Senior Research Fellow in the project “Buddhist Stone Scriptures in China” at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

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• Grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a conference in Beijing at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and field research in Hebei and Shandong on rock-cut sutras, March 19–April 4, 2002
• Grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for field research on cave temples and monasteries in Shaanxi from September 16, 2002, to September 30, 2002, in cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Beijing
• Grant from the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation, Germany, for postdoctoral research on “Stone scriptures and icons in the Jinchuanwan cave temple of the Three Levels Teaching in Shaanxi Province” from January 7, 2003, to June 30, 2004
• Grant from the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation, Germany, for field research on cave temples in Hebei and Henan from October 10, 2003, to October 26, 2003
• Grant from the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation, Germany, for the conference of the International Association of Buddhist Women, “Discipline and Practice of Buddhist Women: Present and Past,” held in Seoul, Korea, from June 27, 2005, to July 5, 2005
• Courses taught:
• Summer term 2004: “Managing the Flood of Images: Describing, Naming, and Classifying Buddhist Sculpture Using the Example of the Guyangdong in Longmen.” Institute of East Asian Art, University of Heidelberg.
• Winter Term 2007/2008: “Nagarjuna and Cusanus: The Negativity of the Absolute.” Interdisciplinary seminar. Prof. Dr. Jens Halfwassen, Institute of Philosophy; Prof. Dr. Lothar Ledderose, Institute of East Asian Art History; Dr. Claudia Wenzel.
• Winter term 2008/2009: “Buddhist Art in the 6th Century.” Institute of East Asian Art, University of Heidelberg, with Prof. Ledderose, Dr. Tsai Sueyling, and Dr. Petra Rösch.
• Winter Term 2009/2010: “On the Historical Significance of Han Dynasty Stone Reliefs in Shandong/山东汉画像石的历史艺术价值.” Institute of East Asian Art, University of Heidelberg, with Hu Xinli 胡新立, Director of the Zoucheng Municipal Museum.
• Winter Term 2015/2016: Image Analysis. One session on “The Maitreya Paradise in Cave 25 at Yulin near Dunhuang: Interpretation and Ritual Context.”
• Summer term 2019: Introduction to Buddhism II. One session on “Buddhist Sites and Sacred Geographies in China.”

Claudia Wenzel. Hope for Immortality in the Pure Land of the West. The Temple-Monastery of the Great Buddha of Immeasurable Life (Dafosi) near Binxian, Shaanxi. Dissertation, Heidelberg 2001. http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/6182/. March 13, 2006

Claudia Wenzel. “The Image of the Buddha: Buddha Icons and Aniconic Traditions in India and China.” Transcultural Studies 2011.1: 263–305. http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/ojs/index.php/transcultural/article/view/1938

Wang Yongbo 王永波 and Claudia Wenzel 溫狄婭, eds. Zhongguo fojiao shijing: Shandong Sheng 中國佛教石經：山東省 | Buddhist Stone Sutras in China: Shandong Province. Di er juan 第二卷 | Volume 2. Wiesbaden and Hangzhou: Harrassowitz Verlag and China Academy of Art Press, 2015.

Sun Hua 孙华 and Claudia Wenzel 溫狄婭, eds. Zhongguo fojiao shijing: Sichuan Sheng 中國佛教石經：四 川 卷 | Buddhist Stone Sutras in China: Sichuan Province. Di san juan 第三卷 | Volume 3. Wiesbaden and Hangzhou: Harrassowitz Verlag and China Academy of Art Press, 2016.

Claudia Wenzel (Wen Diya). *Fo shuo Emituo Jing*《佛說阿彌陀經》 “The Amitābha Sutra.” In *Zhongguo fojiao shijing: Sichuan Sheng* 中國佛教石經：四 川 卷 | *Buddhist Stone Sutras in China: Sichuan Province*. Di san juan 第三卷 | Volume 3. Edited by Claudia Wenzel 溫狄婭 and Sun Hua 孙华. Wiesbaden and Hangzhou: Harrassowitz Verlag and China Academy of Art Press, 2016, 142–165.

Claudia Wenzel. “Monumental Stone Sūtra Carvings in China and Indian Pilgrim Sites.” Journal of Chinese Buddhist Studies. July 2016, Volume 29, Special Issue: The Creation of Buddhist Sacred Sites in China, 51–89.

Claudia Wenzel. “Epigraphy in China with a Focus on Buddhist Stone Sutras on Cliffs and in Caves.” Current Epigraphy. November 13, 2017. http://www.currentepigraphy.org/2017/11/13/epigraphy-in-china-buddhist-stone-sutras-claudia-wenzel-heidelberg/

Claudia Wenzel. “The Buddha’s Footprints in China.” SAAC 7 (2020): 645–687.

Claudia Wenzel. “Imprinting the Living Rock with Buddhist Texts: On the Creation of a Regional Sacred Geography in Shandong in the Second Half of the Sixth Century.” Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies, vol. 3 (2020), no. 2: 182–247.

Claudia Wenzel. “Towards a Buddhist History of Mount Tai.” Journal of Chinese Religions, vol. 50 (2022), 1–44.

Claudia Wenzel Wen Diya. Tai Shan Jin’gang jing 泰山《金剛經》. The Diamond Sutra on Mount Tai. In *Zhongguo fojiao shijing: Shandong Sheng di san juan*中國佛教石經·山東省第四卷 | *Buddhist Stone Sutras in China: Shandong Province, Volume 4*. Edited by Wang Yongbo 王永波 and Lothar Ledderose 雷德侯. Wiesbaden and Hangzhou: Harrassowitz Verlag and China Academy of Art Press 2022, 10–24.

Claudia Wenzel. “Visual Modes of Chinese Cosmogonies.” In *Images and Stories of the Origins of the World and of Humankind*, ed. by Julia A. B. Hegewald and Marion Gymnich. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024, 215–246.

Claudia Wenzel. “Saving the World in the Year 579: Crisis Management Strategies in the Stone Eulogy.” In Crisis and Risk: China and the Management of Uncertainties, edited by Wolfgang Behr et al. (Yearbook of the German Association for Chinese Studies 德語地區漢學協會 17). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2024, 115–136.