Draft:Helmut Eimer

Helmut Elmer (1936-2017) is a German Tibetologist.

Life
He studied classical philosophy, Sanskrit and Tibetan in Hamburg, Berlin and Bonn (doctorate in 1974). He specialized in northern Buddhist traditions and literary sources. He taught as a professor of Buddhist studies at the University of Bonn. He was a pioneer of Kanjur studies, and inspired other scholars, including Paul Harrison and Peter Skilling in research of the field.

Publications

 * Eimer, Helmut. 1988. “A Note on the History of the Tibetan Kanjur.” Central Asiatic Journal 32(1/2), pp. 64-72.
 * Eimer, Helmut. 1997. “A Source for the First Narthang Kanjur: Two Early Sa skya pa Catalogues of the Tantras,” in Transmission of the Tibetan Canon, Papers Presented at a Panel of the 7th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Gray 1995, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pp. 11-78.
 * Eimer, Helmut. 2002. “Kanjur and Tanjur Studies: Present State and Future Tasks,” in The Many Canons of Tibetan Buddhism, Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000, Leiden: Brill, pp. 1-12.
 * Eimer, Helmut. 2007. “The Tibetan Kanjur Printed in China,” Zentral-Asiatische Studien 36, pp. 35-60.
 * Eimer, Helmut. 2012. A Catalogue of the Kanjur Fragment from Bathang Kept in the Newark Museum. Vienna: Arbeitskreis Für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität Wien.