Dr. Athanaric Huard

Research and Teaching

Buddhist meditation
Buddhist narrative literature (Sanskrit, Tocharian, Chinese) of
the first millenium (especially Maitreya literature, Buddhacarita)
Manuscriptology and paleography of Central Asian Brāhmī
Tocharian linguistics

Curriculum

After training in Greek and Latin philology and linguistics (2009-2015), I turned to Indology and Tocharian languages and Buddhism. From 2016 to 2022, I wrote a dissertation on Tocharian meditation texts. From 2016 to 2020 I worked as document researcher at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, where I was in charge of cataloging the Fonds-Pelliot Kouchéen. From 2020 to 2023, I worked in the ERC project HisTochText that investigates manuscripts and Tocharian Buddhist texts.

Publications
Orcid : 0000-0002-1264-2399
Academia: https://ephe-sorbonne.academia.edu/AthanaricHuard

• in progress, with Bai Yu, “The cosmic body of the Buddha as a Narrative Motif,” in Naomi Appelton and Christopher Jones (ed.), Literary Buddhas, Sheffield, Equinox.
• 2023, with Adam Catt and Yuima Inaba, “Tocharian Abhidharma Texts III: A Philological Study of B 199,” Journal Asiatique 311 (1), 87–106.
• 2022, with Adam Catt and Yuima Inaba, “Tocharian Abhidharma Texts II: A Philological Study of A 384–386,” Journal Asiatique 310 (2), 237–273.
• 2022, Recherches sur les textes de méditation en tokharien, dissertation, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris.
• 2021, “pattitrukālle kariśkenta wärpanamane” ou comment honorer un moine tokharien,” in: Hannes Fellner, Melanie Malzahn, and Michaël Peyrot (ed.), lyuke wmer ra: Indo-European Studies in Honor of Georges-Jean Pinault, Ann Arbor, Beech Stave Press, 225–235.
• 2020, “On Tocharian B kents* and the Origin of PIE *ǵhans- ‘goose’,” Wékwos 5, 215–262.
• 2020, with Adam Catt and Yuima Inaba, “Tocharian Abhidharma Texts I: A Philological Study of B 197,” Journal Asiatique 308 (2), 177–198.
• 2020, “The End of Mahākāśyapa and the Encounter with Maitreya: Two Leaves of a Maitreya-Cycle in Archaic TB,” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 20, 1–82.
• 2019, “The Beginning of the Tocharian B Karmavibhaṅga,” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 19, 27–66.