Michael von Brück
Professor Michael von Brück, professor and chair of comparative religious studies at Munich University, works in the field of comparative religious philosophy, especially within Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity, and on the hermeneutics of interreligious dialogue. He is the editor of the journal Dialogue of the Religions, and co-author with Whalen Lai of Buddhism and Christianity: History, Confrontation, Dialogue (Munich, 1997). After studying religious theology within systematic theology at Rostock University, he spent five years in India studying in Bangalore and Madras. He received further training as a yoga teacher in India and as a Zen teacher in Japan. From 1988 to 1991, he was a professor of comparative religious studies at Regensburg University, before coming to Munich University, and he has had numerous appointments as a visiting professor in India, the United States, and Germany.