Maria Heim (professor)

Maria Heim
Education	Reed College (BA) Harvard University (PhD)
Occupation	Professor
Employer	Amherst College
Organization	California State University, Long Beach

Maria Heim is the George Lyman Crosby 1896 & Stanley Warfield Crosby Professor in Religion at Amherst College. ^[1] She studies ancient Indian intellectual history and literature, with a specialization in the textual traditions of Theravada Buddhism.

Biography

Heim earned her B.A. from Reed College in 1991, and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in the Sanskrit and Indian Studies Department in 1999. She taught at the California State University, Long Beach, between 1999 and 2003, and has been at Amherst College ever since. She has received grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation ^[2] and Fulbright.

Selected works

• The Questions of Milinda. Translation of the Milindapanha. Murty Classical Library of India, Harvard University Press, 2025.
• How to Lose Yourself. Co-translated with Jay Garfield and Robert Sharf. Princeton University Press, 2025.
• Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India. Princeton University Press, 2022. ^[3]
• The Bloomsbury Research Handbook on Emotions in Indian Philosophy. Co-edited volume with Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad and Roy Tzohar, Bloomsbury, 2021.
• Buddhist Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Elements in Philosophy Series, 2020.
• Voice of the Buddha: Buddhaghosa on the Immeasurable Words. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. ^{[4] [5]}
• The Forerunner of All Things: Buddhaghosa on Mind, Intention, and Agency, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. ^{[6] [7]}
• Theories of the Gift in South Asia: Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Reflections on Dāna, New York: Routledge, 2004.

References

1. "Heim, Maria R. | Faculty & Staff". Amherst College.
2. "Maria R. Heim". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
3. Sweeney, Jon M. "Words for the Heart by Maria Heim | Review | Spirituality & Practice". Spirituality & Practice: Resources for Spiritual Journeys.
4. Sraman, Upali (2021). "Voice of the Buddha: Buddhaghosa on the Immeasurable Words by Maria Heim (review)". Philosophy East and West. 71 (2): 1–5. doi:10.1353/pew.2021.0038. ISSN   1529-1898. S2CID   234240796.
5. Berkwitz, Stephen C. (3 July 2019). "Voice of the Buddha: Buddhaghosa on the Immeasurable Words". Religion. 49 (3): 513–516. doi:10.1080/0048721X.2019.1623615. ISSN   0048-721X. S2CID   201415346.
6. Huntington, C. W. "Huntington on Heim, 'The Forerunner of All Things: Buddhaghosa on Mind, Intention, and Agency' | H-Buddhism". H-Net.
7. Shulman, Eviatar (2016). "The Forerunner of All Things: Buddhaghosa on Mind, Intention, and Agency by Maria Heim (review)". Philosophy East and West. 66 (1): 360–367. doi:10.1353/pew.2016.0019. ISSN   1529-1898. S2CID   147659862.