Robert Kritzer is Professor at Kyoto Notre Dame University. He specializes in abhidharma and early Yogācāra, and is the author of two books, Rebirth and Causation in the Yogācāra Abhidharma (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 44. Wien: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien, 1999) and Vasubandhu and the Yogācārabhūmi: Yogācāra Elements in the Abhidharmako śabhāṣya (Studia Philologica Buddhica Monograph Series 12. Tokyo: The International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 2005). He has written on the intermediate existence (antarābhava) and accounts of childbirth in Indian Buddhism, as well as on the meaning of the term Sautrāntika. Other interests include the relation between Buddhism and the Indian medical tradition and the traditional study of the Abhidharmakośa in Japan. He has been invited to McGill University for the winter term of 2006 as a Numata visiting professor.
Emphasis: Sanskrit
Dissertation: Pratītyasamutpāda in the Abhidharmasamuccaya: Conditioned Origination in the Yogācāra Abhidharma[electronic resource](link is external). 1995. 282 p.