ALTHEA VOLPE

PhD Student

PhD program:: XXXVI
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supervisor: Donatella Rossi (Dip. ISO, Sapienza); co-tutor: Andrea De Benedittis (Dip. Asia Africa e Mediterraneo, UNIOR)
co-supervisor (2): Andrea De Benedittis

Althea Volpe (1645578), East Asia Curriculum, 36th cycle (scholarship).

11/2020 – present: Ph.D. candidate in Civilizations of Asia and Africa at the Italian Institute of Oriental Studies – ISO, La Sapienza University of Rome.
Project title: “Esoteric Buddhism and mantic-apotropaic liturgies: religious, ritualistic and textual connection between the kingdoms of Unified Silla and Koryǒ ”.

26/11/2021: Speaker at the "1st Korean Studies Young Scholars Workshop in Venice", AKS - Academy of Korean Studies and Department of Asian and North African Studies (Ca' Foscari University of Venice).

01/2018 – 03/2020: Italian – Korean Double Degree title with Master’s Degree in Oriental Languages and Civilizations at the Italian Institute of Oriental Studies – ISO, La Sapienza University of Rome and Master of Arts in International Studies (Korean Studies) at Graduate School of International Studies of Hanyang University (Seoul, South Korea).
Thesis title: “Hermeneutic-philological analysis of Pǒpsǒngge (Hymn of Dharma Nature)”.
(Supervisor: Professor Donatella Rossi, Co-Advisor: Professor Yun Seongwon).

07/2018: Attendance at the “2018 Jangseogak Hanmun Workshop”, AKS – Academy of Korean Studies (Seongnam, South Korea).

10/2014 – 12/2017: Bachelor’s Degree in Oriental Languages and Civilizations at the Italian Institute of Oriental Studies – ISO, La Sapienza University of Rome.
Thesis title: “Study on the Wǒrin ch’ǒngangji-gok: a Korean Buddhist work of the 15th century”.
(Supervisor: Professor Giuseppina De Nicola).

08/2016 – 02/2017: Attendance at the International Exchange Program, Hanguk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, South Korea).

Research interests: Korean Buddhism, esoteric Buddhism, apotropaic-divination rituals, use of dhāraṇī in Korean Buddhist rituals, Korean history and philology.

Research products

11573/1666547 - 2023 - L’eredità filosofica del Pǒpsǒngge nel Buddhismo di Silla e Koryǒ: lo Haein Sammae Ron e l’Ilsǔng Pǒpkyedo Wǒnt’ong-gi
Volpe, A. - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: Percorsi in Civiltà dell’Asia e dell’Africa II - Quaderni di studi dottorali alla Sapienza - (9788893772600)

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