Through his life, Schlingloff, who was born in Kassel on 4 April 1928, has been active at a number of centres of German Indology. He began his career at the Berlin Academy of Sciences, where he was responsible for cataloguing and editing the Sanskrit manuscripts found during the Turfan expeditions at the beginning of the 20 century. To this period of his life we owe some of the most important mono graphs about these manuscripts, such as his work on Sanskrit metrics (Chandoviciti, Texte zur Sanskritmetrik) and his famous reconstruction of the manual of meditation which he named the Yogalehrbuch (for a complete list of his monographs and arti cles, see the annotated bibliography below). In these years he also published a gen eral introduction to Buddhism (Die Religion des Buddhismus, 1961-1963), based in part on his work on the Turfan manuscripts, two succinct volumes that have become a classic in the field.
When the construction of the Berlin Wall put an end to his work at the Academy, he became a lecturer at the Institute for Indology and Iranian Studies at the University of Göttingen. Later, as one of a long line of illustrious Indologists, he took on the professorship at the University of Kiel (of the predecessors who also held this chair, one might mention Hermann Jacobi, Hermann Oldenberg, Heinrich Lüders, Frie drich Schrader and Siegfried Lienhard).
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