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Vongagsorn

Kittipong Vongagsorn, M.A.

PhD student at the Doctoral Program in Buddhist Studies

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Kittipong Vongagsorn received his M.A. in Asian Studies from Cornell University in 2020. He is interested in early Buddhist texts, especially those written in Pali, Sanskrit, and Gāndhārī. His doctoral project, entitled “Defining the Buddha’s Words: The Use of Semantic Etymology (Nibbacana) in Pāli Literature”, focuses on the understanding of rhetorical and hermeneutical functions as well as history of nibbacana tradition in Pāli literature.