Gábor Kósa

He is member of the Silk Road Research Group at ELTE University, he is partner investigator in the Australian Research Council Project titled „Manichaean Liturgical Texts and Practices from Egypt to China". He is one of the editors of the Hungarian journal entitled Távol-keleti Tanulmányok (East Asian Studies). From 2019 he serves as the editor-in-chief of the Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. He is member of the Committee on Oriental Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Kósa was awarded the postdoctoral scholarship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS, 2008–2009) and the Taiwanese Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (2010–2012). In 2014–15, he was an EURIAS fellow at Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge University. In 2020–21, he was Roger E. Covey Member in East Asian Studies at the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS, Princeton).

Between 1999 and 2008, he was teaching at the Dharma Gate Buddhist College. He has been working at Eötvös Loránd University from 2009, at present as an associate professor.

Born in Budapest, Gábor Kósa holds MA degrees in English (1995) from the School of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of the ELTE, Chinese (1997) and religious studies (2011). In 2006 he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled ʻThe Terminological Analysis of Chinese Texts Related to Manichaeism’ (in Hungarian: A manicheizmussal kapcsolatos kínai nyelvű szövegek terminológiai elemzése).

Gábor Kósa (born 31 January 1971) is a Hungarian historian of religions, an associate professor at the Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Chinese Studies. (Chinese name: Kāng Gāobǎo; Traditional Chinese: 康高寶; Simplified Chinese: 康高宝.)