Between 2002 and 2005, Dr. Delhey held a teaching position in the Seminar for Indology and Buddhist Studies at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Subsequently he worked on a DFG-funded project at the University of Hamburg, and most recently he has been a post-doctoral research fellow at the Research Institute for Buddhist Culture at Ryukoku University, Kyoto, in connection with his research on Suicide in Buddhism.