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Professor Emeritus,Oxford University

Academic Director,Oxford Centre for Buddhist

Studiesand his impact on

PPALIALI BBUDDHISTUDDHIST S S TUDIESTUDIES

A NOTEBy Geoffrey Bamford, (Executive Director, OCBS)

Richard Gombrich was born in London. His mother was an accomplished musician, his father, Sir Ernst Gombrich, the pre-eminent art historian of the 20th century. Ernst Gombrich grew up in Vienna. The psychiatrist Freud, the composer Mahler, and the poet von Hofmannsthal were intimate acquaintances. The philosopher, Sir Karl Popper, became his closest friend.Richard Gombrich’s education was in the best English tradition of classical learning with an empirical bias. Having mastered Greek and Latin literature, he moved on to Sanskrit and Pali. At 39, he was Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford. This was the earliest Chair in Sanskrit to be established in the West (in 1831). Now it was, for the first time, occupied by a scholar whose principal interest was in Buddhism. Gombrich’s first book illustrates his range. It is a work of social anthropology, based on fieldwork in Sri Lanka. It gives a clear, compelling picture of village Buddhism. Then it compares that with the classical (Pali) literature. So it shows how carefully the tradition has been maintained — and also throws light on how lay Buddhist life is likely from the first to have related to doctrinal categories.His later work has explored further the links between textual and social dimensions of Buddhism. On one hand, he has revitalised the close textual study of ancient materials,

revealing new dimensions of early Buddhism (e.g. how it responded to Brahminism). On the other, he has analysed how some modern tendencies diverge from the tradition.In this way, he has validated the authenticity and antiquity of the Pali material (contested elsewhere in academia) and upheld its enduring relevance. The escape from essentialism that the Buddha offers seems to him both very modern (indeed Popperian) and subtly (indeed uniquely) pragmatic.

A CAREERA CAREERA BODY OF WORKA BODY OF WORK

A CONTINUING A CONTINUING IMPACTIMPACT

A CAREER

Name: Richard Francis Gombrich

Address: 11 Barton Lane, Oxford OX3 9JR

Date of birth: 17 July 1937

EEDUCATIONDUCATION

1950-1955 Scholar, St. Paul's School, London

1957-1961 Demy (scholar), Magdalen College, Oxford

1959 Honour Classical Moderations, First Class

1961B.A. Oriental Studies (Sanskrit with

Pali), First Class

1961-1963 Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund

1963 A.M. Harvard University

1963-1965 Treasury Studentship (Scarborough Studentship)

1970 D.Phil. Oxford University

MMEDALSEDALS ANDAND HONORARYHONORARY DEGREESDEGREES

1991 Hon. D.Litt. Kalyani University, Bengal

and Pali Buddhist Studies 1

1993 S.C. Chakraborty Medal, Asiatic Society, Calcutta

1994 Sri Lanka Ranjana (National Award)

1996 Hon. D.Ed. De Montfort University

1997 University Medal, Warsaw University

1997 Vacaspati (= Hon D.Litt.), Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Tirupati

AACADEMICCADEMIC A APPOINTMENTSPPOINTMENTS

1965-1976

Lecturer in Sanskrit and PaliOxford University

1966-1976

Governing Body FellowWolfson College, Oxford

1976-2004

Boden Professor of SanskritOxford University;

Professorial Fellow, Balliol College

1977- Emeritus FellowWolfson College

1999- Senior FellowDe Montfort University

1981-1982

Benjamin Meaker Visiting ProfessorUniversity of Bristol

1982Visiting Professor,

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

1986-1987

Stewart Visiting Fellow in the Humanities,

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Princeton University

1994F.D. Maurice Lecturer in Theology

and Religious Studies, King’s College London

1994Jordan Lecturer in Comparative

Religion, SOAS

1997Gonda Lecturer,

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

1998 Edmond Perry Lecturer, Northwestern University

2003- Academic Director, Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies

2004- Emeritus Fellow, Balliol College

OOTHERTHER A APPOINTMENTSPPOINTMENTS

1977 - Member, Association of Social

Anthropologists of the Commonwealth

1978-1983

Advisory Council, Victoria and Albert Museum

1981-1994

Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, Pali Text Society

1994-2002

President and Treasurer, Pali Text Society

1996- Co-editor, and Pali Buddhist Studies 3

2002 Journal of the Pali Text Society

1981-1985

Secretary for Europe, International Association for

Buddhist Studies1974- Fellow

Royal Asiatic SocietyMember of Council, 1989-1991

Member of the Publications Committee, 1991-3

1982-1990

Fellow Royal Society of Arts

1983-1990

Theological and Religious Studies Board

National Council for Academic Awards

1986-1992

Member of CouncilSociety for South Asian Studies

1990- MemberAcademia Europaea

1992 Member, East and South Asian Studies

Panel, RAE (Chairman for S & SE Asia)

1996 Member, Theology and Religious Studies Panel, RAE

Member of several editorial boards

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A BODY OF WORK

BOOKS

TITLE

1 Precept and practice: Traditional Buddhism in the rural highlands of Ceylon

Buddhist Precept and Practice (Revised edition)2 The Perfect Generosity of Prince Vessantara

3 On being Sanskritic: A plea for civilized study and the study of civilization

4 Buddhist studies in honour of Walpola Rahula

5 The world of Buddhism: Buddhist monks and nuns in society and culture

6 Buddhist studies in honour of Hammalava Saddhatissa

7 Theravāda Buddhism: A social history from ancient Benares to modern Colombo

8 Buddhism transformed: Religious change in Sri Lanka

9 Indian ritual and its exegesis10

How Buddhism Began: The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings

11

Religious Experience in Early Buddhism? Eighth Annual BASR Lecture, 1997

(British Association for the Study of Religions Occasional Paper 12

Kindness and Compassion as Means to Nirvana (1997 Gonda Lecture)

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AUTHOR(S)/EDITOR(S) PUBLISHED AT/BY DAT

Richard Gombrich Oxford: Clarendon Press 1971

Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas 1991Margaret Cone and Richard

Gombrich Oxford: Clarendon Press 1977

Richard Gombrich Oxford: Clarendon Press 1978

Edited by Balasooriya Somaratna, André Bareau,

Richard Gombrich, Siri Gunasingha, Udaya

London: Gordon Fraser 1980

Edited by Heinz Bechert and Richard Gombrich London: Thames & Hudson 198

4Paperback edition 1991

Edited by Dhammapala Gatare, Richard Gombrich and K.R.

Norman

Nugegoda, Sri Lanka: Hammalava Saddhatissa

Felicitation Volume Committee, University of Sri

1984

Richard Gombrich London: Routledge and Kegan Paul

1988

Richard Gombrich and Gananath Obeyesekere

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press

1988

Paperback edition 1990Edited by Richard Gombrich Delhi: Oxford University 198

Richard Gombrich London: The Athlone Press 1996

Richard GombrichPrinted by the University of

Leeds Printing Service, Leeds

1998

Richard Gombrich Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of

1998

ARTICLES

TITLE


1 The consecration of a Buddhist image2 Food for seven grandmothers:

Stages in the universalization of a Sinhalese ritual3 Sinhalese Buddhism4 “Merit transference” in Sinhalese Buddhism:

A case of the interaction between doctrine and 5 The fifty stanzas of a thief

(Translation of the Caura-pañcāsikā with an 6 Feminine elements in Sinhalese Buddhism7 Le clergé bouddhiste d’une circonscription

kandienne 8 The divine light mission9 Eliade on Buddhism10

A lexical note on Bambhadatta’s story: Obedio and sarisari/saribhari

1 A party for “Hare Krishna”12 Ancient Indian cosmology

Translation into Polish by Marzenna and Krzysztof 1 Buddhist karma and social control1 The case for Sanskrit15 Observations on the Vessantara Jātaka

16 A Sinhalese cloth painting of the Vessantara Jātaka.

17 Kosala-Bimba-Vaṇṇanā.

PUBLICATION DATEJournal of Asian Studies, 26/1: 23-26 1966

Man: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 6/1: 5-17 1971

8 Richard Gombrich

Man, Myth and Magic, 92: 2585-7 1971History of Religions, 11/2: 203-19 1971

Mahfil, 7/3-4: 175-86 1971

Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens, vol. 16: 67- 1972Social Compass, 20/2: 257-66 1973

Lycidas (Wolfson College magazine), 2: 24-5 1973-4Religious Studies, 10/2: 225-31 1974

Journal of the Oriental Institute (Baroda), 24/1-2: 145-7 Sept.-Dec.

Lycidas, 3: 24-6 1974-5(In: Ancient Cosmologies. C. Blacker and M. Loewe,

editors. London) Allen & Unwin, 110-42 1975(In: Kwartalnik Filozoficzny XXIII, 3-4) Krakow, 181-212 Comparative Studies in Society and History, 17/2: 212- 1975

The Times Higher Educational Supplement: 3 19/9/19Inde ancienne: Actes du XXIXe Congrès International

des Orientalistes, Paris, Juillet 1973. Paris: L’Asiathèque, 1976

(In: Buddhism in Ceylon and studies on religious syncretism in Buddhist countries: Report on a

symposium in Göttingen. H. Bechert, editor) Göttingen: 1978



18 The Buddha’s eye, the evil eye and Dr Ruelius

19 The duty of a Buddhist according to the Pali scriptures.20 Bibliography of South Asian Buddhism.21 Bibliography of Jainism.22 “He cooks softly”: Adverbs in Sanskrit grammar


23

The significance of former Buddhas in Theravādin tradition.

24 A new Theravādin liturgy

2 Buddhists and death26 A Buddhist Pilgrimage in Sri Lanka

27

Richard Gombrich chooses ‘Conjectures and Refutations’ by Karl Popper

28

From monastery to meditation centre: Lay meditation in modern Sri Lanka.

29

Another view of widow-burning and womanliness in Indian public culture (with Sanjukta Gupta)

30 Introduction: The Buddhist way.

31 Buddhism in ancient India: The evolution of the Sangha.

3 Buddhist sacred writings

33 Notes on the brahminical background to Buddhist ethics.



(In: The concept of duty in South Asia. W. O’Flaherty and J. Derrett, editors) London: Vikas, 107-18 1978

(In: South Asian bibliography: A handbook and guide. J. Pearson, editor) Sussex: Harvester Press, 119-20 1979

(In: South Asian bibliography: A handbook and guide. J. Pearson, editor) Sussex: Harvester Press, 121-23 1979

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 42/2: 244-56 1979

(In: Buddhist studies in honour of Walpola Rahula. S. Balasooriya, et al., editors) London: Gordon Fraser, 62- 1980

10 Richard Gombrich

Journal of the Pali Text Society, vol. 9: 47-73Shorter version in: The life of Buddhism. Frank E.

Reynolds & Jason A. Carbine, editors. Berkeley etc: 1981

Shap Mailing 1982. W. Cole, editor. 5-6 1982Shap Mailing 1983. M. Hayward, editor 12-13

Reprinted in Religions and education: Shap Working Party 1969-89. A. Wood, editor. Isleworth: Shap Working

1983

The Times Higher Educational Supplement, “Milestones” series, #13, (27th May) 1983

(In: Buddhist studies ancient and modern. P. Denwood and A. Piatigorsky, editors.) London: Curzon Press, 20- 1983

The Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 1984(In: The world of Buddhism: Buddhist monks and nuns in

society and culture. H. Bechert and R. Gombrich, editors)

1984

(In: The world of Buddhism: Buddhist monks and nuns in society and culture. H. Bechert and R. Gombrich, editor) 1984

Shap Mailing 1984. M. Hayward, editor. 1-5 1984(In: Buddhist studies in honour of Hammalava

Saddhatissa, edited by G. Dhammapala, R. Gombrich and K.R. Norman)

Nugegoda, Sri Lanka: Hammalava Saddhatissa 1984

3 Temporary ordination in Sri Lanka35 Foreword36

The Vessantara Jātaka, the Rāmāyana and the Dasaratha Jātaka

37 The state of indological studies in the U.K. today

3 Buddhist festivals.3 Kings, power and the goddess (with Sanjukta Gupta)4 Indology is in a very bad way4 Most Indians know next to nothing of their cultural past4 Obituary of Prof. Thomas Burrow, Sanskrit and Dravidian 4 Brahmins and barbarians4 Old bodies like carts


45 Buddhist cultic life in Southeast Asia

4 Three souls, one or none: The vagaries of a Pali pericope47 What kind of thing is religion? 48 A Selection of Resources: Buddhism. 49 The Buddha and Buddhists. 50

Comment une réligion se définit elle-même: Le Bouddhisme.

51 Dieu, les dieux, le divin: Le bouddhisme 52

The history of early Buddhism: Major advances since 1950.

5 Two notes on Visuddhimagga IXThe Journal of the International Association of Buddhist 1984(In: The Group of Discourses (Sutta-Nipāta), Vol. 1. K.R.

Norman, translator) Pali Text Society: London 1984

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 105/3: 427-37 1985(South Asian Studies; Papers presented at a colloquium 24-26 April 1985) British Library Occasional Papers #7, edited by Albertine Gaur. London: British Library, 57-62

1986

(In: Festivals in world religions. A. Brown, editor) 1986South Asia Research, 6: 123-37 1986The Telegraph, Calcutta: p. 6, 3/4/198

The Telegraph, Calcutta 4/4/198The Times, London 18/6/19

Oxford Magazine, 20: 3-4 1987Journal of the Pali Text Society, vol. 11: 1-4 1987

(In: The Encyclopedia of Religion. M. Eliade, editor) New York: Macmillan, 5: 463-67 1987

Reprinted in Buddhism and Asian history: Readings from The Encyclopedia of Religion. M. Kitagawa and M.

Cummings, editors. New York: Macmillan, 309-315, 12 Richard Gombrich

Journal of the Pali Text Society, vol. 11: 73-8 1987(In: The Shap handbook on world religions in education.

A. Brown, editor) London: The Commission for Racial 1987(In: The Shap handbook on world religions in education.

A. Brown, editor) London: The Commission for Racial 1987(In: Experiencing Buddhism: The report of the sixth

“York Shap” conference) York: York Religious Education 1988(In: Le grand atlas des réligions. C. Baladier, editor)

Paris: Encyclopaedia Universalis, 36-7 1988(In: Le grand atlas des réligions. C. Baladier, editor)

Paris: Encyclopaedia Universalis, 176-7 1988(In: Indological studies and South Asia bibliography: A conference 1986. A. Das, editor.) Calcutta: National 1988

Journal of the Pali Text Society, vol. 12: 169-71 1988

5 How the Mahāyāna began

Translation into Spanish55 Recovering the Buddha’s message

5 A note on Ambapālī’s wit5 Making mountains without molehills: The case of the 5 How might we educate our students?59 Reflections of an indologist

60 Pātimokkha: Purgative

6 Obituary of Professor B. K. Matilal62 Can we know or control our futures?

6 The Buddha’s Book of Genesis?and Pali Buddhist Studies 13

64 Why six former Buddhas?

65 Dating the Buddha: A Red Herring Revealed

6 Why is a khattiya called a khattiya? The Aggaññasutta 67

A momentous effect of translation: The “vehicles” of Buddhism.

Journal of Pali and Buddhist Studies (Nagoya), 1: 29-46 1988Reprinted in The Buddhist Forum: Seminar papers 1987-

1988. T. Skorupski, editor. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1: 21-30, (In: Revista de Estudios Budistas, no. 9, 24-41) 1995

(In: Earliest Buddhism and Madhyamaka. D. Ruegg and L. Schmithausen, editors) Leiden: E.J. Brill, 5-23 1990

Reprinted in The Buddhist Forum: Seminar papers 1987-1988. T. Skorupski, editor. London: School of Oriental

and African Studies, University of London, 1: 5-20, 1990Journal of the Pali Text Society, vol. 15: 139-40 1990Journal of the Pali Text Society, vol. 15: 141-3 1990

Oxford Magazine, 9-10 1990(In: Religious pluralism and unbelief: Studies critical and comparative. I. Hamnett, editor) London and New York: 1990

(In: Studies in Buddhism and culture in honour of Professor Dr. Egaku Mayeda on his sixty-fifth birthday. The Editorial Committee of the Felicitation Volume for Professor Dr. Egaku Mayeda, editors) Tokyo: Sankibo

1991

The Times, London 12/6/19(In: Buddhist essays: A miscellany. G. Piyatissa Thera, L.

Perera and K. Goonesena, editors) London: Sri Saddhatissa International Buddhist Centre,

1992

Indo-Iranian Journal, vol. 35: 159-78 1992(In: The Journal of Oriental Research)

Madras: The Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute, 326- 1992

14 Richard Gombrich

(In: The Dating of the Historical Buddha/Die Datierung des historischen Buddha. Part 2. (Symposien zur

Buddhismusforschung, IV,2) Heinz Bechert, editor.) 1992

Journal of the Pali Text Society, vol. XVII: 213-14 1992(In: Apodosis: Essays presented to Dr. W.W. Cruickshank to mark his 80th birthday) St. Paul’s School, London; 34- 1992

68 Buddhist prediction: How open is the future?

Translation into Italian

Translation into Spanish

69

Buddhism in the modern world: Secularization or protestantization?

70 Understanding Early Buddhist Terminology in its Context71 What is Pali?

72 Asoka, the great Upāsaka

73 A Buddhologist’s Impression of Japanese Buddhism7 The Buddha and the Jains: A Reply to Professor 7 Teaching Buddhism in the Primary School (with Hyon 7 The Monk in the Pāli Vinaya: Priest or Wedding Guest?77 Thomas Burrow78 Conflict and Reconciliation in Buddhism79 Freedom and authority in Buddhism80 Il Buddhismo: etica senza anima81 The earliest brahmanical reference to Buddhism?8 Is dharma a good thing?


8 Obituary of the Venerable Dr Walpola Rahula84 Introduction

(In: Predicting the Future. Leo Howe, Alan Wain, editors) Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 144-68 1993

(In: Predire il futuro, translation Marina Astrologo) Edizioni Dedalo srl, Bari, 131-150. 1994

(In: Predecir el futuro, trsln Daniel Manzanares, Ángel Luis Sanz and Jesús Un turbe) Alianza Editorial S.A., 1994

(In: Secularization, rationalism and sectarianism. Essays in honour of Bryan R. Wilson. Eileen Barker, James A.

Beckford, Karel Dobbelaere, editors) Oxford; Clarendon 1993

Seoul Pali Daejangkang Urimal Olmgim Nonmon Moum II / “A Korean Translation of Pali Tripitaka Vol. II”, 74- 1993

(In: A Pali Grammar, W.Geiger, trsln. B.Ghosh, revised & edited by K.R.Norman) Pali Text Society, Oxford, 1994

(In: King Asoka and Buddhism. Historical and Literary Studies, edited by Anuradha Seneviratna)

Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy (Reprint from book 1994

(In: Japanese New Religions in the West, editors Peter Clarke and Jeffrey Somers) Folkestone: Japan 1994

Asiatische Studien XLVIII 4, 1069-1096 1994Resource vol 17:2 6-9 1995

Journal of the Pali Text Society, vol. XXI, 193-197 1995(In: The Dictionary of National Biography 1986–1990,

edited by C.S. Nicholls) Oxford: OUP, 54–5 1996(In: World Religions in Education 1996/1997) SHAP

Working Party on World Religions in Education. 1996(In: Freedom and Authority in Religions and Religious

Education, edited by Brian Gates) London; Cassell 1996(In: Vie alla Salvezza, Ciclo di conferenze, 1996. Collana

<Torino Incontra>) Torino: Centro Congressi, 94-114 1996(In: Relativism, Suffering and Beyond. Essays in

memory of Bimal K. Matilal, edited by P. Bilimoria and J. 1997Dialogue and Universalism no. 11-12, 147-163 1997

The Middle Way, vol. 73, no. 2, 115-119 1998(In: Sir William Jones 1746–1794, A Commemoration,

edited by Alexander Murray) Oxford: OUP, 3-15 1998

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85

Organized Bodhisattvas: A Blind Alley in Buddhist Historiography

86 Discovering the Buddha’s Date

87 Buddhist Studies in Britain

8 A visit to Brahmā the heron89

Wir sind stets die Erben unserer Taten: Karma und menschliche Selbstbestimmung im

90 Living community: the Buddhist order91 Another Buddhist criticism of Yājñavalkya

92

Buddhist Fundamentalism? Buddhist Violence? The War in Sri Lanka

93

“Obsession with origins”: attitudes to Buddhist studies in the old world and the new

94

Merit detached from volition: how a Buddhist doctrine came to wear a Jain aspect

9 India’s gift to the world: ahimsa96 Vedānta stood on its head: sakkaaya and sakkaaya-diṭṭhi

97 Religious experience in early Buddhism?

(In: Sūryacandrāya: Essays in Honour of Akira Yuyama, Paul Harrison and Gregory Schopen, editors) Swisttal- 1998

Śrī Laṅkāve yuddhayaṭa heṭuva bauddha muladharmavādayak da? Pracaṇḍdatvayak da?


Reprinted in Studies in Hindu and Buddhist Art, edited by P. K. Mishra. New Delhi, Abhinav Publications, 1999

(In: Buddhism for the New Millennium, edited by Lakshman S. Perera) London; World Buddhist 2000

(In: The State of Buddhist Studies in the World 1972-1997, edited by Donald K. Swearer and Somparn Promta) Bangkok: Center for Buddhist Studies,

2000

Journal of Indian Philosophy, v.29, April 2001, 95-108 2001Religionen Unterwegs, vol. 7, no. 2, May 2001, 4-9 2001

(In: World Religions in Education 2001/2002) London: SHAP Working Party on World Religions in Education, 2001

(In: Buddhist and Indian Studies in Honour of Professor Sodo Mori, Hammatsu) Kokusai Bukkyoto Kyokai, 21–23 2002(Paper presented at the conference on Fundamentalism

in South Asia, Heidelberg 2000 Published in Sinhala translation in ‘The Buddhist Community and the Civil

War in Sri Lanka’ edited by Mahinda Deegalle) 2003

(In: Approaching the Dhamma: Buddhist texts and practices in South and Southeast Asia, eds. Anne M. Blackburn & Jeffrey Samuels) Seattle: BPS Pariyatti

2003

(In: Jainism and Early Buddhism: essays in honor of Padmanabh S. Jaini, edited by Olle Qvarnström) 2003

Jain Spirit, no. 18, March–May 2004, 26–27 2004(In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Indian Studies, edited by Renata Czekalska & Halina

Marlewicz, — Cracow Indolological series; IV–V227–38) 2003

(Reprint of book 13 above. In: Religion: Empirical Studies, edited by Steven J. Sutcliffe, 123–47) Aldershot: 2004

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4 W. Geiger, Culture of Ceylon in mediaeval times4 T. Vetter, The ideas and meditative practices of early 47

H. Nakatani, Udānavarga de Subasi: Critical edition of the Sanskrit manuscript written on poplar wood slats in the Pelliot Collection in the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris

4 R. Lingat, Royautés bouddhiques: Asoka et la fonction 4 P. Khoroche,: Once the Buddha was a monkey: Arya 50

K. Wille, Die Handschriftliche Überlieferung des Vinayavastu der Mūlasarvāstivādin

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5 L. Grey, A Concordance of Buddhist Birth Stories52

Caillat, C., editor, Middle Indo-Aryan and Jaina Studies; and de Casparis, J.G. editor, Sanskrit outside India (Panels

of the VIIth World Sanskrit Conference, Kern Institute, 53

Strong, John S. The Legend and Cult of Upagupta: Sanskrit Buddhism in North India and Southeast Asia,

54

Gaston, Anne-Marie, Siva in Dance, Myth and Iconography,

55

Bechert, Heinz, The Dating of the Historical Buddha. / Die Datierung des historischen Buddha Teil 1 (Symposium zur Buddhismusforschung IV, 1, Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, Philologisch-historische

Printed in incomplete form in World Fellowship of Buddhists Review, 22: 33-4

1985

Religion, 16: 387-9 198The Jain, Year 9 Issue 1: 13-14, January 1986 198

Mundus, 22/4: 265-6 1986

Indian Economic and Social History Review, 23/1: 121-4 1986

Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 109: 661-4 1989

World Religions in Education 1989: Book Reviews, 7-8 `


Orientalische Literaturzeitung, 85: 83 199Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1990 No. 2: 405-7 199


Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, July 1991 Vol. 1 Pt. 2: 199Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, April 1992 Vol. 2 Pt. 1: 199

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, April 1993 Vol. 3 Pt. 1: 142-143

1993

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, April 1993 Vol. 3 Pt. 1: 199Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, July 1993

Vol. 3 Pt. 2: 288-2901993


South Asian Studies, Vol.9: 174-6 1993

Oriental Art, Autumn 1993: 94 1993

Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Göttingen 1991, Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen, 246. Jahrgang, Heft 1/2, 86-96,

Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht1994

56 Norman, K.R., Collected Papers, vols I & II57

Bartholomeusz, Tessa J., Women under the Bo tree. Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka

58

Ananda W.P. Gurugé, Aśoka, the righteous: a definitive biography

59

Trainor, Kevin, Relics, ritual, and representation in Buddhism: rematerializing the Sri Lankan Theravada

tradition, 60

Schmithausen, Lambert, Maitrī and magic: aspects of the Buddhist attitude toward the dangerous in

nature, 61

Gothóni, René, Attitutdes and interpretations in comparative religion., (Helsinki: Suomalainen

62

Graham, Gordon, Universities: the recovery of an idea,

63

Omvedt, Gail, Buddhism in India: challenging brahmanism and caste, (London: Sage, 2003)

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1994

Anthropos, 91, 1/3: 241-4 1996

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, April 1996 Vol 6 Pt 1: 117-9

1996


1999

Indo-Iranian Journal, Autumn 2000 Vol. 43 No. 3: 301-2 2000

Anthropos, 97, 2002/1, 254-256 2002

The Philosophical Quarterly, v.53 (213), Oct 2003, 630–32 2003

Middle Way, v.79 (1), May-Jul 2004, 51–5 2004


A CONTINUING IMPACT

SOME RECENT STUDENTS’ THESESRichard Gombrich has supervised many doctoral theses; so many that it is difficult to keep a complete count. The total is around 50. Here are some recent examples.

D.PHIL. THESES

1996 Joel Tatelman Bhadrakalpāvadāna 2-5: introduction, edition and translation.

1997 Andrew Skilton

The Samādhirāja Sūtra: a study incorporating a critical edition

and translation of chapter 17

1998 Paola TintiBetween two civilisations: history and

self-representation of Bangladeshi Buddhism

1998 Y-G AnBuddhology in the Mahāparinibbāna-

Suttanta and its commentary, with an annotated translation of

Buddhaghosa’s commentary

1998S-Y Chen (Ven. Juo-

hsüeh Shih)Problems in the Pali Bhikkhunī-Vinaya:

a thematic study in comparative perspective

1999 Torkel BrekkeThe politics of religious identity in South Asia in the late nineteenth

century

2000Wan-doo Kim (Ven. Hyon-

kwang Sunim)The Theravādin doctrine of

momentariness: a survey of its origins and development

2000 Kate CrosbyStudies in the medieval Pali literature of Sri Lanka with special reference to

the esoteric Yogācāra tradition

2001Ho-yu Tseng (Ven. Vinita

Tseng)The Nidānavagga of the

Sāratthappakāsinī

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2001 Peter Roberts The biographies of Ras-Chung-pa: the evolution of a Tibetan hagiography

2002 William Douglas Newar Buddhism 1250-1600

2002 Karma Phuntsho The Madhyamaka of Mipham

2203 Isabelle Onians Tantric Buddhist apologetics

2003Pathompong

Bodhi-prasiddhinand

Word Order in Pali

2003 Noa Gal Metaphysical development in the early Pali Buddhist tradition.

2004 Alex Wynne Meditation as the path to salvation in early Buddhism

2004 Justin Meiland Buddhist values in the Pali Jātakas

2004 Soon-il Hwang The metaphorical structure of nirvana and its evolution in early Buddhism

2004 Tse-fu KuanSatipaṭṭhāna

in the Pali and Chinese canonical traditions

2005 Linda Covill A literary study of the Saundarananda of Aśvaghoṣa

2005Cheonghwan

Park (Ven. Jungduk Sunim)

A translation and study of selected avadānas of the Mūlasarvāstivādin

Vinaya

2005 Ven. Khammai Dhammasami

Historical development of monastic education in Burma and Thailand

M. LITT THESIS

1999 Sumana Ratnayaka

A critical edition, annotated translation

and discussion of the Saṅgītisuttavaṇṇanā in

the Sumaṅgalavilāsinī, (PTS pp.971-1033)


FORMER STUDENTS’ POSITIONS Richard Gombrich’s former students are present across the academic world. That will be apparent even from the list of doctoral supervisees above. Apart from those more recent graduates, his ex-students hold positions (mostly professorships) at the following institutions:

In the UK: Oriental Studies Faculty, Oxford

University Institute of Social Anthropology,

Oxford University Dept of Religion and Theology.

King’s College, London University Goldsmiths College, London

University University of Bristol University of Cambridge University of Durham University of Lancaster University of Wales at Cardiff De Montfort University, Leicester The British Library, London

Elsewhere Institut français de Pondichéry, India Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi,

India Tribhuvan Unversity, Nepal Peradeniya University, Sri Lanka University of Oslo, Norway Institute of Oriental Studies (ISMEO),

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University of Chicago, U.S.A. University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A. University of Hawaii, U.S.A. Dongguk University, Korea

THE THAI CONNECTIONRichard Gombrich is well known figure among academics across the world. That includes Thailand. Dr Peter Skilling, Special Lecturer at Chulalongkorn University, is a personal friend. So is the Professor of Sanskrit at Chulalongkorn, Dr Prapod Assavavirulhakan.The Venerable P. A. Payutto, universally acknowledged as Thailand’s foremost Buddhist scholar, makes extensive use of Gombrich’s work in his refutation of the Dhammakaya position. The Venerable Payutto points out that early western Buddhist scholars created many confusions, which have tended to become ingrained; Gombrich he sees as the great corrective for such fallacies. Here is a man who exhibits in equal measure the best of modern western scholarship and immense familiarity with — and respect for — the Pali tradition. Gombrich’s scholarship also links in to the Thai scholarly tradition indirectly, through his students. Leading contemporary Korean scholars, who are translating the Pali Nikayas into Korean, studied with him.


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Richard Gombrich - Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies€¦ · Web viewRichard Gombrich was born in London. His mother was an accomplished musician, his father, Sir Ernst Gombrich,