Bhikkhu Pāsādika

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Master Pâsâdika in his office at the French Buddhist Academy.

Bhikkhu Pāsādika (born August 17, 1939 in Arolsen as Eckhard Bangert ) is a German Indologist and Buddhist monk. Its Dharma or religious name Pāsādika is a Pāli word meaning “friendly”.

He was ordained in 1960 according to the Theravāda tradition (old school) in Thailand. Since 1978 he has been a member of the Linh-Son Buddhist Research Institute in Joinville-le-Pont (Paris).

In October 2016 he became President of the Linh Son Buddhist Academy, 92-94, Pasteur Street, 94400 Vitry-sur-Seine, France. He has lived permanently at this academy since October 2019.

biography

Bhikkhu Pāsādika (center) with Lobsang Tengye Geshe (right), Mr. Dankmar Bangert (left)

Bh. Pāsādika speaks German, English, French and Thai; he also studied Sanskrit, Pāli, Hindi, Buddhist Chinese, Tibetan and Japanese. He obtained his master's degree in Pāli from Magadh University in Bodhgaya . In 1974 he received his PhD in Buddhist Studies from the Punjabi University in Patiala . There he then taught Pāli and German as a lecturer until 1977. From 1978 to 1982 he was editor of the quarterly Linh-Son - publication d'études bouddhologiques in Joinville-le-Pont . At the same time he worked from 1980 to 1993 as a research assistant at the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . In 1994 he became a lecturer and the following year honorary professor at the University of Marburg . He was also a lecturer at the University of Würzburg (1996 to 2000), visiting professor at the University of Bochum (2002/2003) and lecturer in Sanskrit at the University of Würzburg (2003). He retired in 2007.

Publications

  • Siamese illustrations of the Buddha's teachings: Explanations of a traditional Buddhist manuscript from Siam by Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu , Social Science Association Press, Bangkok, 1969; Horst Erdmann Verlag, Tübingen, 1969

Excerpts from the Śūrańgama-Samādhi-Sūtra - in collaboration with Thubten Kalsang Rinpoche, World Fellowship of Buddhists, Bangkok, 1971, Bihar Research Society, Patna (2nd ed.), 1972, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala (3rd ed. ), 1975

  • Canonical quotations in the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya of Vasubandhu , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1989
  • Nāgārjuna's Sūtrasamuccaya: a critical edition of the mDo kun las btus pa , Akademisk Forlag, Copenhagen, 1989
  • Dharmadūta: mélanges offerts au vénérable Thich Huyên-Vi à l'occasion de son soixante-dixième anniversaire ed. In collaboration with Bhikkhu T. Dhammaratana, Éditions You-Feng, Paris, 1997

The Kāśyapaparivarta , Devanāgarī Edition and English Translation, Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi, 2015 (for biographical details and list of publications see back cover of this publication - www.bibliaimpex.com)

A full list of his publications can be found in:

  • Pāsādikadānaṁ: Festschrift for Bhikkhu Pasadika edited. by M. Straube et al. , Indica et Tibetica 52, Marburg, 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eckhard Bangert. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. De Gruyter. Retrieved on Feb. 7, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Pāsādika, Bhikkhu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bangert, Eckhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Indologist and Buddhist master
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Arolsen