Purushottam Vishvanath Bapat

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Purushottam Vishvanath Bapat ( Marathi पुरुषोत्तम विश्वनाथ बापट Puruṣottam Viśvanāth Bāpaṭ ; born June 12, 1894 in the Sangli district in the Presidency of Bombay ; † November 4, 1991 ) was a famous Indian Buddhologist and Pali researcher.

Life

He graduated from the University of Mumbai with a Magister Artium (1919). He was also awarded a Ph. D. from Harvard University , where he was involved in the translation of the Visuddhimagga into English, which has not yet been published (as of 1992). Purushottam Vishvanath Bapat taught Pali at Fergusson College in Pune from 1932 ; from 1945 to 1948 he took part in a project related to Chinese Buddhism at the Visva-Bharati University in Shantiniketan .

From 1957 to 1960 he was the first to hold the chair for Buddhist studies at the University of Delhi, which was newly established on the occasion of the 2500th anniversary of Buddha's Mahaparinibbana . He has researched all texts in Sanskrit, Pali and Chinese.

Bapat has been a member of the Deccan Education Society since 1920.

Bapat has written a total of 163 books, articles and reports.

Works

  • The Austerities of Gautama Buddha before his enlightenment, 1923
  • The Relation between Pāli and Ardhamāgadhī, 1928
  • Vimuttimagga and Visuddhimagga, 1937
  • 2500 Years of Buddhism, 1956 ( available on Archive.org )
  • The Way of the Buddha, 1957
  • Chinese Madhyamāgama and the language of its basic text, 1969

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Amalā prajñā: aspects of Buddhist studies (Professor PV Bapat Felicitation Volume), foreword
personal data
SURNAME Bapat, Purushottam Vishvanath
ALTERNATIVE NAMES बापट, पुरुषोत्तम विश्वनाथ (Marathi)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian Buddhologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Sangli District , Bombay Presidency
DATE OF DEATH November 4th 1991