Many thanks for this valuable addition. On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 at 21:01, Christophe Vielle < [email protected]> wrote:
> It may be added that Charles Willemen was born on the 17th of October > 1941, obtained his Ph.D. in 1975 at the University of Ghent, where he > taught classical Chinese and Buddhism for several years (Bart Dessein and > Ann Heirman were his students) and retired in 2007. His main books: > > • 1974. Dharmapada: a concordance to Udanavarga, Dhammapada, and the > Chinese Dharmapada literature. Publications de l'Institut belge des hautes > études bouddhiques. Série études et textes 3. Bruxelles: Institut belge des > hautes études bouddhiques. > > • 1975. Udanavarga: Chinese-Sanskrit Glossary. Tokyo: Hokuseido, X, 101 > p. > > • 1975. Abhidharmhrdaya: The Essence of metaphysics. Bruxelles, > translated and annotated by Charles Willemen, 366 pages, 26 pages (Chinese > Text), Chinese-Sanskrit glossary, English-Sanskrit glossary. Publications > de l'Institut Belge des Hautes Etudes Bouddhiques, Serie études et textes > 4.Bruxelles: > Institut belge des hautes études bouddhiques. > > • 1978. Transl. and Annot. The Chinese Udanavarga: A Collection of > Important Odes of the Law (Fa chi yao sung ching). Mélanges chinois et > bouddhiques 19. Bruxelles: Institut belge des hautes études chinoises, 19. > > • 1983. The Chinese Hevajratantra: the scriptural text of the ritual of > the Great King of the teaching, the Adamantine one with great compassion > and knowledge of the void. Orientalia Gandensia 8. Leuven: Peeters, 208 p. > > • 1994. Transl. The storehouse of sundry valuables. > Tsa-pao-tsang-ching. Compiled by T'an-yao. Transl. into Chinese by Kikkaya > and Liu Hsiao-piao. BDK English Tripitaka 10/1. Berkeley (Calif.): Numata > center for Buddhist tranlation and research, XIX, 275 p. > > • 1998. With Bart Dessein & Collet Cox. Sarvāstivāda Buddhist > Scholasticism. Handbuch der Orientalistik. 2. Abt.: Indien 11. Leiden: > Brill, XVII, 341 p. > > Le 5 juin 2024 à 17:07, Shrikant Bahulkar via INDOLOGY < > [email protected]> a écrit : > > I am very sad to inform you that Prof. Dr Charles Willemen, an eminent > Buddhologist, passed away two days ago. He was 82. Prof Lalji Shravak, BHU, > Varanasi, received an email informing him of this. > Prof. Willemen made an outstanding contribution to Buddhist Studies. He > started his career in Buddhist Studies with an M.A. in East-Asian Studies > (Chinese, Japanese, Sanskrit) in 1968-69. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in > 1971 in East-Asian Studies on The Chinese Udānavarga. He was privileged to > work with eminent Buddhist scholars, such as Prof. H. Nakamura, Tokyo. > He used to visit the K. J. Somaiya Centre for Buddhist Studies, Somaiya > Vidyavihar University, Mumbai and deliver lectures on Buddhism. I was > fortunate to attend his lectures some years ago at the Department of Pali > and Buddhist Studies, Savitribai Phule University, Pune. I was amazed to > see the depth of his knowledge and independent thinking. > I requested that he contribute his article to the Annals of the Bhandarkar > Oriental Research Institute (ABORI), Pune when I was the chief editor of > that journal. He kindly submitted his article on “Xuangzang about > Avalokiteśvara, Jibin, and Madhyāntika.” It was an important contribution. > (ABORI, Vol. XCIV, (2013) 2017, p. 111–123). > Some time ago, I tried to get information about him. I was informed that > he lived in Belgium and had not travelled since the pandemic. I got no more > information. I emailed him on June 23, 2022, but I did not get a reply. > The news of his sudden demise has saddened all of us. We have lost a great > scholar and a very kind person. I cannot forget our informal chats and his > witty comments. > May his soul rest in peace. > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > > > ––––––––––––––––––– > Christophe Vielle <https://uclouvain.be/en/directories/christophe.vielle> > Louvain-la-Neuve > > > > > > > >
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