This is sad news. Charles (with his cowboy hat) and his bright (in both senses) wife were always a pleasure to spend time with. Condolences to his family. He will be missed.
Dan > On Jun 5, 2024, at 12:03 PM, Shrikant Bahulkar via INDOLOGY > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Many thanks for this valuable addition. > > On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 at 21:01, Christophe Vielle > <[email protected] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >> >> ––––––––––––––––––– >> Christophe Vielle <https://uclouvain.be/en/directories/christophe.vielle> >> Louvain-la-Neuve >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
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