Richard Gombrich

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Richard Francis Gombrich (b. 1937) is a British Indologist and scholar of Sanskrit, Pāli, and Buddhist Studies. He acted as the Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University from 1976 to 2004. He is currently Academic Director of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies.

Contents 1 Birth and early education 2 Awards 3 Publications 4 Academic appointments 5 References

[edit] Birth and early education

Gombrich was born on 17 July 1937, the only child of concert pianist Ilse Gombrich and and the renowned Viennese art Historian, Sir Ernst Gombrich.

[edit] Awards

The Asiatic Society of Calcutta awarded Gombrich the SC Chakraborty medal in 1993. The following year, he received the Sri Lanka Ranjana decoration from the President of Sri Lanka.

[edit] Publications

• Precept and Practice (1971)
• The Perfect Generosity of Prince Vessantara (1977)
• On Being Sanskritic (1978)
• Buddhist Studies in Honour of Walpola Rahula (ed. inter alios, 1980)
• The World of Buddhism (co-editor with Heinz Bechert, 1984)
• Buddhist Studies in Honour of Hammalava Saddhatissa (ed. inter alios, 1984)
• Theravada Buddhism (1988)
• Buddhism Transformed (1988)
• Indian Ritual and its Exegesis (ed., 1988)
• Buddhist Precept and Practice (1991)
• How Buddhism Began (1996)

[edit] Academic appointments

• Lecturer, Oxford University (1965-76)
• Boden Professor of Sanskrit, Oxford University (1976-2004)
• Visiting Professor, Bristol University (1981-82)
• Visiting Professor, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (1982)
• Visiting Fellow, Princeton University (1986-87)
• F.D. Maurice Lecturer, King’s College (1994)
• Jordan Lecturer, SOAS (1994)
• Gonda Lecturer, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997)
• Edmund Perry lecturer, Northwestern University (1998)

[edit] References

• Profile of Richard Gombrich, SOAS website