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12 June every year is the birth anniverary of Internationally famed Pali language expert, translator and editor Purushottam Vishvanath Bapat.
Purushottam Vishvanath Bapat was a famous Indian Buddhologe and Pali- explorer, born on 12. June 1894 in the district of Sangli in the presidency of Bombay (Now Maharashtra) .
He studied at the University of Mumbai with the degree Magister Artium. He was also awarded the Ph.D. degree from Harvard University, where he contributed to the translation of the Visuddhimagga into English, which has not yet been published. Bapat taught Pali at Fergusson College in Pune & From 1945 to 1948 he took part in a project on the Chinese Buddhism of Visva at Bharati University in Shantiniketan.
From 1957 to 1960, he was the first professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Delhi , newly founded on the occasion of the 2500th anniversary of Buddha's Mahaparinibbana . He has researched all the texts in Sanskrit, Pali and Chinese.
He has written 163 books, thousand plus articles and reports.His Work includes masterpieces like: 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), The Way of the Buddha (1957), Chinese Madhyamāgama and the language of its basic text (1969) & Many others like this.

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