Do you know - Purushottam Vishvanath Bapat I IAAN Diary
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 Mahapar...