SV: Dhammananda Kosambi

Dear Dhammanando bhikkhu,

Thank you very much for this interesting information. Kosambi´s edition of
the Visuddhimagga was published in Harvard Oriental Series Volume 41 in
1950, a few years before he died. His own preface to the edition is dated
1927 and the title page claims that it is a revision of Warrens critical
edition. My question is, have you got any information about Kosambi´s work
on the revision, and why it was published as late as 1950, many years after
it apparently was completed?

With kind regards,
Ole Holten Pind

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Emne: [palistudy] Re: Dhammananda Kosambi

Bhante,

On 20 Sep 2007, at 18:59, nyanatusita bhikkhu wrote:

>  There is something about him on the following Thai page but I can't
> read it:


This is a quick translation. Please excuse the inelegance of the
English:

Ven.Dhammaananda Kosambi

Ven.Dhammaananda Kosambi was an important Pali scholar during the period of
revival of Buddhism. He was born in Goa, Maharashtra, on 6th October 1876,
the youngest in a family of five children. As a child he was impressed with
the stories of the Buddha in a children's book and so when he grew up he
went to study Sanskrit and Buddhism at Poona and Varanasi. Later he
travelled to Nepal to study Buddhism but he felt disappointed due to Nepal
not being a Buddhist land, and so returned to Bodh Gaya. Several monks
advised him to go to study in Sri Lanka, a land where Buddhism still
flourished, and so in 1906 he travelled to Sri Lanka to study Buddhism and
there he received upasampadaa with Ven.
Sumangala Mahaathera as preceptor. Later he returned to India, got bored,
and gave up the bhikkhu training.

Later still, he got married in his home village and had a son named D.D.
Kosambi. After that he received upasampadaa again in 1910. He travelled
about, furthering his studies, until completing his doctorate at Harvard
University in America. Upon returning from America to India he founded a
Buddhist vihaara in Bombay in 1937. The vihaara was called Bahujana
Buddhavihaara. He then went on to write many books, including _Bhagvaan
Buddhaa_, the book responsible for arousing Dr. Ambedkar's interest in
Buddhism and his eventual conversion. At the end of his life he entrusted
Bahujana Buddhavihaara to the Mahaa Bodhi Society of India and went to stay
at Sarnath, where he passed away on 14th June 1947.

Best wishes,
Dhammanando



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