[INDOLOGY] Prof. Charles Willemen is no more

[Shrikant Bahulkar]

Many thanks for this valuable addition.

On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 at 21:01, Christophe Vielle <
christophe.vielle at uclouvain.be> 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 <
> indology at list.indology.info> 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.
>
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