[INDOLOGY] Johannes Bronkhorst: Legacy /// Re: Interview with Johannes Bronkhorst

Tue Jun 17 08:10:27 UTC 2025

Dear friends and colleagues,

In view of the remarks and contributions on this list regarding the recent
passing away of Johannes Bronkhorst, the question of his legacy in
Indology, in Indian Studies, in Indian Philosophy, in Buddhist Studies and
in Religious Studies poses itself.
Like Jim Fitzgerald, I think back of our contributions to the Felicitation
volume *Devadattiyam* (edited by François Voegeli, Vincent Eltschinger,
Danielle Feller, Maria Piera Candotti, Bogdan Diaconescu & Malhar Kulkarni)
that appeared in 2012, and I uploaded mine on academia.edu
https://www.academia.edu/129999890/Houben_2012_Johannes_Bronkhorst_and_Indian_Studies
As for the book *Absorption: Human Nature & Buddhist Liberation*, which
appeared in 2010, it is also available online -- and apparently with his
approval, since I found the link on his online archive of publications:

https://ia802907.us.archive.org/35/items/absorptionhumannaturebuddhistliberationjohannesbronkhorst_919_b/Absorption%20Human%20Nature%20%26%20Buddhist%20Liberation%20Johannes%20Bronkhorst.pdf

As for Johannes Bronkhorst's legacy more specifically in Indology and
Indian philosophy, he himself wrote recently (11 April) to the List the
message attached below. After which I sent a message to the librarian of
the Centre d’études indiennes et centrasiatiques (successor of the Institut
de Civilisation Indienne, founded on 18 June 1927 by Emile Sénart, Alfred
Foucher and Sylvain Lévi), with the request to make sure that the following
recently announced publications will be acquired for the library:

Johannes Bronkhorst, *The Origins of Indian Philosophy*, Delhi: Motilal
Banarsidass, 2025;  as well as his* Studies in the Sarvadarśanasamgraha*
(2024) and *Compendium of All Philosophies: The Sarvadarśanasamgraha
Translated* (2025).

With best wishes,

Jan Houben

***

[Indology List, 11 April 2025]

Dear colleagues,

The following book of mine has just come out:
*The Origins of Indian Philosophy*. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas Publishing
House. 2025.
*https://www.mlbd.in/collections/new-releases/products/the-origins-of-indian-philosophy-by-johannes-bronkhorst-9789368538431-9368538433-9789368537625-9368537623?srsltid=AfmBOor50wbY2LzwK9UxD6MS9OcEFlWx9vl4dno4FcG9E1n04JCdmCss
<https://www.mlbd.in/collections/new-releases/products/the-origins-of-indian-philosophy-by-johannes-bronkhorst-9789368538431-9368538433-9789368537625-9368537623?srsltid=AfmBOor50wbY2LzwK9UxD6MS9OcEFlWx9vl4dno4FcG9E1n04JCdmCss>*

Best wishes,

Johannes Bronkhorst

On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 at 12:24, Eltschinger, Vincent via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear friends and colleagues,
>
> This is to inform those among you who may be interested in Johannes
> Bronkhorst’s last interview that it is now accessible on the website of the
> Groupe de recherches en études indiennes, Paris, at the following address:
> https://grei.fr/entretien-johannes-bronkhorst/
> <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgrei.fr%2Fentretien-johannes-bronkhorst%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cvincent.eltschinger%40ephe.psl.eu%7C5ad5bedbc2a84c89721708ddacbe31eb%7C970d5a38c64847a9b3059feb33e86cce%7C0%7C0%7C638856655068179914%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=sVCKtAowJeF%2B44%2BFQ7IR%2FJyokZhx76mRymxEDMDC0IY%3D&reserved=0>
>
> Here is the short text accompanying it :
>
> This interview took place on April 21, 2025, at Johannes Bronkhorst and
> Joy Manné’s last home, 26 avenue de Lavaux, 1009 Pully, Switzerland.
> Johannes had informed me a few days earlier (April 16) of their forthcoming
> “departure” (as they said). To him who had been – and remained – my teacher
> before becoming a friend, I immediately asked for a filmed interview
> modelled on the one I had conducted with his former colleague Jacques May
> some seven years earlier. Joy urged Johannes to agree – thanks to her for
> this, and also, perhaps above all, for illuminating with her warm presence
> the last evenings the three of us spent together. The interview, almost
> completely improvised, was conducted with a rudimentary camera, in fixed
> shot, in French for the first question, in English for the rest. As I watch
> it, I realize how poor the questions I’ve asked are, but the only thing
> that counts here is Johannes and this last semi-public look at his life and
> work. Allow me to express my warmest thanks for the trust he has placed in
> me by agreeing to answer my questions at such a singular, almost
> “intermediary” (*antarābhava*) moment of his life.
>
> Paris, 16 June, 2025
>
>
>
> With best regards,
> Vincent
>
>
> Vincent Eltschinger, korrespondierendes Mitglied der OeAW
> Directeur d'études
> École Pratique des Hautes Études, Section des sciences religieuses
> Patios Saint-Jacques, 4-14 rue Ferrus - 75014 Paris
> vincent.eltschinger at ephe.sorbonne.fr
> 0033 1 56 61 17 34 / 0033 7 85 86 84 05
>
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-- 

*Jan E.M. Houben*

Directeur d'Études, Professor of South Asian History and Philology

*Sources et histoire de la tradition sanskrite*

École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, Paris Sciences et Lettres)

*Sciences historiques et philologiques *

Groupe de recherches en études indiennes (EA 2120)

*johannes.houben [at] ephe.psl.eu <johannes.houben at ephe.psl.eu>*

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