I watched Johannes's interview and was overwhelmed while watching it. Impressive as his many contributions are, I remember his friendly face and the many conversations we had over the years. Johannes arrived in Pune University in 1970, while I left Pune in 1968 for Philadelphia. However, he and I had many of the same teachers in Pune, and I always felt that he and I were some sort of classmates, or Gurubandhus as we say in Marathi. His departure reminds me the final words of the Buddha: kataṃ karṇīyaṃ/ nāparaṃ itthattāyā. 🙏🙏🙏

Madhav

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]


On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 1:11 AM Jan E.M. Houben via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
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


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[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.
 
Best wishes,
 
Johannes Bronkhorst



On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 at 12:24, Eltschinger, Vincent via INDOLOGY <indology@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/

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@ephe.sorbonne.fr
0033 1 56 61 17 34 / 0033 7 85 86 84 05

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