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, where he also took up the study of Chinese and Tibetan. In 1893, he attained a professorship at the
University of Ghent
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teaching comparative grammar of Greek and Latin, a position which he held until his retirement in 1929.
Louis de La Vallée-Poussin died on February 18th, 1938 in
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,
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at the age of 69.
Musila et Nārada
In 1937 La Vallée-Poussin published ''Musila et Nārada'', an influential study on two ways of attaining nirvana, exemplified by the monks Musila and Nārada.
Major works
* ''Nirvana''
* ''La Morale bouddhique''
* ''Documents d'Abhidharma : La controverse du temps, des dieux, les quatre, les trois vérités''
* ''L’Abhidharmakośa de Vasubandhu.'' 6 vols. Paris: 1923–31.
* ''Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi: La Siddhi de Hiuan-Tsang'', (1928–1929)
* ''L'Inde aux temps des mauryas et des Barbares, Grecs, Scythes, Parthes et Yue-Tchi''
* ''Dynasties et histoire de l'Inde depuis Kanişka jusqu'aux invasions musulmanes (1935)''
* ''Bouddhisme. Opinions sur l'histoire de la dogmatique''
* ''Indo-européens et indo-iraniens. L'Inde jusque vers 300 avant J.-C'', (1924)
See also
La Vallée-Poussin
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References
Sources
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Further reading
''Musila et Nārada''
* La Vallee Possin (1937), ''Musila et Narada''; reprinted in Gombrich (2006), ''How Buddhism Began'', appendix
* Erich Frauwallner (1953), ''Geschichte der indischen Philosophie'', Band ''Der Buddha und der Jina'' (pp. 147–272)
* Andre Bareau (1963), ''Recherches sur la biographie du Buddha dans les Sutrapitaka et les Vinayapitaka anciens'', Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient
* Donald K. Swearer (1972), ''Two Types of Saving Knowledge in the Pāli Suttas'', Philosophy East and West, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Oct., 1972), pp. 355–371
* Schmithausen, ''On some Aspects of Descriptions or Theories of 'Liberating Insight' and 'Enlightenment' in Early Buddhism''. In: Studien zum Jainismus und Buddhismus (Gedenkschrift für Ludwig Alsdorf), hrsg. von Klaus Bruhn und Albrecht Wezler, Wiesbaden 1981, 199–250.
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* K.R. Norman
Four Noble Truths''* , chapter 8
* Tilman Vetter
''The Ideas and Meditative Practices of Early Buddhism, by Tilmann Vetter''* , chapter four
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* Alexander Wynne (2007), ''The Origin of Buddhist Meditation'', Routledge
External links
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The way to Nirvana : six lectures on ancient Buddhism as a discipline of salvationon
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Nécrologie : Louis de La Vallée-Poussin. ''Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient'', année 1938, volume 38, pp. 479–483
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Belgian Indologists
1869 births
1938 deaths
Pali
University of Liège alumni
Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968) alumni
Buddhist studies scholars
Translators from Sanskrit
University of Liège faculty
Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925)
Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences