The Spalding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics is the holder of an

endowed chair A financial endowment is a legal structure for managing, and in many cases indefinitely perpetuating, a pool of financial, real estate, or other investments for a specific purpose according to the will of its founders and donors. Endowments are of ...

at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. The Spalding Chair of Eastern Religions and Ethics was established on a trial basis in 1936 with a grant from the

Spalding Trust The Spalding Trust is a charitable organisation based in Stowmarket, England. Its mandate is to promote intercultural understanding by encouraging the study of comparative religion. Mr. and Mrs. H.N. Spalding established the Trust by means of two ...

. In 1937, the chair was renewed for a period of 15 years, and in 1949 the trust gave the university a permanent endowment to fund the chair.

List of Spalding Professors

Holders of the Spalding Chair to date have been: * 1936 to 1952:

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (; 5 September 1888 – 17 April 1975), natively Radhakrishnayya, was an Indian philosopher and statesman. He served as the 2nd President of India from 1962 to 1967. He also 1st Vice President of India from 1952 ...

* 1952 to 1974: R. C. Zaehner * 1976 to 1991:

Bimal Krishna Matilal Bimal Krishna Matilal (1 June 1935 – 8 June 1991) was an eminent British-Indian philosopher whose writings presented the Indian philosophical tradition as a comprehensive system of logic incorporating most issues addressed by themes in Weste ...

* 1992 to 2015:

Alexis Sanderson Alexis G. J. S. Sanderson (born 1948) is an indologist and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford. Early life After taking undergraduate degrees in Classics and Sanskrit at Balliol College from 1968 to 1971, Alexis Sande ...

* 2016 to present:

Diwakar Nath Acharya Diwakar Nath Acharya (born 6 November 1969) is a Nepali scholar specialising in the religious and philosophical traditions of South Asia. Since April 2016, he has been the Spalding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics at the University of Oxfor ...

References

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