Tirupattur Ramaseshayyer Venkatachala Murti (June 15, 1902 – March 1986) was an Indian academic, philosopher, writer and translator.
He wrote several books on
Oriental philosophy
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, particularly
Indian philosophy
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and his works included commentaries and translations of Indian and Buddhist texts. He was an elected honorary member of the ''International Association of Buddhist Studies'' (IABS),
a society promoting scholarship in
Buddhist studies
Buddhist studies, also known as Buddhology, is the academic study of Buddhism. The term ''Buddhology'' was coined in the early 20th century by the Unitarianism, Unitarian minister Joseph Estlin Carpenter to mean the "study of Buddhahood, the natur ...
.
''Studies in Indian Thought: Collected Papers,''
''Central Philosophy of Buddhism''
and ''A Study of the
Madhyamika
Mādhyamaka ("middle way" or "centrism"; ; Tibetan: དབུ་མ་པ ; ''dbu ma pa''), otherwise known as Śūnyavāda ("the emptiness doctrine") and Niḥsvabhāvavāda ("the no ''svabhāva'' doctrine"), refers to a tradition of Buddhist ...
System''
are some of his notable works. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the
Padma Bhushan
The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "distinguished service ...
, in 1959, for his contributions to education and literature.
Murti dedicates his 1955 work, THE CENTRAL PHILOSOPHY OF BUDDHISM, as follows: "To my revered teacher Professor
S. Radhakrishnan".
Selected bibliography
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See also
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Poola Tirupati Raju
Poolla Tirupati Raju (3 September 1904 – 8 December 1992) was an Indian writer, philosopher, academic and a former professor of Jaswant College, Jodhpur (present day Jai Narain Vyas University. He was the author of several books, both in En ...
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M. Hiriyanna
Mysore Hiriyanna (1871–1950) was an eminent Indian philosopher, Sanskrit scholar and authority on Indian aesthetics. He was a Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Mysore and a contemporary of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. His classes on Indi ...
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Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education
1902 births
1986 deaths
20th-century Indian philosophers
Indian male writers
20th-century Indian translators
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