Émile Charles Marie Senart (26 March 1847 – 21 February 1928) was a French

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.Buswell, Robert Jr; Lopez, Donald S. Jr., eds. (2013). "Senard, Emile", in: Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691157863. Besides numerous

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works, we owe him several translations in French of

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and

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texts, including several Upaniṣad. He was

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's professor at the

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. He was elected a member of the

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in 1882, president of the Société asiatique from 1908 to 1928 and founder of the "Association française des amis de l'Orient" in 1920.

Selected works

*1875: ''Essai sur la légende du Bouddha'' - Paris. * ''Les Inscriptions de Piyadasi'' - Paris *1881: Les Inscriptions de Piyadasi / 1 / Les quatorze édits. *1886: Les Inscriptions de Piyadasi / 2 / L.édits détachés. L'auteur et la langue des édits. *1882–1897: ''Le Mahāvastu'': Sanskrit text. Published for the first time and accompanied by introductions and commentary by E. Sénart. - Paris : Imprimerie Nationale, 1882–1897, Volume 1/ 1882, Volume 2/ 1890, Volume 3/ 1897 *1889
''Gustave Garrez''
*1896
''Les Castes dans l'Inde, les faits et le système''
- Paris (Caste in India. Translated by E. Denison Ross. London 1930) *1901: ''Text of Inscriptions discovered at the Niya Site'', 1901 / Transcr. and edited by A. M. Boyer, E. J. Rapson and E. Senart. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1920 (Kharosthi Inscriptions discovered by Sir Aurel Stein in Chinese Turkestan ; 1) *1907
''Origines Bouddhiques''
*1927: ''Text of Inscriptions discovered at the Niya, Endere, and Lou-lan Sites'', 1906-7 / Auguste M. Boyer; Edward James Rapson; Émile Charles Marie Senart. - Oxford. *1930: ''Chāndogya Upaniṣad'' Translated and annotated by Émile Sénart, Société d'édition: Les Belles Lettres, Paris.

References

Sources

* * Finot, Louis (1928)
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Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient Année 28 (1), 335-347

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Senart, Emile 1847 births 1928 deaths Writers from Reims French scholars of Buddhism French orientalists French Indologists French translators Translators from Sanskrit Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Members of the Société Asiatique Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925) Honorary members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925) Honorary members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Corresponding fellows of the British Academy