Richard Gombrich
Richard Gombrich | |
|---|---|
| Born | 17 July 1937 |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouses | Dorothea Amanda Friedrich
(m. 1964; div. 1984)Sanjukta Gupta (m. 1985) |
| Children | Leonie Gombrich, Carl Gombrich |
| Parents |
|
| Academic background | |
| Education |
|
| Thesis | Contemporary Sinhalese Buddhism in Its Relation to the Pali Canon (1969) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Charles Zaehner |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Indologist |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Main interests | Sanskrit, Pali, Buddhism |
| Part of a series on |
| Buddhism |
|---|
.svg){kind=link}
Richard Francis Gombrich (/ˈɡɒmbrɪtʃ/; born 17 July 1937) is a British Indologist and scholar of Sanskrit, Pāli, and Buddhist studies. He was the Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford from 1976 to 2004. He is currently Founder-President of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies. He is a past president of the Pali Text Society (1994–2002) and general editor emeritus of the Clay Sanskrit Library.