Traditional System Of Indian Medicine Ayurveda The Background

Author(s): V V Gokhle
Publisher: V V Gokhle

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3) The Committee for the Publication of the Suśruta-samhitā in
Japanese 4) Eastern Institute 5) Indo-Japanese Cultural Association, for giving me this opportunity to put before them my views on this somewhat difficut but interesting subject of the Traditional Medicine in India, called the Ayurveda. I am also thankful to the audience for giving me a patient hearing.
V. V. Gokhale
Dr.V.V.Gokhale
by Hajime Nakamura (Univ. of Tokyo) Dr. V. V. Gokhale was born at Kolhapur (India) on March 20, 1901. His father was a judge. He learned Chinese and Tibetan and studied Mahāyāna Buddhism at Visva-Bharati Univ. (Santiniketan), where the founder of the Univ., Rabindranāth Tagore had a great influence on him. He got B. A. (Hons) of Bombay Univ., and then continued his Asian Studies at Heidelberg and Bonn securing Alexander von Humboldt Scholarship (1926-'30). He received the degree of Dr. Phil. (sehr gut) of Bonn Univ. in 1930 and was appointed Professor of Pāli and German at Fergusson College, Poona in 1932. In 1959, he was offered the chair of Buddhist Studies at Delhi Univ. and then he became the Head of the Dept. of Buddhist Studies. After his retirement from Delhi Univ. in 1966, he had been Professor at Poona Univ. Meanwhile, he was a Visiting Professor at Cheena Bhavan, Visva-Bharati Univ. (1937–38) and an Officer on Special Duty at Lhasa, Tibet (1948-'50). He has engaged in laborious study of Sanskrit Mss. discovered in Tibet and published some important texts of Buddhism and Skt. literature. He is a leading scholar of Buddhist studies not only in India but also in the world; one of his works has been published in U.S. A. and appreciated internationally. He has several old friends among learned circles here and some young Japanese scholars have been in India to study under his guidance. At the invitation of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science which is a governmental organization, he stayed in Japan for three months since Oct., 1971 to deliver the lectures at Tokyo Univ. and so on.
(本稿の邦文抄訳は「大法輪」昭和47年5月号に掲載。全訳は追って東方研究会の機関 紙に掲載する) ( 15 )
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