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DAVID KALUPAHANA AND THE FIELD OF EARLY BUDDHISM Wimal Dissanayake Adjunct Fellow, East-West Center and Honorary Professor, Open University of Hong Kong I had known Professor David Kalupahana for over fifty years. David, his wife Indrani, my wife, and I were undergraduates at the same time at the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya. He was, of course, senior to us. David and I lived in the same hall of residence and used to meet frequently at breakfast and dinner. Even as an under- graduate, David evinced a great interest in Buddhism and philosophy. I recall that one of his earliest articles that he sent to the students’ magazine was on the idea of causality in Buddhism, an idea which was to be comprehensively explored in his magnum opus. Many of us knew instinctively that he would end up as a university professor; what we did not know then is that he would emerge as a foremost scholar in the world of early Buddhism. He initially studied Pali, Sanskrit, and philosophy, and later specialized in Pali. This prepared him well for his subsequent work in Bud- dhist philosoph y. After obtaining his BA and MA from the University of Ceylon, he
Philosophy East and West – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Sep 17, 2014
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