Richard gombrich biography

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Richard Gombrich does not call himself a Buddhist.^[1]

"When I say I'm a Buddhist"^{[citation needed]}

• It doesn’t mean I’m purer and nicer than others. But it means I have too much ignorance and mental defilement to remove.
  I need Buddha's wisdom.

• It doesn’t mean I have more wisdom than others. But it means I have been occupied by too much arrogance.
  I need to learn to be humble and to develop a broader perspective.

• It is not because I am better or worse than others, but because I understand all beings are equal.

• I know I only love those to my taste, but Buddha loves even people he does not like, guiding them to be full of wisdom and compassion.
  That’s why I choose to follow Buddha’s t
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  Richard Gombrich
  1937-

  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.

  Gombrich is the son of Austrian-born art historian E. H. Gombrich, but pronounces his surname with an English, not a German, ch. His translation with Margaret Cone of the Vessantara Jātaka was reissued by the Pāḷi Text Society in 2011.— citizendium.org/wiki

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  Prof.Richard Gombrich
  
  The Biography:
  He was born in London. His mother was an accom¬plish¬ed mus¬ic¬ian, his father, Sir Ernst Gom¬b¬rich, the pre-eminent art historian of the 20th cent¬ury. Ernst Gombrich grew up in Vienna. The psychiatrist Freud, the composer Mahler, and the poet von Hofmannsthal were intimate acquaint¬ances. The philosopher, Sir Karl Popper, be¬came his closest friend.
  
  Richard Gombrichย’s education was in the best English trad¬ition of classical learning with an empirical bias. Having master¬ed Greek and Latin literature, he moved on to Sanskrit and Pali. At 39, he was Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford.
  
  This was the earliest Chair in Sanskrit to be established in the West (in 1831). Now it was, for the first time, occupied by a scholar whose principal interest was in Buddhism.
  
  Gombrichย’s first book illustrates his range. It is a work of soc¬ial anthro¬pology, based on fieldwork in Sri Lanka. It gives a clear, compelling picture of village Buddhism. Then it com¬pares that with the classical (P