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Professor Lokesh Chandra: India’s Great Scholar

(By Tsem Rinpoche and Joy Kam) The Birth of One of India’s Great Scholars A renowned scholar of the Vedas, Buddhism and the Indian arts, a philosopher, and one of India’s great thinkers, Professor Lokesh Chandra was born to an illustrious family of educationists in Ambala, Haryana State, in 1927. He is currently the Chief Executive of the Indian Council for Cultural Relationships (ICCR) and a film director at the International Academy of Indian Tradition. In 2006, he was awarded India’s prestigious Padma Bhushan award, the nation’s third-highest civilian award, for his great contributions to literature and education. Widely travelled all over Asia, Europe and Russia, Professor Lokesh Chandra has published close to 600 written works and texts. Some of these very precious and rare manuscripts are considered to be classics such as the Tibetan-Sanskrit Dictionary (1961), Buddhist Iconography of Tibet (1986), Materials for a History of Tibetan Literature (1963), and the 20 volumes of the Dictionary of Buddhist Iconography.   Life and Works Professor Lokesh Chandra’s father, Professor Raghu Vira, was himself a world-renowned thinker, a well-known politician, a great Sanskrit scholar and a linguist who made significant contributions to the development of India’s linguistic diversity and the understanding […]



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