Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t61: K Venkataramanan
Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t61
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K Venkataramanan
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Professor K Venkataramanan, a scholar of Chinese Buddhism, was born in 1920 in a small village called Yelanduru in Mysore district, Karnataka. He completed his Bachelor of Arts from Mysore University. He was also awarded with many gold medals by Mysore University for his achievements in academics. Later on, Prof. Venkataramanan pursued his Master of Arts in Philosophy at Banaras Hindu University under Dr S Radhakrishnan. Soon after, he went to China for further studies in philosophy for about three years and returned to Santiniketan and joined as a professor of Philosophy, in Visva-Bharati in 1950. In the year 1955, he went to Boston as a visiting professor for one year. Then, he came back to Santiniketan and in 1957, joined Cheena Bhavana, Visva-Bharati as a professor of Chinese.
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Prof. Venkataramanan has produced a well-documented account of a difficult but important system of thought. His scholarly approach to the materials, his intellectual discrimination and command of Chinese sources earned him respect in India and abroad. He was also well versed in modern Japanese Buddhist studies and delivered lectures at various Universities in Japan.
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Prof. Venkataramanan breathed his last at Santiniketan in 1987.
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(*Avijit Bannerjee*)