Alexandre Csoma de Körös, le bodhisattva hongrois
Year: 1987
Type: article
Abstract: Alexander Csoma de Kôrös, the Hungarian Bodhisattva The Hungarian traveller Alexander Csoma de Kôrös (1784-1842) is the founder of tibetology. He is the author of the first dictionary and the first grammar of the classical Tibetan language, and of many other works on Tibetan culture. When he left his homeland for the East, his intention was to trace the mysterious origin of this people in high Asia, but he could not reach his initial aim, so that he remained in the Himalaya and became the first specialist of Tibetan buddhist civilisation. Man of high virtue and of exceptional determination, he has been proclaimed a bodhisattva on the 22nd of February 1933 at the Japanese university of Taishô, Tokyo, in recognition for the fundamental part he played in the discovery of Tibetan buddhism. He is the only European who may be regarded as a buddhist « saint ».
Author: Bernard Le Calloc'h
Language: English
Topic: Indian and Buddhist Studies
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2083973233