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P. D. Premasiri

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Pahalawattage Don Premasiri (born 25 July 1941) is a Sri Lankan Buddhist scholar specializing in the areas of Buddhist ethics and Buddhist philosophy. Premasiri's academic training represents a synthesis of both the Buddhist and Western philosophical traditions, first at the University of Peradeniya and subsequently at Cambridge and Hawaii. He is currently president of the Buddhist Publication Society and professor emeritus in the Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies at the University of Peradeniya.

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1. It is quite recently that we first obtained a definite knowledge of Indian Philosophy; in the main we understand by it religious ideas, but in modern times men have learned to recognize real philosophic writings. Colebrooke,[17] in particular, communicated abstracts to us from two Indian philosophic works, and this forms the first contribution we have had in reference to Indian Philosophy. What Frederick von…

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2. But generally Buddhism (as was not unnatural 60 years ago) is hardly taken here in its characteristic historical features. P. 167, § 88. Aristotle, _Phys,_ i. 8 (191 a.

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3. II. Buddhist Literature in Sanskrit with translations, Commentaries, and References to specific works in European Languages. III. References to Buddhism in non-Buddhist Sanskrit Literature. IV. Buddhism in General with special References to Buddhist Doctrine and Practice in European Languages. I. Buddhism in India (works in European Languages only). II. Buddhism in Ceylon. III. Buddhism in Burma. IV. Buddhism in…

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Philosophers who discussed P. D. Premasiri

• David Kalupahana

Related ideas

• Western philosophy
• David Kalupahana
• University of Cambridge
• Bhikkhu Bodhi
• Buddhist philosophy
• Buddhist ethics
• Bernard Williams
• Early Buddhist schools
• K. N. Jayatilleke
• Eliot Deutsch

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Part of Buddhist philosophy.

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