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Paul Dundas


Born
May 23, 1952

Died
April 05, 2023

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Paul Dundas (born in 1952) is a scholar and a senior lecturer in Sanskrit language and head of Asian Studies in the University of Edinburgh. His main areas of academic and research interest include Jainism, Buddhism, classical Sanskrit literature and Middle Indo-Aryan philology. He is regarded as one of the leading scholars of the world in Jain studies. [1] He is currently a member of the Council of the Pali Text Society.

Mr Paul Dundas is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh who began teaching in the former Sanskrit Department here in 1976 after a stint at Cambridge. His work on Jainism has made him one of the world’s most respected scholars on the religious and cultural history of India and his 1992 book The Jains remains an essential
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The Jains

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