# Walpola Rahula

> Walpola Rahula Thera was a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk, scholar and writer. In 1964, he became the Professor of History and Religions at Northwestern University, thus becoming the first bhikkhu to hold a professorial chair in the Western world. He also once held the position of Vice-Chancellor at the then Vidyodaya University. He has written extensively about Buddhism in English, French and Sinhala. He wrote the book What the Buddha Taught about Theravada Buddhism.

*Sri Lankan philosopher (1907–1997)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Born:** 1907-05-09
- **Died:** 1997-09-18
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Sources
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- [Walpola Rahula](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walpola_Rahula)
- [Walpola Rahula](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walpola_Rahula)
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- [Walpola Rahula](https://mad.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walpola_Rahula)
- [वालपोला राहुल थेरो](https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%A5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8B)
- [ဝါလ်ပိုလာ ရာဟုလာ](https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%9D%E1%80%AB%E1%80%9C%E1%80%BA%E1%80%95%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%9C%E1%80%AC_%E1%80%9B%E1%80%AC%E1%80%9F%E1%80%AF%E1%80%9C%E1%80%AC)
- [Walpola Rahula](https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walpola_Rahula)
- [Валпола Рахула Теро](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%85%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE)
- [වල්පොල රාහුල තෙරණුවෝ](https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B7%80%E0%B6%BD%E0%B7%8A%E0%B6%B4%E0%B7%9C%E0%B6%BD_%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%8F%E0%B7%84%E0%B7%94%E0%B6%BD_%E0%B6%AD%E0%B7%99%E0%B6%BB%E0%B6%AB%E0%B7%94%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%9D)
- [வால்போல ராகுல தேரர்](https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%B2_%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B2_%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3565594)

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