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Étienne Lamotte
Indologist, priest, professor (1903-1983) · Belgium · On the map · Religious Figures · Died at 79
Étienne Paul Marie Lamotte was a Belgian priest and Professor of Greek at the Catholic University of Louvain, but was better known as an Indologist and the greatest authority on Buddhism in the West in his time.
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He studied under his pioneering compatriot Louis de La Vallée-Poussin and was one of the few scholars familiar with all the main Buddhist languages: Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan. His first published work was his PhD thesis: Notes sur le Bhagavad-Gita. - In 1953, he was awarded the Francqui Prize in Human Science.
