ABI-Indology in Belgium2013

INDOLOGY IN BELGIUM
0. SOCIETIES
Association Belge d’Indologie - Belgische Vereniging voor Indologie (Belgian Society for Indology)
established in 1998 (contact and news: Christophe Vielle, http://belgianindology.blogs.lalibre.be/), and
Société Belge d’Études orientales - Belgisch Genootschap voor Oosterse Studiën (Belgian Society of
Oriental Studies, established in 1921 by Louis de La Vallée Poussin, http://www.orientalists.be).
1. INDOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND TEACHING INSTITUTES
1.1. University of Ghent (Universiteit Gent, abbr. UGent)
Vakgroep talen en culturen van Zuid-en Oost-Azië
(Department of Languages and Cultures of South and East Asia)
Blandijnberg 2
B - 9000 Gent
http://www.southandeastasia.ugent.be/Indologie
1.1.1. Prof. Dr. Frank VAN DEN BOSSCHE (09 264 40 41 / [email protected])
Field of research: Jain philosophy. Field of teaching: Hinduism, Sanskrit, Prākrits.
https://biblio.ugent.be/person/801000764034 E.g. Elements of Jaina Geography: The
Jambūdvīpasaṃgrahanī of Haribhadra Sūri, Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass, 2007.
1.1.2. Prof. Dr. Eva DE CLERCQ (09 264 40 87 / [email protected], [email protected])
F. of r.: Jainism, Sanskrit epics, Apabhraṃśa language and literature. F. of t.: Prākrits, Hindi.
http://www.cbs.ugent.be/node/441 / https://biblio.ugent.be/person/801001367656
1.1.3. The holder of the Kamiel Bulcke Chair of Hindi (of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations).
1.1.4. Dr. Marie-Hélène GORISSE ([email protected]) F. of r.: Jaina and Indian philosophy and logic.
http://www.cbs.ugent.be/node/622 / http://www.southandeastasia.ugent.be/node/239
1.1.5. Dr. Saartje VERBEKE ([email protected]) F. of r.: Indo-Aryan linguistics.
http://www.taalwetenschap.ugent.be/node/35 E.g. Three Prakrit grammars, Mumbai : Hindi
Granth Karyalay, Pandit Nathuram Premi Research Series 35, 2010.
1.1.6. Doctoral res. Stefanie ROTSAERT ([email protected]) on Hindi literature.
1.1.7. Doctoral res. Tilo DETIGE ([email protected]) on bhaṭṭārakas in Digambara Jainism.
1.1.8. Doctoral res. Noor VAN BRUSSEL ([email protected]) on Bhadrakālī in Kerala.
http://www.southandeastasia.ugent.be/southindiankalistudies
Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies
http://www.cbs.ugent.be/
1.1.9. Prof. Dr. Ann HEIRMAN (09 264 41 55 / [email protected])
F. of r.: Early Buddhist women monasticism. Field of t.: Buddhism, Classical Chinese.
http://www.cbs.ugent.be/node/379
E.g. “The Discipline in four parts”: Rules for Nuns
according to the Dharmaguptakavinaya, 3 vols, Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass, Buddhist Tradition
Series 47-49, 2002.
1.1.10. Prof. Dr. Bart DESSEIN (09 264 41 57 / [email protected])
F. of r.: Early Indian Buddhism. Field of t.: Buddhism, Classical Chinese.
http://www.cbs.ugent.be/node/378
E.g. Saṃyuktābhidharmahṛdaya: Heart of Scholasticism, 3
vols, Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass, Buddhist Tradition Series 33-35, 1999.
1.1.11. Dr. Gudrun PINTE ([email protected]) F. of r.: vinaya and early Buddhist history.
http://www.cbs.ugent.be/node/382
1.1.12. Doctoral res. Claire MAES ([email protected]) on history of Buddhist and Jaina monasticism.
http://www.cbs.ugent.be/node/429
1.1.13. (Emeritus) Prof. Dr. Eddy MOERLOOSE (09 264 40 95 / [email protected])
F. of r.: History and philology of Buddhism in Central Asia. http://www.cbs.ugent.be/node/407
1.2. University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Université catholique de Louvain, abbr. UCLouvain)
I n s t i t u t o r i e n t a l i s t e d e L o u v a i n - groupe de recherches indianistes
(Louvain Centre for Oriental Studies - Indological research group)
Place Blaise Pascal 1
B - 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
http://www.uclouvain.be/ciol.html
1.2.1. Prof. Dr. Christophe VIELLE (010 47 49 54, 02 660 42 66 / [email protected])
F. of r.: Epic, kāvya and purāṇic literature from Kerala. F. of t.: Sanskrit, Classical Indology.
http://www.uclouvain.be/christophe.vielle
E.g. with Petteri Koskikallio, “Epic and Puranic
Texts attributed to Jaimini”, Indologica Taurinensia 27, 2001, pp. 67-93.
1.2.2. Prof. Dr. Robert DELIEGE (010 47 38 97, 081 61 47 59 / [email protected])
F. of t./r.: Social and cultural anthropology of India. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Deliege
E.g. The World of the “Untouchables”: Paraiyars of Tamil Nadu, Oxford U.P., 1998.
1.2.3. Prof. Dr. Lambert ISEBAERT (010 47 49 75 / [email protected])
F. of t./r.: Indo-European comparative grammar, Tocharian, Pāli.
E.g. “Felix Nève and the beginnings of Sanskrit teaching in Louvain”, in G. Pollet ed. Indian Epic
Values: Rāmāyaṇa and its impact, Leuven : Peeters, OLA 66, 1995, pp. 101-113.
1.2.4. (Em.) Prof. Dr. Jacques SCHEUER s.j. (010 45 01 90 / [email protected]).
F. of t./r.: Hinduism, Buddhism.
E.g. Śiva dans le Mahābhārata, Paris : PUF, Bibliothèque de
l’École des Hautes Études, section des sciences religieuses 84, 1982.
1.2.5. Prof. Dr. Philippe CORNU (010 47 93 02 / [email protected]).
F. of t./r.: Buddhism. http://www.uclouvain.be/philippe.cornu
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Cornu / http://www.uclouvain.be/354072.html
E.g. Dictionnaire encyclopédique du bouddhisme, Paris : Seuil, 20062. 1.2.6. Dr. Emmanuel FRANCIS (CNRS-CÉIAS, Paris, collab. UCL / [email protected]).
F. of r. : South-Indian (esp. Tamil) epigraphy and ancient history. F. of t. : epigraphy, Tamil.
http://ceias.ehess.fr/document.php?id=1725 E.g. Le discours royal dans l’Inde du sud ancienne.
Inscriptions et monuments pallava (IVème-IXème siècles), 2 vols, Louvain-la-Neuve : Université
catholique de Louvain - Peeters, PIOL 64-65, 2013-2014.
1.2.7. Dr. Sandra SMETS (071 96 73 90 / [email protected])
F. of r.: Indian medical and alchemical tradition. F. of t. (UNamur): Indian philosophy.
http://www.sandrasmets.be/?action=moncv E.g. La question de la non-dualité dans la
Jaiminīyasaṃhitā du Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa. Le Janakapraśna édité, traduit et commenté, Louvain-laNeuve : Université catholique de Louvain - Peeters, PIOL 63, 2013.
1.2.8. Doctoral res. Dylan ESLER ([email protected])
F. of r.: Tibetan Buddhism.
http://www.cbs.ugent.be/node/604
E.g. “The Origins and Early History of rDzogs chen”, The Tibet Journal 30/3, 2005, pp. 33-62.
1.3. University of Liège (abbr. ULg)
1.3.1. Prof. Dr. Philippe SWENNEN, Département des sciences de l’antiquité – chaire de langues et
religions du monde indo-iranien ancien, Bât. A1, Place du XX août 7, 4000 Liège (04 366 55 45 /
[email protected]). http://www.ulg.ac.be/cms/j_5871/repertoires?uid=U040095
F. of r.: Indo-Iranology. F. of t.: Sanskrit, Indo-Iranian philology, Vedic religion.
E.g. D’Indra à Tištrya. Portrait et évolution du cheval sacré dans les mythes indo-iraniens anciens,
Paris : Collège de France, Publications de l’Institut de Civilisation indienne 71, 2004.
1.3.2. Dr. Jean-Marie VERPOORTEN, Rue des Coteaux 17, 4800 Verviers (087 22 28 38 /
[email protected]). F. of r.: Ancient Indian philosophical literature. F. of t.: Buddhism.
E.g. Mīmāṃsā Literature, Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, A History of Indian Literature 6/5, 1987.
1.3.3. Dr. Philippe GEENENS, Allée du muguet 9, 6032 Mont-sur-Marchienne (071 36 95 37 /
[email protected]). F. of t./r.: Classical Indian philosophy (yoga, vedānta).
E.g. Yogayājñavalkyam. Corps et âme, le yoga selon Yājñavalkya, traduit du sanskrit, présenté et
annoté, Paris : Gallimard, Connaissance de l’Orient 103, 2000.
1.3.4. (Em.) Prof. Dr. Éric PIRART ([email protected]). F. of r.: Indo-Iranian philology.
E.g. Les Nāsatya, 2 vols, Liège - Genève : Droz, Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et
Lettres de l’Université de Liège 261/280, 1995 - 2001.
1.4. University of Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, abbr. KU Leuven)
1.4.1. (Em.) Prof. Dr. Winand CALLEWAERT, Centre for Advanced India-EU Studies, Blijde Inkomststraat
21/bus 3318, 3000 Leuven ([email protected]).
F. of r.: Early Hindi Bhakti literature. http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/caies/wcal.htm
E.g. The Hagiographies of Anantadās: The Bhakti Poets of North India, Richmond : Curzon, 2000.
1.4.2. Dr. Toon VAN HAL, Orbis Center for the History of Linguistics, Blijde Inkomststraat 21/bus 3318
(016 32 49 12 / [email protected]). F. of r.: Historiography of Linguistics.
http://www.kuleuven.be/cv/u0041239e.htm E.g. “Language Comparison in Paulinus a Sancto
Bartholomaeo (1748-1806): Aims, Methodological Principles”, Bulletin d’Études indiennes 22-23,
2004-2005, pp. 323-336.
1.4.3. Dr. Frédéric PAIN, Rue des bouleaux 46, 6110 Montigny-le-Tilleul (071 51 20 07 /
[email protected]). F. of r.: South-East Asian History and Linguistics.
1.4.4. (Em.) Prof. Dr. Gilbert POLLET, P. Eeckelaerslaan 6, 3010 Kessel-Lo (016 25 48 10).
F. of r.: Ancient India topography; Bhakti literature.
E.g. (& alii) Corpus Topographicum Indiae Antiquae, Part 2, Leuven : Peeters, Orientalia
Lovaniensia Analecta 37, 1990.
1.5. University of Brussels (abbr. ULB)
1.5.1. Prof. Dr. Claudine BAUTZE-PICRON, 78 Kantstrasse, D - 10627 Berlin (+49-30-324 64 42 /
[email protected]). F. of t./r.: History of Indian Art.
http://www.iran-inde.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article115
http://www.artsofindia.de/
E.g. Le culte de la Grande Déesse au Bihar méridional du VIIe au XIIe siècle, Napoli : Istituto
Universitario Orientale, Annali Supplemento 72, 1992.
1.5.2. Dr. Jean-Michel DELIRE, Rue de la levure 5, 1050 Bruxelles (02 649 38 98 / [email protected])
F. of r./t.: Śulbasūtras; history of Indian geometry, mathematics and astronomy.
E.g. “The Baudhāyana Śulbasūtra’s commentaries: edition, translation and explanation”, Indologica
Taurinensia 29, 2003, pp. 123-143.
1.5.3. Doctoral res. Coline LEFRANCQ ([email protected]) on archaeology in Bangladesh.
1.5.4. (Em.) Prof. Dr. Francine MAWET ([email protected])
F. of r.: Indo-European linguistics. F. of t.: Sanskrit, Indo-European comparative grammar.
E.g. Grammaire sanskrite à l’usage des étudiants hellénistes et latinistes, Leuven : Peeters, Lettres
orientales et classiques 16, 2012.
1.6. University of Antwerpen (abbr. UA), India Study Centre (http://www.ua.ac.be/indiastudiecentrum/)
1.6.1. Chris DE LAUWER (03 220 86 93 / [email protected]). F. of t.: Hindi.
http://www.antwerpfvg.org/docenten-fvg-antwerp/chris-de-lauwer.html
1.6.2. Jamnadas GOHIL (03 288 55 76 / [email protected]). F. of t.: Gujarati.
2. BELGIAN SCHOLARS IN SANSKRIT / INDOLOGY ATTACHED TO FOREIGN INSTITUTES
2.1. Prof. Dr. Jean KELLENS (Collège de France, form. ULg). F. of r./t.: Indo-Iranian philology.
http://www.college-de-france.fr/default/EN/all/lan_rel/biographie.htm
E.g. “Le mot « aryen »
ou le fantasme contre l’analyse”, Bulletin de l’ARB, Classe des lettres, 2003, pp. 99-112.
2.2. Prof. Dr. Hubert DURT (International College for Advanced Buddhist Studies, Tokyo, form. ÉFEO,
from UCL / [email protected]). F. of r.: Buddhism.
http://www.efeo.fr/biographies/notices/durt.htm
E.g. “Le Traité de la Grande Vertu de Sagesse
et l’Histoire du Bouddhisme Indien d’Étienne Lamotte”, in Premier Colloque Étienne Lamotte,
Louvain-la-Neuve : Université catholique de Louvain - Peeters, PIOL 42, 1993, pp. 1-16.
2.3. Prof. Dr. Charles WILLEMEN (International Buddhist College, Songkhia, Thailand, form. UGent /
[email protected]). F. of t./r.: Buddhism. http://ibc.ac.th/en/charles-willemen
http://www.antwerpfvg.org/docenten-fvg-antwerp/charles-willemen.html
E.g. The Essence of
Scholasticism: Abhidharmahṛdaya. T155, rev. ed., Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass, 2006.
2.4. Prof. Dr. Heidi PAUWELS (Washington Univ. at Seattle, from KUL / [email protected])
F. of r./t.: Hindi. http://depts.washington.edu/asianll/people/faculty/hpauwels.html
E.g. In Praise of Holy Men: Hagiographic poems by and about Harirām Vyās, Groningen : Egbert
Forsten, Groningen Oriental Studies 18, 2002.
2.5. (Em.) Prof. Dr. Ludo ROCHER (Univ. of Pennsylvania, form. UGent/ULB / [email protected])
F. of r.: Classical Sanskrit literature, history of Indology.
E.g. The Purāṇas, Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, A History of Indian Literature 2/3, 1986.
2.6. (Em.) Prof. Dr. Rosane ROCHER (Univ. of Pennsylvania, from ULB / [email protected])
F. of r.: Sanskrit grammatical literature, history of Indo-European comparative philology.
E.g. La théorie des voix du verbe dans l’école pāṇinéenne (le 14e āhnika), Bruxelles, Travaux de la
Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l’Université de Bruxelles 35, 1968.
2.7. Dr. Robert DUQUENNE (ÉFEO, from UCL / [email protected]). F. of r.: Buddhism.
http://www.efeo.fr/biographies/notices/duquenne.htm
2.8. Dr. Véronique DEGROOT (ÉFEO, from UCL & Leiden / [email protected])
F. of r.: South-East Asian archaeology and history of art.
http://www.clio.fr/espace_culturel/veronique_degroot.asp#
2.9. Dr. François HEENEN (Reykjavík / [email protected]). F. of r.: Indo-European comparative grammar.
E.g. Le désidératif en védique, Leiden : Rodopi, Leiden Studies in Indo-European 13, 2006.
2.10. Jean-Claude MULLER (Institut archéologique du Luxembourg / [email protected]).
F. of r.: history of Indology and Indo-European philology. E.g. “Recherches sur les premières
grammaires manuscrites du sanskrit”, Bulletin d’Études indiennes 3, 1985, pp. 125-144.
2.11. Jan VAN ALPHEN (New York, Rubin Museum of Art, from UGent / [email protected]).
F. of r.: History of Indian art. E.g. (ed.) Steps to Liberation: 2,500 Years of Jain Art and Religion,
Antwerpen : Ethnographisch Museum - India Studie Centrum UIA, 2000.
3. BELGIAN SCHOLARS IN SANSKRIT/INDOLOGY WITHOUT ACADEMIC ATTACHMENT
3.1. Dr. José VAN DEN BROECK (from UCL / [email protected]). F. of r.: Buddhism.
E.g. La progression dans la méditation (Bhāvanākrama de Kamalaśīla), Bruxelles, Publications de
l’Institut Belge des Hautes Études Bouddhiques, série Études et Textes 6, 1977.
3.2. Dr. Marcel VAN VELTHEM (from UCL). F. of r.: Buddhism.
E.g. Le Traité de la Descente de la Profonde Loi (Abhidharmāvatāraśāstra) de l’arhat Skandhila,
Louvain-la-Neuve : Université catholique de Louvain - Peeters, PIOL 16, 1977.
3.3. Dr. Michel DEFOURNY (from ULg). F. of r.: Sanskrit Epic literature.
E.g. Le mythe de Yayāti dans la littérature épique et purāṇique. Étude de mythologie hindoue, Liège
- Paris : les Belles-Lettres, Bibl. de de la Fac. de Phil. et Lettres de l’Université de Liège 221, 1978.
3.4. Dr. Greta VAN DAMME (from KUL). F. of r.: Classical Sanskrit literature.
E.g. De Jakhals in de Oudindische Pañcatantra, Brussel, Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Acad.
voor Wetenschap., Lett. en Schone Kunsten van België, Klasse der Lett., Jaargang 53, n° 141, 1991.
3.5. Dr. Dominique FORTHOMME (from UCL, Dr. Paris). F. of r.: Classical Sanskrit literature.
E.g. Le Dhātukāvya de Nārāyaṇabhaṭṭa. Un poème didactique sanskrit, Pondichéry : IFP,
Publications du Département d’Indologie 80, 1993.
3.6. Dr. Reginald BEYAERT (from UCL, Dr. Paris / [email protected]). F. of r.: Translation and
study of Jayadeva’s Candrāloka, a 12th century treatise on poetics.
3.7. Dr. Martine DELARUELLE (from UCL, Dr. Paris). F. of r.: Iconography of gopuras in Tamil Nadu.
3.8. Dr. Koenraad ELST (from KUL / [email protected]). F. of r.: History of ideas on Hinduism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koenraad_Elst
3.9. Dr. Erik SELDESLACHTS (from UGent). F. of research: Ancient Indian history.
E.g. “The end of the road for the Indo-Greeks?”, Iranica Antiqua 39, 2004, pp. 249-296.
4. LATE FAMOUS BELGIAN SCHOLARS IN INDOLOGY AND THEIR HERITAGE ACCORDING TO THEIR
RESPECTIVE FIELDS OF RESEARCH
• Indian Buddhism, esp. lost Sanskrit texts preserved in Chinese and Tibetan translations: †L. DE LA
VALLEE POUSSIN (Ghent), and then †É. LAMOTTE, †M. Hofinger, †J. Masson s.j., †J. Dantinne, J.
Van den Broeck, M. Van Velthem, H. Durt and R. Duquenne (Louvain), Ch. Willemen, B. Dessein
and A. Heirman (Ghent).
• Jainism: †J. DELEU, F. Van Den Bossche and E. De Clercq (Ghent).
• Vedic and Indo-Iranian philology, initiated by †F. NEVE and †Ch. DE HARLEZ (Louvain), that is Sanskrit
as part of Indo-European comparative grammar: †Ch. Michel, †J. Mansion, †R. Fohalle and L.
Deroy (Liège), †J. Van den Gheyn s.j., †Ph. Collinet and †A. Carnoy (Louvain), †P.-É. Dumont,
†R. Goossens, †E. Polomé and F. Mawet (Bruxelles), F. Heenen; Tocharian studies: †A. Van
Windekens and L. Isebaert (Louvain), †W. Couvreur and E. Moerloose (Ghent); Avestic/Vedic
studies: J. Duchesne-Guillemin, J. Kellens, É. Pirart and Ph. Swennen (Liège).
• Classical Sanskrit literature (esp. translations): †F. NEVE (Louvain), †E. Monseur, †G. Cotton and †Ch.
Hyart (Liège), †P.-É. Dumont, †F. De Ville, L. Rocher, R. Rocher and J.-M. Delire (Bruxelles), †G.
Van Langenhove and †A. Scharpé (Ghent), †R. Antoine s.j., D. Forthomme, R. Beyaert, C. Vielle
and S. Smets (Louvain), G. Van Damme (Leuven), J.-M. Verpoorten, M. Defourny and Ph.
Geenens (Liège).
• Mediaeval Bhakti literature / Hinduism: †C. BULCKE s.j., G. Pollet and W. Callewaert (Leuven), †P.
Fallon s.j., †P. Johanns s.j., †R. De Smet s.j., J. Scheuer s.j. (Louvain).
• Ancient Indian history and history of art: J. Schotmans, C. Picron and C. Lefrancq (Bruxelles), A.
Neven, J. Van Alphen and E. Seldeslachts (Ghent), M. Delaruelle, V. Degroot and E. Francis
(Louvain).
• Indian Epigraphy : †E. JACQUET, E. Francis.
• Dravidian studies : †Ph. VAN DER HAEGHEN, E. Francis.
• History of Indology : †F. NEVE (Louvain), L. Rocher, R. Rocher, E.R. Hambye s.j., J.-C. Muller, L.
Isebaert, C. Vielle, T. Van Hal.