Davids, Thomas William Rhys

Japanese: デービッズ(英語表記)Davids, Thomas William Rhys
Davids, Thomas William Rhys
Born: 12 May 1843, Colchester
[Died] December 27, 1922. Chipstead, Surrey. British Buddhist scholar. He stayed in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) as a judge, but from 1883 he taught Pāli as a professor at the University of London, and also taught comparative religion at Manchester University (1904-15). His greatest achievement was founding the Pāli Scripture Society, which transcribed many Pāli scriptures into the Roman alphabet and published them. His works include Buddhist birth stories (1880) and the Pāli-English dictionary (1921-25, co-authored with W. Stead). His wife Caroline was also famous as an authority on Buddhist studies.

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Japanese:
[生]1843.5.12. コルチェスター
[没]1922.12.27. サリー,チップステッド
イギリスの仏教学者。裁判官としてセイロン (スリランカ) に滞在したが,1883年からロンドン大学教授としてパーリ語を講じ,マンチェスター大学でも比較宗教学を教えた (1904~15) 。彼の最大の功績はパーリ語聖典協会を設立して,多数のパーリ語聖典をローマ字に転写して出版したことである。著書『本生話』 Buddhist birth stories (1880) ,『パーリ語=英語辞典』 Pāli-English dictionary (1921~25,W.ステッドと共著) などがある。また妻キャロラインも仏教学の権威として有名。

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