BURLINGAME, Eugene Watson. Albany, N.Y. 5.8.1876 — 3.8.1932. U.S. Indologist (Pāli Scholar). Son of Eugene B. and Emma Patten Watson. Educated at Yale (B.A. 1898) and University of Pennsylvania (M.A. 1902, Ph.D. 1910). Then studies of Sanskrit at Harvard 1909-10 (under Lanman) and at Johns Hopkins 1914-16 (Bloomfield). In 1902-07 and 1910-13 taught classical languages. In 1908-11 Fellow of University of Pennsylvania, 1914-16 of Johns Hopkins. In 1917-32 he was Lecturer in Pāli (and Sanskrit?) at Yale. Unmarried.
Publications: Diss. on the Dhammapada Commentary, publ. in Proc. Am. Acad. of Arts & Sc. 45, 1910, 467-550.
– “The Act of truth (saccakiriya): a Hindu Spell and its Employments as a Psychic Motif in Hindu Fiction”, JRAS 1917, 429-467; “Buddhist-Zoroastrian legend of seven marvels”, Fs. Bloomfield 1920, 105-116; articles on OIA and Pāli, e.g. in AJPh 39, 1918, 299-305 & 41, 1920, 69-75; JAOS 38, 1918, 267ff.
– Buddhaghosa: Buddhist Legends. Transl. from the original Pāli text of the Dhammapada Commentary. 1-3. 38+328, 4+366, 4+374 p. H.O.S. 28-30. Cambridge, Mass. 1921.
– Transl. Buddhist Parables. 398 p. New Haven 1922 (220 parables from various Pāli sources); The Grateful Elephant And Other Stories. 35+172 p. New Haven 1923.
Sources: Who Was Who in America 1; parents in ancestry.ca.
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