CUTTAT, Jacques-Albert (pseudonym Jean Thamar). Delémont, canton Jura 1909 — Bern 5.6.1989. Swiss Diplomat, Lawyer and Esotericist. Son of a wealthy banker. School in Basel. Studies at Bern, London and Paris. Dr. (of Law?). From 1935 worked as diplomat, also PD of Commercial Law at Bern. For a while taught at Columbia University in New York, then Professor of Philosophy at Sorbonne. From 1960 Swiss Ambassador to India. After an accident during a visit to Sri Lanka he had to retire to Switzerland and spent years in a sanatorium. An ecumenical Christian much interested in Vedānta.
Publications: Le rencontre des religions. 200 p. P. 1957, translated as The Encounter of Religions. 1960; other works.
– As J. Thamar: articles in Guénon’s Études traditionnelles; “Prajñāpāramitā”, AsSt/ÉtAs 1, 1949, 7-29; also wrote on music.
– The spiritual dialogue of East and West. 50 p. N.D. 1962; Expérience chrétienne et spiritualité orientale. 376 p. P. 1967.
Sources: K. Klostermaier, “J-AC, a Pioneer of Hindu-Christian Dialogue”, Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies 2, 1989, 4; Dictionnaire du Jura (diju.ch); stray notes in Internet.
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