MISIEWICZ, Władysław. Lemberg (L’viv) 11.4.1910 — 1.11.1997. Polish Bauddha. After matriculation worked in various clerical posts, finally as the head of a reference library in Radom. In the WW II served in cavalry, then German war prisoner. After war became interested in Buddhism and began learning Pāli. An Esperantist.
Publications: Wrote on Buddhism in Esperanto.
– An elementary Pāli grammar, Polish translation of Practical Buddhism by Nyayasatta and of The Heart of Buddhist Meditation by Nyayaponika (1960), etc.
Sources: R. Webb, Buddhist Studies Review 15, 1998, 75f.; *G. Podgajniak, Biuletyn Kwartalny Radomskiego Towarzystva Naukowego 1999, 125-128 (in Polish).
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