ENSINK, Jacob (Jaap). Hilversum 5.6.1921 — ?.9.2005. Dutch Indologist and Old Javanese Scholar. Professor in Groningen. Son of Klaas Ensink (1891–1980) and Margarethe Josine van Gelder. Studied Classics, Indology and Indonesian philology (under Gonda and Bosch) at Utrecht, 1952 Ph.D. there. In 1954-62 Lecturer (lektor) of Indology at Groningen, from 1962 Professor of Indology there. Retired in 1984. Married M. N. van der Hulst. Among his students were H. Bakker and A. Entwistle.
Publications: Diss. The Question of Rāṣṭrapāla. Translated and annotated (with Tibetan text). 23+140 p. Zwolle [1952].
– Over de verlossende kennis in het Indische denken. Groningen – Djakarta 1954.
– Translated: De grote weg naar het licht. Een keuze uit de literatuur van het Mahāyāna-Buddhisme. Amsterdam 1955, 2nd ed. 183 p. Amsterdam 1973, 3rd ed. 2005 (Mahāyāna anthology).
– On the Old-Javanese Cantakaparwa and Its Tale of Sutasoma. 12+66 p. Verh. Inst. T.L.V. 54. ’s-Gravenhage 1967; “The Old-Javanese C. and its tale of S.”, R. C. Majumdar Vol. 1970, 179-188; “Sutasoma’s teaching to Gajavaktra, the snake and the tigress”, BTLV 130, 1974, 195-226.
– With van Buitenen: A Glossary of Sanskrit from Indonesia. 219 p. Vāk 6. Poona 1964.– Bedevaard en Bedevaardtsoort in India. Groningen 1969.
– “Problems of the study of pilgrimage in India”, IT 2, 1974, 57-79, other articles and reviews; in retirement wrote about genealogy.
Sources: Dutch Indology homepage; parents in geni.com; photo in Gonda, Indology in the Netherlands. 1964,
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