KESARCODI-WATSON, Ian. 1938 — ?.5.1984. Australian (?) Scholar of Indian Religion. Grew up as Baptist, but soon turned away from it. Studies at Melbourne, Oxford and McMaster (Arapura). Ph.D. 1982 Poona. Lecturer in Philosophy at University of Hong Kong c. 1971-75. In 1975-84 Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at La Trobe University in Bundoora, Victoria, Australia. Married Ihita.
Publications: Eastern spirituality: godhood of man: essays. 155 p. Delhi 1976.
– “Is Hinduism pantheistic?”, Sophia 15, 1976, 26-36; “Devas”, Religious Studies 12, 1976, 467-472; “Are there real things? Borrowings from Nāgārjuna”, JIPh 5:4, 1978, 371-383; “Hindu Metaphysics and Its Philosophies: Śruti and Darśana”, Intern. Philos. Quart. 18, 1978, 413-432; “An ancient Indian argument for what I am”, JIPh 9, 1981, 259-272; “Samādhi in Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras”, Philosophy East and West 32, 1982, 77-90; and other articles.
– Studies in Hindu wisdom. 11+136 p. New Delhi 1981.
– Translated R. Guenon and others.
Sources: *Religions and comparative thought: essays in honour of the late Dr. Ian Kesarcodi-Watson. Ed. by Purusottama Bilimoria and Peter Fenner. 24+459 p. Delhi 1988; briefly in Religious Traditions 6.
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