CHATALIAN, George. 22.11.1920 — 17.6.1997. U.S. Philosopher and Buddhist Scholar. Educated at Brown University (A.B.) and Harvard (Ph.D. 1968). In the early 1970s teaching (Western?) philosophy at Franklin Pierce College. In 1983 at Department of Philosophy, University of Ife in Ife-Ife, Nigeria, then also at Lagos University. Finally living in Sacramento, California.
In 1940 census according to ancestry.com Sarkis Ch. and his wife Mary, both of Armenian origin, were living in Providence, RI. Their elder son George was then 19. myheritage knows Norma R. Chatalian, born 1924, of Rhode Island, who married George Ch. before 1948.
Publications: Books on Western philosophy, often in criticizing tone.
– “A Study of R. H. Robinson’s Early Mādhyamika in India and China”, JIPh 1:4, 1972, 311-340; “Early Indian Buddhism and the Nature of Philosophy: A Philosophical Investigation”, JIPh 11, 1983, 167-222.
Sources: Brief note in JIPh 1:4, 1972; stray notes in Internet, life dates in ancientfaces.com.
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