KLOPPENBORG, Ria (Maria Anna Geertruida Theresia Kl.). Utrecht 8.3.1945 — Utrecht 4.10.2003. Dutch Indologist and Scholar of Religion. From 1963 studies of law, but soon of Indology and Buddhism at Leiden and Utrecht. M.A. 1970. Ph.D. 1974 Utrecht (Gonda). From 1970 taught Indian religions at Department of Religion in Utrecht (Assistant to Hoens), in 1979-88 also Indology at Groningen. From 1988 Professor of History of Religions at Faculty of Theology, Utrecht (1995/2003). Died of cancer.
Publications: Diss. The Paccekabuddha. A Buddhist ascetic. A study of the Paccekabuddha in Pali canonical and commentarial literature. Or. Rh.-Tr. 20. 1974.
– Translated: Catuṣpariṣatsūtra. The Sūtra on the foundation of the Buddhist order, relating to the events from the Bodhisattva’s enlightenment up to the conversion of Upatiṣya (Śāriputra) and Kolita (Maudgalyāyana). 139 p. Nisaba 1. Ld. 1973.
– Translated: Śāntideva: De weg tot het inzicht (Bodhicaryāvatāra). Amsterdam1980; Verzen van monniken en nonnen: uitspraken van bevrijde mannen en vrouwen in het vroege boeddhisme = Theratherigāthā. Nieuwerkerk 1998-2000.
– Articles.
Sources: Brief note in Hoens Volume, 1983, 204; J.G. Platvoet, BASR Bulletin 103, 2004, 54-56; Dutch Indology homepage with small photo.
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