DIXON, Henry. Naples, Italy 29.3.1824 — London 16.3.1883. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Captain William Dixon and Cecilia Pierina Gironci. From 1839 studied at Royal Military Academy in Woolwich. Served 1842-72 in Madras Native Infantry. Lieutenant Colonel. An amateur photographer who took hundreds of pictures in Orissa, Mysore…
DELLA SANTINA, Peter C. U.S.A. 1950 — Penang, Malaysia 14.10.2006. U.S. Buddhologist. Grew up in Connecticut. Became blind because of glaucoma when about 11 and later turned to Buddhism. For a while in Spain, then as teacher in Peru. Studied at Wesleyan University (B.A. 1972 in Religion). M.A. 1974 and…
CAMPS, Arnulf Petrus Henricus Johannes Maria (Arnulf Pierre Camps). Eindhoven 1.2.1925 — Nijmegen 5.3.2006. O.F.M. Dutch Historian of Catholic Mission. After Augustinian gymnasium in Eindhoven joined Franciscan novitiate in 1943. Ordained priest 1950. B.D. 1951 Nijmegen. D.D. 1957 Fribourg (Switzerland), in Missiology. In 1957-61 Professor of Missiology and Islamology at…
BYROM, Thomas Billy. England 1941 — Kashi Ashram, Sebastian, Florida 1991. British Translator. Studied at Oxford (Balliol College, M.A. in English Literature). Ph.D. Harvard. Taught at Harvard, Bennington, and as J.R.R Tolkien Professor in English Language and Literature at Oxford. In 1974 met Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati and as her pupil…
BUCKLAND, Charles Edward. Chittagong 19.9.1847 — Kensington, London 1.10.1941. British Civil Servant in India. Son of of Charles Thomas Buckland (1824–1894) of I.C.S. and Mary Ann Letitia Ricketts. Educated at Laleham and Eton College, studies rom 1866 at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. 1866). Joined I.C.S. in 1870. Called to the…
BRIGHT, William Oliver (Bill). Oxnard, Calif. 13.8.1928 — Louisville, Color. 15.10.2006. U.S. Linguist and Indologist. Professor in Los Angeles. Son of a butcher. Graduated 1945 from Oxnard High School, where he showed an early interest in languages. Studies of medicine, soon of Spanish and linguistics at University of California in…
BOYCE, Nora Elizabeth Mary. Darjeeling, India 2.8.1920 — London 4.4.2006. British (with Irish background) Iranian Scholar. Professor in London. Daughter of William H. Boyce, judge at Calcutta High Court, and Nora Gardiner. Family returned soon to the U.K. Educated at Wimbledon High School and Cheltenham Ladies College, then studies from 1940…
BOULTON, John Victor. 1934 — 2006. British Indologist (NIA). Ph.D. 1967 S.O.A.S. From 1962 Lecturer in Bengali and Oriya at S.O.A.S., retired 1988. Publications: Diss. on Oriya. Manuscript S.O.A.S. 1967. – Phakirmohana Senapati: His life and prose-fiction. 537 p. Bhubaneshwar 1993 (rev. diss. on Oḍiyā author). – With G. Mishra:…
BONIŃSKI, Piotr. Eastern Poland 1898 — Gliwice 1968. Polish Bauddha. Originally interested in Theosophy and Hinduism, but 1946 turned to Buddhism after reading Dahlke, Neumann, et al. Together with —> W. Misiewicz he founded in 1949 Kolo Pryjaciol Buddyzmu (Circle of the Friends of Buddhism) in Radom. Publications: Translated: Wybor now…
BEXELL, David Enoch Fridolf Samuel. Barnarp, Jönköpings län 24.8.1861 — Tirupattur 5.7.1938. Swedish Missionary in South India. Son of Rev. Josef Bexell (1815–1897) and Maria Hansson. Studied at Lund and Leipzig. Ordained 1887 and left for India. Worked in different mission stations, in 1893-99 in Coimbatore and 1900-09 in Pudukkottai. In…