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Thomas William Rhys Davids FBA (12 May 1843 – 27 December 1922) was an English scholar of the Pāli language and founder of the Pāli Text Society. He took an active part in founding the British Academy and London School for Oriental Studies.
Thomas Wiliam Rhys Davis (Colchester, 1843 – Chipstead, 1922) è stato un orientalista inglese. Nel 1881 fondò la Pali Text Society e nel 1882 divenne docente di letteratura Pali a Londra, accompagnando questo ruolo con la segreteria della Royal Asiatic Society, che ottenne nel 1880.
Thomas William Rhys Davids (12 May 1843 – 27 December 1922) was a [British scholar of the Pāli language and founder of the Pāli Text Society. He took an active part in founding the British Academy and London School for Oriental Studies.
The Rhys Davids. Thomas William Rhys Davids. (May 12, 1843 – December 27, 1922) I want to say up front that TW Rhys Davids is one of my heroes—I consider him the pivotal player in the resurgence of Pāli studies in the west and have given him a central place on this website.
Fondatore della Pali Text Society (1881), fu professore onorario di letteratura pāli e buddistica a Londra (1882-1912), effettivo di scienza delle religioni a Manchester (1904-15), segretario della Royal Asiatic Society (1880-1904), membro, sin dalla fondazione, della British Academy.
Thomas William Rhys Davids founded the Pāli Text Society in an effort to render Buddhist literature accessible to others. With the Pāli Text Society and Dr. William Stede, Rhys Davids successfully finished the first Pāli dictionary.
In one sentence Thomas William Rhys Davids (1843–1922) explained how he looked at his pioneering work of making the Pali literary heritage available to the Western world both in the original and in translation.
