Robert J. Zydenbos

Robert J. Zydenbos
Born 1957

Robert J. Zydenbos (born 1957, Toronto)[1] is a Dutch-Canadian scholar who has doctorate degrees in Indian philosophy and Dravidian studies. He also has a doctorate of literature from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. Zydenbos also studied Indian religions and languages at the South Asia Institute and at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He taught Sanskrit at the University of Heidelberg and later taught Jaina philosophy at the University of Madras in India. Zydenbos later taught Sanskrit, Buddhism, and South Asian religions at the University of Toronto in Canada. He was the first western scholar to write a doctoral thesis on contemporary Kannada fiction.

R. Zydenbos is a strong opponent to some writers, like Koenraad Elst or N. S. Rajaram, about the controversies pertaining to the Aryan Invasion Theory, which Zydenbos sees as driven by political motives. Zydenbos wrote review articles in the Journal of the American Oriental Society. Moreover, he has written the first comprehensive Western history of Kannada literature and translated Kannada literature into both German and English. He also translated Dvaitin, Virasaiva, and Jaina writings from Sanskrit. He has lived in Mysore, India for 17 years.

Books

  • Mokṣa in Jainism, according to Umāsvāti (Steiner, 1983)[2]
  • The Calf Became an Orphan: A Study in Contemporary Kannada Fiction (Institut Français de Pondichéry, 1996)[3]
  • Jainism Today and Its Future (Manya, 2006)[4]

References

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae
  2. ↑ Reviews of Mokṣa in Jainism:
    • Gombrich, Richard (April 1985), Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, 117 (02): 213–214, doi:10.1017/s0035869x00138663
    • Olivelle, Patrick (October 1985), Journal of the American Oriental Society, 105 (4): 804, doi:10.2307/602800
    • Mette, Adelheid (1985), Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 135 (2): 436, JSTOR 43377372
    • Mehta, Mohan Lal (1985), Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 66 (1/4): 317–318, JSTOR 41693637
    • Gelblum, Tuvla (February 1986), Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 49 (01): 229, doi:10.1017/s0041977x00042828
  3. ↑ Reviews of The Calf Became an Orphan:
    • Rao, B. Damodar (April–June 2000), Journal of the American Oriental Society, 120 (2): 296–297, doi:10.2307/605067
    • Meisig, Konrad (2006), Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 156 (2): 518, JSTOR 10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.156.2.0518
  4. ↑ Review of Jainism Today and Its Future:
    • Kono, Tomoyuki (2007), "Review" (PDF), Nagoya Studies in Indian Culture and Buddhism: Sambhāṣā, 26: 176–178
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