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Professor Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad FBA

Indian philosophy focusing on Sanskrit and Pali, comparative philosophy of epistemology, metaphysics and phenomenology; classical Indian religions, especially Hindu theology in Sanskrit and Tamil, and comparative Hindu-Christian studies
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2017
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East , Theology and Religious Studies
Website
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/ppr/people/chakravarthi-ram-prasad

Current post

Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy, Lancaster University

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