Louis de La Vallée-Poussin

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Louis Étienne Joseph Marie de La Vallée-Poussin (1 January 1869 – 18 February 1938) was a Belgian Indologist and scholar of

Louis de La Vallée-Poussin died on February 18, 1938, in Brussels, Belgium at the age of 69.^[2]

Musila et Nārada

In 1937 La Vallée-Poussin published Musila et Nārada, an influential study on two ways of attaining nirvana, exemplified by the monks Musila and Nārada.^[3]

Major works

• Nirvana
• La Morale bouddhique
• Documents d'Abhidharma : La controverse du temps, des dieux, les quatre, les trois vérités
• L’Abhidharmakośa de Vasubandhu. 6 vols. Paris: 1923–31.
• Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi: La Siddhi de Hiuan-Tsang, (1928–1929)
• L'Inde aux temps des mauryas et des Barbares, Grecs, Scythes, Parthes et Yue-Tchi
• Dynasties et histoire de l'Inde depuis Kanişka jusqu'aux invasions musulmanes (1935)
• Bouddhisme. Opinions sur l'histoire de la dogmatique
• Indo-européens et indo-iraniens. L'Inde jusque vers 300 avant J.-C, (1924)

See also

References

Sources

• La Vallee Possin (1937), Musila et Narada; reprinted in Gombrich (2006), How Buddhism Began, appendix
• Erich Frauwallner (1953), Geschichte der indischen Philosophie, Band Der Buddha und der Jina (pp. 147–272)
• Andre Bareau (1963), Recherches sur la biographie du Buddha dans les Sutrapitaka et les Vinayapitaka anciens, Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient
• Donald K. Swearer (1972), Two Types of Saving Knowledge in the Pāli Suttas, Philosophy East and West, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Oct., 1972), pp. 355–371
• Schmithausen, On some Aspects of Descriptions or Theories of 'Liberating Insight' and 'Enlightenment' in Early Buddhism. In: Studien zum Jainismus und Buddhismus (Gedenkschrift für Ludwig Alsdorf), hrsg. von Klaus Bruhn und Albrecht Wezler, Wiesbaden 1981, 199–250.
• Griffiths, Paul (1981), "Concentration or Insight; The Problematic of Theravada Buddhist Meditation-theory", The Journal of the American Academy of Religion
• K.R. Norman, Four Noble Truths
• Bronkhorst, Johannes (1993), The Two Traditions of Meditation in Ancient India, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, chapter 8
• Tilman Vetter, The Ideas and Meditative Practices of Early Buddhism, by Tilmann Vetter
• Richard F. Gombrich (2006). How Buddhism Began: The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings. Routledge.
  ISBN 978-1-134-19639-5
  ., chapter four
• Anderson, Carol (1999), Pain and Its Ending: The Four Noble Truths in the Theravada Buddhist Canon, Routledge
• Alexander Wynne (2007), The Origin of Buddhist Meditation, Routledge

• Works by or about Louis de La Vallée-Poussin at Internet Archive
• The way to Nirvana : six lectures on ancient Buddhism as a discipline of salvation on
  archive.org
• Nécrologie : Louis de La Vallée-Poussin. Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient, année 1938, volume 38, pp. 479–483