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<\/a>This via the University of Hyderabad\u2019s Distinguished Lectures YouTube Channel<\/a>:<\/p>\n Date: December 4, 2013<\/p>\n Venue: CV Raman Auditorium, University of Hyderabad<\/p>\n Topic: \u201cWhat the Buddha Thought\u201d<\/p>\n Speaker: Prof. Richard Francis Gombrich, University of Oxford<\/p>\n About the speaker:<\/p>\n Prof. Richard Francis Gombrich is an Internationally renowned Indologist and a Scholar of Sanskrit, Pali, and Buddhist<\/a> Studies. He was the Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford from 1976 to 2001.<\/p>\n He was the founder of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies. He was the Past President of Pali Text Society (1994-2002) and General Editor Emeritus of the Clay Sanskrit Library.<\/p>\n His major contribution in the field of Buddhist Studies was an Anthropological study of Contemporary Sinhalese Buddhism<\/a> entitled, \u201cPercept and Practice: Traditional Buddhism in the Rural Highlands of Ceylon (1971)\u201d.<\/p>\n The photo-documentation of this lecture is available at:<\/p>\n http:\/\/uohdistinguishedlectures.blogspot.com\/2014\/01\/distinguished-lecture-by-prof-richard.html<\/a><\/p>\n Copyrights@2013, University of Hyderabad.<\/p>\n Visual Documentation by Wings and Oars Media Comm, Hyderabad, India.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Watch the lecture below, and find out more about Gombrich\u2019s 2010 book of the same name here<\/a>.<\/p>\n