em. Prof. Dr.

Richard Salomon

Richard Salomon

Honorary Member of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences since 2024

  • Universität Washington

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Research Areas:

  • Linguistics and Literature
  • Indology

Profile:

CV/Website

Publications:

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Selected Memberships:

  • American Oriental Society
  • International Association of Buddhist Studies
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Selected Prizes:

  • Prix de la Fondation Collett Caillat 2019
  • Khyentse Foundation Prize for Outstanding Buddhist Translation 2020

Selected Publications:

  • Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in the Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan Languages (New York: 1998)
  • Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara (Seattle, 1999)
  • Two Gandhari Manuscripts of the Songs of Lake Anavatapta (Seattle, 2008)
  • Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhara. An Anthology with Selected Translations (Boston, 2018)