Thomas William Rhys Davids
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British scholar of the Pāli language (1843–1922)
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Vinony files it under 1843 births, 1922 deaths and 20th-century Buddhists.
Its subject is documented across 14 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1843
- Died
- 1922
- Works
- 152
Top works
- Is life worth having? and The eternal hope: an answer from Buddha's first sermon to some questions of to-day
- The questions of King Milinda
- Report of the Transliteration committee
- Kūtadanta sutta
- Buddhist suttas
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Thomas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Colchester
- Place of death
- Chipstead
- Spouse
- Caroline Rhys Davids
- Child
- Arthur Rhys-Davids
- Occupation
- scholar
- Employer
- University College London
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Buddhism
- Doctoral advisor
- Adolf Friedrich Stenzler
- Field of work
- Indo-Aryan
- Image
- T. W. Rhys Davids.JPG
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- Lucien Choury
- date of birth
- 1843-00-00
- date of death
- 1922-00-00
- member of
- British Academy
- contributed to creative work
- Dictionary of National Biography
- writing language
- English language
- Commons category
- Thomas William Rhys Davids
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Caroline Rhys Davids
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Categories
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