Vasudeva V. Gokhale

PersonType	Category:Professors
FirstName / namefirst	Vasudeva
LastName / namelast	Gokhale
namemiddle	Vishnunath
MainNamePhon	Vasudeva V. Gokhale
SortName	Gokhale, Vasudeva
bio	Dr. V. V. Gokhale was a professor of Buddhist studies in India. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Heidelberg and taught at Fergusson College from 1932 to 1959. He was appointed Reader in the Department of Buddhist studies at the University of Delhi and then later became Professor and Head of the department. Dr. Gokhale maintained an interest in the Pratītyasamutpāda-sūtra and Madhyamaka philosophy throughout his career. Among his numerous articles, he wrote several on Bhāvaviveka's Tarkajvālā commentary on Nāgārjuna's Madhyamakaśāstra, and he published the Abhidharmakoṣa-kārikās of Vasubandhu. (Source: Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute 74, no. 1/4 (1993), 349–51)
YearBirth	1900
YearDeath	1991
BornIn	Kohlhapur, Maharashtra, India
affiliation	University of Delhi; Department of Buddhist Studies
phduniversity	Heidelberg University, Germany
education	Ph.D. Buddhist Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany; B. Sc. History and Economics, University of Bombay
IsInGyatsa	No
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Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.