EDUCATION

 

1948-54  University of Amsterdam (Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy)

1954-57  University of Madras (Ph.D.) and Banaras Hindu University (Indian Philosophy and Sanskrit)

 

POSITIONS

 

1958-62 Lecturer in Sanskrit, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

1961-62 Assistant/Associate Professor of Indian Philosophy, University of Pensylvania

1962-67  Professor of General and Comparative Philosophy, University of Amsterdam

1967-68  Visiting Professor of Linguistics, M.I.T.

1968-91 Professor of Philosophy and of South Asian Languages, University of California at Berkeley.

 

VISITING POSITIONS

 

Banaras, Bangkok, Kyoto, Leiden, Paris, Peradeniya, Stanford, Sussex, Tokyo, Washington.

 

BOOKS

 

Advaita and Neoplatonism, University of Madras 1961

Nambudiri Veda Recitation, The Hague: Mouton 1961

Word Order in Sanskrit and Universal Grammar, Dordrecht: Reidel 1967

A Reader on the Sanskrit Grammarians, Cambridge Mass.: MIT 1972

Exploring Mysticism. A Methodological Essay, Penguin Books; Berkeley: University of California Press 1975 & 1988

The Science of Ritual, Poona: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute 1982

(with C.V.Somayajipad and Itti Ravi Nambudiri) AGNI - The Vedic Ritual of the Fire Altar, I-II, Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press 1983

The Stamps of Jammu and Kashmir, New York: The Collectors Club 1983

Over Zin en Onzin, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff 1986

Universals. Studies in Indian Logic and Linguistics, Chicago and London: University of Chicago 1988

Een Wijsgeer in het Oosten. Op reis door Java en Kalimantan, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff 1988

Rules Without Meaning. Ritual, Mantras and the Human Sciences, Peter Lang: New York 1989; paperback 1993

Jouer avec le feu. Pratique et th£orie du rituel v£dique, Paris: Coll«ge de France 1990

Mantras between Fire and Water. Reflections on a Balinese Rite, Amsterdam:

Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences / North-Holland 1995.

Discovering the Vedas: Origins, Mantras, Ritual, Insights, New Delhi: Penguin INDIA,

2007

 

Not listed here: record album, 2 films and more than 130 articles.

 

INVITED LECTURES: Asia, Australia, Europe and North America.