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According to Wikipedia, Richard Francis Gombrich is a British Indologist and scholar of Sanskrit, Pāli, and Buddhist studies. He was the Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford from 1976 to 2004. He is currently Founder-President of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies. He is a past president of the Pali Text Society and general editor emeritus of the Clay Sanskrit Library.

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Richard Gombrich's Published Works

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Buddhism Transformed: Religious Change in Sri Lanka (1988) (322)
Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benares to Modern Colombo (1988) (239)
Assessing the evidence. (2009) (188)
Precept and practice: traditional Buddhism in the rural highlands of Ceylon, (1972) (162)
How Buddhism Began: The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings (1996) (115)
What the Buddha Thought (2009) (89)
The Consecration of a Buddhist Image (1966) (42)
"Merit Transference" in Sinhalese Buddhism: A Case Study of the Interaction between Doctrine and Practice (1971) (36)
Buddhist Karma and Social Control (1975) (31)
Kings, Power and the Goddess (1986) (28)
The perfect generosity of Prince Vessantara : a Buddhist epic (1979) (26)
The Buddha's book of genesis? (1992) (26)
The Perfect Generosity of Prince Vessantara (1980) (25)
Buddhism Transformed (1989) (22)
HOW THE MAHAYANA BEGAN (1988) (20)
British Higher Education Policy in the Last Twenty Years. The Murder of a Profession (2014) (16)
The forest monks of Sri Lanka: an anthropological and historical study: Michael Carrithers, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1983, pp. xii + 306. Rs 145 (1985) (15)
Christianity as Model and Analogue in the Formation of the ‘Humanistic’ Buddhism of Tài Xū and Hsīng Yún (2018) (15)
The World of Buddhism: Buddhist Monks and Nuns in Society and Culture (1984) (14)
The Vessantara Jātaka, the Rāmāyaṇa and the Dasaratha Jātaka@@@The Vessantara Jataka, the Ramayana and the Dasaratha Jataka (1985) (9)
Faith and knowledge in early Buddhism (1977) (9)
Pramāṇakīrtiḥ : papers dedicated to Ernst Steinkellner on the occasion of his 70th birthday (2007) (7)
Relics, Ritual, and Representation in Buddhism: Rematerializing the Sri Lankan Theravāda Tradition. By Kevin Trainor. (Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions 10). pp. xiv, 223. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997. £35.00. (1999) (6)
A Visit to Brahmā the Heron (2001) (6)
Kindness and compassion as means to Nirvana (1998) (6)
Food for Seven Grandmothers: Stages in the Universalisation of a Sinhalese Ritual (1971) (5)
Buddhist Studies in Honour of Hammalava Saddhatissa (1987) (4)
The Buddhist Attitude to Thaumaturgy (1997) (4)
Eliade on Buddhism (1974) (4)
The Theory of ‘Dependent Origination’ in its Incipient Stage (2013) (4)
Collected papers. Vols I and II. By K. R. Norman, pp. xvi, 271; xvi, 276. Oxford, The Pali Text Society, 1990 and 1991. £17.25 each. (1994) (3)
The Buddhist Revival in Sri Lanka@@@Buddhism Transformed: Religious Change in Sri Lanka (1993) (3)
Pāli Literature, Including the Canonical Literature in Prakrit and Sanskrit of all the Hīnayāna Schools of Buddhism . By K. R. Norman. (A History of Indian Literature, Vol. VII, Fasc. 2.) pp. x, 210. Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1983. DM 98. (1984) (3)
Fifty Years of Buddhist Studies in Britain (2005) (3)
Guide to Buddhist Religion@@@The World of Buddhism@@@A Treasury of Mahayana Sutras: Selections from the Maharatnakuta Sutra@@@A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Lo-Yang@@@Nagarjuna: The Philosophy of the Middle Way (1986) (3)
A Radical Buddhism for Modern Confucians: Tzu Chi in Socio-Historical Perspective (2014) (2)
Indian ritual and its exegesis (1988) (2)
‘He cooks softly’: adverbs in Sanskrit grammar (1979) (2)
M.H. Goonetilleke: Masks and Mask Systems of Sri Lanka (1982) (2)
Why is the kathina robe so called (2015) (1)
Heinz Bechert: the dating of the historical Buddha (1994) (1)
Another view of widow‐burning and womanliness in Indian public culture (1984) (1)
The ideas and meditative practices of early Buddhism . By Tilmann Vetter. pp. xix, 110. Leiden etc., E. J. Brill, 1988. Guilders 42.50, US $21.25. (1990) (1)
Buddhist monk, Buddhist layman: A study of urban monastic organization in central Thailand, Cambridge studies in anthropology 6 Bunnag Jane, Cambridge University Press 1973, pp. xii + 219, E5 (1974) (1)
Book Reviews : The Archetypal Actions of Ritual: A theory of ritual illustrated by the Jain rite of worship by Caroline Humphrey and James Laidlaw. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Pp. xiii + 293 (1996) (1)
Buddhist Studies in Honour of I. B. Horner . Edited by L. Cousins, A. Kunst, and K. R. Norman, pp. xi, 239. Dordrecht, D. Reidel, 1974. Fl. 85. (1977) (1)
Ambiguity and Ambivalence in Buddhist Treatment of the Dead (2018) (1)
The Buddha and the Jains (1994) (1)
Asceticism and eroticism in the mythology of Śiva. By Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty. Pp. xii, 386, 16 pl., chart. London, Oxford University Press, 1973. £8. (1975) (1)
Why Has British Education Gone So Wrong, and Why Can’t We Stop the Rot? Popper’s Nightmare (2013) (1)
Religious Experience in Early Buddhism (2017) (1)
Book Review:The Forest Monks of Sri Lanka: An Anthropological and Historical Study Michael Carrithers (1985) (1)
A Concordance of Buddist Birth Stories . By Grey Leslie. pp. xliii, 268. Oxford, The Pali text Society1990. £28.50. (1993) (0)
Wendy Doniger O'flaherty, Hindu Myths: a sourcebook translated from the Sanskrit with an introduction (Penguin Classics, 1975, reprinted 1976.) Pp. 358. 90P. (1978) (0)
What Did the Buddha Mean by ´No Soul´? (2009) (0)
The Buddha's Appropriation of Four (or Five?) Brahminical Terms (2009) (0)
The Antecedents of the Karma Doctrine in Brahminism (2009) (0)
Current trends, new problems (2006) (0)
Vidya Dehejia. Early Buddhist Rock Temples. Pp. 240, 90 plates. (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1972.) $13.50. (1974) (0)
Cognition; Language; Nirvana (2009) (0)
Contemporary Sinhalese Buddhism in its relation to the Pali canon (1969) (0)
Geoffrey Parrinder. The Indestructible Soul. Pp. 116 (Allen and Unwin, London, 1973.) £2·50. (1974) (0)
Preface (2009) (0)
Catalogue of the Sinhalese Manuscripts in the India Office Library . Compiled by D. J. Wijayaratne in collaboration with A. S. Kulasuriya. Edited by C. H. B. Reynolds, pp. [ii], viii, 73. London, India Office Library and Records, 1981. (1983) (0)
The Buddha’s Dhamma (2006) (0)
The Buddha's Path of Peace (2020) (0)
A Concordance of Buddhist Birth Stories . By Leslie Grey pp. xliii, 268 Oxford The Pali Text Society, 1990. £28.50. (1993) (0)
Chinese Buddhism Today: Conservatism, Modernism, Syncretism and Enjoying Life on the Buddha’s Light Mountain (2022) (0)
Max Weber's Work and the Study of Buddhism today (2022) (0)
The oceanic feeling: the origins of religious sentiment in ancient India . By J. Moussaieff Masson. (Studies of Classical India, 3.) pp. xv, 213. Dordrecht, etc., D. Reidel Publishing Co., [1980]. Guilders 65 (1982) (0)
Die buddhistische Plastik Ceylons .Heinz Mode. pp. 147, 175 plates, 12 line drawings, map. Leipzig, Seemann, 1963. (1966) (0)
GREG BAILEY and IAN MABBETT: The Sociology of Early Buddhism. vii, 284 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. $47.50. (2005) (0)
Why is theka. robe so called (2015) (0)
The Buddhist tradition in Sri Lanka (2006) (0)
The Origin of the Term ‘ Mah ā y ā na ’ ( The Great Vehicle ) and its Relationship to the Ā gamas (2012) (0)
The Foundation History of the Nuns’ Order, Hamburg Buddhist Studies 6. Numata Center for Buddhist Studies, Bochum/Freiburg, 2016 (278 pp.). by Anālayo. (2017) (0)
The Genesis of the Bodhisattva Ideal by Analayo (2012) (0)
S. J. Tambiah: World conqueror and world renouncer: a study of Buddhism and polity in Thailand against a historical background . (Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, 15.) viii, 557 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1976. £15. (1978) (0)
Obituary of Prof. Stefano Zacchetti (2020) (0)
ERGARDT, Jan T., Faith and Knowledge in Early Buddhism, Studies in the History of Religions (Supplements to Numen) XXXVII - Leiden, E. J. Brill. 1977, XII + 182 p (1979) (0)
The lives of the Buddha in the art and literature of Asia. By Mary Cummings. (Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia, No. 20.) pp. xiii, 225. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan. Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, 1982. (1983) (0)
The Mass Suicide of Monks in Discourse andVinaya Literature * Anālayo (2014) (0)
Everything Is Burning: The Centrality of Fire in the Buddha's Thought (2009) (0)
Why the Monks took no Delight in the Buddha’s Words (2008) (0)
Causation and Non-random Process (2009) (0)
comprising Production Information, Author Bios and Editorial (2012) (0)
South Asia - Tessa J. Bartholomeusz and Chandra R. De Silva (ed.): Buddhist fundamentalism and minority identities in Sri Lanka . viii, 212 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1998. $23.95. (2000) (0)
Aśoka, the righteous: a definitive biography. By Ananda W. P. Gurugé. pp. xxiv, 675, 16 photos, 2 maps. Colombo, The Central Cultural Fund, Ministry of Cultural Affairs and Information, 1993. (1996) (0)
The Buddha as Satirist; Brahmin Terms as Social Metaphors (2009) (0)
Did the Buddha know Sanskrit?: Richard Gombrich’s response to a point in the BSR review of his What the Buddha Thought (2014) (0)
Buddhist Studies in Honor of Hammalava Saddhātissa@@@Buddhist Studies in Honor of Hammalava Saddhatissa (1988) (0)
The Buddha's Positive Values: Love and Compassion (2009) (0)
Suvarṇavarṇāvadāna; Decipherment and historical study of a palm-leaf Sanskrit manuscript—an unknown Mahāyāna (avadāna) text from Tibet. By Sita Ram Roy. (Historical Research Series, Vol. 7.) pp. xvii, 356, 5 pl. Patna, K. P. Jayaswal Research Institute, 1971. Rs. 18. (1973) (0)
Is This Book To Be Believed? (2009) (0)
The Buddha's thought (2010) (0)
Buddhism in Sinhalese Society, 1750–1900: A Study of Religious Revival and Change . By Kitsiri Malalgoda. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. xiii, 300 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $16.50 (1978) (0)
The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism, Oxford University Press, 2017. (737 pp.). by Michael Jerryson (ed.). (2017) (0)
Jain Antecedents (2009) (0)
Yao, Yu-shuang : Taiwan's Tzu Chi as Engaged Buddhism: Origins, Organization, Appeal and Social Impact (2013) (0)
Book Reviews : ANANDA WICKREMERATNE: The Genesis of an Orientalist: Thomas William Rhys Davids and Buddhism in Sir Lanka, Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1984, Rs 90 (1986) (0)
More about Karma, and Its Social Context (2009) (0)
A Social History fronz (2014) (0)
The Buddha's Pragmatism and Intellectual Style (2009) (0)
Book Review: Taiwan's Tzu Chi as Engaged Buddhism : Origins, Organization, Appeal and Social Impact. By Yu-Shuang Yao. (2012) (0)
Foreword: The Late Jungnok Park (2012) (0)
South Asia (1999) (0)
Theravada Buddhism Faces the Challenge of Modernity (1988) (0)
Yoga and Yantra. By P. H. Pott, translated by Rodney Needham. pp. xv, 167, 15 pl., 2 tables. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1966. Fl. 25. (1968) (0)
Background Information (2009) (0)
A Note on the Meaning and Reference of the Word “Pali” (2019) (0)
Gotama Buddha’s problem situation (2006) (0)
The Mass Murderer who owes his Existence to Ignorance of Pali (2015) (0)
Lambert Schmithausen, Maitrī and Magic: Aspects of the Buddhist Attitude toward the Dangerous in Nature (2000) (0)
Introduction (2009) (0)
The accommodation between Buddhism and society in ancient India (2006) (0)

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