Shashibhusan Dasgupta, or Shashi Bhushan Dasgupta, Shashibhusan and Shashi Bhusan Das Gupta, (1911–1964) was a Bengali

Bengali people

The Bengali people are an ethnic community native to the historic region of Bengal in South Asia. They speak Bengali , which is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit and Sanskrit languages. In their native language, they are referred to as বাঙালী...

 scholar of philosophy, languages, literature (particularly Bangla literature); literary critic; author and theologian.

Dasgupta was born in Chandrahar

Chandrahar

Chandrahar is a village in Barisal District in the Barisal Division of southern-central Bangladesh....

 Village in modern Barisal Division

Barisal Division

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, South-Central Bangladesh. He obtained his IA from B M College, Barisal, his BA (Hons) in Philosophy from Scottish Church College, Kolkata

Kolkata

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, West Bengal

West Bengal

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, India

India

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. His MA in Bangla Language and Literature was from Calcutta University in 1935, and he subsequently joined Calcutta University's Bangla Department as a Researcher. Winning the 1937 Premchand-Roychand Studentship due to his scholarship contributions, Dasgupta was appointed in Bangla Department a lecturer, and received his PhD in that department in 1939.

Dasgupta's chief opus is the identification of Indian spiritual meditation forms and demonstration of their relationship to Tantric

Vajrayana

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 Buddhism

Buddhism

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, to Saivite, Sakta and Vaishnava religious philosophies, and to Bangla literature. He won the 1961 Sahitya Akademi Award

Sahitya Akademi Award

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 for his work "Bharater Shakti-Sadhana O Shakta Sahitya."

Dasgupta had authored novels, plays, poems and children's books. Some editions of his works are published posthumously or in recently updated versions, and their exact or cited titles in English depend on the language variants being transliterated.

Religion

• Obscure Religious Cults: As a Background of Bengali Literature (1946)
• An Introduction to Tantric Buddhism (1950)
• Aspects of Indian Religious Thought, Shriradhar Kramavikash: Darshane O Sahitye (1952)
• Bhāratera śakti-sādhanā o śākta sāhitya (1960)

Literature

• Bangla Sahityer Nabayug
• Bangla Sahityer Ekdik/Bāṅalā-sāhityera ekadika (1960)
• Sahityer Svarup/Sāhityera svarūpa (1983)
• Upanisader Patabhumikay Rabindramanas/Upanishadera paṭabhūmikāẏa Rabīndramānasa (1992)
• Upama Kalidasasya/Upamā Kālidāsasya (1967)
• Kavi Jatindranath O Adhunik Bangla Kavitar Pratham Paryay/Kabi Yatīndranātha o ādhunika Bāṅalā kabitāra prathama paryāẏa (1990)
• Tolstoy
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   Gandhi O Rabindranath/Ṭalasṭaẏa, Gāndhī, Rabīndranātha (1962)
• Shilpalipi
• Bharatiya Sadhanar Aikya
• Bauddhadharma O Charyagiti/Bauddhadharma o caryāgīti (1964)
• Hābā Haladhara (1962)
• Traẏī : Bālmīki, Kalidāsa, Rabīndranātha (1989)

Honors

• 1961 Sahitya Akademi Prize from India's national academy of Letters, Sahitya Akademi
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  , for "Bharater Shakti-Sadhana O Shakta Sahitya" (non-fiction)
• 1937 Premchand-Roychand Studentship, Calcutta University, India