Spalding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics
Encyclopedia
Spalding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics is a chair on Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford
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It has been occupied in the past by notable academics including Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
, R. C. Zaehner and Bimal Krishna Matilal
. The current occupant is Alexis Sanderson
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
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It has been occupied in the past by notable academics including Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan , OM, FBA was an Indian philosopher and statesman. He was the first Vice President of India and subsequently the second President of India ....
, R. C. Zaehner and Bimal Krishna Matilal
Bimal Krishna Matilal
Bimal Krishna Matilal was an Indian philosopher whose influential writings present the Indian philosophical tradition as being concerned with the same issues as have been the theme in Western philosophy...
. The current occupant is Alexis Sanderson
Alexis Sanderson
Alexis G. J. S. Sanderson is an Indologist and fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford. After taking undergraduate degrees in Classics and Sanskrit at Balliol College from 1968 to 1971, he spent six years in Kashmir studying with the scholar and Śaiva guru Swami Lakshman Joo...