Prof. Dr. C. Upender Rao
Prof. Dr. C. Upender Rao, has specialized in Sanskrit and Pali
and his research interest includes Pali and Sanskrit literatures and Sanskrit poetics,
Early Buddhist literature and philosophy. He has an expertise in teaching of spoken
Sanskrit language. Last year, Prof. Rao
was a Visiting Professor in Cambodia on ICCR chair of India and started working
on south East Asian studies focusing mainly on Sanskrit Inscriptions.
He is the Chairperson of Centre for Sanskrit Studies
at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has extensively written and
published books in Sanskrit, Hindi, Telugu and English languages. He received number of awards and certificates
of honors from various institutions in India and abroad. He also received
three Gold medals from Osmania University and Banaras Hindu University for his
outstanding ranks in education. He received ‘Vidya Sagar’ award from Institute of Oriental studies, Kolkata in
2015 and Raṣṭrīya gourav sammān in 2016. He has published 20 books and several
articles and research papers.
Prof.
Rao was a visiting Professor in National University of Keiv Mohyla Academy,
at Keiv in Ukrain, Moscow State University, St. Petersburg State University,
Russia and L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National
University, Astana,
Kazakhstan and taught Sanskrit, Buddhist Philosophy.
He
was a member of translation group under Khyentse Foundation’s ‘Buddhist
Literary Heritage Project’, USA and translated the Buddhist Mahāyāna sūtras
from Sanskrit to English. Prof. C. Upender Rao has completed the U.G.C. Major
research project entitled Pali Śabda-kalpataruh (A concise Dictionary of
Pali to Odia and Telugu languages).
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