Colette Caillat
Biography
Birthday – January 15th 1921
Dead in – January 15th 2007
Native Place - Saint-Leu-la-Forêt, Seine-et-Oise
Fields - French
Sanskrit
Comparative grammar
Jainism
Working Experiences –
Teacher at secondary schools
A post at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Lecturer in Sanskrit and Comparative Grammar at the University of Lyon (1960 – 1966)
Professor at Sorbonne University (then University of Paris-3) (1967)
Awards and honors
Officer of the Légion d'honneur
Commander of Ordre national du Mérite
Commander of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Memberships –
Member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1987)
Publications
Les expiations dans le rituel ancien des religieux Jaina, Paris (1965)
Drei Chedasûtras des Jaina-Kanons - Ayâradasâo, Vavahâra, Nisîha. Bearbeitet von Walther Schubring. Mit einem Beitrag von Colette Caillat, Hamburg (1966)
Candâvejjhaya, La Prunelle-cible. Introduction, Edition critique, Traduction, Commentaire, Paris (1971)
With A.N. Upadhye and Bal Patil, Jainism, Delhi (1974-75)
La cosmologie jaina. Présentation de Colette Caillat d'après les documents recueillis par Ravi Kumar, Paris (1981)
The Jain Cosmology. English rendering by K.R. Norman, New Delhi; revised and enlarged edition, New Delhi (2004)
Edition of Recueil d'articles de Jules Bloch 1906-1955, Paris (1985)
Yogîndu, Lumière de l'Absolu. Traduit de l'apabhramsha par Nalini Balbir et Colette Caillat, Paris, Payot, Rivages (1999)
Co-edition, with Nalini Balbir, of the volume Jaina Studies, Proceedings of the World Sanskrit Conference, Helsinki, 2003; in the press) (2007)
"Equipe de Philologie Bouddhique et Jaina", organised in Strasbourg the first International Jain Symposium outside India. The Proceedings were published in 1983 (Indologica Taurinensia, Vol 11).
Felicitation volume was offered in her memory (published as Indologica Taurinensia, Vol 14) (1988)
1000 copies of Acarya Joindu's Yogasara were distributed free of cost in her memory (published as Pandit Nathuram Premi Research Series, Vol 10) (2007)
Biography
Birthday – January 15th 1921
Dead in – January 15th 2007
Native Place - Saint-Leu-la-Forêt, Seine-et-Oise
Fields - French
Sanskrit
Comparative grammar
Jainism
Working Experiences –
Teacher at secondary schools
A post at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Lecturer in Sanskrit and Comparative Grammar at the University of Lyon (1960 – 1966)
Professor at Sorbonne University (then University of Paris-3) (1967)
Awards and honors
Officer of the Légion d'honneur
Commander of Ordre national du Mérite
Commander of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Memberships –
Member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1987)
Publications
Les expiations dans le rituel ancien des religieux Jaina, Paris (1965)
Drei Chedasûtras des Jaina-Kanons - Ayâradasâo, Vavahâra, Nisîha. Bearbeitet von Walther Schubring. Mit einem Beitrag von Colette Caillat, Hamburg (1966)
Candâvejjhaya, La Prunelle-cible. Introduction, Edition critique, Traduction, Commentaire, Paris (1971)
With A.N. Upadhye and Bal Patil, Jainism, Delhi (1974-75)
La cosmologie jaina. Présentation de Colette Caillat d'après les documents recueillis par Ravi Kumar, Paris (1981)
The Jain Cosmology. English rendering by K.R. Norman, New Delhi; revised and enlarged edition, New Delhi (2004)
Edition of Recueil d'articles de Jules Bloch 1906-1955, Paris (1985)
Yogîndu, Lumière de l'Absolu. Traduit de l'apabhramsha par Nalini Balbir et Colette Caillat, Paris, Payot, Rivages (1999)
Co-edition, with Nalini Balbir, of the volume Jaina Studies, Proceedings of the World Sanskrit Conference, Helsinki, 2003; in the press) (2007)
"Equipe de Philologie Bouddhique et Jaina", organised in Strasbourg the first International Jain Symposium outside India. The Proceedings were published in 1983 (Indologica Taurinensia, Vol 11).
Felicitation volume was offered in her memory (published as Indologica Taurinensia, Vol 14) (1988)
1000 copies of Acarya Joindu's Yogasara were distributed free of cost in her memory (published as Pandit Nathuram Premi Research Series, Vol 10) (2007)