Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- 1 November 2000 (Création/Production)
Niveau de description
Étendue matérielle et support
1 piece, typed with handwritten annotations
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
John Duncan Martin Derrett was Professor of Oriental Laws at the University of London, from 1965 to 1982, and afterwards Emeritus Professor.
Derrett was educated at Emanuel School, London, Jesus College, Oxford and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, before studying law at the Inns of Court School, London. He was called to the bar, Gray's Inn, in 1953. He is the author of a number of works on law and the history of systems of law, India, religion (particularly Christianity) and comparative religion. In his later life he was particularly interested in comparisons of Christianity with Buddhism. Derrett also translated works by others into English.
Histoire archivistique
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
Letter from J.D.M. Derrett to Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to state that he needed a new area of research after his publication, Bible and the Buddhists reached its penultimate stage. He is intending to write an article entitled, 'Christ and Bodhisattvas: absolvers of dead sinners'. He asks whether the Society has two apposite publications, Kāranda-vyūha edited by S. Samasvami, and the Sanskrit text of the Saddharma-pundarīka.