Matilal's Mission: A Memorial Address

Abstract

Bimal Krishna Matilal was the third occupant of the Spalding Chair of Eastern Religions and Ethics; and his approach to his subject was as different from those of his two predecessors as theirs were from each other. It is of course in the na ture of this very large and diverse subject to allow of such varied approaches: we must be grateful to those first three holders of the post that they did not follow one another to produce SOf!lething which could come to be considered the Oxford approach to it, but demonstrated in their own work the variety of ways in which it could be studied