Paris
France
Paris, the capital of France, was a centre of European Buddhist scholarship. The Sri Lankan scholar-monk Walpola Rahula taught and researched there, associated with the Sorbonne, during the period in which he engaged with Western academic study of Buddhism.
2 teachers · 12 most-discussed ideas
Teachers who lived here
François Viète
François Viète (1540–1603)
Marin Mersenne
Marin Mersenne (1588–1648)
Pierre Gassendi
Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655)
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712)
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716)
Émilie du Châtelet
Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749)
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788)
Roger Joseph Boscovich
Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711–1787)
Alexis Clairaut
Alexis Clairaut (1713–1765)
Alexis Clairaut
Alexis Clairaut (1713–1765)
Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille
Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713–1762)
Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783)
Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783)
Charles Messier
Charles Messier (1730–1817)
Jérôme Lalande
Jérôme Lalande (1732–1807)
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley (1733–1804)
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736–1813)
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736–1813)
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794)
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829)
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827)
Joseph Fourier
Joseph Fourier (1768–1830)
Joseph Fourier
Joseph Fourier (1768–1830)
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier (1769–1832)
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier (1769–1832)
André-Marie Ampère
André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836)
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850)
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850)
Siméon Denis Poisson
Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840)
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789–1857)
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789–1857)
Sadi Carnot
Sadi Carnot (1796–1832)
Sadi Carnot
Sadi Carnot (1796–1832)
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805–1859)
Urbain Le Verrier
Urbain Le Verrier (1811–1877)
Urbain Le Verrier
Urbain Le Verrier (1811–1877)
Évariste Galois
Évariste Galois (1811–1832)
Évariste Galois
Évariste Galois (1811–1832)
Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard (1813–1878)
Sophus Lie
Sophus Lie (1842–1899)
Ilya Metchnikoff
Ilya Metchnikoff (1845–1916)
Ilya Metchnikoff
Ilya Metchnikoff (1845–1916)
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850–1891)
Henri Becquerel
Henri Becquerel (1852–1908)
Henri Poincaré
Henri Poincaré (1854–1912)
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943)
Rudolf Diesel
Rudolf Diesel (1858–1913)
Émile Durkheim
Émile Durkheim (1858–1917)
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie (1859–1906)
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie (1859–1906)
Jacques Hadamard
Jacques Hadamard (1865–1963)
Marie Curie
Marie Curie (1867–1934)
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Menachem Mendel Schneerson (7th Lubavitcher Rebbe) (1902–1994)
study 1933–1941
André Weil
André Weil (1906–1998)
Walpola Rahula
Walpola Rahula (1907–1997)
Aharon Lichtenstein
Aharon Lichtenstein (Yeshivat Har Etzion) (1933–2015)
born 1933–1940
Works composed here
- 1274
Prologue
- 1274
Treatise on Man (qq[75]-102)
- 1274
Treatise on Sacred Doctrine (Q[1])
- 1274
Treatise on The Creation (QQ[44-46])
- 1274
Treatise on The Distinction of Good And Evil (Q[48-49])
- 1274
Treatise on The Distinction of Things In General (Q[47])
- 1274
Treatise on The Most Holy Trinity (QQ[27-43])
- 1274
Treatise on The One God (QQ[2-26])
- 1274
Treatise on the Angels (qq[50]-64)
- 1274
Treatise on the Conservation and Government of Creatures (qq[103]-119)
- 1274
Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)
- 1274
Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90)
- 1274
Treatise on the Work of the Six Days (qq[65]-74)
Ideas shaped here
Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Paris. Click any to trace the idea across time and place.
- The Incarnation165 passages
- Sacrament (Mystery)130 passages
- Hypostatic Union125 passages
- Full Humanity of Christ113 passages
- Grace110 passages
- The Human Soul106 passages
- Two Natures of Christ97 passages
- The Holy Trinity96 passages
- Divine Simplicity89 passages
- The Eucharist88 passages
- Free Will86 passages
- The Passion of Christ84 passages