About Me
- बलदेव दास
- I started studying Indian philosophy at the age of fifteen. In 2001, I was the first Westerner ever admitted to the undergraduate program in the Sanskrit Faculty of Benares Hindu University. In 2006, I concluded my post-graduation and was awarded a golden medal for academic excellence. In 2009, I defended a PhD thesis on Gaudiya Vedanta according to Baladeva Vidyabhusana’s Govinda-bhasya, covering the singularities that made it a distinct work from the point of view of epistemology, ontology, metaphysics, theology and ethics. Meanwhile I also taught Sanskrit grammar and philosophy in the same Faculty. Nowadays I am working on the “Vidyabhusana Project”, which aims to prepare critical editions and English translations of the complete works of Baladeva Vidyabhusana.