Sylvain Lévi Explained

Sylvain Lévi
Birth Date:28 March 1863
Birth Place:Paris, France
Death Place:Paris, France
Workplaces:Collège de France
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Notable Students:Paul Demiéville, Paul Pelliot. Marcel Mauss
Fields:Sanskrit language, literature, Buddhism
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Sylvain Lévi (March 28, 1863 – October 30, 1935) was an influential French orientalist and indologist who taught Sanskrit and Indian religion at the École pratique des hautes études.[1] [2]

Lévi's book Théâtre Indien is an important work on the subject of Indian performance art, and Lévi also conducted some of the earliest analysis of Tokharian fragments discovered in Western China. Lévi exerted a significant influence on the life and thought of Marcel Mauss, the nephew of Émile Durkheim.

Sylvain Lévi was a co-founder of the École française d'Extrême-Orient in Hanoi.

According to the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Lévi was the (one of the) founder(s) of the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) (French School of the Far East) in Hanoi.[3] The École française d'Extrême-Orient's website notes that the school was founded in Hanoi in 1902.[4] One of his students, Suzanne Karpelès, the first female member of EFEO, joined him there in 1922 and remained in French Indochina until 1941.[5]

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He was also an early opponent of the traditionalist author René Guénon, citing the latter's uncritical belief in a "Perennial philosophy", that a primal truth revealed directly to primitive humanity, based on an extreme reductionist view of Hinduism, which was the subject of Guénon's first book, L'Introduction générale a l'étude des doctrines hindoues. That was a thesis delivered to Lévi at the Sorbonne and rejected.

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  1. Book: Riley, Alexander, author.. Godless intellectuals? : the intellectual pursuit of the sacred reinvented. April 2010. Berghahn Books . 9781845458263. 645101926.
  2. Encyclopedia: Sylvain Levi (French orientalist) . Encyclopædia Britannica . 13 July 2014.
  3. Landman,Isaac The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia...: An Authoritative and Popular Presentation of Jews and Judaism Since the Earliest Times, 1942 Page 626; Comay, Joan & Cohn-Sherbok, Lavinia Who's Who in Jewish History: After the Period of the Old TestamentRoutledge, 1995 Page 231
  4. http://www.efeo.fr/en/presentation/historique.shtml École française d'Extrême-Orient: History
  5. Goodman, J. (2018). Suzanne Karpelès (1890-1969): Thinking With the Width and Thickness of Time: Suzanne Karpelès (1890-1969) Denken mit der Breite und Tiefe der Zeit. Bildungsgeschichte - International journal for the historiography of education : IJHE, 8(2), 231-244. https://winchester.elsevierpure.com/en/publications/suzanne-karpel%C3%A8s-1890-1969-thinking-with-the-width-and-thickness-
  6. Web site: 1995-03-01 . Wild imaginings; French anthropology in the Himalaya . 2023-08-23 . Himal Southasian . en-GB.