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Michael Lockwood (Indologist)

Michael Chapman Lockwood, was born in British India, on January 8, 1933, to Yankee, Congregational, educational missionaries working at The American College, in the southern city of Madurai, where his father, Edson C. Lockwood, was teaching mathematics. His mother, Dorothy P. Lockwood served on the governing board of the missionary school, in Kodaikanal. After graduating from the high school in Kodaikanal, Lockwood earned degrees from Oberlin College, B.A. (Eng. Lit., 1955), Boston University, M.A. (Philosophy, 1962), and Madras University, Ph.D. (Philosophy, 1972). His doctoral dissertation on Charles S. Peirce’s critique of Descartes’ epistemology was published by Blackie & Sons (Bombay 1981), under a new title: Peirce’s Pragmatism: An Introduction to His Philosophy. Lockwood taught philosophy for thirty-two years (1966-1998), in South India, at Madras Christian College, Tambaram, affiliated with the University of Madras.

BOOKS THE UNKNOWN BUDDHA OF CHRISTIANITY: The Crypto-Buddhism of the Essenes (Therapeutæ and Qumranites) (Chennai: Tambaram Research Associates, 2019). MYTHICISM: A Seven-Fold Revelation of the Buddhist ‘Branch’ Grafted onto Jesse’s ‘Lineage Tree’ (Chennai: Tambaram Research Associates, 2013). Buddhism's Relation to Christianity: A Miscellaneous Anthology with Occasional Comment (Chennai: Tambaram Research Associates, 2010). Chārudattam: ‘Torso of a Masterpiece’ (with A. Vishnu Bhat) (Madras: Tambaram Research Associates, 2005). Metatheater and Sanskrit Drama: Part I and Metatheater and Sanskrit Drama: Part II, Second, Revised and Enlarged Edition (with A. Vishnu Bhat) (Madras: Tambaram Research Associates, 2005 [1994]). Pallava Art (with A. Vishnu Bhat, Gift Siromoney, & P. Dayanandan) (Madras: Tambaram Research Associates, 2001). Basic Tamil Verb Tables: Second Edition (Madras: Tambaram Research Associates, 2007 [2000]). Basic Tamil Dictionary: English-Tamil & Tamil-English (Madras: Tambaram Research Associates, 1994). Māmallapuram: A Guide to the Monuments (Madras: Tambaram Research Associates, 1993). Editor of & contributor to: Indological Essays: Commemorative Volume II for Gift Siromoney (Tambaram: Department of Statistics, Madras Christian College, 1992). Editor of Mattavilāsa Angatham (A Farce of Drunken Sport), Tamil translation by John Asirvatham (Madras: Christian Literature Society, 1981). Editor of Bhagavadajjuka Angatham (The Farce of the Saint-Courtesan), Tamil translation by John Asirvatham (Madras: Christian Literature Society, 1979).

ARTICLES “The Invention of the Brāhmī Script: Where and Under What Circumstances!” (< Academia.edu > 2020). “Rare Hāritī Sculpture: An Epitome of Crypto-Buddhism” (< Academia.edu > 2020). “Sex-Changes: Buddhist, Christian, and Egyptian” (< Academia.edu > 2020). “The Solution to the ‘Chrestianos / Christianos’ Puzzle” (< Academia.edu > 2019). “Prajñāpāramitā and Sophia Heteropaternal Superfecundated Twins” (< Academia.edu > 2019); and in The Journal of Higher Criticism, Vol. 14, No. 4 (2019). “Two Photographs of the Gilt Bronze Maitreya of the Madras Museum” (< Academia.edu > 2019). Lockwood’s transcription of and comments on “Austin Cline’s Interview with Dennis MacDonald” (< Academia.edu > accessed 20 Nov. 2014). Lockwood’s English translation of Christian Lindtner’s brief Danish article, “The Last Supper of Buddhism” (< Academia.edu > 2010). “Karnapūra’s Heroic Deed – A Meta-Lampoon” (< Academia.edu > 2010). “The Origin of the Buddha's Ushṇisha” (< Academia.edu > 2010). “Figure of Speech and a God-King Figure in Pallava Art” (with A. Vishnu Bhat) – the French translation of which, “Une figure de style et une figure divine/royale chez les Pallava du Sud de l’Inde”, was published in the magazine, Figures, Paris, June 2005. “King Mahēndra's Cave-Temple's Foundation Inscription at Mahēndravāḍi” (with A. Vishnu Bhat) (< Academia.edu > 2005). “The Creation of the Pallava Grantha Tamil Script” (< Academia.edu > 2004); and as “Tamiḻ Indrānī: King Mahēndravarman’s Creation”, in Vol. 1 of Śrī Puṣpāñjali (Recent Researches in Prehistory, Proto-History, Art, Architecture, Numismatics, Iconography and Epigraphy), being the Dr. C.R. Srinivasan Commemorative Volume, ed. by K.V. Raman et al. (New Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakasshan, 2004); and “The Creation of [the] Pallava Grantha Tamil Script”, in Airāvati: Felicitation Volume in Honour of Iravatham Mahadevan (Chennai: Varalaaru.com, 2008);

NOTES “Note on St. Nicholas’s Slap of Bishop Arius’s Face” (< Academia.edu > 2019). “Mission to Śrī Laṅkā” (< Academia.edu > 2019). “Two Very Similar Bharhut Śālabhañjikā Sculptures” (< Academia.edu > 2019). “The Last Words of The Buddha” (< Academia.edu > 2010). “A Note on the Tamil Colophon of the Kuḍumiyāmalai Inscription” (< Academia.edu > 2005). “Early Tamil Inscription from Malaiyaḍikkuṟicchi. . .” (< Academia.edu > 2005). “A Note on Māmallapuram’s Egypt Connection” (< Academia.edu > 2005).