Lydia Aran
Professor emerita:Hebrew University of Jerusalem/scholar of Buddhism
About Lydia Aran
Lived 1921 – 2013 (aged 91). Lydia Aran was a Lithuanian indologist.
Lydia Aran (; October 1921 – March 5, 2013 in Jerusalem), was a professor emerita at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a scholar of Buddhism. She taught in the Hebrew University's Department of Indian Studies until her retirement in 1998.
Aran was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, where she survived the Holocaust by being hidden, with her twin sister, in the small village of Ignalina by her high school history teacher, Krystyna Adolph, an ethnically Polish Catholic.
Books The Art of Nepal Buddhism: An Introduction to Buddhist Philosophy and Religion (Hebrew) 1993 Destroying a Civilization: Tibet 1950-2000 (Hebrew) 2007
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Professor emerita:Hebrew University of Jerusalem/scholar of Buddhism (1921–2013)
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Lydia Aran was born on 1 October 1921 in Vilnius.
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Lydia Aran died on 5 March 2013 in Jerusalem.
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Lydia Aran was an indologist.
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Lydia Aran was Lithuanian.
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